Origin Protocol Announcements

🇹🇷 Good news for Origin Token holders in Turkey! Starting today, one of Turkey’s largest and most important cryptocurrency exchanges, Paribu, has listed OGN for trading. Since the beginning of 2021, Origin has focused on growing our presence in the region, and today’s listing represents a significant milestone for our Turkish community and us. Trading on Paribu starts today with an OGN/TRY (Turkish Lira) trading pair. Origin Tokens can be purchased on the Paribu mobile app as well as their website. Read about what today's listing means for OGN and OUSD adoption in the region 👇 https://blog.originprotocol.com/leading-turkish-exchange-paribu-lists-origin-tokens-ogn-cd294c20659

💻 Minimal Proxy in the Wild. The recent network load on Ethereum has caused teams both large and small to rethink and optimize their solidity and contract deployment architecture. Our team at Origin Protocol is no exception and has been working to optimize our existing codebase for both efficiency and cost in our OUSD and NFT Launchpad products. Click the link below to read about how we're implementing Minimal Proxies into our products to make them up to 10x more gas efficient. https://blog.originprotocol.com/a-minimal-proxy-in-the-wild-ae3f7b8da990

💰Origin has completed its first OGN buyback using revenue generated by the Origin NFT Launchpad. A total of 1,478,163.46 OGN was bought back and deposited into our Foundation Reserves. The transaction hash can be found by visiting our original blog post announcing the buyback. Our decision to purchase Origin Tokens is based on our belief that OGN is undervalued in light of its utility within the Origin ecosystem, and as a governance token for OUSD, our yield-bearing stablecoin. Stay tuned for more buyback announcements as we continue to hold record-breaking drops! https://etherscan.io/tx/0xfe8d9f37537dfe9991619eef81a86d4c41207d84ca2e831014d1fe93927ac775

Revolut, one of the world’s largest personal finance apps, has made OGN available for trading. The listing makes OGN one of just 39 digital assets accessible to Revolut's 15 million banking customers around the world. 🌎 Let's bring crypto to the mainstream. Read more: https://blog.originprotocol.com/financial-superapp-revolut-adds-origin-tokens-ogn-for-trading-2416c956ef94

We are pleased to announce that world-renowned business and entertainment icon Paris Hilton will join Origin as an advisor and OGN investor. Paris will provide strategic advice on how to most effectively deliver value using NFTs for top-tier creators like celebrities, influencers, and brands. In addition, we look forward to working closely with Paris and her team to bring NFTs to mainstream consumer audiences through education, marketing, and creating new use cases with this disruptive technology. Welcome to Team Origin, Paris! 💖 👉 Read more: https://medium.com/originprotocol/paris-hilton-joins-origin-as-investor-and-advisor-68482acd5ae7

Today we are excited to unveil the TABONG open-edition drop, a new collaboration between Origin and Brave. An anagram of BAT and OGN, the TABONG NFT drop celebrates the deep ties between our teams and projects. The drop will take place on June 9th from 12pm - 12:30pm PDT at tabong.brave.com. Click to read more: https://medium.com/originprotocol/brave-x-origin-to-launch-exclusive-tabong-nft-drop-56f25ec1a57

🌍こんにちは, Hallo, Bonjour, Ciao, Olá! By popular demand, Origin is opening up five new regional communities. If you’re a native speaker of Japanese, German, French, Italian or Portuguese, we encourage you to join and participate in growing Origin globally. We will be looking for active community members to promote as official ambassadors with perks that include OGN bonuses and merch. Check out our new communities below 👇 🇯🇵 @OriginJapanese 🇩🇪 @OriginDeutsch 🇮🇹 @OriginItalian 🇫🇷 @OriginFrancais 🇧🇷 @OriginPortuguese

Origin's partnership with Amazon now includes NFTs and continues to push the boundaries of what is possible. Learn more about NFTs and the massive impact they will have on crypto and culture from Amazon and Origin on the official AWS blog. Click to read more: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/startups/how-to-create-and-sell-non-fungible-tokens-nfts/

Origin announces $1.3M OGN buyback using NFT sales proceeds. We believe OGN is currently undervalued and we want to continue to reduce the circulating supply of OGN whenever possible. Read more: https://medium.com/originprotocol/origin-announces-1-3m-ogn-buy-back-1e2b8644ac7

On June 2nd at 10:05AM EDT, our very own Daniel Von Fange will take to the stage at NFT Summit! Daniel will speak on behalf of Origin in our work towards scalability within decentralised commerce. 👉 Sign up to watch the livestream for free at nftsummit.net

It's time for our May update! From big moves in Defi to historic NFT drops, here's what we've been up to: 🔷 OGN and OUSD listed on KuCoin exchange 🔷 Record breaking $760,999 Charlie Bit Me auction 🔷 3LAU formally joins Origin as an Advisor Read more now 👇 https://medium.com/originprotocol/may-2021-origin-token-ogn-holder-update-a982e26b4419

We are glad to welcome back Mike Dean and Shepard Fairey after last month’s successful open-edition sale involving the first three pieces from their Obey 4:22 collection. The pair continues their collaboration today by auctioning a limited-edition set of NFT creations that combine Shepard’s iconic visual art with Mike’s one-of-a-kind sound. Eight winning bidders will receive a part of the exclusive collection, which includes 27 NFTs, 8 rare physical fine art pieces, multi-track music stems, never-to-be-released music, and exclusive direct to fan experiences. The two-day auction, hosted on Origin’s NFT Launchpad begins at 9:00 pm PDT on Thursday, May 27th ,and ends at 9:00 pm PDT on Saturday, May 29th. Sign up now at obey422.com. 👉 Click to read more: https://medium.com/originprotocol/mike-dean-shepard-fairey-launch-exclusive-nft-auction-on-origin-ae88c3b2b6f1

🎧 Please welcome Justin Blau as Origin's latest Advisor! Both a Musician & Producer, 3LAU is also an OGN investor. Raising $11.7M with Origin's NFT Launchpad, Justin is renowned as one of the most influential people in both the DeFi and NFT spaces today. Read more on our blog 👇 https://medium.com/originprotocol/3lau-joins-as-formal-origin-advisor-c03ca8921152

We are very proud to share with you the NFT auction results for the most watched viral video in the world, Charlie Bit My Finger. Successfully auctioned for a record-breaking $760,999 on Origin’s NFT Launchpad, this monumental example demonstrates Origin’s disruptive approach to content ownership. The Charlie Bit Me NFT Auction surpassed the sales of other notable viral memes and videos that have been sold as NFTs such as “Nyan Cat” and “Disaster Girl”, helping Origin to maintain its position as the leading platform in direct-to-fan NFT auctions. Thanks in part to the phenomenal popularity of this video, Origin Protocol has been given high-profile exposure on mainstream news outlets such as BBC, CNBC, the New York Times, CBS, CNN, LA Times, NPR, New York Post, and Daily Mail. Thank you to everyone who participated. Click to read more: https://medium.com/originprotocol/charlie-bit-my-finger-nft-sale-on-origin-makes-global-headlines-and-sets-new-record-9cf60d5d6a29

We are excited to announce that the Grammy award-winning MonoNeon and contemporary American pop artist, Kii Arens will drop their "Mono x Kii Collection'' on Origin's NFT Launchpad. MonoNeon’s recent work on the NAS album ‘King’s Disease’ won them a Grammy and Kii Arens’ unique take on art is respected as a driving force of pop culture. Together they have created four open-editions that will only be available for 30 minutes in this flash-sale! The NFTs combine the tracks created by MonoNeon with animated variations of Kii’s album artwork as well as the music video debut for “Invisible” NFT. Don’t miss out and join us June 3rd at 5 PM PDT at monoxkii.com! Read more 👇 https://medium.com/originprotocol/grammy-award-winning-musician-mononeon-x-american-pop-artist-kii-arens-nft-collection-4f71b51845

📺 On Sunday, May 23, 2021, the original viral video, Charlie Bit My Finger, will be taken off of YouTube and auctioned to the highest bidder on Origin's NFT launchpad. One winner will own a piece of internet history. Visit https://charliebitme.com/ to sign up for official auction notifications and reminders. And of course, don’t forget to tell your friends to go watch the video one last time before it’s too late. Check out our blog for all the details on the drop: http://medium.com/originprotocol/charlie-bit-my-finger-makes-internet-history-again-1e4a3c54db65

💬Origin’s Head of Business Development Coleman Maher recently sat down with LCX to discuss use cases of the Origin Token. 👉 Check out the full interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ucC4fwq3bFo

🎉 We are thrilled to announce that a major cryptocurrency exchange, KuCoin, is listing OUSD and OGN. This is a landmark listing for Origin Dollar (OUSD). Increasing ease of access to OUSD is an extremely important part of our product roadmap and core to our DeFi thesis. Trading on KuCoin will begin at 10:00 AM UTC on May 14th. You can begin depositing OUSD or OGN immediately. Trading pairs will include: OUSD/USDT, OUSD/BTC, OGN/USDT, & OGN/BTC. Full details available on our blog 👇 https://medium.com/originprotocol/kucoin-to-list-ousd-ogn-38ed12def362

🚲 Introducing the Micro Bike Genesis Edition, the first NFT auction to debut a vehicle! Each serial-numbered collectors’ edition Micro Bike is also paired with a matching digital art piece. Join the bidding at nft.micro.com. Read more 👇 https://medium.com/originprotocol/micro-unveils-next-generation-e-bike-on-origin-first-vehicle-to-debut-via-nft-6d0c2ac16103

Join us today at 8am PDT with Bassjackers on Clubhouse. William Tong and a panel of guests help countdown the final moments of their NFT auction on Origin's NFT Launchpad. 👋 Click to listen: https://t.co/Ttu9R71F8w Need an invite to Clubhouse? 👇 https://t.co/reVu6SJl32