The original patent application was filed back in April so some of these details won’t come as a surprise to some.īut with the patent now granted by the US Patent Office, perhaps we can expect to see CryptoKicks in the wild at some point in the future. It seems someone at Nike has been playing CryptoKitties, as owners of “CryptoKicks” will be able to “intermingle or breed the digital shoe with another digital shoe to create ‘shoe offspring’ and have the offspring made as a new, tangible pair of shoes.” These digital assets can be stored in what’s being called a “Digital Locker,” a cryptocurrency wallet type app.īut there’s more. When sneakers are sold to someone else, ownership can be transferred by trading both real shoe and/or associated digital assets. “When a consumer buys a genuine pair of shoes a digital representation of a show may be generated, linked with the consumer, and assigned a cryptographic token, where the digital shoe and cryptographic token collectively represent a ‘CryptoKick,'” the patent reads.

Credit: US Patent Office ‘CryptoKicks’ patent, someone selling shoes and the digital asset As a result, there is digital scarcity of the digital assets, as their production is effectively tied to the production of real sneakers. When you buy a pair of the “CryptoKicks,” you’ll also receive a digital asset attached to a unique identifier of that shoe.

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