This Singaporean millennial quit her job to follow a ‘Toasty’ dream with 7,600 NFTs
After about four and a half years of working in the corporate world, including completing a two-year scholarship bond, Chanel Lee was feeling the pull of change and thinking about relocating to the US.But her plan was disrupted when the pandemic forced countries into lockdown in early 2020.
She decided to stay in Singapore and transitioned to corporate tech, which she describes as a relatively pandemic-proof sector.
In 2021, close to two years into the pandemic, Lee felt compelled to step out of her comfort zone – leaving her corporate job to enter the non-fungible token (NFT) space.
She wanted to devote her time fully to it and launch a Singapore-based NFT collection, Tasty Toastys. “I decided that if there’s any moment in my life that I should take this jump, I’d want to try an experimental industry now rather than when more industry players have entered,” said Lee in a virtual interview with CNA Women.She launched her first collection of 7,600 randomly generated NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain on Nov 13 last year. “I am very proud that we’ve launched our first collection – I have people from Europe, Germany and the UK buying the NFTs and for many of them, it was their first NFT.”“It shows that they were willing to take a risk on something that they believe in, with me.
