SHILL Issue 63

Another big problem in the recent months was that early minters begin to list the NFT while the mint hasn't even ended yet.
This usually creates unhealthy dynamics until the market finds a fair price. Bifrost will allow projects to freeze NFT listings
until it's time to be listed on a secondary market.
The lesser discussed feature – Discord role based whitelist minting is also super powerful. Right now, you have to submit your
wallet if you earned, bought or won a whitelist spot. If you miss the wallet submissions, which are usually open for a few
days, you lose your chance. Technically that's understandable as launchpads have to collect WL wallets before mint, but from
user perspective it's a pain in the arse to keep up with all those wallet submission announcements.
Just one week after announcing Bifrost, 100 projects have applied to be launched on it. Not all of them will be lucky, though.
Because, unlike some other well-known launchpads, BSL will only work with legit teams who honestly wish to make Solana
NFTs better. In fact, BSL says they will be launching only 2-3 projects a month.
“If we wanted to, we could launch a project every few days for the next three months, but that's not what we are about. As you
know, we only want to launch high quality projects and projects that we believe will do well.” - harmy
We are yet to see the power of Bifrost, but the first project to use it is only a few weeks away, so we do not need to wait that
long.
The surprises don't end here though. 2 weeks ago, the BSL teased about SHFT…
What do we know about it? Not much for now… to quote BSL:
"Project SHFT, a revolutionary tech to shift the way we think, build and upgrade NFTs. SHIFT will introduce a new meta and
make NFTs exciting again."
I wouldn't pay attention if I hear such a claim from some random team, but when you hear this from BlocksmithLabs, it's
different.
Apparently, the SHFT has been in development alongside Bifrost, the tech is ready, and the team just needs to present it in the
right way to show how powerful it is.
Until we hear more about SHFT from BSL, we can earn some FORGE. All you have to do is follow @BlocksmithLabs, link
your Twitter on Mercury, and add "(SHFT)" to your Twitter username.
Final thoughts
One more thing that BSL deserves credit for is that by delivering value to the Solana ecosystem, the team also ensures that the
value they create is transferred to the Blocksmith Labs NFT and FORGE holders.
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