coinbilly Acquires Invisible Friends Brand Including Contracts and IP
By Crypto Wire
October 21, 2026
Early Invisible Friends team member coinbilly said on Wednesday, October 21, 2026 that he has fully acquired the NFT brand — including its smart contracts, intellectual property, remaining inventory, and After Effects files — and plans to push the franchise into physical products, character animation, experimental digital content, and brand collaborations aimed at people who have never held an NFT. TokenPost and KuCoin/ChainCatcher wraps carried the same scope: a multi-year legal path, original artist Markus Magnusson staying out of future operations, holder priority access, and a free commemorative open edition planned soon for current owners.
Project history in coinbilly’s own recap: 5,000 looping “invisible” characters (viewers see clothes and props, not bodies), teaser in November 2021, early team of coinbilly, James Curran, and developer mikker. A February 23, 2022 charity auction raised about $1.3 million for 13 organizations; public mint later opened near a 12 ETH floor (~$30,000 then) with pre-reveal volume framed around 10,000–15,000 ETH. Past collabs cited include Shopify, Snapchat, Sotheby’s, and Kith. Treat those as project-reported milestones, not a new independent audit of today’s treasury or royalty stack.
For marketplace desks, the live cut is ownership of the contracts and brand — who can set royalties, run drops, and speak for the verified collection — not a new chain migration. coinbilly said OpenSea put Invisible Friends back on the homepage after the announcement; the verified OpenSea collection page still lists 5,000 supply with a floor near 0.395 ETH and roughly $79,000 in twenty-four-hour volume at this tick’s scrape — useful tape color, not a claim that the acquisition alone caused the print. Fees still vary by collection settings; do not invent a new OpenSea royalty rate from this story.
coinbilly said he would take questions on Discord and X and outlined a Twitch livestream at 1:00 p.m. Eastern the day after the post to walk the roadmap — treat that calendar as project-stated, and verify the actual stream URL in-channel before joining. The planned free holder open edition is the next named product beat; until mint pages and contract addresses are published, ignore lookalike “commemorative” links.
Venue watch: Watch whether OpenSea keeps Invisible Friends in homepage / trending slots after the acquisition news cycle, whether royalty or creator-fee settings change under the new owner, and when the free commemorative open edition posts a verified mint URL and contract.
Bottom line: coinbilly says he now owns Invisible Friends’ contracts and IP, with physicals, animation, and a free holder open edition next — and OpenSea already put the collection back on the homepage.
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