“We are delighted to join the Flow ecosystem and partner with a major global blockchain innovator in Dapper Labs. This partnership is essential for creating world-class NFT experiences of our historical archives,” said the company’s CEO Gary Liu, “Through our ARTIFACT whitepaper, we look forward to inspiring other ‘guardians of history’ to share our vision of making history more discoverable, connected, and collectable.”

The Post’s inaugural 1997 Series collectible cards will be divided into four rarity levels which correspond to the varying degrees of significance of the events these cards are based on.

The card based on the Post’s front-page coverage of the 1997 handover ceremony will be classified as “Super Rare,” while another commemorating the outbreak of the bird flu will be of the “Rare” grade. Other events such as the arrest of Hong Kong’s jockeys and horse racing trainers will be of the “Common” grade.

While the exact number and the pricing of the cards remain to be determined, the series is said to cover 362 days of the year, correlating to the number of publishing days every year for the newspaper. The release of the series will also be split into two batches, with the first batch covering roughly the first half of the year, and the second batch covering the latter half.

The 1997 Series is the first of many NFT collections that the Post plans to launch. The company looks to release NFT in the forms of both “Base Series” and “Thematic Drop”. The “Base Series” will contain NFTs based on historical moments in a specific year but the “Thematic Drop” will cover events of a specific theme.