The Sirens NFTs is a female-led project by the famous influencer Alexis Ren that highlights an important fact: “On average, about 5% of NFT sales make up women.” And they want to change that.
Ren is an internet celebrity who has long advocated for mental wellness, women empowerment, and the environment. Her previous involvement with Web3 has already been well-entangled with these topics.
As per Forbes, Ren co-created the tech platform STAGE, where she hosts the female community We Are Warriors (WAW); this platform is mainly focusing on “online fitness & mental wellbeing.” The platform offers courses and events mostly related to at-home workouts.
Similarly, the NFT project Sirens, built on Solana, takes this idea to a bigger scale. This time, Ren aims for NFTs with eco-friendly, real-life use cases.
Members of Sirens NFTs Community
The members of the NFT community will have access to the NFT gated STAGE platform and “have access to a private calendar of events with monthly yoga classes, breathwork classes, meditations and other healing modalities.”
The community will also give access to “crypto 101 courses. These courses are demystify and break down the space through tutorials, videos, and training on the fundamentals of web3 technology.”
Sirens also aim to build an eco-friendly village for all members.
Eco-friendly and NFTs are not two topics that go along so well nowadays. Especially among environmentalists. However, the Sirens team wants to build a wellness retreat in Texas with 100% sustainable homes for the community. They will be building the local materials and built with the focus of being off the grid.”
This interesting approach shows how NFT creators are waking up to the need for real-life cases. This is where holders can justify the purchase of a non-fungible token with an exclusive experience.
NFTs, or a least a market sector, could be evolving into a sort of membership pass. Maybe the titanic idea we now have of the metaverse could reshape itself, trying to find balance with real-life experiences.
NFTs And Women-Empowerment Check
The money minted by the Sirens NFTs is supposed to get invested into businesses. It will be given to the community members. Then, the leaders claim they will guide the members by providing resources to help them “make businesses successful in addition to just a money investment.”
This all seems innovative and even exciting. One can only hope that female-led projects find a way to disrupt the current male-led dominant models. It opens doors for more women to dream big, support each other in business projects, and succeed. That sounds great, but there are a couple of things about Sirens that do not meet my personal expectations.
When looking into the, We Are Warriors offered courses and the Sirens NFTs I could not help but notice that this does not seem to be that kind of ‘love-yourself/wellness’ community. This is the kind of community where you will find any trace of the body-positivity movement that public figures like Lizzo lead.
