SHILL Issue 25
Solana ecosystem zine
Solana ecosystem zine
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CRYPTOLIZERS<br />
Welcome to #Shill zine. To begin with,<br />
let’s find out a little about you Gage. How<br />
did you come to the blockchain space<br />
and the Solana ecosystem?<br />
One of my close friends is a slack<br />
channel with a few people who were<br />
hardcore lovers of solana. At the time<br />
I was primarily on eth and polygon<br />
networks. My friend convinced me to<br />
try solana for the ignition hackathon<br />
they hosted and honestly, I never looked<br />
back. It felt stupid of me to be paying<br />
200$ a transaction on eth when it’s a<br />
franction of a cent on solana. Even the<br />
5$+ fees on polygon seem like a joke in<br />
comparison, and anyone into NFTs tends<br />
to understand the possibilities once they<br />
get cheap instant transactions for the<br />
first time.<br />
Your concept for your NFT offering is a<br />
novel one. NFTs that can have any audio<br />
from your computer and make them<br />
come alive. Can you tell us a little about<br />
this idea and how it works?<br />
Of course! Once I saw solana rolling out<br />
nft support for html based nfts I realized<br />
nfts had just hit their 2.0 moment. If an<br />
nft can be a standalone html file it means<br />
it no longer has to be an un-interactive<br />
piece of art! Meaning instead of just<br />
looking at a photo I could actually PLAY<br />
with an nft and have it be interactive.<br />
Like an nft that's a full blown video<br />
game for example. Because gamedev is<br />
seriously hard, I decided to have a toneddown<br />
version of interactivity for my first<br />
collection. Audio visualizers seemed to<br />
be the obvious choice when I considered<br />
my own passions.<br />
Once you buy a cryptolizer(as the mint<br />
is already over). You can play any sound<br />
THROUGH it. The nft itself processes<br />
that audio into visualizations. This is all<br />
done via html, css, javascript. That code<br />
is baked together into one standalone<br />
html file and minted onchain.<br />
Gage, you have taken a bold step<br />
with doxing yourself early on. Is this<br />
a personal belief you have given the<br />
current trends across NFT projects?<br />
(lots of rugs, soft rugs, NFT projects that<br />
fail to deliver etc)<br />
Honestly the crypto space can be<br />
dangerous at times. I used to be a full<br />
time streamer on twitch under the alias<br />
abrownbag (now gagebachik there too).<br />
It basically came down to two things.<br />
The fact I was already doxxed from my<br />
time playing video games professionally<br />
and the fact I always planned on making<br />
cool ass shit.<br />
I figured people would appreciate<br />
projects made by someone they could<br />
talk to and interact with. Someone they<br />
could potentially meet up irl with and<br />
not just see behind an anime profile pic<br />
(which I also have nothing against btw).<br />
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