Accursed Share partners with author Merlin Sheldrake to launch NFT collection

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Accursed Share has announced a partnership with Merlin Sheldrake, a New York Times' best-selling author, to launch an NFT collection based on his award-winning book. The artist-based production studio will launch NFT collection for the book titled 'Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures.' The NFTs are digitally curated from Sheldrake's studies of three-dimensional scans of thousands of sliced and rendered samples of plants and fungi exploring their codependent intimacy.

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The NFT collection, featuring his book and studies, will consist of 9,950 NFTs created with the help of screening technology and powered by Algorand’s carbon-negative blockchain. The NFT drop starts February 10, 2022, at 6 PM UTC. The first 1,000 unique ALGO addresses will receive a free animated NFT from the Entangled Life collection, while the top 100 referrers will receive a more exclusive NFT with dynamic features and surprises. «Fungi form living networks that can sprawl over tens or even hundreds of meters. These networks are decentralized, with no head or brain,» said Merlin Sheldrake. Fungi can integrate an unceasing flood of sensory information and engage in sophisticated trading relationships with plants, striking compromises and resolving dizzyingly complex trade-offs, he added. The NFTs in the Entangled Life collection showcases the symbiotic relationship between fungi and plants, highlighting how essential fungi are to life. More than 90 per cent of plants depend