Based in Vancouver, Dapper Labs offers a variety of Dapps and NFT-based products. These include games like CryptoKitties, where players can raise and raise NFT kittens, and cheese wizards, a series of tournaments where collectible characters can duel each other. Additionally, Dapper Labs is partnered with the NBA and is responsible for Top Shot, an NFT market who sells wicks of basketball games. The UFC has also partnered with Dapper Labs to offer a similar service in the near future.
According to the announcement, Dapper Labs has hired Crossroads Strategies as its lobbying firm. The company reported that it would lobby for "Policies related to NFT, blockchain and financial services." In addition to hiring a lobbying firm, Dapper Labs also hired Alison Kutler as its new head of government affairs in November 2021. Kutler was head of the Office of Government and Consumer Affairs and special advisor to the FCC president since June from 2015 to April 2017.
Since then, Kutler has also signed up to lobby on behalf of Dapper Labs based on public disclosures released the day after Dapper Labs' official registration on Tuesday, January 4, 2022.
Dapper Labs didn't reveal much in terms of its intentions, but said it wants to promote "education and general adoption of Web3," according to its spokeswoman Rachel Rogers.
With NFTs increasingly involved in the dominant culture, lobbyists are optimistic about future policies. Regardless, both lobbyists and politicians will have to continue dealing with the implications of blockchain technology about future regulations.
Through a public disclosure on January 3, 2022, Dapper Labs became the first NFT company to Check in lobbying with the US government.This is currently unfolding as various names within the crypto industry are stepping on the floors of Congress to explain new technology and hopefully influence new policies.
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