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#<strong>SHILL</strong><br />
SOLANA NFT/DEFI/TWITTER COMMUNITY<br />
DOWN UNDER NFT<br />
AN AUSSIE NFT PROHECT<br />
DELIVering the goods<br />
BRANDING<br />
WHat exactly is ‘your’ image<br />
ISSUE #<strong>29</strong><br />
0.025 ◎<br />
THE GAME PLAN<br />
The gaming space is booming<br />
are you prepared?<br />
CHEST FINANCE<br />
Making your assets work for<br />
you
celstialbody<br />
THIS<br />
In<br />
ISSUE<br />
<strong>29</strong>
4<br />
From<br />
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the Editor<br />
Wise words or ramblings?<br />
UNDER NFT<br />
Digging deeper in this<br />
interview.<br />
BRANDING<br />
CelestialBody talks<br />
about the importance of<br />
branding your style.<br />
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THE GAME PLAN DOOMille has a look at<br />
making a game plan when<br />
it comes to gaming.<br />
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PROBABLY NOTHING<br />
23 Dropping, holding and<br />
hoping<br />
CHEST FINANCE V2.0<br />
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An exciting product<br />
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already now with new<br />
features.<br />
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CRYPTZERO<br />
Still around. Still<br />
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delivering quality and<br />
value.<br />
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<strong>SHILL</strong> the Mint<br />
Dropping, holding and<br />
hoping<br />
SOLANALYSIS<br />
7D Volume rankings<br />
MOVERS<br />
SolsWatch analysis of<br />
current NFTs on market.<br />
UP & COMING<br />
New section, where have these<br />
artists been hiding?<br />
ALPHA Mints<br />
Keep an eye out for this artist!<br />
URS ARTISTS ROYAL GANG<br />
The one-of-one mints you<br />
wish you had ALPHA about!<br />
NFT MINTER<br />
Just some of the NFTs<br />
floating around lately<br />
GRIFFIN interview<br />
As interviewed by artscum.<br />
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@Pixeltoy<br />
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<strong>Issue</strong> <strong>29</strong>- Great to see you!<br />
As you can see, the RETWEET winners is published. Send me a DM<br />
and I will send you your NFT prize.. Easy.<br />
Another jam-packed issue with a fantastic interview with Aussie NFT<br />
project, Down Under. This team of Sydney based devs are truly a<br />
force and I expect big things in the months ahead.<br />
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<strong>Issue</strong> <strong>29</strong> is giving away a RARE prize thanks to Chimpe NFT<br />
To win this prize all you have to do is RETWEET the pinned tweet.<br />
Simple. Only one (1) winner.<br />
Enjoy this issue. Retweet the PINNED TWEET for your chance to win.<br />
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Pixeltoy<br />
<strong>SHILL</strong> <strong>Issue</strong> #<strong>29</strong> 5
DOWN UNDER<br />
NFT<br />
Welcome to #Shill zine. To begin with, let’s find out a little about you the<br />
team. Where are you based? How many people are working on this project?<br />
And, what does the team bring to the Solana ecosystem?<br />
Firstly, we want to take a moment to thank you for having us! We’re super<br />
excited to join the Shill Zine family and are a big fan of the content and<br />
platform you’ve provided for Solana projects. It’s great to see a reliable<br />
source of information in the space.<br />
About the team, we’re primarily a tight knit group of mates! We met at<br />
university in Sydney, where we all studied mechatronics engineering. There<br />
are five of us in total, each bringing their own diverse set of skills to the table.<br />
This range of talent has helped us bring the project to life. Since we’re all<br />
based in Sydney, we had opportunity to launch the project out of a bedroom<br />
in the inner city. To say the least, we’ve had a lot of fun building this.<br />
In terms of contributing to the Solana ecosystem, we’ve developed our own<br />
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ole verification service, SolaBots! This was actually our first venture in the<br />
Solana space as we noticed a lot of projects were struggling to access a<br />
streamlined verification tool. Our team is passionate about providing value<br />
to the Solana community beyond NFT Down Under and we’re actually in<br />
the process of integrating a range of services such as sales, analytics and<br />
minting on top of verification. Check out our Twitter @SolaBots and give us<br />
a follow, especially if you run or know a project who could benefit from our<br />
offerings!<br />
Your concept for your NFT offering is a novel one. NFTs that are a plot of<br />
land in Australia and can have user information stored for all to see. Can<br />
you tell us a little about this idea and how it works?<br />
For sure! The concept of digital land in Australia is the crux of the project<br />
and defines how we provide utility to our holders. We wanted to move away<br />
from the traditional “profile picture” project and pivoted to being a digital<br />
land project. The concept behind this was to give our users a sense of<br />
attachment to their NFT, by attaching art to a plot of land in Australia.<br />
As a land owner, you have the ability to customise the land name and<br />
description, giving you full control over the space. Further, we offer the ability<br />
to plug your social media profiles such as Twitter and Discord, giving others<br />
the opportunity to purchase your land or perhaps organise a collaboration<br />
with you - if they like what you’ve done with the place.<br />
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Taking a step back and breaking things down a bit, our NFT is an mp4 file<br />
attached to a plot of land in Australia. To create the mp4, we feed an image<br />
through our AI algorithm, which takes a string of text as input, and capture<br />
the translation from the original image, to the stylised output. We have five<br />
unique styles that form our art collection, which are then attached to five<br />
land sizes – small, medium, large, huge and gigantic.<br />
What’s more, we just released our fully integrated NFT art gallery, which<br />
is embedded in our map. This provides land owners the opportunity to<br />
show off their entire NFT collection. The same functionality exists for our<br />
Community Partners, allowing them to shill their collection and gain eyes on<br />
glass from various communities. We’re trying to promote cross-pollination<br />
between projects and strengthen the Solana ecosystem.<br />
Where does the team see this project going?<br />
This is a great question! We’re committed to delivering on our roadmap<br />
and maximising value for holders. A prime example of this is releasing our<br />
integrated art gallery. The next step is to release our native token, $ROO<br />
(DollaRoo). Our tokens can be re-invested into land, which increases the<br />
lands inherent value. As you invest more tokens, you’ll level up your land,<br />
where certain levels will unlock bonus features. There will also be a public<br />
leader board so everyone sit and envy the most valuable land in Australia.<br />
Once we’ve released our token, the next step is to mint the next state! So far,<br />
we’ve only minted NSW and have six more states to go. This demonstrates<br />
the scope we have to build out the project and validate this is a long-term<br />
play. As an indicator, our conversations end in where we want to see the<br />
project in six months’ time. As a small glimpse, our goal is to be the largest<br />
digital land project on the Solana blockchain. We understand that true<br />
success is often a marathon, not a sprint.<br />
What’s more, we’ve got the opportunity to feature our artwork at the first<br />
NFT exhibition in Australia, Emergence 2022 in March. We’re really looking<br />
forward to showcasing our interactive map to prospective investors gather<br />
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feedback to ensure we can continue to grow. This is just one of event we<br />
have looming on the horizon in the next three months, it doesn’t end here.<br />
Your project just finished its ‘round 2’ mint of NSW. Tasmania being minted<br />
earlier. Both rounds have sold out. What are some of the ‘wow’ moments<br />
you had during the first creations made by minters?<br />
We’d like to take this opportunity to quickly talk about Tasmania! Tasmania<br />
is land reserved for our community land partners. The majority of these<br />
relationships have been forged via SolaBots and include projects such as<br />
Frakt, BackDAO, Desolates, Furious Flowers, DeRuged Snakes, SolPunks<br />
RussianPunkz, Neon.Game, the list goes on! To see the full list of our<br />
partner projects, check out the Solana Land Community section on our map<br />
at https://nftdownunder.art/map. We’ve got some exciting plans of how to<br />
leverage this community space and build the Solana ecosystem together!<br />
In terms of “wow” moments, we think the support and kindness of everyone<br />
in the Solana NFT space is something that stands out. We’ve been<br />
overwhelmed by the generosity and mindset of those we’ve talked to. It’s<br />
refreshing to be see a culture built on wanting to see each other succeed in<br />
their ventures!<br />
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Your Discord is active for a membership of 3k. What are the types of things<br />
your team runs to keep engagement high?<br />
We’d like to take the credit for the engagement we’ve seen in our Discord,<br />
but the truth is we’ve been blessed with an incredible community of legends.<br />
Our mission was to create channels where everyone could connect on a<br />
human level and learn from each other. Whether it be our “shenanigans”<br />
channel (which focuses on beer chat) or the main chat, from day 1 we saw<br />
deep connections established, fostering a diamond hands mindset within<br />
our community.<br />
Moreover, we focused on developing genuine connections with our users,
ealising that there are no shortcuts to this. We achieved this by us, the<br />
devs, being super active in our channel, answering questions, listening<br />
to feedback and actioning suggestions from our community. There’s no<br />
substitute for authentically interacting with the extended team.<br />
To compliment this, we’ll start running regular giveaway competitions again.<br />
We’ve developed a core group of legends but with the release of our art<br />
gallery and our token, plus with future mints of other states, we’re looking to<br />
onboard new members.<br />
Finally, I would like to thank you for your interview today with #Shill zine.<br />
Once again, thank you for the opportunity to share our story with the Shill<br />
Zine community! To all the readers, we appreciate the time you’ve taken to<br />
learn about our project. We hope we can crack a beer with you in the Aussie<br />
Metaverse one day, or IRL if you visit Sydney.<br />
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https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/664710<strong>29</strong>5<br />
XtillGood
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/664710228<br />
The 128 Club
BRANDING<br />
@celstialbody<br />
This is only a somewhat experienced opinion everything is subject<br />
to context. You may wonder why the hell you should even care about<br />
branding, you're an artist after all not a company. Remove the idea of<br />
a brand as a commercial entity from your mind.<br />
A brand at its core to me is a consistent communication of a principal<br />
or idea. NOT A LOGO. Now it sounds more familiar, after all is Pollacks<br />
"brand" not instantly recognisable? Yes it’s a style but it’s more than<br />
that, it's Warhol's personality, and Banksy's anonymity.<br />
A brand should embody you as an artist. It does not need to be overt;<br />
it does not need to be a 50-page design document describing the<br />
rules of the aesthetics that make your art. A brand is what you want<br />
to say about your work (and yourself if you want to)<br />
Branding should flow easily into what you do, and when you feel like<br />
you’ve lost your way it should be something to refer to that guides<br />
you. It's how you present yourself in a digital space, the language you<br />
use, the formatting for your auction tweets, as well as your style.<br />
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You don’t need to go out and draw up plans for all of this, but you<br />
should keep things consistent, and plans can help with that. You<br />
don't need to pigeonhole yourself in to one singular aesthetic, but<br />
you should remember what got you this far in your work. What is your<br />
visual USP.<br />
How does that USP feed into your online presence. My work is<br />
all about reconnecting and expressing ideas and identities that<br />
we need to feel and see more of in society. Its visual expression<br />
with typography, hence the use of poetry in my tweets. That’s raw<br />
expressive typography.<br />
When you start to think about these things they become more<br />
concrete, consider what you're trying to communicate with your work<br />
and identity, it gives you a reference point for whether you're achieving<br />
it. As importantly from a collector standpoint they know what they're<br />
getting.<br />
I missed a million things from this thread and there are plenty of<br />
contradictory statements and debates to be had. The art of visual<br />
communication is fluid and vast. Everything matters most in context,<br />
and its best if it provides its own context so nothing gets lost.<br />
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GAMING<br />
game plan<br />
@DOOMille<br />
I wanted to write down/share my gameplan for the NFT gaming<br />
space this year (which as of now is entirely in the $SOL ecosystem).<br />
For reference I've been holding my buys/yet to make profits in the<br />
2021 JPEG market and I'm still new to NFTs in general. I'm just a<br />
guy with a lifetime of experience in the gaming industry and I have a<br />
decent idea of what makes a project succeed or fail.<br />
https://vimeo.com/user162426088<br />
IMO 2022 is the year when building and substance matters for<br />
projects, and patience is the key for investors. I think buying/holding<br />
NFTs for solid gaming projects early in their development will be less<br />
effort, less risk, and greater returns than JPEGs in 2021<br />
Did you find a project that has a solid team, the game looks fun, it's<br />
showing excellent progress towards their launch and the value prop/<br />
tokenomics make sense for players? Then either mint or start buying<br />
on secondary. You can't get spooked by price movement or a sinking<br />
floor.<br />
In fact, many buyers will panic sell below mint within 24-48 hours.<br />
Take advantage. From that point, keep checking in and asking<br />
yourself: is the team building and moving forward towards what<br />
they've promised? Then keep accumulating. Are they lagging? Dump<br />
and move on.<br />
With the way things are going right now, the NFT oriented gaming<br />
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model is immune to crypto carnies running the play of: “Narrative =><br />
Hype => Pump = Dump on Suckers” (Yes, of course a few scams are<br />
going to fall through the cracks.)<br />
Success for investors hinges on the opposite strategy: you DON'T<br />
want to hype up a project when it's early. If you feel it has the plan<br />
and team to be successful and is delivering, it's in your best interest<br />
to keep it on the DL so you can keep accumulating and sniping rares.<br />
My most confident play right now is @panzerdogs. They have a<br />
highly qualified team showing consistent progress. The 3v3 PVP<br />
game design has a full demo and is based on little three-minute<br />
dopamine fixes that make you want to play over and over. It's a great<br />
game regardless of P2E.<br />
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/665028055<br />
You think I was gonna run around shouting about how everyone had<br />
to buy into @panzerdogs like I was schilling an altcoin to pump my<br />
bags? Absolutely not! You aren't going succeed doing that with the<br />
current dynamics because the money is made buying low between<br />
mint and launch.<br />
(The only reason I'm even mentioning @panzerdogs here is that I've<br />
already accumulated a lot of it below the current floor).<br />
It's critical to note how this NFT value dynamic differs from the<br />
previous token-oriented model @ZssBecker talks about in his videos.<br />
That strategy centres on buying into a project and then selling into<br />
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new liquidity that comes with massive hype to peak the price.<br />
When the game value is attached to NFTs instead of coins, there are<br />
a limited number of admission “tickets” available to join in the fun.<br />
(This is why I love @KFSnft and its 1,212 membership limit by the<br />
way).<br />
As of right now I have no intention of buying tokens for games on<br />
the open market, because the NFTs generate them for you. The one<br />
exception so far has been @TinyColonyGame and their $TINY token,<br />
but that's because their lands haven't minted yet.<br />
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/665028085<br />
(I broke my own rule here and revealed a top project I love in @<br />
TinyColonyGame because I want to get whitelisted for those NFT<br />
Lands! DM me guys, hopefully it worked).<br />
Because the value is in the NFTs, make sure you know the rarity and<br />
value scheme within the game. For example, in @meekolony there's<br />
no difference between rarities with in-game power or airdrop quality.<br />
Those setups make it easier to buy into the floor and speculate for<br />
cheap.<br />
As @elliotrades mentioned, you're going to be far more successful at<br />
crypto and NFTs when you play it as a team sport. Do you research,<br />
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find a $SOL OG PFP community that you like. You'll be able to get<br />
priceless alpha and even some excellent whitelist opportunities.<br />
I was tipped off to @panzerdogs pre-mint in the @DeGodsNFT alpha<br />
channel, and the @KFSnft alpha channel is another great one. Those<br />
kinds of resources create so much value beyond the market price of<br />
the NFTs for that community.<br />
(Big shout out to the true top DeGod among @DeGodsNFT @<br />
AussieNftGuy for being a BEAST when it comes to exclusives and<br />
whitelists. The man is crushing it this week even while fighting<br />
through COVID. Access to the man is worth a @DeGodsNFT on its<br />
own).<br />
I am all in on $SOL because it works, has a massive amount of<br />
investment capital and WILL have dominant first mover advantage<br />
by the end of Q1. The mass adoption retail wave you've been waiting<br />
for could care less about the decentralization altruism many love so<br />
much about crypto<br />
The new retail money about to bust through the crypto/NFT doors<br />
will want something that works, is fun, intuitive and can make them<br />
money for playing video games. Right now and for the foreseeable<br />
future, that is @solana and @phantom Wallet. Full stop.<br />
One exception is that @enjin/@efinityio is positioned to be a big part<br />
of this as well. We've yet to see what this ecosystem will do because<br />
all of their strategy hinged on the Efinity network, which just got<br />
approved for a $DOT parachain and will launch in March.<br />
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The $ENJ + $EFI model is based on a turnkey system that will allow<br />
video game publishers to seamlessly incorporate blockchain and<br />
NFTs into their games within the background so that players don't<br />
see and won't even be aware of the complicated wallet stuff.<br />
Building a huge budget game is difficult enough, so it makes a lot<br />
of sense for those companies to go “Yeah, let's just go for the $EFI<br />
solution so the NFT and blockchain structure is taken care of and we<br />
don't have to think about it.”<br />
We don't know what partnerships $ENJ currently has lined up and<br />
have yet to see its platform truly unleashed, so it's hard to predict<br />
their place in the market. If I had to guess, in 2022 I think we'll see<br />
at least one AAA studio weaving NFTs into a big title using @Enjin.<br />
I can see @enjin positioned as the AAA publisher, and @solana in<br />
the niche of Indy game platform. The big publishers that would use<br />
$EFI in this scenario have a massive infrastructure of overhead to<br />
maintain, which means less revenue going back to token and NFT<br />
holders.<br />
In 2022 AAA may base payouts like we already see with their<br />
esports: top heavy and giving out most of the prize pool to pro level<br />
tournament champions. $SOL could be positioned as community<br />
oriented and have an ecosystem that spreads out rewards in a more<br />
equitable way<br />
Just like minting and accumulating, my sell signal will be based on<br />
development. This space is evolving at such a rapid pace, and it<br />
won't take much for a project to lag and lose most, if not all of its<br />
value. Watch out for empty promises of future updates.<br />
Based on the level of current technology and acceleration, I expect<br />
we'll advance from today's Atari 2600 era to PS1 level by the end of<br />
2022. The skill for making money is going to be knowing when to<br />
sell/scale out at a game's peak and pivot to the next opportunity.<br />
I could be wrong, but like any bull market I think it's going to be hard<br />
to lose money this year in NFT gaming. The risk hinges on not going<br />
diamond hands with Pong when Tomb Raider is around the corner.<br />
Don't misconstrue "hard to lose money" because as always, it's<br />
important to warn that NFTs are highly risky. But I see far less risk<br />
in the NFT model of crypto gaming because again, it'll be based far<br />
more on substance and not much on hype. You will see the builders<br />
building.
If you're not a dummy and can do basic research/invest in tangible<br />
progress, it's unlikely you're going to get straight up rugged. It's also<br />
much harder to dump an NFT collection and crash the floor to the<br />
point of no recovery compared to coins in the traditional crypto<br />
market.<br />
So don't obsess over hitting home runs. Look for projects that are<br />
positioned to make solid contact at the plate and go from there.<br />
You're going to have your strikeouts but be aware of those risks in a<br />
project when you buy in and sell when needed before the floor falls<br />
out.<br />
Otherwise, hold and accumulate where it's merited. Profits will<br />
come months later, right before and after launch.<br />
@panzerdogs floor is already at 3.5 $SOL after the 1 $SOL mint,<br />
and they have barely even started. Selling before the game is fully<br />
released would be silly.<br />
Again, I have no idea what I'm doing :) I don't think any of us do<br />
right now. If I've learned anything in my short experience with NFT<br />
gaming, it's that we'll see major leaps in the blink of an eye. So,<br />
dump when you need to. Devotion to a community is only as good<br />
as its project<br />
Most of all, have fun! Focus on profit, but also enjoy the process.<br />
This is SUCH an exciting time for this space. Here and now is<br />
something you'll be telling stories about in ten years, just like sitting<br />
around talking nostalgia over the fun you had playing NES games<br />
as a kid.<br />
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/664710016
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/664710188<br />
SolDemonClub
PROBABLY<br />
@joemccann 42.9K Followers<br />
NOTHING<br />
Risk taking is the purest form of virtue.<br />
Entrepreneur. Angel Investor. Margin Trader.<br />
NFT collector. @monkedao & @ftx_official<br />
from Day 1.<br />
Ethereum is not web3,<br />
it is a subset of<br />
web3.<br />
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CHEST<br />
finance- evolving<br />
$CHEST v2 —Introducing Pirate NFTs, Treasure DAO & Tokenomics,<br />
IDO, Retroactive Airdrop, Leveraged Yield Chests, and more<br />
Warning: The following article contains a lot of alpha. If you have<br />
any questions, please join the conversation on discord.<br />
SOLANA, JAN 10, 2022—Over the last month, $CHEST launched the<br />
first ever structured product and yield generating chest on Solana,<br />
attracted over $10m+ TVL, generated over 50%+ APY across<br />
Chests… and did all of this without a single dollar from VCs.<br />
In line with the protocol’s decision to raise $0 from VCs, $CHEST is<br />
now entering the next chapter of its mission towards community<br />
ownership, community rewards, and community empowerment:<br />
Introducing the Pirate utility NFT, the Treasure DAO and $CHEST<br />
Token, retroactive airdrops, and all new leveraged yield chests<br />
(50–200% APY).<br />
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Following in the footsteps of GenesysGo’s Shadowy Super Coder<br />
NFTs and DAO, Lifinity’s Flares NFTs, $CHEST is announcing its<br />
own Pirate NFTs.<br />
Pirate NFTs will play 2 fundamental roles in the $CHEST protocol,<br />
and will earn superpowers in the Treasure DAO:<br />
I) Receiving 12% $CHEST tokens at the Chest IDO.<br />
This is the most important utility to us. The protocol strongly<br />
believes that the biggest winners in DeFi should be the community,<br />
so to level the playing field with larger VC entities who monopolize<br />
access to early seed rounds, NFT holders will receive direct<br />
allocation in the $CHEST network. There are no hidden features<br />
here. Every NFT will be entitled to a proportional share of 12%<br />
$CHEST tokens at the Chest IDO, regardless of whether the entire<br />
NFT collection sells out or not. The distribution will be linearly<br />
vested over 1 year, with a bonus reserved for those who hold for the<br />
entire year.<br />
II) Up to 120% Compounded Governance Voting Power<br />
This is the one we are most excited about. Holders of the Pirate<br />
NFT will receive compounded governance votes. This means that<br />
for every N number of $CHEST tokens, the holder can have up to<br />
1.2 * N voting power (essentially an additional 20% of virtual voting<br />
$CHEST tokens!), depending on the number of NFTs owned.<br />
Ex: Alice holds Pirate NFTs and 64,000 $CHEST tokens. When<br />
voting at the Treasure DAO, she now has 64,000 x 1.2 = 76,800<br />
tokens to vote with.<br />
This creates 2 important dynamics for the token and NFTs. The<br />
most loyal users will benefit the most as they will be NFT holders,<br />
active DAO participants, and large token stakers allowing them to<br />
amplify their voices across DAO decisions, as they should, since<br />
they have the most at stake. This also generates very strong utility<br />
and value for the NFT as the value can theoretically be pegged to<br />
the value derived from the largest token holder, so if a whale holds<br />
1M $CHEST tokens, and he can derive 200,000 voting powers from<br />
the NFT, that should theoretically be the value of the NFT.<br />
The voting power also compounds in an increasing manner. For<br />
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every additional NFT, the vote multiplier is multiplier by 2, for<br />
a maximum of 1.2. So, for the first NFT, the voter will receive<br />
1.00625x extra votes. For the second NFT, the voter will receive<br />
1.0125x, then 1.025x, then 1.05, then 1.1, and finally 1.2.<br />
The voting multiplier per NFT will be restricted to a max number of<br />
tokens that can be multiplied. Implementation will be detailed in a<br />
separate follow up article.<br />
Minting and Drop details<br />
So how do you get in on this?<br />
The NFT mint date is scheduled for January 19th, 2022, powered<br />
by the Metaplex candy machine. Only 10,000 will be available. Save<br />
the date!<br />
The exact minting price, time, and site will be announced in a follow<br />
up article and announcement.<br />
Follow updates here:<br />
•Discord: discord.gg/chest<br />
•Twitter: https://twitter.com/chestfinance<br />
Powering the future of Chest protocol, structured products, and<br />
yield generating defi on Solana will be the Treasure DAO, and<br />
$CHEST tokens.<br />
The DAO will play the pivotal role of determining protocol<br />
parameters, chest token rewards, and more. The $CHEST token will<br />
be the voting token in the network.<br />
Most importantly, the DAO will enable a vote locking mechanism,<br />
whereby stakers will be able to boost locked staking rewards,<br />
determine rewards and reward distribution on Chests, similar to<br />
Curve’s model.<br />
$CHEST Tokenomics<br />
•Total supply: 100bn<br />
•The treasury is used for Chest emissions to<br />
stakers, makers, and ecosystem expansion<br />
plans, as voted by the DAO. 0.5% is currently<br />
earmarked for maker emissions up until the IDO,<br />
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at which point the DAO will vote on future maker<br />
emissions.<br />
Finally, as the first to launch structured products on Solana, Chest<br />
is excited to announce that it will be the first protocol to launch<br />
leveraged yield chests.<br />
Leveraged yield chests will allow you to stake into leveraged chests,<br />
that are higher risk, but also much higher reward. This means that<br />
the potential APY is boosted by many factors, but losses can also<br />
be amplified.<br />
Leveraged chests will not be for everyone but will allow users to<br />
take on higher risk yield, something that does not exist currently on<br />
Solana.<br />
We know this was a lot of information to digest, so here is the<br />
recap:<br />
1.The pirate NFT mint is on January 19th, 2022 and will<br />
allow holders to receive 12% of network tokens, and up<br />
to 120% multiplier on voting abilities.<br />
2.Treasure DAO and $CHEST token will enable direct<br />
ownership of the protocol for its users. The IDO will be<br />
announced in a follow up announcement.<br />
3.Early stakers will be rewarded 12% of token supply.<br />
4.New Leveraged Yield Chests will enable exposure to<br />
high risk, high APY chests.
CRYPT<br />
zero<br />
@CryptZero<br />
CryptZero is a series of<br />
unique collectible avatars /<br />
personal profile NFTs with on<br />
the Solana blockchain with<br />
themes revolving around the<br />
horror genre. CryptZero is<br />
currently in Season 2 with the<br />
theme of “Ghosts”. CryptZero<br />
is designed from the ground<br />
up to last years and scale with<br />
overall NFT adoption without<br />
diluting the value of existing<br />
releases:<br />
The images are to be released in multiple seasons,<br />
each having a different subject. Each season lasts<br />
approximately 3 months (to reflect real world<br />
seasons)<br />
Royalty shares for future seasons are given to<br />
random holders of the current season (Royalty<br />
Giveaway).<br />
Bonus airdrop occurs mid-way through season to all<br />
current season holders.<br />
Future seasons scale in edition size to reflect the<br />
growth of the nft ecosystem.<br />
Token darwinism: Unclaimed tokens are removed from the<br />
collection at the end of each season in order to maintain<br />
equilibrium with demand wthout creating artificial scarcity.<br />
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https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/664710016<br />
GooneyToonsNFT
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the MINT<br />
AyyyNFT
_sonlitsonny<br />
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flg_art
<strong>SHILL</strong> the MINT<br />
HappyHappiess
EssjayneArt
<strong>SHILL</strong> the MINT<br />
SolCultures
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SOLANALYSIS 7D volume<br />
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TOP NFTs / TOP Gainers<br />
The Astronaut @thexastronaut<br />
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MOVERS UNDER & OVER 2Sol<br />
SolsWatch<br />
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UP & COMING<br />
projectdeepr
itslordof
UP & COMING<br />
pupeilustra
UP & COMING<br />
TinyDrawings
Resistt_
ALPHA
sikedelic
TinyDrawings
ALPHA<br />
Fallen
XeonSol
ALPHA<br />
scornhex
ALPHA
Keezerfeld
Chaboola
0xlxxr
arttech_nft
64jooski
culturehacker
errortheory404
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/665047995<br />
GriffinDart
3Pscrgg2e
orasicrtv
ordinary_sol
XKONWI
FLGArt
Fallen Traveler
NFT MINTER<br />
Sol Demon
MaskedPet
NFT MINTER<br />
TheDeerNFT
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/665027980<br />
Bluetent3d
Did you see it?<br />
superjimmer
Did you see it?<br />
TheObserverNft
GRIFFIN interview<br />
https://artscum.org/griffin-dzmura-mcguire-painter-usaunpublished-submission/<br />
Statement:<br />
The looking glass has broken, we must brave the Kaleidoscope<br />
mirage…<br />
Q: Who are you?<br />
I’m Griffin, an artist on the other<br />
side of a degree in Philosophy<br />
from UC Berkeley. My favorite<br />
mediums are acrylic paint and<br />
ink. One of my aims is to invite<br />
viewers into another world, one<br />
which will remain with them<br />
in the hidden alleyway of the<br />
subconscious mind.<br />
Q: Darkness is not only the<br />
absence of light. What more<br />
is lurking in the shadows (of<br />
mind)?!<br />
Shadows conceal, but also<br />
provide form and feature.<br />
The play between shadow<br />
as a metaphor and shadow<br />
as absence of light provides<br />
an interesting field of exploration. In my work I often explore<br />
autonomously without intention. I feel that this allows me to explore<br />
the shadows in my own mind without censorship.<br />
Q: What is the most important taboo in art?<br />
For me, I find the association of a price tag with a piece of to be a<br />
taboo that is worthy of deeper exploration. Many of the artists that<br />
are most widely spoken of are known in part due to the notoriety of<br />
their sales volume as opposed to the questions their work explores.<br />
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In this strange dynamism between value and creativity there’s much<br />
more to think on and is one of the reasons I decided to move my<br />
digital work into the blockchain space.<br />
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Q: Why is the beauty in ugliness so fatal?<br />
Art is not just a pursuit of Beauty. In the unsettling, and disturbing,<br />
a whole range of emotions which are under-explored and critical to<br />
artistic exploration are able to be brought into the open.<br />
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Q: What question would you ask the most evil person on this planet?<br />
Though I’m not sure there’s someone who is the most evil, I’ll ask<br />
them if they enjoy Pineapple on pizza.<br />
Q: The world seems to become more and more a violent, unkind<br />
place. Greed and egoism seems to be the only impulse of any<br />
change. Did mankind still have<br />
the chance to build a peaceful, sustainable world for every living and<br />
feeling being or would it be better if somebody dispose everything in<br />
the sewer of the evolutionary failure?<br />
From my perspective, it seems that history shows us a world in<br />
which violence is the norm. We see much more of the ugliness in the<br />
world with news and the advances in new media, though this doesn’t<br />
imply that the world is actually more violent than it was in the past.<br />
A new slate, a Tabula Rasa, can be an appealing idea but in practice<br />
only leads to forgetting our standing as humans and moves us away<br />
from working on the problems we face.<br />
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