Premium Infrastructure for Digital Culture.
Powering experiences, engagement, and digital ownership through NFT technology.
Why Digital Ownership Matters
Lightyear builds infrastructure for the next era of digital engagement. It enables organizations to create official digital moments, reward participation, and build lasting relationships with their audiences across both physical and digital spaces.
Entertainment, community, and culture are moving deeper into digital environments, yet most organizations still rely on outdated tools for engagement, access, and connection.
Who we serve
Cultural Institutions & Museums
Museums, galleries, and heritage organizations developing digital exhibitions and hybrid cultural programs.
Artists & Creators
Digital artists, creators, and studios exploring editions, releases, on-chain works, and interactive experiences.
Brands & IP Holders
Sports, gaming, music, fashion, and entertainment brands building NFT-powered experiences and digital memberships.
Web3 Platforms & Ecosystems
Protocols, marketplaces, and digital ecosystems integrating NFTs for provenance, identity, and engagement.
Event Hosts & Venues
Festivals, exhibitions, performance spaces, and cultural venues creating hybrid experiences that extend live moments through digital collectibles, access passes, and verifiable participation.
Consumer Communities & DAOs
Digital-native communities, DAOs, and membership networks using NFTs to represent participation, governance, reputation, and shared cultural ownership.
At Lightyear we are using NFTs as quiet infrastructure, not speculation. The result is more meaningful engagement, broader access to global digital audiences, and future-ready systems for provenance, reputation, and liquidity across digital and physical worlds.
What Lightyear Delivers
Extended Experiences
Create persistent digital touchpoints that continue events and moments beyond the physical visit
Deeper Engagement
Build ongoing, verifiable relationships through digital identity, participation records, and community layers
Broader Audiences
Reach younger, global, digital-native communities through on-chain programs and cross-platform distribution
Future Proofing
Adopt trusted infrastructure for provenance, interoperability, and hybrid digital–physical cultural experiences
Why us
Partners choose Lightyear for its blend of cultural credibility and institutional trust. Backed by Hivemind Digital Group, it offers a simple, reliable way to launch high-quality NFT experiences focused on provenance, reputation, and long-term value, not hype.
Cultural Expertise
Deep understanding of blockchain, digital art, contemporary culture, and institutional collaboration.
Technical Foundation
Proven experience using NFTs for identity, provenance, access, and authenticated digital releases.
Credibility
Institutional-grade governance, insight, and research, powered by Hivemind Digital Group.
Network
Strong connections across artists, collectors, curators, platforms, and cultural organizations.
Our Work
The Met — Art Links
The team behind Lightyear led the development of Art Links, The Met’s first blockchain-based educational game that allowed visitors to collect digital tokens tied to artworks and unlock new learning pathways across the museum.
Designed to be intuitive and frictionless, Art Links introduced blockchain as a quiet, supportive layer rather than a technical hurdle. The project demonstrated how a legacy cultural institution can embrace on-chain tools to explore new formats, deepen engagement, and bring audiences into a more interactive digital relationship with its collection.
Cultural Partner
Lightyear partnered with Shape, an Ethereum L2 built for artists and creators, to support liquidity for cultural assets starting with XCOPY’s COPE SALADA.
Through active market-making support, and a contract that transparently tracks wallets trading with Lightyear, the collaboration introduced a more liquid and participatory market structure for collectors. The partnership demonstrated how Lightyear can help emerging creative platforms establish healthier secondary markets. Alongside this, Lightyear supported the promotion of XCOPY’s Coin Laundry exhibition at Art Basel Miami, presented by NguyenWahed in partnership with Shape.
Who we are
Michael Davison
Leads relationships with top digital creators, guiding curation and drop development to ensure every release meets Lightyear’s gallery-grade standards.
Dachao Zhao
Oversees the full collector journey, blending concierge-level support with transparent mechanics to create a premium, trusted environment.
Ruyan Yuan
Oversees the full collector journey, blending concierge-level support with transparent mechanics to create a premium, trusted environment.
Tao Tan
Oversees the full collector journey, blending concierge-level support with transparent mechanics to create a premium, trusted environment.