The Star Trek franchise is one of the top most celebrated sci-fi franchises in the world. Created in the '60s, it has maintained its dominance to this day with endless movies and series.
Now, it becomes the first franchise to try out NFTs in a completely different way—imprinting the signature of the Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry into the DNA of a living bacteria.
That's right! An NFT signature, embedded in the DNA code of a bacteria.
Scientists say that the asexual reproduction of the DNA will “double at a rate that will create over a billion copies.”
The signature of the first eco-friendly NFT came from the contract signed by Gene in 1965 with Lucille Ball’s Desilu Productions. Is there a greater way to commemorate the creator of one of the most popular sci-fi franchises!
Trevor Roth, COO of Roddenberry Entertainment, said “to be able to responsibly do so, in such a unique fashion, during the year of Gene’s Centennial celebration, is beyond exciting.”
With a promise of a net-zero to potentially a carbon-negative footprint, the NFT also opens the window to an advanced age of data storage. It is believed that storing data in DNA might prove to be a solution to decrease greenhouse emissions.