Director: Ali Rahim
Advisor: Fabian Llonch
C O L L A B O R A T O R - E S T E L L A L I U
Toolkits - Rhinoceros, Illustrator and Photoshop
Models - 3D Printing
Year 2022
Project Published: PressingMatters
NFT’s and the Future of the New York Stock Exchange “The City will become the Center of Bitcoins.” ——Eric Adams. NYC Mayoral Candidate Elect -The center of the US and global economy is the stock market which started as an exchange for goods and developed into a marketplace that exchanged shares of American companies. However, due to uncertainty in global relations, some foreign Governments are pressurizing their own companies to de-list from the New York Stock Exchange adds volatility to the financial market. In the long term the withdrawal of these substantial global companies will affect the NYSE adversely. To continue its global leadership the NYSE needs to expand its core business.
New York City needs to raise capital as the Federal and State Governments have not helped New York’s finances in any way. If New York City mines Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT’s) that are pegged to Real Estate value in the city, residents and visitors alike can invest in the City’s future. Non-fungible tokens are a unit of data stored on a digital ledger, called a blockchain, that certifies a digital asset to be unique and therefore not interchangeable. If this token is accessible to all its residents and visitors allows for the increase in value to sustain and even develop some of the city’s services, in addition the increase in value over time will monetarily help each resident and tourist who invests in the future of NYC. An expansion of the New York Stock Exchange to include Cryptocurrency trading and mining of its own Ethereum using hydrogen as its powersource will counteract the decline of the decreasing value of the NYSE and will invigorate its growth well into the future.
Precedent Deconstruction and Reconstructing Iterations
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Prototype
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Evolution of the Stock Exchange
-One of the central questions concerning us is what should the 21st century Stock Exchange, moving beyond the free plan of the Beaux Arts era? The building as it currently exists was built in 1903, and is located between the corners of Wall Street and Exchange Place, and was designed in the Beaux Arts style by George B. Post. There are two main feature spaces in the current Exchange building, the trading hall which and a dining club on the 6th floor which has been closed. In addition, there are 200 miles of cables under the Stock exchange as in person trades have been replaced with digital trades. During Covid the building was closed to people, but the exchanges continued to operate as usual.
-The Future stock exchange will be expanded to mine Ethereum NFT’s for New York City and serve as a Crypto Currency Exchange for global trades. To educate the public about the value of the purchase of NFT’s an NFT Museum will be incorporated in the building proposal.