📚 NFT Education for Kids

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• Zigazoo - educational "tiktok" for children
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Zigazoo - educational "tiktok" for children

Zigazoo is a TikTok-style video-sharing app for posting short videos of students completing a variety of kid-appropriate challenges. Activities focus on simple, straightforward projects that ask students to investigate or create something and then share what they've done with videos up to 30 seconds long. In order to create a safe and positive online community for kids, Zigazoo includes a “friend request” feature, where users are required to opt-in to being followed, unlike other short-video platforms.  

The app requires an adult over the age of 18 to sign up via a Facebook, Google (GOOG) or Apple (AAPL) account. Parents can then decide if they want their child’s videos to be seen on the Zigazoo feed or set to private. Each video is run through a third-party professional moderation service. Its moderators work during a 19 hour window 7 days a week to ensure videos stay on topic for each challenge, do not include personal information – no last names or addresses – language is clean and content is free of “shoving, throwing, anger, yelling, bullying, sarcasm, or sulking”. Videos that check these boxes appear on the app’s made feed; those that do not are made private.

The kid-safe NFT education platform serves over 1 million users and collaborates with well-known entertainment businesses, celebrities, sports leagues, athletes, and other popular entities to bring thrilling content that children can learn from. The NFT market is constantly expanding—and the next target audience for tokenized digital collectibles could be young children. Zigazoo has introduced NFT collectibles that help young people learn and better understand the technology via kid-friendly content. The app has rolled out a virtual currency to encourage kids to trade with each other, purchase “cryptoys” and NFTs through Zigazoo. The in-app currency will play a significant role as the user experience evolves and becomes more immersive, since virtual currency is useful in the context of gifting digital goods. The NFTs are built on the Flow blockchain and are available for purchase through the Zigazoo app. Users can buy, sell and trade the tokens as well as include the art in their profiles and videos.      

Zigazoo co-founders Zak and Leah Ringelstein, former elementary school teachers, created the app in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic after struggling to find interactive, engaging content for their three young children. Zigazoo has raised a total of $25M in funding.

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