Worldwide payment processor Mastercard has announced the Artist Accelerator program, and with it, Music Pass NFTs you can mint for free during the first 3 weeks from launch.

The program, which was announced on April 12th, consists of five different emerging artists that the company has teamed up with in order to teach them in growing a brand powered by Web3. In doing so, the company is bringing the public into the mix, offering everyone access to various exclusive Web3 content that only those who claim the free Music Pass NFT will be able to unlock. This content will not only include educational material, but also the opportunity to create your own soundtracks by utilizing Web3, AI-powered music tools.

The 5 growing artists part of this Web3-focused music program include Young Athena, an R&B soul singer; Manu Manzu, a Venezuelan singer and songwriter nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards; LeriQ, a Nigerian recording artist with over 21k Spotify followers; Emily Vu, a pop-sensation pianist and guitarist with over 1.4 million Tik Tok followers, and Cocoa Sarai, a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning singer-songwriter who has 3 independent albums. They’ll be learning from 5 different mentors, that include Tushar Apte, a producer, songwriter, startup consultant and NFT creator; Latashá, an LA-based rapper and Head of Programming at ZORA; Ian Rogers, the CXO at Ledger; Nife, an Afro-dancer and content creator with almost 1 million Instagram followers, and Brian Trunzo, a corporate lawyer, crypto expert and former business owner who currently leads business development over at Polygon.

Mastercard has partnered with Polygon for the accelerator’s Web3 program. Claiming the NFT requires creating a Mastercard Artist Accelerator account, which also means that the NFT will be stored in their own blockchain custodial wallet, with the option to transfer the pass to your MetaMask wallet set to be available at some point in the future.

Additional details as well as the link to the official page for signing up and claiming the Music Pass NFT can be found in the official tweet down below.

Last year, Mastercard submitted 15 NFT and metaverse trademark applications, and even integrated its payment network into platforms such as The Sandbox, while this year they announced the approval of stablecoin transactions in APAC regions.