A collection of 4480 crystal NFTs that hold the power to activate a new youth-led metaverse called Island17.
Be among the first 640 to launch and fund a series of worldwide youth accelerators to build and complete the Island17 game, that brings solutions to the world’s problems in a holistic way. The sound curation by Kushim Sun Rey portrays the divine council founders laying the living fractal blueprint of the universe through a beautiful exchange in energy. The images curated by Kyle Piorkowski, Margaret Kral, Heidi Cuppari, Brandon Cope are meant to represent each chakra color to correspond with a healing sound frequency.
As founders, we are selected to have a seat at the table to guide and enable the next generation with confidence to build a world that unites all of us.
Founders are whitelisted by referral and become part of the DAO with inside access to all of the accelerators, events, and round tables in motion and to come. We start here…with you.
Acquire a Genesis Founders NFT from the world of Island17 in solidarity with the UN Sustainable Development Goals Created by Island17 DAO members: Heidi Cuppari, Kyle Piorkowski, Kushim Sun Rey, Margaret Kral, Brandon Cope, with creative input from youth leaders and Island17 family founders Summer and Cody Gould.
About Island17
The Island17 Metaverse is the framework to find, fund, and launch the best ideas on the planet, through youth-driven gaming. Our purpose is to create a new paradigm for prosperity. One that is sustainable, inherently rewarding, and allows our communities to thrive for generations to come. Our mission is to support the achievement of the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), education through gamification, and social entrepreneurship through the activation of 1 billion youth.
We focus on pioneering new ways of living, being, working, playing, and relating to one another. As Island17 is being organized as a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), we are a community-owned and community-driven team that bridges the gap between online and offline realities to share ideas, collaborate, and pioneer creative solutions addressing the most pressing problems affecting humanity’s shared existence and experience. Thanks to our built-in real-world datasets and partnerships with local and global organizations and community leaders, gamers can learn, earn, and drive tangible progress towards the SDGs by immersing themselves in play. We are incorporating impact-based tokenization incentives into a blockchain ecosystem to allow players to not only design businesses but find funding for their ideas and solutions as well.
Island17’s first round of Founder NFTs are minted, ready for purchase and are only being offered to our intrinsically motivated friends, family and our global network of advisors who have been instrumental in their support and guidance, as we build the Island17 Metaverse; a catalyst for change. By purchasing up to a full tetrahedron, which adds up to a maximum of 64 NFTs per person, you are investing in Island17’s fully-functioning DAO with established global reach, and primed to reach our collective potential. Only 640 Founder NFTs have been minted to date, however, for Level One of the Island17 Metaverse, a total of 4,480 ‘Crystals’ or 70 tetrahedrons will be available for purchase with the price of each round increasing in the two subsequent offerings.
About the Founders NFT
Each NFT is designed with great purpose. The Island17 Origin NFT embodies the sacred geometrical ratio of the tetrahedron. Metaphysically, the 64 tetrahedron is symbolic to linking up our individual spiritual paths with our star or soul family in perfect harmony. All Crystals will be offered in 12 different colors embodying the time-tested expanded energetic chakra code to five additional metaphysical chakras, a necessary conduit bridging business with spirituality, energetics and governance. In essence, Island17 is founded by the most sacred bond in the universe; mother and child and contains the lotus flower within, a symbol of purity, enlightenment, self-regeneration and rebirth. The flower of life pattern on each Crystal represents the female tetrahedron; symbolic of our mission to incorporate perfect geometry represented in nature, and a requisite for greater inclusion of women and children in our current male-dominated global power structure.
Together, these Crystals interlock creating the Island17 Orb of Zoltha, which is the gateway to the primary challenge each player must complete to enter Island17. As the Crystals are purchased, the Orb will randomly scatter the Crystals throughout our Metaverse. Each Crystal will possess a yet-to-be-determined ‘power’ which will be developed by youth through our proven accelerator projects, and will be compulsory for players to overcome in order to advance their missions. Through gamification, these Crystals will attain greater value as they will be tradeable or available for sale in a secondary market which is an integral differentiator to this offering as owners are not simply purchasing art. In other words, once our Metaverse is built, Island17 will ‘Exit to Community’ in the cryptocurrency space, or go ‘public,’ attaining additional NFT value as the Metaverse is built. Owners of these Crystals will also receive the following benefits:
- Name and commitment level will be listed in the game
- Digital photo gallery collection for zoom backgrounds
- First right of refusal for events, summits, NFTs, future offerings and more
- POAPs (Proof of Attendance Protocol and access to:
- Founders pin or badges (status) that show your level of commitment & POAPs
- FIRST rights/early access to purchase in game character and asset NFTs
- Collective Impact Events and Summits
- Attending, promoting, and sharing Island 17 with the world
About the Creators
Heidi Cuppari, Cody and Summer Gould
Heidi Cuppari, the visionary of Island17 who has been building the foundation of this Organization for the past 6 years is a leader in social impact investing, and youth and women’s leadership. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Dream Tank, Director of Cuppari Mondo Bello Gallery and Council member of The Digital Economist, and is now creating Island17, a web3 collective impact game designed by youth to address the United Nations’ SDGs. Her consultancy activates and supports maximizing the global impact of Next Generation and women investors through strategic collaboration and impact investing. Prior to founding Anastasia Impact in 2014, Heidi was a licensed Financial Advisor with UBS Financial Services in the Leonard Social and Sustainable Investment Group. In 2016 she launched Dream Tank. Heidi also serves as an advisor and investor relations consultant to several family offices, as well as emerging technology social impact ventures that she believes will revolutionize our ability to address the SDG’s and enable people and the planet to thrive. Cody (13) and Summer (16), her children, have been instrumental in giving input and creative feedback for this NFT launch and all things Dream Tank and Island17.
Kyle Piorkowski
Kyle is the Lead Designer / Developer of Island17. He is guiding our team with years of creative tech experience and an evolving portfolio of visionary design pipelines and workflows. Kyle specializes in creative tech, art, and business while advancing design projects with sustainability and respect for all. As a Web designer and XR world builder, Kyle is driven to create astounding websites and immersive tech experiences pushing the edge of creativity. All who experience his breathtaking work are amazed and delighted. Kyle’s path to this work was fully set in motion following a direct experience with death at age 17. He was involved in a fatal car accident during which he crossed over to the “other side” of reality, offering him profound insight and connection with his inner creativity. As a result, he created Liquid Light Project to partner with businesses helping manifest their passions and business dreams.
Margaret Kral
Margaret Kral is CEO and co-founder of systemCHANGR, a global curated community of change-makers united by the common goal of catalyzing measurable systems change in organizations so that they can realize the full potential of human, social, financial, and natural capital. She is also the COO for Island 17, a web3 collective impact game designed by youth and the young at heart, to address the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Prior to jumping into entrepreneurial ventures, Margaret was a Community Bank President for Wells Fargo and in banking and finance for 28 years. Margaret is all in on decentralized organizations and finance as the future for distributing wealth and creating community to tackle some of humanity’s biggest challenges.
Kushim Sun Rey
Kushim Sun Rey is a multimedia producer who has been working diligently to provide impactful, full sensory immersive experiences that positively reprograms the human mind. Starting from an audio standpoint, Kushim has been a music producer since 2011, fully integrating himself with sonics, frequency, and how they relate to holistic health and wellness, engineering, mechanics, bioenergetics, biochemistry, psychology and human behavior studies, etc. He furthered his studies by attending Full Sail University, where he completed a professional certificate for audio engineering. Since then, he has released multiple projects, and has worked cross genre with a plethora of artists ranging from reggae and rock, to hip hop and house music. In 2020 he furthered his studies by accepting an apprenticeship to work with iPyramids, a forward thinking energetic healing solutions company based in Sedona, Arizona. Upon completing this apprenticeship and receiving a pyramid of his own as his reward, he has started utilizing frequencies within his own sound healing modality and is now using them to bridge technology, nature, and healing in innovative ways to spatial 3D audio, web3, NFT’s, deFi’s and DAO’s.
Brandon Cope
Leveraging his experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal from 1993-1995, Brandon incorporates conscious-minded lessons learned from living in a subsistence agriculture village into his approach on integrating culture, sustainability and community into his business acumen. Brandon is an executive level leader with proven success and hands-on experience developing new market opportunities, managing operations, overseeing client relations, and executing market strategy initiatives. He has a unique ability to become fluent in new industries rapidly, and analyze new concepts/future trends and effectively motivate teams in a collaborative environment fostering a synergistic atmosphere of high performance. Brandon has established a reputation for the ability to identify organizational strengths and weaknesses, implement and execute policies, standards, and changes in operations and systems to optimize productivity while ensuring the client’s needs are met leading to multi-year recurring revenue streams. While Brandon takes all of his career endeavors with great pride and focus, his purpose in life is to play and to bring this aspect of life into his work when long days are required.
