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# About this Connected Collectible
When [Aimé Leon Dore](https://www.aimeleondore.com)’s founder Teddy Santis saw the **New Balance 550** in a vintage Japanese sneaker catalog, he knew he’d stumbled onto something great. Introduced in the 80s as a performance basketball shoe, the model hadn’t seen a release in over 30 years. Santis and New Balance worked to revive it, accenting it with vintage details, and released it to the public in 2020 to an instant sellout. While the silhouette now appears all around the world in general release colors, this limited ALD edition in the ‘Evergreen’ colorway is the renewed OG that started it all.
**[Sneaks](https://sneaks.world)** is committed to bridging two worlds – in our case the digital and physical. Keep them vaulted, sell with a click, or burn this NFT to have your identical physical pair shipped anywhere in the world, at any time.
This NFT is uniquely identifiable by **[Proof of Integrity](https://docs.courtyard.io/courtyard/technology/proof-of-integrity)**, which is cryptographically derived from the unique ID of the matching physical pair ([CYXSNKS_BB550ALD_USM12-002](https://nft-datastore.courtyard.io/ethereum/0x3eA68344480890d582Ce7Fd7cBf3e7fD7Fc23C20/0x5b0f2417abbf1dbb600a98e1492c4cf9c490a631bf872b5541673b8e2546e566/asset_picture.jpg)).
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# About Sneaks
**Sneaks** unlocks a better way to collect and trade coveted kicks as **[Connected Collectibles](https://courtyard.io)**. Visit **[courtyard.io](https://courtyard.io)** to launch your own.