As the artistic world of tattooing keeps on evolving, it has made its presence into the nonfungible token (NFT) sphere via an effort to stay relevant in an increasingly digital world.

Specifically, tattoos have been known as a widespread phenomenon across the globe for thousands of years, transcending cultural transformations and technological shifts.

Referred to as Bang Bang in the tattoo sector, Keith McCurdy is among the artists who shares a hope of combining the ethos of tattoo culture with disruptive technologies, via the current utilization of a new kind of rewritable tattoo ink which appears and fades away under different lighting conditions.

Throughout the last half decade, Bang Bang reportedly claimed that scientists at the University of Colorado have designed a tattoo ink derived from photochromic microcapsules, a technology called “tech tattoos” which creates a color-changing mark that is activated by UV light, hence changing the tattooed image upon its reaction to UV light. 

From his perspective, the technology is a measure to bridge tattoo culture’s desire for individuality with the provable uniqueness of NFTs. 

In June this year, he sold the first rewritable tattoo as a 1/1 NFT for 100 ether (ETH), or approximately $100,000 at the time.

“Our digital identity will become very important in the future. It may already be more important than our physical identity today. Individualization in a digital world and defining one’s identity is what we do best, and in that exists endless parallels and opportunities.”

A different establishment currently putting resources in bridging the tattoo community to Web3 is Indelible – which is making it possible for owners to use their IP rights via drawing new tattoos and adding i to existing profile pic (PFP) NFTs. 

“NFT holders are always looking to monetize or do different things with their IP. And we feel it’s a really interesting way to monetize or even have fun with your IP by putting like famous tattoo art on it.” Mike Amoia, founder of Indelible, further shared.