Crypto Wallet Blocto to Launch Yahoo Taiwan NFT Store in Partnership with Yahoo
Blocto, a leading NFT and crypto wallet has partnered with Yahoo Taiwan to launch Yahoo Taiwan NFT Store in late March, a press release shared with crypto.news confirms.
Yahoo Taiwan NFT Store Coming Soon
Notably, the Yahoo Taiwan NFT Store will launch with the ‘A-Hoo’ NFT collection, the official mascot of Yahoo Taiwan.
Recent data indicates that the global NFT trading volume eclipsed $10.67 billion during Q3 2021, recording a staggering 38,060 percent increase year-over-year.
In a bid to cater to users’ growing demands, Yahoo Taiwan has allied with blockchain start-up Blocto to launch “Yahoo Taiwan NFT Store.” The store will integrate Yahoo Taiwan’s current traffic with Blocto’s blockchain technologies to create an intuitive, easy, and empowering NFT experience.
It’s worthy of note that all NFT creators in “Yahoo Taiwan NFT Store” are officially curated and approved by Yahoo Taiwan, thus offering a trustworthy trading platform of quality guarantee focusing on three key areas.
- Fiat payment gateway: users can directly purchase with fiat money. Credit card payment will be available first with more fiat payment methods coming in the future.
- Affordable price: reasonable pricing provides users access to premium NFT products.
- User-empowering NFTs: holders of “Yahoo Taiwan NFT Store” select NFTs are qualified for exclusive rewards in Yahoo Taiwan’s points program and purchasing priorities in limited offers and select NFT sales.
portto Committed to Simplifying Blockchain Experience
An increasing number of companies are now entering the blockchain space which makes the need for intuitive integration and deeper collaborations even more significant.
portto, the company behind Blocto was founded in 2019 and has been leading the effort in bridging the blockchain experience between company and users. To date, the firm has received funding from several high-profile and prominent investors such as Mark Cuban, Animoca Brands, and 500 Global.
Hsuna Lee, CEO at portto, says:
“Blocto has a lot of experiences in the deep blockchain cooperation with large enterprises, from Vault by CNN, MotoGP Ignition to Yahoo Taiwan. With our expertise in blockchain technology, Blocto is creating this platform with Yahoo Taiwan so anyone can own and collect NFTs like ‘A-Hoo’ as easy as shopping on any e-Commerce platform.”
Similar sentiments were echoed by Chen-Te Lin, VP of Taiwan E-Commerce and Regional Products, Yahoo.
Lin said:
“Yahoo Taiwan is fully committed to optimizing user experience through technological innovations from our continuous development in immersive content to leveraging the broad Yahoo Taiwan ecosystem’s cross-platform resources. By collaborating with Crypto wallet Blocto and leveraging Yahoo Taiwan’s advantages in media and e-commerce to launch ‘Yahoo Taiwan NFT Store’ Yahoo Taiwan is making NFTs accessible to all and creating a channel where local creators can expand their venture into NFTs.”
As mentioned earlier, “Yahoo NFT Taiwan Store” will debut with the ‘A-Hoo’ NFT collection whose image widely appears on Yahoo Taiwan’s stickers, branded products, and even delivery crates.
Moreover, the ‘A-Hoo’ collection will be available to trade on BloctoBay, Blocto’s NFT marketplace.
In addition, Yahoo Taiwan has plans to ink partnerships with local brands and non-profit organizations in co-releasing NFT collections to fulfil local demands and create a new profit model for creators.
What’s more, Yahoo Taiwan aims to leverage its high website traffic to aid business partners in reaching out to more non-crypto users.
