Michael Ugwu is the founder of Metaphrase an NFT community he set up to support creatives, brands, collectors and builders in the NFT space as well as drive mainstream adoption of NFTs across Africa. To date the community has hosted successful meet ups in Lagos, London and New York. Michael is an avid investor in NFTs and has amassed a collection of over 1000 NFTs including Crypto Punks, Art Blocks (Curated, Playground and Factory) Meebits, Bored Apes, Mutant Apes, Admit One, RarePepe’s, Akutars, Doodles as well as pieces from Fewocious, Hackatao, Anthony Azekwoh, Micah Johnson, Xcopy, Osinachi, Fvck Render and others since he got into the space. Consisting of over 500 young Africans The Metaphrase DAO has collectively acquired NFTs such as Otherside, Akutars, Moonbirds and more