Origin Protocol Announcements

We've partnered with DappBack to bring their web3 Task Page to the Origin Protocol community. Now you can earn rewards for completing web3 micro-tasks like joining our community, getting onboarded, providing content, and much more. Take a look and task away! 👉 https://dappback.com/originprotocol

We are happy to announce that the final round of Origin Token (OGN) investor unlocks has been completed. This milestone for Origin Protocol signifies that all OGN obligations that were once owed to our seed investors through our advisor sale, strategic pre-sale investors, CoinList investors, and advisors from advisor grants have been satisfied. Read more: https://blog.originprotocol.com/final-ogn-investor-unlock-completed-d708c35b6ade

🎺 Get ready for ETERNAL from next-generation musician and creator, Timmy Trumpet! ETERNAL is a 1/1 NFT auction that starts on 2.22.22 and will grant the owner unprecedented access between the physical world, metaverse, and beyond. Not to toot his horn but Timmy’s Trumpet is a bit of a legend and could be yours! 👉 Read now: https://blog.originprotocol.com/timmy-trumpet-enters-the-metaverse-beyond-with-ground-breaking-nft-eternal-cd80609bee4

Join us tomorrow for what will surely be one of our most iconic AMAs ever, featuring Paris Hilton as we talk about her latest NFT collection ‘Past Lives, New Beginnings’ on Origin Story. The event will start at 11:30 AM PT on our Discord at: https://discord.gg/ogn

✨ The wait is finally over! Paris Hilton will drop her collection, Past Lives, New Beginnings, today at 11:11 am PT. The drop offers a handmade collage by Paris as an NFT alongside three other masterfully rendered pieces in collaboration with Dayzee from Superplastic. Past Lives, New Beginnings is an exclusive direct-to-fan experience from Paris that offers hundreds of bonus rewards to lucky winners, including several ways to connect with Paris in person and online, additional NFTs from the 888 Inner Circle, and over 12,000 OGN. This event will also host two limited-edition offerings on February 7th and will close with an auction set to start on February 8th that will pique the interest of avid NFT collectors and everyday fans of Paris alike. You won’t want to miss it! 🤩 Read more: https://blog.originprotocol.com/paris-hilton-launches-past-lives-new-beginnings-on-origin-story-91f5011a9e29

Origin Story is open for everyone! Creators of all sizes, anywhere in the world, can now sign up for Story to launch their own NFT storefronts using the same platform that has powered some of the most successful NFT drops of all time. Our mission at Origin is to bring NFTs and their emerging use cases to the masses. To do that, we are making it easier than ever for creators and collectors to transact. As we enter this new phase for Origin Story, it's time to welcome creators of all types. Whether you're an artist who's new to Web3 or a seasoned NFT creator, story.xyz is the best platform to power your sales. Read more: https://blog.originprotocol.com/origin-story-opens-to-nft-creators-worldwide-d8e9997aa16c

2022 is officially underway. In January, Origin Dollar (OUSD) and Origin Story both made great progress towards adaption. Origin Dollar's TVL is holding above $260 million while top-tier creators like Paris Hilton are spreading the word about Origin Story. We also kicked off a great cross-community event with the 888 Inner Circle that rewards our community members and token holders with exclusive access and a chance to win NFTs. Read about all of this and more in the latest edition of the Origin Token Holder Update. Read more: https://blog.originprotocol.com/january-2022-origin-token-ogn-holder-update-c8c246d3d7b6

🎨 Picasso: Man & The Beat is a unique NFT collection from DJ and Producer Florian Picasso and his mother Marina, the granddaughter of the prolific artist Pablo Picasso. The NFT audio features the collaborative track "Tomorrow" by Florian, John Legend, Nas and will be exclusively available on Origin Story to preview before its official release! This exciting collection spans the Picasso legacy across 4 generations with stunning audio & visual experience. Read more: https://blog.originprotocol.com/marina-florian-picasso-man-the-beat-to-origin-story-fd0149fed370

As guardians of the yellow realm, we are proud to be part of the #888innercircle. To help kick of 'The Realms Drop' on 1/28, we are giving away 888 Inner Circle NFTs to a few lucky community members in addition to exclusive access to the drop’s allow list. Starting today, any wallet staking at least 10 OGN or holding 10 OUSD by 11:59 pm PT on 1/24 will have their address added to the ‘The Realms Drop’ allow list. Anyone staking 1000 OGN or holding 1000 OUSD will be entered to win an 888 Inner Circle NFT! There will be many ways to win access & NFTs. Stay tuned for more updates.

🌍International channels have now been added to Discord! We’re making it easier for Originators who prefer Discord to discuss the project in their native language. To begin with we’ve created channels for Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Turkey, and Vietnam. If there’s a language missing that you’d like added, please let one of our community managers know. Join our Origin Discord today at: https://originprotocol.com/discord.

Watch Origin's Director of Product, Micah Alcorn, guide us through the easy process of swapping DAI, USDC, USDT for Origin Dollar (OUSD) at ousd.com. Check out how easy it is to earn competitive yields with Origin Dollar: https://youtu.be/UabjvL-7iu4

December brings an end to an amazing year for Origin. In the latest Origin Token Holder Update, we revisit the past month and beyond to bring you some of 2021's most memorable Origin Token (OGN), Origin Dollar (OUSD), and Origin Story highlights. 👉 Click now: https://blog.originprotocol.com/december-2021-origin-token-ogn-holder-update-dfea8f53f496

🎄Merry Christmas! On behalf of the Origin team, we wish everyone celebrating a safe and happy holiday season.

We're excited to be working with one of blockchain’s most prolific NFT investors and evangelists, 888, as 'Guardian of the Realm' in their latest project, the 888 Inner Circle. Origin will be charged with managing and distributing 10,000 exclusive NFTs to our community and beyond. These tokens will grant the holder access to the 888 Inner Circle and all its benefits. The majority of our NFT distributions will focus on existing OGN token holders and community members. We also intend to provide 888 Inner Circle NFTs to select Origin Story users, attendees of real-life meet-ups, and participants of online community events. Read more: https://blog.originprotocol.com/origin-protocol-joins-888-inner-circle-as-latest-guardian-9ed42077aa86

⭕️ Alan Valentin, aka Orbseer, recently showcased his masterwork, Resillusion, at WAGMIAMI to more than 100,000 attendees. We are very excited to be able to bring this holographic art collection to Origin Story with the Resillusion NFT Collection. As a proud co-sponsor of WAGMIAMI, the Origin team was thrilled to support and bring Orb's work to life for our NFT community in Miami. Orb has broken completely new ground with his stunning panoramic, holographic, and musical masterpiece. 👉 Click now: https://blog.originprotocol.com/worlds-first-holographic-nft-artist-launches-resillusion-on-origin-story-36a8538dc71a

We are pleased to announce that the popular DeFi yield aggregator, APY Finance, has integrated the OUSD-3crv pool. This comes as a result of an unanimous vote by the community of APY token holders. Origin believes that composability and automation through smart contracts will lead to DeFi taking market share from much of traditional finance. Origin Dollar (OUSD) is one of the best examples of a smart, automated DeFi product that offers vast advantages over its traditional finance analogs. Click now 👉 https://blog.originprotocol.com/apy-finance-integrates-origin-dollar-d3679ef11a51

Please join us in officially welcoming Origin's new social media manager, Aaron Faulkner. Starting out as an Origin Token (OGN) holder, Aaron went on to become one of our core community managers. Since then he's been supporting us on the social and marketing team with some of our most successful drops. Click now: https://blog.originprotocol.com/welcome-aaron-faulker-to-the-origin-team-2299c9f4bd1a

🎨 Origin will be hosting its first-ever NFT exhibition titled ‘The Metaverse Is Yours’ this Saturday during Art Basel 2021 in Miami, Florida. With NFTs and the Metaverse at the intersection of art and culture, Art Basel is the perfect place to showcase Origin Story and the talented creators using it. Joining us to exhibit their art and launch a live drop is a list of some of the most recognizable and accomplished names in the space: Ali Sabet, TedsLittleDream, Orbseer, Lost Boi, Subtractive and Dr. Sian Proctor, NINOCENSE, and Alex Alpert. This Saturday’s exhibition is an important step forward in our efforts to democratize access to NFTs and bring the Metaverse to the mainstream. In doing so, we aim to raise awareness among key demographics of both Origin Story, and Origin Tokens (OGN) as the best way to gain exposure to the rapid growth of the NFT industry and the Origin ecosystem. Read now: https://blog.originprotocol.com/origin-story-partners-with-top-nft-artists-at-art-basel-miami-d8473211d269

We are excited to announce that Yearn.Finance, one of the largest aggregators and platforms in DeFi, has launched a vault that integrates the Origin Dollar (OUSD) pool on Curve. Users can now deposit OUSD-3Crv LP tokens into the Yearn vault and automatically earn and reinvest proceeds from Convex, Curve, and Origin's liquidity mining campaign. This is yet another important milestone in our quest to drive adoption of OUSD, with TVL exploding from $25MM to more than $200MM in less than a month. As a reminder, OUSD's explosive growth directly benefits OGN holders. 10% of all yield generated is used to buy back OGN from the open market. We are also exploring additional value accrual mechanisms. Origin's mission focus is to drive value to OGN and we will never stop thinking of better ways to do this. Read more: https://blog.originprotocol.com/yearn-finance-integrates-origin-dollar-44b27715bd19

The November Origin Token (OGN) Holder Update is now live. This month we officially announced Origin Story, kicked off the Origin Dollar (OUSD) liquidity mining campaign at Curve Finance, and saw Convex Finance integrate with the OUSD pool. Read all about it and more! Click now: https://blog.originprotocol.com/november-2021-origin-token-ogn-holder-update-442d2aed3a60