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#<strong>SHILL</strong><br />

SOLANA NFT/DEFI/TWITTER COMMUNITY<br />

SOL GAMES THAT PAY<br />

Barndog has a crack at<br />

10.6Sol<br />

GRAPE NFT DEX<br />

SNEAK PEAK at whats in the<br />

works over on grape.<br />

ME Profitability<br />

what are the returns?<br />

ISSUE #<strong>37</strong><br />

0.025 ◎<br />

cubist collective<br />

deep dive and full doxxing<br />

#Alpha<br />

formFUNCTION<br />

NFT Platform for the<br />

serious collector #Alpha


EmstudioSol<br />

THIS<br />

In<br />

ISSUE<br />

<strong>37</strong>


4<br />

FROM<br />

9<br />

16<br />

22<br />

23<br />

THE EDITOR<br />

So much to write. So little<br />

space.<br />

SOL GAMES THAT PAY<br />

Barndog takes a shot at<br />

winning 10.6Sol.<br />

GRAPE NFT DEX<br />

This #ALPHA is a must read.<br />

Purple Anlaysis<br />

When you need that little<br />

edge<br />

Astronaut<br />

Always delivering the<br />

goods<br />

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29<br />

32<br />

ME Minting: is it worth it?<br />

Pland looks into the Magic Eden<br />

launchpad profitability. Worthwhile<br />

or not?<br />

METAVERSE<br />

If you watch carefully you will see<br />

the #alpha<br />

CUBIST Collective<br />

Deep dive and FULL doxxing!<br />

#alpha<br />

50 formFUNCTION<br />

One of one NFT sight that is bound<br />

to win you over. #alpha


the<br />

from<br />

EDITOR<br />

Heading into our 19th week of #Shill zine. Enjoying the ride?<br />

Let me start by giving a huge shoutout and deep thank you to all the<br />

#frens out there in the Twitterverse who have been retweeting to<br />

spread the word about #Shill zine. The Yumpu and Google Analytics<br />

are blowing me away each day.<br />

Analytics says that, on average, people are spending 2m <strong>37</strong>s flicking<br />

though the pages. In this day and age that’s pretty impressive<br />

considering the zine has over 60 pages to go through! You aren’t<br />

reading the #Alpha are you #anon?<br />

#Shill zine top users by country include:<br />

USA<br />

Australia<br />

UK<br />

Canada<br />

Italy<br />

Indonesia<br />

Germany<br />

as the top 7 countries. Italy has nudged its way up into the top5.<br />

Strangely, Australia is lagging behind the USA, given that this is an<br />

Australian publication. #justsayin<br />

Every #Shill issue since issue 21 has well over 3000 views. People<br />

are actually going back to previous issues. Probably looking for the<br />

#alpha they missed.<br />

<strong>Issue</strong> 27 remains the most viewed issue with 7460 views. @<br />

DouglasMccurdy graced the cover of that issue. His photos are still<br />

something special!<br />

Where does #Shill go from here?<br />

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Forward! This ecosystem is still nascient. Onwards we go! You keep<br />

creating the content and I’ll keep curating it into this zine format,<br />

archived for all to refer back to. I still can’t get over that issue 1<br />

featured @glitchstroke and @sainteclectic both are still around all<br />

these weeks later!<br />

<strong>Issue</strong> 36 uncovers new art from artists new to me, probably new<br />

to you too. Worth digging deeper. Click on their name in the zine<br />

and it will take you to their Twitter profile. Simple. Again, the zine<br />

has smatterings of #alpha throughout. Worth reading closely. I even<br />

point out where to look in the contents!<br />

Rambling over. Time to enjoy the zine. If you know anyone who want<br />

some extra exposure, #Shill has advertising space. Every little bit<br />

helps. Spread the word #frens.<br />

Enough said. You know the drill. Let’s f go!<br />

Pixeltoy<br />

Advertising space in #Shill<br />

send an email to:<br />

pixeltoy.sol@gmail.com<br />

with “Ad query” as the subject.<br />

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CryptoGraf_<strong>37</strong>7


dato_art


Crepus<br />

https://bit.ly/3uFqq0b<br />

Crépus is the French word for the texture of Afro hair / Hair of black<br />

people. I created this series after hearing about people being fired<br />

from their jobs because of their hairstyle. This series is not only a<br />

response to the hate, but also a about empowerment of the beauty<br />

and uniqueness of black hair on men, women & children in the<br />

streets of Paris.<br />

Grape Discord<br />

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BARNDOG<br />

games that pay $SOL<br />

Barndog unlocks ‘Mysteria’ with a crack team of Australian<br />

cypher crackheads. Will they unlock the clues and win the<br />

10.6Sol prize? Three clues have been used at 0.03Sol each.<br />

Maybe this team has given you the break you need?


Cryptograf_2052


Hoody Moods


jughashvilli


Heiartwork


Ghostz #2<strong>37</strong>8


PROBABLY<br />

NOTHING<br />

@joemccann 46.3K Followers<br />

Posit:pure @solana<br />

NFTs are the ones that have<br />

never been bridged.<br />

My @SolanaMBS will always<br />

stay pure.<br />

grapeprotocol<br />

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GRAPE<br />

NFT Dex<br />

A necessary evolution for the future of NFT communities<br />

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NFTs on Solana have been wildly successful, no doubt in part to the<br />

Solana blockchain’s blazing fast speeds and near zero transaction<br />

costs. According to Jump Capital “It’s become clear that mass<br />

adoption of NFTs on Ethereum is unsustainable when it costs<br />

upwards of $100 to mint an NFT, transaction speeds are extremely<br />

slow, and the creation process is quite cumbersome. The migration<br />

of more and more creators from Ethereum to Solana shows that<br />

access to transactions with low fees is important!<br />

When we first started Grape, we knew that fees would push more and<br />

more users over to Solana, specifically the non-financial use cases.<br />

Our token-gating first launched with tokens in mind, citing FWB and<br />

WHALE as the examples of tokenized communities, and how they<br />

would need to move to Solana to continue evolving and thriving.<br />

What we didn’t predict is the immensely powerful community building<br />

properties of NFTs, and how successful NFT DAOs like MonkeDAO,<br />

DAOO, and ThugDAO would be. Our original goals of onboarding<br />

10,000 users in the first 6 months were shattered! Thanks to the<br />

Cambrian explosion of Solana NFTs, Grape has onboarded over<br />

320,000 users and added support for targeting metadata traits on<br />

NFTs.<br />

In our quest to build tooling essential for decentralized communities,<br />

we realized we needed to update our roadmap to better accommodate<br />

the needs of NFT communities.<br />

Grape NFT Dex launches today, exclusively for whitelisted addresses<br />

and Gorilla members of Grape.<br />

There are 2 key features that are at the core of our NFT marketplace<br />

philosophy: Non-Custodial Listings and Community Owned Instances<br />

Non-Custodial using Stateless offers<br />

• Never give up ownership of your NFT — unlike the marketplaces of today<br />

that require you to hand over custody, Grape NFT Dex never takes ownership<br />

of your NFT.<br />

• Be in every snapshot — never again will you miss out on an airdrop because<br />

its listed. Non-custodial sales mean you never have to list your NFT to<br />

receive offers on it!<br />

• Keep every DAO role — because your NFT never has to leave your wallet,<br />

you always keep the roles in Discord that you have earned for holding that<br />

NFT<br />

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• Always open to offers — never think about listing ever again. All of your<br />

NFTs are always open to receiving offers and you’ll never miss out on a great<br />

trade.<br />

With Grape DEX, you can receive offers on NFTs that aren’t listed on popular marketplaces<br />

Community Owned<br />

• Exchange fees for community treasury — each community is able to receive<br />

revenue directly to their treasury with Grape NFT Dex. The community<br />

makes the NFT valuable and now they can get their fair share.<br />

• Easy, permission-less setup — any community can spin up and run their<br />

own community marketplace without any setup requirements.<br />

• Listings for all — centralized marketplaces become gatekeepers to what<br />

can and cannot be listed. On the Grape DEX, every NFT can be listed.<br />

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At the heart of our new Dex concept is Metaplex’s Auction House.<br />

The Metaplex team has been evolving the NFT landscape so fast<br />

that many of these upgrades and features have not been brought to<br />

the forefront until now.<br />

Non-custodial listings are inevitable. Users should never have to<br />

give over custody of their assets. Add the convenience of receiving<br />

offers while your NFT is unlisted and the ability to stay in snapshots<br />

for future benefits, and you quickly understand that this change is<br />

a huge win for NFT users. You’ll be able to enjoy all the benefits of<br />

ownership while still having your assets available for purchase. Its<br />

our belief that every marketplace will copy this by the end of the<br />

year.<br />

NFT communities create a huge feedback loop of value for their<br />

respective NFTs; the more active the community, the more desirable<br />

entry into the community becomes, and the price of the NFT<br />

inevitably goes up with that demand. However, that value is not<br />

captured by communities today as it mostly resides with the creator<br />

and the exchange. With Grape’s NFT Dex, the value stays with<br />

the community that is creating it.<br />

Each community will decide how their marketplace is used. In<br />

Grape’s Dex, all decisions will be made on-chain by the DAO and<br />

subDAOs.<br />

• What royalties are in place and where do they go<br />

• DAO2DAO agreements<br />

• Which NFT projects will be featured on the marketplace. The community<br />

will be able to drive traffic to the specific projects they choose<br />

The Grape DEX is currently open to GRAPE Gorillas only for beta-testing<br />

To start testing, login to verify.grapes.network<br />

Testing offers<br />

Open the preview of one of the NFTs in your collection and share<br />

the link in the “Grape-marketplace” channel on Discord. Anyone<br />

with that link can make an offer directly on that NFT. You will see<br />

the offers appear in your collection dashboard.<br />

Here is an example link:<br />

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https://verify.grapes.network/#/preview/2wuR4Hu2PTJHA2gs3QNwXusetqHq9ehckqH46Whj63Ab<br />

Offers with a Red arrow are offers made on NFTs you own<br />

Offers with a Green arrow are offers you have made<br />

Accept offers directly on the NFT preview page<br />

To list an NFT, go to the NFT preview page and click on the “Sell<br />

now” button.<br />

To buy an NFT, go to the NFT preview page and click on the “Buy<br />

Now” button.<br />

Your listings appear in your collection dashboard<br />

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About Grape Network<br />

Grape Network is a toolset for building token-based communities<br />

on Solana. The network’s tools help DAOs and decentralized communities<br />

coordinate members, communication, and incentives<br />

more effectively. Grape Networks’ community, The Grape (“Great<br />

Ape”) Community, is a token-based membership community focused<br />

on accelerating the growth and adoption of Solana.<br />

Crepus<br />

https://bit.ly/3uFqq0b<br />

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PURPLEanalysis<br />

@Purpleanalysis<br />

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the ASTRONAUT<br />

The Astronaut @thexastronaut<br />

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@Pland__<br />

Is minting an NFT from @MagicEden_NFT launchpad profitable?<br />

Short answer: No.<br />

I gathered some market data directly from ME API. The graph below<br />

represents the average selling price divide by the mint price of a<br />

collection<br />

It’s also grouped by weekly cohort<br />

IS ME MINTING<br />

PROFITABLE?<br />

December 2021: 4-5 mints per week, overall most stayed above or<br />

close mint price You still had an illusion of quality First 2 weeks of<br />

2022 : They started to ramp up the launchpad listings from 5 per<br />

week to 12. Most struggled to stay above mint price.<br />

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Third week of 2022: 12 projects Some good performers but the<br />

under performers really puked quickly They are all trending down<br />

after 1 week 4th week of 2022 : 16 projects Barely up 100% above<br />

mint price. After grinding on a discord, and the risk of a rug, a 1x isn’t<br />

a good RR<br />

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Fifth Week of 2022: 17 projects listed so far We are starting to see<br />

mint not getting completed Looks like even bots gave up, since the<br />

upside is limited after all the mint exhaustion Some projects straight<br />

up nuke 40-50% up on listing.<br />

Now let’s talk UX Opensea is just clean, just enough information not<br />

to confuse a user that just landed 2 buttons above the fold: Explore<br />

and Create Only 3 highlighted projects.<br />

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Magic Eden Homepage: The slideshow is just showcasing upcoming<br />

mints, no fs given to blue chip NFTs Next section is all about<br />

upcoming launches, also mostly launchpad. You need to scroll at<br />

least to 50% of the page to see the trending collections<br />

ME Launchpad LP: What tilts me the most, there are no links to the<br />

secondary market. You really need to search for it manually A good<br />

UX shouldn’t make the user think too much. For a new visitor, you<br />

barely have 5 seconds to catch his attention.<br />

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Trading fees: Looks like the hyper growth phase is slowing down.<br />

200k a day is noice. But users are signalling to signal they aren’t<br />

minting anything listed there. And IMO one of the most bearish<br />

indicators is minting bots giving up, there is nothing to squeeze on<br />

the secondary.<br />

ME needs to adapt it’s strategy quickly Brand loyalty is close to 0 in<br />

this space It took 3 weeks for ME to take over Solanart.<br />

I’m not just ranting here, I was a bull on ME from the beginning. But<br />

the launchpad is hurting the overall secondary market.<br />

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METAVERSE<br />

a look at NFTs for the week<br />

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe4cw9KMuKZvy5vy3YUh5mg<br />

What about LUXAI? (& #ALPHA)<br />

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe4cw9KMuKZvy5vy3YUh5mg<br />

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TOP 10 / OVER 5Sol Movers<br />

SolsWatch<br />

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goku_nft


CUBIST<br />

collective<br />

Your personal portfolio manager<br />

Cubist Collective is a community-driven portfolio management<br />

protocol built on the Solana blockchain. We provide a simple and<br />

clean portfolio overview that will not only keep you up to date on<br />

existing holdings but also provides AI-driven utilities that will help<br />

you discover new potential investments. This wide array of utility<br />

includes an AI driven appraisal service, crowdsourced market<br />

sentiment, community predictions with rewards for contributors,<br />

transaction monitoring, advanced analytics tools, and access to<br />

comprehensive data sources.<br />

The flow of information from NFT projects via Discord and Twitter<br />

is massive. Organizing this information into coherent insights is<br />

a daunting challenge, especially when trying to stay ahead of the<br />

curve. Most people resort to scrolling through endless twitter feeds<br />

and cluttered discord channels for the next piece of valuable “alpha”<br />

and end up sacrificing their most valuable asset: their time. We<br />

started the Cubist Collective to address these problems within the<br />

NFT communities.<br />

Cubist Collective uses game theory to align incentives and leverages<br />

the power of the community to work together in monitoring projects.<br />

Cubists can post their insights in our Discord regarding projects<br />

they follow and others can reward these posts by reacting with<br />

our customized emoji. The system rewards top contributors for<br />

posting valuable insights while simultaneously feeding good alpha<br />

to the Cubists that validate the insights. We use a combination of<br />

machine learning and community curation to automatically identify<br />

top-quality posts, which are showcased in a special alpha channels<br />

that provides a quick digest of the latest top quality insights from the<br />

community.<br />

Community members can choose how they want to engage:<br />

Share to Earn<br />

Are you particularly knowledgeable about a project? Instead of<br />

shilling to the void, share your insights with Cubists and get rewards<br />

based on the quality of your alpha.<br />

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Predictions<br />

Guess whether popular NFT collections will pump or dump. Accurate<br />

predictions win $CUBIST tokens.<br />

Access to the source of the Alpha<br />

Our curated overview gives you the most relevant updates in a single<br />

channel. Plus you have direct access to ask our community experts<br />

what they think about specific projects<br />

The current data sources available for monitoring portfolios are<br />

extremely spread out. Getting an overview typically requires visiting<br />

multiple websites and a lot of manual analysis. By leveraging the<br />

Cubist Collective protocol, members will have access to a full suite<br />

of management tools that provide both personalized portfolio<br />

insights as well as standard data on projects. This enables app<br />

users to instantly identify which aspects need attention at any given<br />

point in time.<br />

• Crowdsourced market sentiment and community predictions: See which<br />

collections the community is bullish/bearish on, both for existing and new<br />

mints<br />

• Upcoming events for your portfolio: Keep track of upcoming airdrops,<br />

snapshots, token drops, delisting rewards, and more<br />

• Simple and clean portfolio overview: Value development, purchase/sales<br />

prices, and today’s top insights on your holdings<br />

• Standard metrics such as floor price, rarity, and intraday volume all in one<br />

place<br />

• Transaction monitoring: Get notified when you receive airdrops or when an<br />

item sells<br />

• Listing Management: See your listed NFTs from all marketplaces in a single<br />

location. Easily find items that are unlikely to sell at the current price<br />

• AI appraisal service: We use machine learning to estimate the value of<br />

individual NFTs based on traits, rarity, historic sales, and current market<br />

conditions<br />

• Simplified selling: Suggestion of marketplace and price for each NFT in<br />

your wallet. Based on transaction data and automated appraisal. Direct link<br />

or integration to the marketplace<br />

• Additional advanced analytics tools and data sources: We build the tools<br />

that will add the most value to the community. These are based on multiple<br />

data sources like on-chain, marketplaces, social<br />

Cubist Collective will have a Community Incentive Fund to maintain<br />

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egular payouts. The fund will be seeded with:<br />

• 20% of the proceeds from the mint,<br />

• Continuously receive 25% of the royalties from secondary markets, and<br />

• a weekly allocation of $CUBIST.<br />

The weekly Rewards Pool is created with funds from the Community<br />

Incentive Fund. Verified members can give others a share of<br />

the weekly pool by adding a special emoji to posts they consider<br />

valuable. Our custom Discord bot keeps track of the emojis and<br />

distributes the rewards pool according to the number of emojis<br />

received by each member at the end of the week. So if you have<br />

alpha or concise thoughts, you will be rewarded!<br />

The Cubist Collective will guarantee that the pool contains at least<br />

5000 USDC per week* for the first six months, in addition to the<br />

weekly allocation of $CUBIST.<br />

* USDC 5000 minimum per week is guaranteed for the first 6 months following a soldout<br />

mint. Depending on transaction volume, the amount could be higher. After the first<br />

6 months, the USDC payments will be dependent on royalty income and subject to the<br />

community voting on how to use that income. The $CUBIST payments will continue<br />

for at least the first four years, but the weekly allocation can be changed through a<br />

community vote.<br />

We will set up a simplified prediction market where members can<br />

predict whether they expect the floor of different NFT projects to<br />

increase or decrease in the near term. For new projects, they can<br />

predict whether the floor will rise above mint. Entering the prediction<br />

market will be free and winners will be rewarded from the Community<br />

Incentive Fund.<br />

Gamification will be central to our compensation model. Top<br />

contributors will receive special roles recognizing their efforts in<br />

building our community. We will also host regular competitions<br />

where we award additional prizes for top performing members in<br />

the prediction market.<br />

The community participation incentives will evolve over time as we<br />

grow and learn together. We will build together and the community<br />

will have a large impact on our future compensation model.<br />

The different components of Cubist Collective work together to<br />

create a “flywheel”, or positive feedback loop. This builds momentum<br />

by continuously improving the collective value for all community<br />

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members:<br />

The Cubist Collective Flywheel for generating value<br />

Members get paid for contributing information that’s valuable to<br />

the community. When they contribute quality data, the community<br />

members’ portfolios grow in value. This encourages current<br />

members to hold their Cubist NFTs, thus reducing selling pressure<br />

and raising floor prices.<br />

When floor prices go up, so do the royalties, which increases the size<br />

of the rewards pool. This creates stronger incentives for members to<br />

find quality insights that benefit the community and generates more<br />

value collectively.<br />

We haven’t forgotten about the art. Our NFTs are inspired by Pablo<br />

Picasso and the Cubism movement of the early 20th century. We<br />

have also been inspired by contemporary artists such as Laurent<br />

Folco and, in particular, the Cubism Pop Art style by Thomas C.<br />

Fedro.<br />

Cubism often depicts objects from multiple perspectives, which is<br />

reflected in our art. It also reflects our vision of a community that<br />

sees the big picture more clearly by viewing things from multiple<br />

perspectives. We have also tried to pick up on common ways of<br />

drawing attributes like noses, mouths, and eyes in the cubist style<br />

while combining with prolific NFT traits.<br />

Cubist Sombrero or Cowboy Hat, anyone?<br />

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To access our whitelist, users need to contribute to the community:<br />

we call this Proof-of-Value. This happens in one of two ways:<br />

1.Admins and moderators whitelisting anyone they believe will<br />

add value to the community<br />

2.Be active on our discord: Existing whitelist members use<br />

our Cubist Coin reaction to mark valuable posts in the discord<br />

in the same way that our rewards system will work. Users<br />

who receive the Cubist Coin from 10 unique members will be<br />

whitelisted*<br />

Our aim with this approach is to ensure we get a top-quality<br />

community from day 1 by avoiding a large proportion of bots or<br />

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flippers. This will create a broad holder distribution rather than a<br />

select few owning most of the supply.<br />

Since every person added to the whitelist is valuable to the Cubist<br />

Collective community, we will create a whitelist as large as users are<br />

willing to contribute. Our goal is that everyone willing to contribute<br />

will be able to mint.<br />

* The number 10 is an intended starting value. The requirement will change over time,<br />

see Discord for the latest information. Whitelist approvals will be manual and subject<br />

to a quick review to avoid abuse. In the case of rapid growth where the number of<br />

users awaiting whitelist approvals is much larger than the available whitelist spots, we<br />

reserve the right to change the whitelist requirements for pending approvals.<br />

Examples of how to provide value:<br />

• Direct valuable contributors to Discord and help them understand our<br />

project (Yes, we know it’s a bit on the gigabrain side)<br />

• Share alpha and have fun, but please no shilling<br />

• Help us spread the word: Write and send out good tweets, a Medium article,<br />

or anything that is helpful and share it to our Discord<br />

• Be a positive influence to the community and join in the conversation on<br />

Discord by being a helpful person<br />

For this approach to work, we first need to seed the whitelist with a<br />

certain number of users. For this, we will partner with select projects<br />

that have awesome communities.<br />

$CUBIST is the protocol’s native token. It is used to reward both<br />

contributors and holders of our first-generation NFTs. The first use for<br />

$CUBIST will be the ability to mint an Early Supporter Badge, before<br />

we even launch the main sale. Only 100 Early Supporter Badges will<br />

be available and the holders of those will be airdropped a Cubist<br />

Collective NFT. This means you can earn a free mint by contributing<br />

to our community and trying out our systems!<br />

At first, the primary use for the Cubist Coin will be to commission new<br />

pieces of art in our collection. Over time we will add a subscription<br />

service for those not holding Cubist NFTs to gain limited access to<br />

insights for projects they have invested into. This subscription will<br />

only be available to buy using $CUBIST, connecting the value of our<br />

token directly to the value generated by the community. Additional<br />

utilities will be added over time.<br />

A full tokenomics breakdown is currently being worked on and will<br />

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e presented in a separate post.<br />

Since we wish to grow our community organically and we are currently<br />

seeing very high volatility in Solana prices, we will set collection size,<br />

price, and date at a later date when we can accurately gauge the<br />

ideal size of our Cubist family. The Cubist Collective will benefit from<br />

having a large group of members to monitor projects together. The<br />

more active, contributing members, the stronger network effects<br />

and more value delivered.<br />

At the same time, we want to keep the community tight and the<br />

collection small enough that the floor will not crash post mint or<br />

from minor FUD. We also want to be able to grow the community<br />

over time by letting our early believers and contributors use $CUBIST<br />

to mint new NFTs that give access to the community.<br />

These two goals are at odds with each other in terms of collection<br />

size. We need to find the correct balance to maximize value for<br />

our members. The way we are planning to do that is by letting our<br />

whitelist size in part determine the collection size. We will keep<br />

whitelisting members we believe will contribute (see the Whitelist<br />

section). When we are ready to mint, the collection size will be<br />

determined by a combination of our budget requirements and the<br />

whitelist size at that point.<br />

The initial collection size will in all cases be kept small enough that<br />

we have room to grow, as well as maintain a high quality level across<br />

our membership (we are planning to be significantly below 10k).<br />

We have kept the roadmap short for three reasons<br />

• The crypto space moves at light-speed,<br />

• we expect Cubist Collective to be a learning process for everyone,<br />

• we want the community involved in setting priorities.<br />

Creating a long roadmap will only result in many changes, instead<br />

we try to stay agile and build iteratively based on new learnings and<br />

community sentiment.<br />

zBanks / Micael Ehn has a PhD in Game Theory, 15 years of<br />

experience in AI/Machine learning and spent most of the last decade<br />

building AI and data products in startups. He founded and sold a<br />

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company in AI-driven pricing analysis and now helps both large and<br />

small companies with AI strategy and architecture and has recently<br />

started consulting in tokenomics. Micael is architecting the incentive<br />

systems, crowdsourcing and tokenomics of Cubist Collective.<br />

https://www.linkedin.com/in/micaelehn/<br />

Ander Senior developer with more than 12 years experience building<br />

quality software for high-scale projects. He was one of the software<br />

architects of Betbright, an online sports betting company that sold<br />

for £15 million. Ander has led software teams for international<br />

companies like TFE Hotels, Mycelium and was involved in successful<br />

projects like Hostelworld, Legalist and Price Edge.<br />

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anderustarroz/<br />

Ryutras MA Security. Options trader who branched first into crypto<br />

and then into NFTs to spite the SEC. Somewhat paranoid. Runs<br />

Operations for Cubist Collective.<br />

Join us on our Discord: https://discord.gg/cubistcollective<br />

Follow our Twitter: https://twitter.com/CubistNFT<br />

Website: https://cubistcollective.com/<br />

Cubist Collective is expanding! We are looking for a frontend<br />

developer as well as community moderators. If you think you would<br />

be a good fit, please DM any core team member.<br />

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Heiartwork


karelabd


maniacsol


MateoNFT


karelabd


mintmiee


RiiPii11


SirRealArt2


Sephiroth_Art


FormFUNCTION<br />

@formfunction<br />

We’re excited to share a quick<br />

update about how our launch<br />

has gone! Let’s start with an<br />

incredible number—since<br />

our launch on Thursday, our<br />

genesis artists have made over<br />

$110K<br />

24 amazing genesis artists were<br />

part of our launch, and every single<br />

artist made a sale!<br />

In fact, most of our genesis<br />

artists received a new ATH—all<br />

time high bid—for their works.<br />

Finally, since launch, 70 pieces have<br />

been sold—and there are a few more<br />

auctions ending soon!<br />

At Formfunction, our #1 priority<br />

is giving artists the tools to be<br />

successful, and we’ve been thrilled<br />

to see how much love is going toward our 1/1 artists.<br />

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Lastly, we’ll be releasing more info soon on how we plan to onboard<br />

more artists—stay tuned for that.<br />

Thank you again to our genesis artists:<br />

@spooky_daikon @zen0m @mySpaceshipSOL @houdakyi @<br />

dalegphoto @tristan_todd_<br />

@mccannatron @maxwelladamsart @mintrainmint @Urbandrone_<br />

@modollasign_ @notienatsu<br />

@ls528art @DarkSolNFT @IDerech @hafftka @CH1LL_art @<br />

Mitzu_Sol @celstialbody @atoll_art @100cmcube @Eko3316 @<br />

pHarrisDesigns @versus_xyz<br />

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Urbandrone_


Eko3316


dripmetanft


dalegphoto


vartanfriedman


maxwelladamsart


u__y__a__b


atoll_art


mccannatron


diorzakariaa

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