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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