FingerprintsDAO

Fingerprints DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization focused on curating and collecting art created with smart contracts and other blockchain-native techniques. Membership and governance are organized around the $PRINTS token, an Ethereum-based token with a total supply of 10,000,000. The organization presents itself as a home for blockchain art, holding collections such as Voxelglyph and running collaborations with artists.

The DAO is structured into committees and roles, including Curation & Acquisition, Community, Strategic Partnerships, Marketing and Design, Governance and Treasury. The Curation Committee, elected by the community, oversees all acquisitions; terms typically run six months and periodic elections refresh its membership, with non-members able to apply through the liaison of an existing member. Committee members listed include artists, collectors and curators such as DEAFBEEF, Arad, B123, David Lisser, Klamt, Plutonium F., Shamrock and Chainleft. Klamt also leads Fingerprints Studio, a platform that helps artists launch new blockchain art projects.

As of an October 2021 report, the DAO comprised roughly 250 members and held an NFT collection valued at about 20,000 ETH, including 26 Autoglyphs. Works by artists in the DAO's orbit have been auctioned at Sotheby's Metaverse.

Founding story

Luiz Ramalho is identified in press coverage as the founder of Fingerprints DAO.

Business model

A token-based collective: holders of the $PRINTS token participate in a DAO that pools capital to acquire blockchain art, with committees handling curation, treasury, governance, partnerships and marketing. Entities can join by acquiring $PRINTS tokens, as 2TM Group did with a $1 million purchase.

Traction

Around 250 members and an NFT collection valued at roughly 20,000 ETH as of October 2021, including 26 Autoglyphs with a stated floor value of over $1.3 million. In that same period 2TM Group, parent of Mercado Bitcoin, took a $1 million position in $PRINTS.

Latest developments

In October 2021, 2TM Group — the Brazilian holding company whose portfolio includes Mercado Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Latin America — announced a $1 million acquisition of $PRINTS tokens, joining the DAO. 2TM CEO Roberto Dagnoni cited interest in the DAO model, while Fingerprints founder Luiz Ramalho framed the move as giving 2TM exposure to the global NFT scene.