
Today marks a major milestone for Mapstone. The platform is officially live on Ethereum Mainnet and open to the public.
Anyone can now search for real-world locations, mint Address and Neighborhood NFTs, buy and sell assets through the Mapstone marketplace, and participate in a platform that connects blockchain ownership with real-world places, property data and ETH rewards.
For us, this launch represents the beginning of what Mapstone was built to become: a new digital layer for the physical world.
Every real-world street address is unique. On Mapstone, so is its NFT.
Mapstone is the world’s first platform turning real-world addresses into digital assets, and the process happens on demand. Thousands of Gold, Platinum, Charity, and other featured Address NFTs are already available to mint, but users aren’t limited to this pre-built collection. You can search for virtually any eligible address in the world and claim it. Within seconds, Mapstone automatically generates the unique metadata and design, creating a location-specific digital asset that’s then ready to be minted on Ethereum. No other platform offers this kind of on-demand digital ownership.
New to blockchain? Minting is the process of creating and permanently recording a new digital asset on a blockchain. Once minted, the asset exists on-chain, where its ownership and transaction history can be independently verified. On Mapstone, each Address NFT and Neighborhood NFT can only be minted once, creating a unique on-chain digital asset tied to that specific location.
From your childhood home to stadiums, landmarks, and iconic buildings, Mapstone gives people the ability to claim and own the digital representation of places that matter to them.
Mapstone Address NFTs aren’t just digital collectibles like many of the projects that first brought blockchain-based artwork into the mainstream.
They have real utility through Address Quest™, Mapstone’s real estate strategy competition, where the top 1,000 players will win a share of a prize pool targeting 10,000 ETH, worth approximately $25 million at the time of launch.
Instead of relying on random outcomes, Address Quest™ is powered by housing-market data provided by Zillow. Players build portfolios of U.S. Address NFTs and earn points based primarily on how the corresponding postal codes perform over time using real-world home value data.
Choose markets you believe will outperform. Adjust your portfolio as conditions change. Climb the leaderboard as your locations gain or lose ground.
Address NFTs aren’t simply digital artwork tied to locations. They give you a way to put your knowledge and instincts about real estate markets to work.
Explore Address Quest™ and see how the competition works.
Neighborhood NFTs offer another way to participate.
Each Neighborhood NFT represents a unique U.S. postal code on the Ethereum blockchain. Instead of competing in Address Quest™, Neighborhood NFT owners earn ongoing ETH royalties from activity within their neighborhood.
Owners receive 10% of Address NFT mint revenue generated within their postal code and 1% of eligible Mapstone marketplace sales involving addresses in that neighborhood.
Those royalties are paid automatically in ETH to the Neighborhood NFT owner’s wallet.
With more than 26,000 Neighborhood NFTs currently available across the United States, Neighborhood NFTs give owners a way to participate in the activity generated across an entire postal code.
Explore available Neighborhood NFTs on Mapstone.
Mapstone was built around a simple idea: blockchain assets become more meaningful when they are connected to something people already understand.
Addresses have identity. Neighborhoods have value. Real estate markets move. People have strong connections to the places where they live, work, travel and invest.
Mapstone brings those elements together in one platform.
Address NFTs create digital ownership around individual locations. Neighborhood NFTs create an economic layer around postal codes. Address Quest™ turns real housing-market performance into a competitive experience. The Mapstone marketplace allows these assets to be bought and sold on Ethereum.
Players can also explore real-world home value data by postal code to research housing-market trends and inform their Address Quest™ strategy.
And this is only the beginning.
With the public launch now live, anyone can begin exploring Mapstone.
Search for an address you know. Find a neighborhood you believe in. Discover iconic locations that have not yet been claimed. Study real estate market trends. Build an Address Quest™ strategy. Or own a Neighborhood NFT and participate in the activity generated within an entire postal code.
The most interesting locations in the world are available now.
Which one will you claim?
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