WISeKey and Porrima.CH Team Up to Launch
the First Ever Sustainable NFT Project to Celebrate Earth Day
2022
Geneva, Switzerland – April 22, 2022 – WISeKey International
Holding Ltd (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a Swiss based cyber
security, IoT, AI platform company, today announced that
it has teamed up with Porrima.CH, a Swiss based foundation
committed to delivering the proof of operations of technologies
that will change reality and transform society, for a first
ever-sustainable NFT project using the Porrima.CH solar panels
installed in 2010. Using limited resources effectively is the core
philosophy underpinning the Porrima, a concept boat centered on
environmental research, which aims to show how sustainable
technology could revolutionize the shipping industry.
Each solar panel is encased in a special cover that protects the
panels from sea water. There are 800 panels only - and these are
the ones that undertook the world's first tour around the world
using only solar energy. WISeKey and Porrima.CH are seeking to
share this incredible solar project with the growing number of
sustainability enthusiasts on Web3 as a way to engage with new
audiences around renewable energy, environment and tokenization
technology.
The premier world tour took 2 years (2010-2012). The solar
panels used to generate power were complemented in 2017 with
hydrogen made from sea water, and an intelligent kite catching wind
placed 200 meters above the ship. By July 2022, the solar panels on
Porrima - named after the Roman Goddess for the Future - will have
navigated 100,000 nautical miles. After all these years circling
the globe 4 times over each panel continues to operate with only a
25% loss in power generation. Porrima, this 36 meter long and
24 meter wide catamaran demonstrates our human capacity to produce
more power than is ever needed.
These panels have a unique history and emotional capital
captured by an identifier serial number that now has a WISeKey
authentication microchip with a correspondent NFT listed on the
WISe.ART Platform. Each solar panel NFT will be auctioned off with
a starting price of $2,222 each with an option also to acquire the
physical serialized version with the microchip for $10,000.
Collectors can have as an option to own both, the digital NFT
plus the correspondent physical item. This will finance the refit
for a next generation of solar panels.
The first 100 panels are offered for NFT tokenization, which
will be announced on April 22, 2022, on Earth Day at 22:00 hrs
local time in Tokyo (09:00 am in EST in New York). You have never
seen so many “2” in a riddle. The ship left Osaka on December 18,
2021 and is currently in Dubai where it was part of the closing
event of the EXPO 2020 and created the link with the Osaka Expo
2025 from where it will sail as a final destination. After visiting
the Middle East, PORRIMA will sail around the Mediterranean
crossing the Atlantic and the Pacific planet in 2023-2024. “In
2025, you will be able to meet the ship at Osaka World Expo,” said
Gunter Pauli. And all the way - in each port - there will be a
chance to learn firsthand from the technologies that are not taught
at any university. Porrima wants to inspire young talent!The ship
is a case study in much more than renewable energy. Air bubble nets
prevent overfishing by separating fish by weight and then releasing
the reproductive females, which tend to be heavier due to their
eggs. The vessel will soon be equipped with a unique filtering
system that isolates and concentrates nanoplastics from seawater
and converts them into hydrogen fuel. PORRIMA will also make it a
standard to convert all excess power into hydrogen directly from
sea water.
We want to make this trip and this story famous,
in order to become a formidable vector of hope and knowledge! The
boat is now entering a new phase of its life, and although it is
once again about to undergo an upgrade with cutting-edge
innovations, we want it to carry the philosophy of the Blue
Economy, synonymous of hope and wisdom. Indeed, cherishing life and
looking to the future is also about learning, understanding and
being responsible.
Buyers of each solar panel could get the
original item certified plus the NFT as unique collector’s item
celebrating this amazing sustainable project that bears the name of
Porrima: a goddess with a vision of the future and protector of
pregnant women in Roman mythology. The solar panel NFT drop will
include an auction with a reserve, rare editions, and other pieces
with a limited run and items will be priced according to their
rarity. It will also be accompanied by a social media campaign
to connect audiences with the auction.
“The WISeKey NFT platform is secured by
WISeKey’s various security technologies enabling the authentication
of digital identity based NFTs, physical objects as well as digital
assets, in a safe end-to-end process. The user is in full control
of its WISeID NFT and other NFTs need to request access to its
identity information so WISeID NFTs users can decide by themselves
what level of information they wish to share, thus keeping full
control. The WISeKey approach to the Metaverse has as objective to
provide safe infrastructure identity services based on blockchain
technologies for a wide range of users, including individuals,
corporations and government institutions. As our digital lives
become increasingly digitalized, Metaverse will leverage the
advantages of the internet to establish a virtual world for its
users. Businesses and communities will depend on users’ digital
identities to manage assets. As interest in NFTs continues to
accelerate, WISeKey is committed to promoting a more
environmentally friendly consumption and distribution model,” said
Carlos Moreira, Founder and CEO of WISekey.
About Porrima.CH
PORRIMA is a Lausanne (Switzerland) based
foundation committed to delivering the proof of operations of
technologies that will change reality and transform society. The
foundation is committed to regenerate ecosystems and put Nature
back on its evolutionary path using the best of humanity - its
creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. The Foundation can count on
the backing of the ZERI network (zero emissions research and
initiatives) the visionary think tank created by Prof Gunter Pauli
in 1994 in preparation for the Kyoto Protocol. So Porrima is backed
by science and needs more entrepreneurs. That is why Porrima
created the Blue Campus <www.bluecampus.ch> to build talent
and works with funders to strengthen innovation through
entrepreneurship <www.blueinnovations.ch>.
About WISeKey
WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN)
is a leading global cybersecurity company currently deploying large
scale digital identity ecosystems for people and objects using
Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human as the Fulcrum of the
Internet. WISeKey microprocessors secure the pervasive computing
shaping today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an install
base of over 1.6 billion microchips in virtually all IoT sectors
(connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural sensors,
anti-counterfeiting, smart lighting, servers, computers, mobile
phones, crypto tokens etc.). WISeKey is uniquely positioned to
be at the edge of IoT as our semiconductors produce a huge amount
of Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial Intelligence (AI),
can help industrial applications to predict the failure of their
equipment before it happens.
Our technology is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s
Swiss based cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) provides secure
authentication and identification, in both physical and virtual
environments, for the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial
Intelligence. The WISeKey RoT serves as a common trust anchor to
ensure the integrity of online transactions among objects and
between objects and people. For more information,
visit www.wisekey.com.
Press and investor contacts:WISeKey
International Holding LtdCompany Contact: Carlos
MoreiraChairman & CEOTel: +41 22 594
3000info@wisekey.com WISeKey
Investor Relations (US)Contact: Lena CatiThe Equity
Group Inc.Tel: +1 212 836-9611lcati@equityny.com
PORRIMA FoundationFounder: Gunter
Paulipauli@porrima.chPress Relations Contact: Alex
Rihscontact@porrima.ch
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