Caitlyn Jenner Launching Ethereum Token Inspired by Olympic Gold Medal on Base
The post Caitlyn Jenner Launching Ethereum Token Inspired by Olympic Gold Medal on Base appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. After launching her own token in May, media personality Caitlyn Jenner is set to debut a new crypto project around the Olympic gold medal she won 48 years ago. Set for Thursday, the launch will offer investors a chance to own a digital piece of Jenner’s 1976 Olympic gold medal via fractionalization. Jenner told Decrypt that she got the idea before this year’s Summer Olympics and wanted to approach it creatively with her team. “Well, I have been in this space for almost a year now, and I’m constantly looking at new ways that I can help improve this space,” she said. “And here we have a real-world asset that is part of the Olympics and part of history.” Jenner recalled the euphoric feeling of winning the Olympic decathlon as Bruce Jenner, before her transition to Caitlyn in 2015. Jenner’s Olympic medal (left) and the illustrated interpretation used for the coin. Image: Caitlyn Jenner “It was my last meet. I knew I was retiring after that was over with, because I had to give up too much to be there. And it was just an absolute feeling of satisfaction,” she said. “It just put a smile on my face. I climbed every mountain, I overcame every obstacle, and I was able to take on the world. And I won, physically took on the world. It was a very powerful feeling.” That gold medal will be represented by an NFT (ERC-721) on Ethereum layer-2 network Base, which is stored in a secure token vault and fractionalized into a tradable ERC-20 token called MEDAL with a supply of 100,000,000. According to Jenner’s team, the ERC-721 smart contract “maps to the provable metadata of the legally binding contract signed by Caitlyn Jenner showing ownership of the real Olympic gold medal,” which is stored…
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After launching her own token in May, media personality Caitlyn Jenner is set to debut a new crypto project around the Olympic gold medal she won 48 years ago. Set for Thursday, the launch will offer investors a chance to own a digital piece of Jenner’s 1976 Olympic gold medal via fractionalization. Jenner told Decrypt that she got the idea before this year’s Summer Olympics and wanted to approach it creatively with her team. “Well, I have been in this space for almost a year now, and I’m constantly looking at new ways that I can help improve this space,” she said. “And here we have a real-world asset that is part of the Olympics and part of history.” Jenner recalled the euphoric feeling of winning the Olympic decathlon as Bruce Jenner, before her transition to Caitlyn in 2015. Jenner’s Olympic medal (left) and the illustrated interpretation used for the coin. Image: Caitlyn Jenner “It was my last meet. I knew I was retiring after that was over with, because I had to give up too much to be there. And it was just an absolute feeling of satisfaction,” she said. “It just put a smile on my face. I climbed every mountain, I overcame every obstacle, and I was able to take on the world. And I won, physically took on the world. It was a very powerful feeling.” That gold medal will be represented by an NFT (ERC-721) on Ethereum layer-2 network Base, which is stored in a secure token vault and fractionalized into a tradable ERC-20 token called MEDAL with a supply of 100,000,000. According to Jenner’s team, the ERC-721 smart contract “maps to the provable metadata of the legally binding contract signed by Caitlyn Jenner showing ownership of the real Olympic gold medal,” which is stored…
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