The lifespan of great IP in the NFT world is much longer than you'd expect.
@cryptopunks has been around for 9 years.
This means as a new creator today you need to have a long-term vision. Otherwise you won't achieve the steadfastness of OG bluechips.
HUGE thank you to everyone who played during open beta 🫶
4000+ completed tasks
1000+ imposter kills
800+ innocents protected
140+ monster mayhems
to those who left feedback in our discord, we appreciate you a ton!
new announcement dropping tomorrow 👀
The Bitcoin eco deserves this 🥂
It’s so cool to now be able to do cross-chain swaps for @tap_protocol assets across @ethereum, @solana and @BNBCHAIN
Just did this TAP 🔁 USDT(eth) swap and couldn’t ask for a smoother UX
Congrats on the epic DEX @TAP_scope 👏
to celebrate our open beta on jun 5-6, we’re giving away:
• 1x 1TB OLED Steam Deck
• 3x $100 Steam wallet codes
and an additional $100 Steam code to someone who RTs & follows us!
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🔥 @NeoTokyoCode Lore Series: Unpacking the Genius of the Neo Tokyo Membership Brand
🗄️ Today’s Topic: The Neo Tokyo Vault Card NFT is one of the cleanest examples of membership mechanics manifesting as lore
Vaults aren’t just “Part 2 of the NFT Set”
Citizens earned Vault Cards after registering a score from a game of Kong Climb in October 2021
Your performance in the event affected the stats of the Vault Card you received
The plot twist was a clue, “Don’t be average”
So those who scored lowest and highest actually received better Vaults
🤦🏻♂️ I didn’t catch the meaning of the clue so I was average lol
Gameplay became allocation, rewarding the tormented Season One souls who deciphered the game-master’s clues
Allocation became identity
Identity became economics
And economics became lore
Vaults carried claimable $BYTES
They have Credit Yield tiers
They have Credit Supply Amounts
Some have “additional items” for added collectibility
Some were opened
Some stayed unopened
All had hidden land minting implications
And unlike the other core Citizen components, Vaults were optional for full Citizen upload at first
Which made them even more interesting
You could be a Citizen without one
But having one meant your Citizen carried another layer of history, $BYTES yield, and hidden state
This is the part people still underrate about Neo Tokyo
The brand has never just been cyberpunk art plus Discord access
The brand is a city where events, assets, scarcity, token mechanics, and memory all feed into each other
A climb became a vault
A vault became $BYTES
$BYTES became the city’s economic language
And the Citizens remembered
“The Citadel Has Witnessed”
🗼Grand Rising
One key aspect I pursue is variety and creative diversity amongst traits and items. I believe this is what makes collections interesting to holders and where you as the creator can showcase your passion for the project.
That's why I go out of my way to avoid conventional traits that have already been (over)done by other collections (for example laser eyes, pirate hat, zombie).
But the real challenge is that you can't get rid of "boring" traits per se. Because the less desirable traits are those which differentiate floor NFTs from more expensive ones. That means you kind of have to make some characters less cool or more plain. Otherwise you might dilute the value at the top.
Then, yet again, you do not want floor NFTs to look bad. Otherwise the collection is not attractive to new buyers or you potentially hurt the quality of the brand.
So I'm working very carefully on making floor NFTs look great, but grails phenomenal... while at the same time balancing a clear visual differentiation between rarities.
Introducing: 𝐓𝐀𝐏 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐃𝐄𝐗 🔁
Cross-chain swaps on TAP protocol
Your TAP assets and BTC are about to be connected to liquidity across 3 of the largest chain ecosystems!
All permissionless & Self-custodial.
But which 3 chains are we announcing today? 👀
A few things to consider here:
1. Bitcoin miners are already opting to direct energy to AI HPC, because energy is scarce. The difficulty will adjust down - this directly means security for the bitcoin network goes down.
cool.
2. Difficulty adjusting down means miners are turning off their rigs - this means a little more centralization.
very cool.
3. In less than 2 years another halving will be upon us - this means the security budget of bitcoin gets cut in half again.
awesome.
4. Fees are about 1% of today's security budget and unlikely to sustain any reasonable security budget of bitcoin - this means bitcoin's value must exponentially grow to offset the halving which is mathematically impossible to sustain.
Very awesome.
The only asset that helps Bitcoin is the only asset that address all the points above and increases the security budget over time. All you need to do is the Math.
$dmt-nat
In less than two weeks, https://t.co/gfgzE5Zwu0 is nearing 2,000 users.
Our goal is simple:
help creators get compensated for their digital art in a brand new way
If you are new, connect and claim your block. It is your piece of Bitcoin history.
We are still early.
This is one of the earliest concepts for the worldbuilding of Majin. The purpose of these illustrations is to visualize ideas for the brand. It’s also a way to test the color palette, get a better feeling for the “vibe”, place items or traits within the world of Majin, and to explore how we can communicate scale through art.
Again, this is just a concept so don’t get too attached to it. But a variation of the "black broken halo" will be one of the many traits in the collection.
The cycles change
The headlines change
The narratives change
But the Satoshi Nakamoto movement endures
An identity
A movement
An idea that only grows stronger with time
Infinite expression
Tokenized
Inevitable
We are all Satoshi
$SATOSHI ♾️