SHILL Issue 53

#SHILL 

SOLANA NFT/DEFI/TWITTER ECOSYSTEM 

AUSsie nftguy 

the man behind the crazy stunts 

fearless bulls 

DJTRIXUK is 

working overtime 

hersoid 

hersoid on 

hersoid 

Cheriw 

Artwil uncovers the art 

& more 

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FROM THE EDITOR 

So much to write. So little 

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NFTArtistCheriW 

ArtWill takes us closer to the work 

by CheriW #alpha 

Probably Nothing 

CredibleCrypto sounds the 

alarm. Are you listening? #alpha 

Metaverse Me 

Looking at LIFINITY #alpha 

Barndog & Whalesfriend 

At it again with the latest news 

and insights #alpha 

AUSSIE NFT GUY 

Finally an interview with the 

LEGEND himself! 

Fearless BULLS 

DJTRIXUK about making 

Fearless Bulls a success 

#alpha 

UnPopular Opinion 

Boryoku, BabyDragonz and Grim 

#alpha 

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HERSOID 

HERSOID on HERSOID #alpha 

Marco Polo 

The team at Mercanti wrap up 

the week #alpha 

SOL COWBOY NFT 

Could this NFT follow Defi 

Pirates? #alpha 

MYTHICAL Dylan 

How to spot a rug project 

#alpha 

HOODEDREAPER 

Why Reaper does what he/she 

does #alpha 

KAMPONG Nights 

A new series of NFT from 

Hersoid #alpha 

micalnoelson

the 

from 

EDITOR 

Welcome to issue 53 of #Shill zine - the most read Solana ecosystem zine on the planet. 

A pretty exciting week for #Shill zine minting too much for the vault. A couple of Ministry of Art 

Keys, a LowbrowNative piece, 2x Hersoid pieces (one raf - much appreciate that one Hersoid) 

and then aped into some shit that I am sure I’m going to regret. 

A couple of weeks back we invested in SolSwatch nft that gives full access to the sols.watch 

website. A fabulous tool that I am really enjoying. Having a couple of CyberVillainz nft also gives 

access to the Dolphin suite of tools. Add to this the NFT LIVE function of Solscan (free) and 

team it all up with Solsniper tools and you have yourself a new rabbit hole that you will not climb 

out of! 

This week in Solana NFT, it seemed to be a slow for offerings. It took longer than usual to curate 

the pieces for this issue. There were 5 or 6 that I thought ‘nice, drop that one in’ but they had no 

social media link. Scrapped. Three that DID have social media had ‘suspended’ accounts! Red 

Flag there! 

I dropped into the Holaplex spaces on Thursday, they were talking about their new features on 

the platform. Sounded promising and the handful of NFT artists in the chat were happy to see 

the features added. Too little too late? I went over to holaplex.com to check out the action. Thin. 

And again, many of the artists don’t link back to their social media account. Where will Holaplex 

be by mid-year? 

A couple of very interesting articles in this issue. Sit back, kick your feet up and give them a read. 

There’s alpha in these pages. 

We finally managed to wrangle AussieNFTGuy for an interview. This Australian is amazing and 

pretty full-on. Read about his ride in the Solana space and make sure to give him a follow! 

ChestFinance (Defi Pirates) who #Shill zine has included since Nov 2021 has launched their 

game preview (page5). Launching 9 May, 2022 this looks like it will set the standard for other 

games to match. It’s a game for Defi where you can interact daily OR have the option to just 

stake your NFT and visit weekly to harvest. A win-win for those that aren’t really into gaming and 

more into investing. 

Finally, the video from Whalesfriend on page 22 should be mandatory viewing. Could this be the 

future of Solana marketplaces. Make sure to watch the video. Well worth the time. 

Peeps go fix up your profiles on exchange.art and holaplex ffs! And why the fcuk do you block 

on Twitter? #ngmi! 

Fantastic NFTs from newcomers and mainstayers. Come on #frens show the love. Hit the artists 

up on Twitter. Tell the writer’s you read their articles. Give back a little! 

As always, show your love on the Twittersphere with a simple retweet. 

Enough said. You know the drill. Let’s f go! 

Pixeltoy 

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Keep your eye on... 

Build-a-bot 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57N3_kLWGls

@NFTArtistCheriW - https://linktr.ee/adeepstateofmind… 

Art will, and always has played a huge part in Cheri’s life. It runs 

deep within her family’s blood. Originally drawing early inspiration 

and from her aunt, who’d been featured in many galleries & museums. 

Cheri is turning 54 on the 27th of this month! (HAPPY EARLY BIRTH- 

DAY!!. That means she’s been creating art for half a decade. How incredible! 

She mentioned resonating with a younger, male centric crowd 

has been difficult. We think she’s doing an incredible job. 

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Our favorite of her recent releases is “The Painter”, a hand-painted 

acrylic piece. We’re very much looking forward to seeing her next reveal 

of these abstract paintings. Her next three are part of her ongoing 

collection, “Fear & Loathing”. 

Inspired by her fascination with true crime, this collection focuses 

on archetypes of those who commit heinous crimes & acts. A few creations 

she’s proud of are “Birth Reich”, “The Night Stalker” & “Inner 

Demons”. 

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Cheri really creates with a wide range of mediums, ranging from 

painting, all the way to poetry. The main two for web3 being acrylic 

painting & collage. Stating, “They are both equally challenging and 

tap different areas of my creativity.” 

Cheri’s a mother of 3 kids, and a grandmother to four. She would love 

to see more women confidently join this space, & we couldn’t agree 

more. We can’t say this loud enough, WE NEED MORE WOMEN CREATIVES & 

BUILDERS IN OUR COMMUNITIES. 

It saddened us to hear she currently struggles with 3 separate autoimmune 

diseases. That’s got to be intensely difficult, especially with 

the last few years of this pandemic we’ve all been succumbed too. Happy 

you’re still moving forward, head strong. 

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To see an artist put in the amount of effort Cheri does into creating 

her art & putting herself out there, with such severe underlying 

health conditions, is quite respectable and inspiring. Thank you for 

continuing to create through your struggles, we appreciate it. 

Today @NFTArtistCheriW is auctioning off her piece, “Beezlebub”, a 

1:1 acrylic painting, minted into her “Fear & Loathing” collection. A 

piece to keep tabs on, as her last few pieces have all sold in this 

collection, quickly. 


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Cheri and her husband @chaos_view create together leisurely in their 

free time. We look forward to learning more about him in the future. 

Thanks for reading @ArtWillNFT and learning a bit about @NFTArtistCheriW 

View her art here - https://linktr.ee/adeepstateofmind… 

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altarikbagus

ChronoOrderNFT

PROBABLY 

NOTHING 

@CredibleCrypto - 323k followers 

An absolutely genius way to turn your NFT 

into something more than just an image. 

Utilizing the IP that you now own to make 

a themed restaurant and make your business 

stand out from the crowd. 

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OVER 5Sol & TOP NFT 

SolsWatch 

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DeadRejcts

visit Grape Discord 

LIFINITY on Solana with Metaverse

the ASTRONAUT 

thexastronaut

PURPLEanalysis 

Purpleanalysis

AntoineDoreArt

Demonsnft66

grapeprotocol 

BARNDOG 

SOLANA Gaming Update 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC9uOC8ujoc 

WhaleShorts 

Grape Roadmap 2.0 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mTo7A5ZTTY 

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eanseller69

To begin with let’s learn a little bit about who you are. 

I began getting involved in NFTs in early September. My first mint was actually Trippy Bunny Tribe. I 

paid 1SOL and later sold it for 25SOL. That was a huge amount of money for me at the time so I was 

instantly hooked on the potential of earning more with NFTs. 

I got a few mates who are interested in NFTs and even my girlfriend has started getting involved too. 

What brought you to nft’s? 

I can’t exactly remember how I got involved but I do remember I 

got involved because I wanted to earn money outside of the job 

I had back then. I was working as a delivery driver for a bakery 

earning $400 a week at the time. 

You could have easily taken on an nft project on the Ethereum 

platform. Why Solana? 

I almost started with ETH actually but I didn’t have enough 

income to be paying expensive gas fees. The first NFT I almost 

bought but luckily didn’t was SolBears. I was following Alex 

Becker at the time and he was one of the influencers I watched 

at the time on YouTube. 

Apart from Twitter presence you also have a Discord presence. 

How do you see your involvement across these 2 social platforms? 

Every person aspiring to get involved needs 2 things. A Twitter 

account and a Discord account. That’s it. Of course I use them 

every single day. I honestly can’t remember the last day I didn’t 

open both of the applications. 

Obviously I’m mainly on the DeGods discord server, but, besides 

that I involve myself with other projects too where I am just a 

holder so I’m in those servers as well. 

I use Twitter daily to either shit post about jokes and beer, or, to write helpful alpha posts too for my 

followers. It’s usually a split screen kinda thing. I’ll be using Twitter one moment and just jump into 

Discord the next moment. 

Can’t go without them to be honest. 

It had to be skydiving. I dressed up as a DeGod too and it was super sick. 

Like many people across the Twitterverse 

I have been following all 

the stories you have been putting 

out there- real and raw. Your 

most recent adventure, skydivingtell 

us a little bit about this. 

The only thing I remember was 

telling myself was do something 

fucking crazy. 

I had already said DeGod 10,000 

times, ate 100 nuggets and had a 

tattoo so I thought what next? 

I was so stoked and pumped once it was done and eager as fuck to share it with everyone. I remember 

when it got posted on Twitter and everyone went fucking nuts. 

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The DeGod community has always been a strong community 

from the start, and it only continues to grow stronger 

and stronger as we move forward. 

Apart from DeGods do you have other NFT projects that 

you are keen on? What sets DeGods apart? 

I think the team at DeGods is what has been the “it” factor 

so far. We have so many extremely talented people working 

on the project and it’s fucking amazing to be involved. 

Other projects I like are DAA, Cets On Creck, DeFi Pirates, 

Stoned Apes, Famous Fox Federation and Blocksmith 

Labs. 

I am sure there are quite a few of us that are thinking, 

“how can you top that?” 

Yes. There’s more crazy shit coming. Stay tuned. 

#Shill zine thanks you for your time. I possibly missed 

something you were/are really keen to mention. Care to 

share? 

I think one tip I wanted to share with readers is to be patient. 

If you’re not patient then learn to be patient. 

There’s many NFTs I have held that if I were a little more patient I would have been 10X better off. 

Don’t allow your emotions to affect your trading and if you have conviction in a project, remain patient 

and reap the rewards when they deliver on their roadmap. 

https://twitter.com/DeGodsNFT/status/1456018540784504833 (watch the skydive video on Twitter) 


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ArkangelNFT

Dedearta666

obbythecoyote

obbythecoyote

Fearless 

@DJTRIXUK 

A smol thread about FBC. Not many people know 1 of the main reasons I was driven to make @Fearless_Bulls 

succeed... I can be competitive mf, sometimes driven by proving a point. Pre-FBC I’d been working with an .ETH 

DAO on an NFT collection. I advised them the mint on SOL. 

The .ETH DAO voted against SOL in favour of minting on Immutable. The drive to prove these guys wrong about 

that vote was strong and I put everything I had into FBC. It was fun to drop back to them 6 weeks (still hunting 

for devs) to tell them I silently made a project. 

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Now we have more haters to prove wrong. 

For the last 10 weeks my focus was the building the foundations for the largest DAO NFT Fund in Solana. Total 

rarity adjusted value increased 24% in 2 months. We have some rare AF NFTs in the fund & we have SOLs. Did 

they see this? 

This renk 3 @CetsOnCreck will probably some day fetch a good brice at auction, or frectionalisation or OTC or 

something.. & who tf knows what’s in these @DegenApeAcademy eggs? The 1/1 @nodemonkeynft is not leaving 

the wallet any time soon. It’s very useful. Recommended; 

Now it’s time to up the levels with @Fearless_Bulls. I’m a stubborn mf, determined to prove a point. The FBC 

team all have that hard-core work ethic at heart. That’s why they were chosen. FBC has a solid roll-out plan. Dev 

work has started. Utility for $vBLSH will be driven. 


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To wrap this up I must send huge thanks to @UnicrisX8// This project would never have happened without Unicris. 

I have utmost respect for his integrity, worth ethic, and talents as an artist. After we chatted today, he came 

through with day 1 V1 draft of the FBC PFP. 

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chaos_view

NumbOneT_T

artpardini

artpardini

@DegenSwings 

@BoryokuDragonz has had a few consecutive lower highs on FP, looking left trying to find potential 

areas of support and @SolanaFloor shows these could be 150 sol and 100 sol. 

Breaking and holding above 200 sol is key, making higher highs 240 sol would be considered bullish. 

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Baby Dragonz FP broke a key support at ~32.5 sol printing an all time low(ATL), recovering and 

maintaining that FP could give you some momentum to the upside, ultimate test is to make a higher 

high breaking above 50 sol, that puts you in a whole different picture. 

Someone asked me to chart @Grim__Syndicate. Good chart, similar to those of CETS, 

DeGods, FFF etc.. but just kissing 10 sol. 

All I care is that it’s been making HL and HH for 60 days, the trend is your friend. 

Are these charts showing a pattern of hard working teams? 


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colorpain6

CyberPunk

DeepersNFT

diorzakariaa

DotsForDinner

DotsForDinner

EMCN13

eightyrats

eightyrats

Hersoid 

HERSOID 

NFTs 

The artist Hersoid (aka Nick Hersey) has been producing NFTs since the start of 2022, but 

has been a practicing artist for over 20 years. He studied Illustration at Kingston University, 

UK, before working as a graphic designer in London. In 2001 he moved to Brazil with his 

family, and began working as an artist full time. His practice covers figurative painting, 

photography and printmaking, though his NFTs focus on his expertise as an illustrator. 

Hersoid‘s works explore the role of narrative in visual expression- he plays with the inherent 

associations we place on visual cues- fairy tale visions of children, animals and mythical 

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creatures are ‘remixed’ into challenging compositions. Dark or unconventional stories unfold 

between the characters. Hersoid‘s experiences as an illustrator inform his figurative style, but 

he also uses his experiences as a graphic designer- drawing upon the science semiotics and 

the use of symbolism- to underpin his poster-like compositions. 

His first NFT collection – ‘Hand drawn and quartered’ – explored this twisting of the 

narrative. Taking drawings and sketches made in pencil on paper, Hersoid has aimed to 

recreate the feeling and composition of screen printed posters – large flat blocks of tone are 

superimposed with drawings and knockouts of colour- drawing on the skills he developed as 

a screen printer in his early career. 


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His second collection – ‘ Not Now Bernard’ – explores the dark instincts and desires that lurk 

beneath the surface of the human condition, and that as adults we suppress. The title is taken 

from Dave McKee’s iconic 1970s children’s story, in which the adults ignore their child, who 

is then eaten by a monster. 

As well as exploring the possibilities offered by unusual collaborations with other artists in 

the NFT community (Hersoid is currently working with Xeanus Monkeys and Yellow Trash 

Can) – he is very keen to encourage both emerging and established artists to explore the NFT 

environment, because he believes that the democratic and open nature of this scene allows 

talent to thrive that would otherwise by overlooked by Bricks and Mortar galleries. After 20 

years in the arts, Hersoid is acutely aware that these institutions can be focused on traditional 

pedigree such as elitist arts schools and nepotistic gallery relationships – none of which allow 

for new or dynamic content – from less traditional backgrounds – to get the exposure it may 

well deserve. 

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fakkinsit

fakkinsit

FatihJagadRaya

FutureDisturbed

fauzanbunz

fromnowhere_1

GlitchStroke

TrippyPlacesNFT

HoodedReaper2

ima_SNAfU

Ilyixos

Janrayab

keezerfeld iiiso

kondeoko

Latents_

Latents_

Marco Polo 

One word — Urkann. This man single-handedly swept DeGods back to 200 FP spending about $400–500k in the 

process. This inspires “Urkann(ing)” as verb in SOL lexicon. What a chad. 

• Cets on Creck where being crecked as usual this week, raffling off SMB #4737 on the new bleckmarket, at 10 creck a 

pop one lucky cet manage to pick up this sexy looking SMB for 60 creck (6 days of staking). In usual crecked fashion 

the lucky winner floored his/hers recently acquired SMB for approx. 200 sol, proceeding to buy 2 high-ranking cets 

for 100 sol each. Power move? Or clinically insane? That’s some solid devotion if you ask me. 

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• After solid price movement post mint, Degen dojo acquired rank 22 MAYC for $121,800 USD. Madness, are they 

going to raffle this, or is this a long hold for the treasury? Packaged with some stylish art and a strong community, 

they are definitely a project to keep on your radar. 

• The mighty pirates are making a splash in the Solana ocean announcing the official date for the release of the trailer 

“Defi Pirates & The Treasure Island are coming to Solana in April!” set to be released on the 21st of April. After a 

few sweeps of the deck, pirates are now sitting steady at 6fp….also the game looks insane! bullish? 

• Magnum AI made a statement this week by announcing their new partnership with DeGods, accompanied by a 

hilarious animation of Mr magnum AI himself meeting grand-Master Frank in the Temple of Solympus. 1500 

retweets later and we got part 2 — two $DUST auctions for legendary Magnum AI NFTs. Floor price jumped on this 

news and Magnum AI now sits at around 4fp. WAAAAAZAAPPP!!! 


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Shout out @WackoSenshi for his insane animation skills. 

Dead Cets — a deadgod cet hyrbid, these derivates are getting seriously creative. With a 0.09 sol mint I’m not quite 

sure what to say about this one. 

@ DegenDaVinci A resident of the Degods Medusa head club DegenDaVinci dropped some solid alpha for us to 

digest this week, breaking down his insane NFT journey and how he came to acquire his portfolio now worth tens of 

millions. His thread breaks down over 5000+ hours of learning and what he has learned from each project he has been 

a part of, DaVinci explains everything from high conviction to why he believes projects succeed in this space and the 

blueprint they usually follow. 

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The Skinny: Everseed is in development at Amihan Entertainment, a progressive studio founded by an experienced 

team of game industry veterans from Riot Games. Our vision is to equalize opportunity for all through games. We 

champion diversity because empathy empowers us to best serve you, the next gamer generation. 

Why we’re paying attention: We want to redefine both what it means to be a player and a creator in today’s 

connected world. Dreaming, forming, and building a better civilization would be impossible without the support of 

passionate, like-minded advocates. If uplifting the lives of others calls to you, we would love to welcome you into our 

community. Let’s grow Everseed together! 

Mint Date: Wed, Apr 20th 

Mint Supply: 5,000 

Price: 1 SOL 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/playeverseed 

That’s all for this week folks, thanks for reading my journal entry. Feedback is appreciated, and if you want to be 

featured in my journal next week, please DM us on Twitter, or join our Discord for the latest updates! 

Safe Travels, 

Marco 


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msoulart

NumbOneT_T

laurence_antony

laurence_antony

SOL COWBOY NFT 

Gun laws remain weak, the Sheriffs no longer hold the manpower to control outlaws. The 

current feud that tears apart the beautiful thriving town of Red Wood all started not too long 

ago... On just a normal sunny day, Bobby Ray, a well-known leader of The Desperados gang 

was riding through the town of Red Wood when he was stopped and ordered to pay a toll for 

entering. Bobby Ray looked surprised knowing he has kept the peace for a long time with the 

local Sheriff, before he could even ask any questions one of the deputies looked at Bobby and 

said “Hey boy there’s a new Sheriff ‘round these party. And we have some new rules. Sheriff 

James, wants every known gang member to pay before partaking in what our town offers” 

Learning that the town is 

now run by a new sheriff 

James “The Jackal’’ Smith 

who had implemented 

the toll made his way into 

Redwood. James was well 

known and feared in his own 

right. Given that nickname 

by his former colleagues that 

he betrayed shooting his 

former gang leaders dead for 

a bounty reward. He would 

bite any hand that fed him. 

His ambition for power knew 

no end and somehow, he 

had convinced the town of 

Redwood to let him become 

their new Sheriff. Bobby Ray 

shrugged off the request and 

replied, “I don’t pay up to no 

traitors” and rode past the 

deputies towards his favorite 

Saloon to grab a drink, little 

did he know it would be his 

last drink on that fateful day. 

Up until this day The Desperados 

gang had formed an 

agreement with the townspeople 

of Redwood - they wouldn’t steal from the people if they were allowed to still use 

resources available in town and allowed to still barter with its local shop owners. 

After his second glass of whiskey Bobby Ray had noticed the music and people had quieted 

down. He turned towards the front of the Saloon and heard yelling from outside “BOBBY 

RAYYYY!!!” “Bobby Ray! You’re wanted for trespassing on these lands! Why don’t ya come on 

out here unless you’re yeller!” He walked outside with his head held high and his right hand 

sitting on the handle of his trusty Six Shooter which he nicknamed “The Testament”. Standing 

outside the Saloon were twelve men all wearing badges, with one distinguished figure in the 

middle of all of them. Bobby Ray knew that he was staring at “The Jackal” himself after hearing 

so many stories about him. The Jackal smirked at him and said “I hate you gang types. You 

think everything is just supposed to be handed to you. And now you come on our lands expecting 

a free ride.” “You didn’t pay the toll boy and for a Desperado the only thing left to do 

with you is give you a hanging!!!” “I will forgive your crimes if you come with us today and 

get your gang to pay your toll but double!” Bobby couldn’t call on the Desperados for backup 

because he didn’t want the innocent bystanders to be harmed. His gang would turn the 

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world upside down for him; they were truly loyal met. He wanted to pacify the situation so he 

walked towards the Sheriff and his men to turn himself in. As Bobby put out his hands to allow 

the men to handcuff him “The Jackal” had a menacing grin on his crooked face - Bobby could 

tell he had done a deal with a living devil. 

Once he was cuffed he noticed all of The Jackal’s men backed away from him he turned around 

to face the Jackal who said “On second thought boy. I don’t do deals with gangs you are all 

scum to me.” James “The Jackal ‘’ Smith raised his dual wielded six shooters and shot Bobby 

Ray several times leaving him dead on the scene. Once the desperados camp heard of this 

injustice they got their supplies ready and rolled into town together, laying waste to many of 

the local shops looking for the Sheriff who was in hiding, it seems that “The Jackal” had gotten 

away again but for how lone. The gang is now back to its old ways robbing and murdering 

the innocent. Many of James deputies left his side and still reside in town trying to defend its 

people, they never agreed to murder Bobby in fact they all had respect for what kind of man 

he was. No one knows when this feuding over spilled blood will end, The Desperados want 

to spill “The Jackal’s” blood and only then will the faithful town of Redwood may have peace 

once again. Will you fight for Bobby Ray’s honor? Or will you fight to defend the innocence in 

Red Wood? Whichever side you choose you are all feuding as SOL COWBOYS. 


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MYTHICAL 

@MythicalDylan 

To my friends that have less than 10 sol, 

how to spot rugs, incompetency, scams, 

and in general poor conviction projects. 

If you’re reading this, chances are you too 

have been: 

1. Rugged several times 

2. Sold the ‘under-promise and overdeliver’ dream 

but really was underdelivered, 

3. Or was straight up scammed/stolen from. 

To start off, we first must understand the 

main objective of every ruggy project 

builder; to maximize profits. How does 

one accomplish this? Make a shit ton of 

projects. 

If said builders’ track record of their 

project shows having gone underwater 

several times; it's easy to assume their 

next project that is supposed ‘to go to 

the moon’ is probably going underwater. 

Beware of any influencer shilling said 

devs next garbage project. 

If it isn’t obvious, you can do a quick test 

by asking members of the discord if they 

know who's behind the project in the 

chat, pms, or even hitting them up on 

Twitter privately. There's always someone 

who knows someone. 

Another red flag is seeing huge ass 

twitter accounts posts that have few likes; 

posts with hella likes and no comments; 

or lotta likes but low-quality comments. 

If I were a data analysis kinda guy I would 

bring up stats to prove but I’m just going 

by what I’ve seen. 

Originality. If the collection is (seems) a 

derivative; it’s honestly usually a cashgrab. 

Think about it; instead of going out there 

to work on something authentic, genuine, 

or useful they’re making copycat rug 

projects in exchange for people's (usually 

small accs) money. 

Animal/monster pfps, but beings that 

give do not inspire people to use that as 

their pfp. No one wants to have a rat or 

cockroach as their pfp. If it looks ugly, it’s 

ugly. 

Which leads to another test I like to call 

“Simply put, does it look dope?” test. 

Would you actually be proud of showing 

other people what you own? Pfp-able on 

ig or fb? Not really? You aren’t alone. 

Anything that treads the lines of being 

illegal or ambiguous in the eyes of the 

law. No one really speaks up about this 

because crypto is inherently like the 

wildwest of the internet; where anything 

goes. But if we’re thinking about mass 

adoption, it matters. 

If there is anything else I should also know, 

or things that others should be aware of 

that I didn’t mention in my post; feel free 

to write down whatever you want. Addons, 

fact checking, tools, criticism, fud, 

“fuck you dylan”, anything feel free! 

This isn’t necessarily always true; but 

projects that do giveaways in the (1, 2, 3) 

bulletpoint or in general your typical giveaway 

format just gives off low-quality 

vibes and to me seems a lot like a less 

premium collection. 

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@HoodedReaper2 

New 1/1 Collection Reveal “Shadows Dont Talk” Sneak Peak Of The First Release To 

Go Live For Auction On @exchgARTApr “A Shadows Death Bed” 

A big part of my life has been dealing with pain, anxiety, depression, and mistakes 

from wrong paths taken in life. Rather from dealing with a mother and brother fight 

addiction to having brain surgery due to a cyst young in life, every day was a fight but 

that fight led me to where I am today after all is said and done. Each factor that may 

have seem to make life worse only made me thankful for it for making me stronger 

and working to become a better man each day. My love for horror movies and art 

since young have always entwined with my love for abstract art. “Shadows Dont Talk” 

is my attempt at keeping those elements while blending them still into a abstract 

form expressing feelings ive felt in life, situations ive delt with, to hopefully connect 

with others that have felt these feelings. 

Beauty in abstract art 

is so many eyes can see 

it and each person still 

feel a different meaning 

behind the art. If I can just 

reach one person with 

this collection that truely 

makes them feel it, I will be 

completely satisfied, its not 

about the money but about 

me still finding my place 

in this world, still finding 

myself in my mid 20s just 

like most of us through life, 

improving my art hoping to 

have others connect with it 

on a deeper personal level. 

Reason shadows are 

the main figures in this 

collection is because of my 

roots with horror because 

of the fact a shadow can 

stand for so much with 

out a single word. I hope 

to find true enjoyers of 

this collection and will release it by auctions only 1 at a time until the full set of 8 is 

complete. I will be putting alot into this artwork from trial and failure to experimenting 

with different things while still keeping it abstract in its own ways. If you read this 

and check out my art, I appreciate you more than you can imagine. This is only the 

beginning of my path. “There’s beauty in the dark”. 


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year4119

newpunkart69

RakaJanas

KAMPONG 

This new collection of 1/1 NFTs is actually 

a novel in 13 chapters, the illustrations 

for each of which are minted as NFTs. 

The 13 chapters describe characters, 

anecdotes, situations and memories 

that the artist has encountered on his 

travels over the last 22 years, through 

America, Europe and Asia. These 

reminiscences are woven together in 

traditional storytelling style, employing 

reality enriched by fiction, reflecting 

the artists interests in the work of J L 

Borges, Joseph Conrad, Milan Kundera 

and Franz Kafka. 

Though the stories are predominantly 

set in his current hometown Kuala 

Lumpur, the characters and situations 

draw upon a variety of experiences 

gleaned from periods also spent living 

in Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Bangkok, 

Sheffield and London. 

Hersoid‘s art is manufactured from 

memories, reminiscences and experiences witnessed during his foot-stepping 

through the humble everyday and the banal. The minutiae of the everyday feeds his 

library of anecdotes, and is woven with characters whose apparent impotence in the 

greater workings of humanity only draws his attention ever closer to their fascinating 

and relentless struggle to exist. 

Anthony Gormley famously collected North Sea salt water for his Royal Academy 

exhibition, and juxtaposed it with 30 tonnes of Cornish clay. Such shaman-like 

adoration for intangible properties seems a logical focus for an artist to follow, but 

for Hersoid, the storm wind collected in a bottle from the Outer-Hebrides feels like 

cheating: anyone can make art from such majestic materials, but the true skill is in 

appointing similar significance to events and circumstances that through no fault 

of their own do not have the majesty of storms or elemental forces but are mundane 

and day-to-day. 

As such, he gleans his material from the detritus of experience- the forgotten 

moments just after an event of significance – the expression on the face once the 

cameras have turned away, the discovery of a worthless coin in an empty multi storey 

car park. And into this grey his art is to weave, with liberal abandon, the free-roaming 

fantasy of fiction- the improbable jostles with the unlikely and the impossible for a 

role in his stories. Chapters freely borrow from continents and decades at opposite 

ends of his life, and melt into a possibly pointless crescendo. 

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The 13 chapters belonging to this collection are being written as the project develops, 

evolving ‘on the hoof’ as the artist finds them in his everyday. Part One – the first four 

chapters – have been collected, written and drawn in the Monsoon season of Kuala 

Lumpur. 


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yokomates

ZeeWhyEl

NOTIGANGNFT

Fearless_Bulls

1bitworld

hersoid

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art_by_micro

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