Dance music star Deadmau5 and Grammy award-winning indie rock band Portugal The Man have teamed upwards to release 1 million copies of their new single "This is fine" as nonfungible tokens (NFT).

The unmarried was released on Deadmau5'southward (whose existent name is Joel Zimmerman) characterization, Mau5trap, with the aim to accept the unmarried be the first NFT to go platinum.

The artists minted 1 million units on the Near Protocol blockchain and released them on marketplace Mintbase. A quarter of a million units were bachelor for purchase during Art Basel's "Miami Beach" art show on Th.

The remaining singles will be sold as a mix of unmarried units and arranged units, which will have unique attributes. The bundled unit of measurement prices are still undetermined.

The announcement promised "multiple metaverse integrations and rewards coming for collectors of this NFT" just provided no additional details.

Co-ordinate to The Recording Manufacture Clan of America, a certified platinum sale is 1 million units. It remains unclear whether the vocal will go platinum fifty-fifty if all 1 one thousand thousand copies sell out due to its anarchistic release method.

Each NFT is being sold for 0.25 Most per piece, or around $2.20 — similar to the price of an iTunes download in the pre-stream years.

In improver to the single, each NFT also features unique artwork past Wooden Cyclops, the art manager of Portugal The Man. He collaborated on the artwork with Smearballs, the artist behind Deadmau5's characters in his music videos "Monophobia," "Drama Gratuitous" and "Pomegranate."

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Deadmau5 is non new to the NFT game. In December 2022, Zimmerman partnered with augmented reality creative person Sutu to create NFT "In Titan's Light," a xxx-second audio-reactive artwork loop paired with a section of the Deadmau5 rail "Satrn."

A month afterward, in January 2022, he partnered with digital artist Mad Canis familiaris Jones to release two NFT art collections on the Winklevoss-owned Keen Gateway.

In the same month, Portugal The Man launched its crypto token, PTM Money, on the Ethereum-based Rally Network. The token grants fans exclusive access to events and perks.