Author: Axel

The Complete Guide to Akutars 

Akutars is part two in the new and exciting Aku movement. It is a collection of 15,000 unique 3D avatars created by former MLB player Micah Johnson. Once he heard his nephew ask the question: “Can astronauts be black?”. Johnson decided that they absolutely can. 

This conviction resulted in the Akutars NFT collection, which provides entry into the ever-expanding Akuverse, where the lines between the physical and digital world are blurred.

With this exciting, new, and fresh collection having been released, let’s dive deeper into what makes it special and unique.

What are Akutars?

Akutars is a special 3D NFT collection with partnerships from Puma, Planes, Vandal, Who Decides War, BBC, and Ice Cream. Every partner has made contributions to the design of Akutars, and it marks an important milestone in the NFT community. Now big and influential brands are starting to notice the value and utility of NFTs, and they want to get involved.

The collection totals 15,000 unique NFTs hosted on the Ethereum blockchain. 

Aku, the young boy who’s the main face of these NFT’s is a representation of what this collection is all about: confidence and boldness – the belief that dreams aren’t a reserved thing for exclusive social identities. 

The story of this young boy, Aku, is told in a different Aku NFT project called Chapters. Now, Akutars is the next step in this story. Aku is here to empower you on your quest to follow your dreams. 

Akutars was created by former MLB player Micah Johnson. The project started out innocently enough with him drawing sketches to motivate and inspire his nephew to not give up on his dreams because of his skin color.

The reception was overwhelming, and so Johnson decided to take the project to the next level. Now, here we are. 

The Akutars NFT collection was created with support from the worlds of crypto and NFTs, art, music, and culture. Other than Johnson, the team behind Akutars includes some of the world’s best creative design, technology, and community management professionals. 

By owning an Akutars NFT you gain exclusive access to culture-defining experiences, products, and collaborations. It is virtually a cultural bonanza with a strong and dedicated movement to back it all up.

How are Akutars made?

Akutars are 3D designed and animated avatars of a young, black astronaut called Aku and other African-American children. Each Akutars NFT has extraordinary drip, with clothes and traits designed by some of the biggest and luxurious fashion brands out there. Puma is one of them, which speaks a lot about the attention this NFT project has attracted.

The man behind the general design is former MLB player, Micah Johnson, a self-taught figurative artist. His style is characterized by strong gestural lines in combination with loose brush strokes. The result is dramatic and lively portraits of our favorite young astronaut: Aku and other African-American children.

The individual NFT is then created by mixing and randomizing the cool clothes and traits, creating an entirely unique Akutar posing in a variety of exciting situations and scenarios. 

This makes Akutars perfect for profile pictures on social media like Twitter, where the reception of them has been astounding. They radiate confidence and hope, and that inspires people to keep the story of Aku alive. 

However, as mentioned, Akutars aren’t simply just profile pictures for social media. By holding one of these fresh NFTs you gain access to great perks. 

How do i mint Akutars?

The mint for the Akutars NFTs was conducted on the Akuverse website in two waves.

It was possible to buy an Akutar Mint Pass NFT, and if you held it during their wallet snapshot April 21. 2022 you gained a free mint for your very own Akutars NFT. As this date has passed, these passes are no longer valid. They are still sold on auction by private traders, but they have no use. 

The rest of the mint was conducted on April 22. where the rest of the Akutars NFTs quickly were bought on a good old fashioned dutch auction.

To mint an Akutars NFT, you needed to have enough Eth to pay the mint price and cover the gas fees for the transaction. Therefore, a crypto wallet such as MetaMask was required and had to be connected to the website. 

How to buy Akutars

Now that the mint has finished, you’ll have to purchase an Akutars NFT from private traders. There are two marketplaces where this can be done. The first is OpenSea, which is where you will usually be able to find any and all NFTs. The second place is on LooksRare. 

On OpenSea, you should see a verified checkmark next to the creator. This indicates you’re at the right NFT and that you aren’t buying a knock-off. The floor price is, at the time of writing this article, 0.8 Eth. 

To purchase from OpenSea, create an account on the site and link your crypto wallet to it. Fill it up with the required amount of Eth for the NFT you want to buy and take gas fees into consideration as well. 

On LookRare the floor price is 0.9 Eth. The purchasing process is exactly the same as on OpenSea. Connect your crypto wallet to the site, fill it with the required amount of Eth and purchase the NFT you’re after.

The Akutars NFT collection can not be bought from any other marketplace than these two. If you see it somewhere else, be very cautious. Don’t buy from any site that is not directly affiliated with the creators behind the collection.

Conclusion

Akutars is an NFT project that embodies everything any NFT should strive for. It is an inspirational, encouraging and moving project that sets out to inspire everybody to follow their dreams and let nothing stand in their way. 

For anyone interested in culture, this NFT collection opens plenty of doors for you to gain unique experiences in a community that strives for the exact same thing that you do: to grow as a person and achieve your dreams.

Complete guide to Clone X

Clone X has the honor of being one of the most eagerly anticipated NFT projects yet seen in the space. It was launched in November 2021 by digital design studio RTFKT, a month before it was bought by Nike. Clone X was designed to be the first portable NFT set, featuring 20,000 high-end 3D avatars that users will, in time, be able to deploy cross-platform on social media and in video games and movies, both within and outside of the metaverse.

Clone X was created in collaboration with Daz 3D, a renowned 3D digital and electronic art and software company, and Takashi Murakami, a popular Japanese artist. Murakami brought his own artistic vision to the pieces which Daz 3D then rendered into metaverse-ready characters, which thousands of holders will be able to enjoy in the metaverse for years to come.

What is the Clone X NFT collection?

The idea behind Clone X is to have one avatar that holders can use across various metaverse platforms as the space evolves. Of course, anyone who wants to make their avatar this ubiquitous will want to really enjoy how it looks, which is a good thing with Clone X because the designs are, in general, beautifully created, with so much variety that there will be one to please even the most particular individual.

One of the major advantages of Clone X NFTs is that you aren’t stuck with what the designers have come up with. Instead you can change certain elements of your avatar, with an entire clothing range planned. And, of course, we would be very surprised if you weren’t allowed to dress your Clone X avatar in a pair of RTFKT’s Nike Cryptokicks NFT sneakers down the line.

Clone X holders were also airdropped a Space Pod NFT, metaverse-ready gallery capsule for them to to customize, upgrade and show off their NFTs in. Well, a Clone X has gotta have a home, right?

What are Clone X traits?

Clone X NFTs have 13 trait categories, sharing 541 traits between them:

Trait	Trait count	Trait	Trait count
DNA	8	Facial Feature	32
Traits count	10	Eye color	34
Accessories	12	Jewelry	41
Back	13	Mouth	49
Type	14	Clothing	119
Helmet	20	Hair	163
Eyewear	26

In terms of weighting, all but two categories, clothing and hair, have an imbalance when it comes to trait distribution. In the ‘eye color’ category for example, 48% of the NFTs have the trait ‘none’, leaving the other 33 traits to be split between the remaining 52%. This type of split, which helps create ultra rare NFTs, is present in almost all other categories, with ‘clothing’ and ‘hair’ having a much more even split, which is not surprising given they have the most traits in their category.

How does the trait combination impact the price of the Clone X collection?

When looking at price, it’s clear from just a glance at the biggest sellers and the lowest asking prices that uniqueness pays:

The most expensive Clone X NFTs are festooned with brightly coloured accessories and unusual facial features, while least expensive are much more plain and ‘regular’ looking. This is reflected partly in the trait count, with the top sellers sometimes having almost double the number of traits as the lower sellers, which makes them less uniform and therefore rarer. However, the rarest Clone X NFTs aren’t always the ones with the highest number of traits, so we can’t say this is always the case.

How can you trade Clone X NFTs?

Clone X NFTs are available to buy and sell on OpenSea, where the floor price is 11.7 ETH. This may seem high but it is a steep reduction from the high of 29 ETH in February 2022, and given the mint price was an average of 2 ETH this is a nice return for initial buyers.

What was the most expensive Clone X NFT?

The most expensive Clone X NFT ever sold is #4594, which sold for 450 ETH ($1.25 million) on February 1, 2022, a figure which highlights the demand for this collection. This NFT has fewer traits than less expensive ones, and indeed is only the 505th rarest Clone X NFT around, so it may just be that the buyer fell in love with its incredible appearance.

Where can you find Clone X NFTs for sale?

Clone X NFTs can be picked up from OpenSea, where you can snag one for 11.7 ETH. However, there really isn’t much choice at this price point, so you’re looking at 25+ ETH in order to start becoming a bit more choosy.

How can you buy Clone X NFTs?

If you’re in the market for a Clone X NFT, head over to OpenSea and connect your ETH wallet. Once that’s done, you can either choose the ‘buy now’ option to secure your Clone X NFT instantly or you can choose the ‘make offer’ option to tempt the owner with a lower bid. 

Bear in mind though that only around 10% of the entire collection is available to buy, so sellers can afford to sell at a premium given the high esteem in which this collection is held.

Conclusion

The Clone X project may have quite a bit of heft behind it already, what with the gorgeous designs, the steller additions to the wider Clone X ecosystem, and the fact that RTFKT is now in the hands of Nike’s metaverse team, but we may only be witnessing the start of what CloneX can become.

The various elements of the RTFKT stable, and the fact that it has been operating in the market for less than a year, suggest that what RFTKT has planned for Clone X and its wider metaverse project could make Clone X avatars some of the most sought after in the space for years to come.

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The Complete Guide to Azuki

Are you a fan of anime? Or perhaps you’re dreaming of a decentralized future without any of the annoying middlemen that scams us of our hard-earned money? Or maybe you just want to get in on an NFT project that has outperformed Bored Ape Yacht Club?

If that is the case, then we have an exciting NFT project for you right here: Azuki! Azuki is a lively and relentless NFT collection that has grand visions and plans. They promise a lot of really neat things so let us take a moment together to find out what it’s all about. Let’s go!

What is Azuki?

Azuki is an NFT collection consisting of 10,000 unique and cool anime skateboard characters that launched on 12. of January 2022 with a mint price of 1 Eth. In just three minutes, the entire auction was sold out. It is safe to say that Azuki changed the world of NFTs on that day.

However, Azuki is really much more than just a cool anime character. There is plenty of cool utility to be found here. After all, one of the core mission statements of Azuki is to develop a community in the metaverse that is by the people and for the people –  not a world made by many, owned by the few.

By owning an Azuki NFT you gain access to what they call “The Garden”. This is the project’s virtual space where artists, builders, and web3 enthusiasts come together to create a new decentralized future for everyone to prosper on their own terms.

Furthermore, Azuki holders also gain access to a good variety of niche bonuses. These include exclusive drops, experiences, and more. 

They are also starting a fractionalizing process. Once that process is complete the team will be looking into making a full-fledged game with proper scalability and appeal for the masses.

In the future, Azuki will turn its gaze towards the physical world. One of their main visionary goals is to become the largest decentralized brand of the future. So, there are many things to come yet for Azuki. For example, they plan on designing and releasing exclusive merchandise for holders of an Azuki NFT. 

Eventually, they will try to bridge the physical and virtual worlds through a combination of interactive experiences and games. 

They are also looking to enter into fruitful partnerships with other companies that will help them create a DAO and then eventually a $BEAN token. This will be the currency of their Azuki-verse. 

How are Azukis made?

Azukis are made as computer drawn characters in their own and unique anime cartoon style. In the creation of an Azuki there are many different factors that determine its look. And some of these are incredibly varied. Here is the list of traits and features an Azuki NFT can be comprised of:

• Type 
• Special 
• Clothing
• Offhand
• Hair
• Headgear
• Face
• Neck
• Eyes
• Mouth
• Ear

All of these traits are then mixed around to create truly unique NFTs. You’ll basically own your very own anime character. Seeing as Azuki is also planning on releasing their very own anime in the future with the NFTs as the show’s characters, maybe yours will be featured in it!

The amount of traits also means that every Azuki NFT is vastly different from each other. The complexity of their compositions is leagues ahead of many other NFT projects. 

There is a different project called Beanz, which is the continuation of the Azuki story. If you own both an Azuki and a Beanz, you can merge them together to create something even more unique!

How do I mint Azukis?

The mint for Azuki NFTs took place on the 12. of January 2022. You could get in on it through the Azuki website. Here you had to connect your crypto wallet of choice to the site, and make sure you had 1 Eth plus enough for that day’s gas price to make the purchase.

However, the mint finished a long time ago. It only lasted a couple of minutes before every single one of the 10,000 Azuki NFTs had been minted and became owned by people from all over the world. 

How to buy Azuki

With the mint finished, you will have to turn to a secondary listing to find an Azuki NFT for sale. And this place is good old OpenSea – one of the most popular and active marketplaces for all of your NFT needs. If you’re looking for something, they have it. 

At the time of writing this article, the floor price for an Azuki NFT is 9,15 Eth. This is a massive sum of money and it only testifies to the fact that Azuki has become one of the biggest and most successful players in the world of NFT’s. Considering the fact that around 1000 NFT projects launch every month, this level of success is astonishing. 

To purchase an Azuki NFT from OpenSea you will need to register an account on the site. Then you have to connect your crypto wallet of choice (such as MetaMask, for example) and make sure it contains enough Ether to pay for both the NFT and the day’s gas price.

Once that is all in order, all there’s left to do is to press buy. Voila, the NFT is yours!

How to sell Azuki

If you hold an Azuki NFT and decide that it is time to sell it, then you will be relieved to find that it is just as easy as buying it. 

Azuki NFTs can be sold on OpenSea like most other NFT projects these days. All you need to have is an account on the site and a wallet connected to it. Just keep in mind: if it’s your first time selling on OpenSea, you will need to initialize your wallet first. 

Once that is done, click on the profile icon in the top right of the site, and select profile. Now choose the NFT from your wallet you want to sell. 

Indicate whether it should be a timed auction or a fixed-price sale. For a fixed-price sale, you simply set the price you want for your NFT. No bidding. It is also possible to set a duration for the sale according to what you prefer.

If there is a specific person you want to sell to, it is also possible to make a reserved sale for that sale. That way, only they can purchase it.

Then you just have to confirm the listing through a simple transaction and voila: your NFT is now on the market!

Just note that to sell on OpenSea there will be certain fees you will need to pay. OpenSea takes a cut of 2% from the revenue for their services. You will also possibly have to pay a royalty fee for the sale.

Why should you consider investing in Azuki?

Now, with a lot of the technical aspects of the Azuki NFT collection sorted, we can start discussing the reasons behind wanting to invest in this particular NFT project. 

Of course, questions like these are always hard to answer. After all, it is largely a subjective matter and there can be an ocean of answers. But with any NFT, there are some core elements that make them especially interesting for certain people. 

Azuki is incredibly fixated on promoting a more decentralized world where there is room for everyone to express and articulate themselves in whatever way they want. They are also incredibly focused on trying to bridge the physical and virtual world together to create a strong, community-owned brand. 

If you’re the type of person that wants to see the metaverse further explored and have its possibilities unlocked, this is definitely for you. 

If you want to be an owner of something that will potentially show up in a game or an animated show, then this is also an exciting opportunity to get involved. 

From a purely financial aspect, Azuki is also a very lucrative NFT project. Having very quickly outperformed some of the biggest players on the stage of NFTs, Azuki in itself holds a lot of value. That makes it a great addition to any portfolio if you have the money to acquire one. 

If you’re a fan of anything anime, then Azuki is a great choice to get involved with. Their unique take on the anime style coupled with the mindblowing variety of the traits and features each NFT has makes for a cool collector’s piece for any occasion. 

Conclusion

The Azuki NFT collection has virtually blown everybody in the NFT community away. Being one of the fastest and top-selling NFTs out there is a very impressive achievement to have for a project that is still so young. 

With a great vision of creating a more decentralized world and giving people the space and opportunities they need to activate their inner potential with a brand that wants to bridge two worlds, we have a truly unique and revolutionizing project in the works that is poised to change the game for good. 

It’s hard to beat something of these proportions, so to see how Azuki will fare in the future going forward will be very exciting.

The Complete Guide to Premint Collector Pass

If you’re an avid NFT collector or if you’re finding it hard to find exciting and new NFT projects that are minting right now, Premint Collector Pass might just be the NFT you’re looking for. 

This exciting new pass unlocks a powerful NFT dashboard and software for you to use in your quest to find the next big hit. But what exactly does this dashboard and software give you access to, and what can you expect from it in the future to come? That is what you and I shall explore together today!

What is a Premint Collector Pass?

The Premint Collector Pass NFT collection is a collection of passes that gives you early access to the powerful and evolving Premint premium collector software. Essentially, this is a must-have tool for anyone deeply invested in the world of NFTs. 

The Premint collector software has a wide array of really useful features that can help you get ahead of everyone else in the race to finding the next big NFT drop. 

At the moment, these features include:

• The multi-wallet beta
  • This allows you to connect and designate a minting wallet (hot wallet) to the platform.
• The inbox
  • The Premint inbox will show you all the lists you’ve registered for, which raffles you’ve won as well as providing reminders of upcoming mints.
• The calendar feed
  • Here you can subscribe to a personalized calendar that includes every mint you’ve registered for. It also sends you alerts for the mint when something happens.
• The collector newsletter #1
  • A newsletter spreading awareness of new lists you might find interesting to join.

In the month of May 2022, they’re planning to release the explore & leaderboard. Here you will be able to explore ALL publicly available premint lists. You can sort by popularity, trending, and more.

For June 2022 they’re planning on adding the eligibility dashboard. This dashboard will be able to show you which NFT collections you’re eligible for based on your current collection. It also makes it easy to get on the list of these projects. 

So, overall, the Premint Collector Pass gives you access to an amazing dashboard that helps you stay organized in your NFT quest. 

In the future more passes will be released. This Premint Collector Pass unlocks access to the benefits that are added and developed in 2022 and 2023. Once we reach 2024 you will need to acquire another pass to get early access to those now unspecified features.

For this reason, we highly recommend you keep a good eye on their roadmap to stay alert on any new developments and features that are planned to be added. 

It’s a project in constant development, so there is without a doubt much in the pipeline coming.

How are Premint Collector Passes made?

The Premint Collector Passes, while being an NFT, is not one in the traditional sense that we understand it. 

Typically you have various designed characters with different traits, backgrounds, poses, and more. The Premint Collector Pass is not like this. 

Seeing as it is a pass that unlocks a powerful NFT collector software, it doesn’t need to have this graphical aspect for them to obtain value such as an Akutars or Birdez Gang NFT would have.

They’re all identical and provide the same benefits as each other. So, we can’t talk of an aspect of rarity. There aren’t different tiers that unlock special benefits for the passes either.

How do i mint Premint Collector Passes?

The mint for the Premint Collector Passes took place on April 1. 2022. With 10,000 passes available, these could all be minted straight from the Premint website. 

All you had to do was connect your crypto wallet to the website’s interface. Then it had to be loaded with the required amount of Eth to start the minting process and you’d be the proud owner of a Premint Collector Pass (or as many as you’d like). 

Currently, all passes have already been minted.

How to buy Premint Collector Passes

Now that the mint for the Premint Collector Passes is finished, you will have to purchase it from a secondary listing. This can be found on OpenSea.

OpenSea is one of the biggest NFT marketplaces around, and if an NFT project is for sale, this is typically where you’d be able to find it. 

When you navigate to the OpenSea listing for the Premint Collector Pass, make sure to check for the blue checkmark. This is to verify that you’re at the right place.

At the time of writing this article, the floor price for a Premint Collector Pass is 1.04 Eth. However, the price fluctuates significantly and this is prone to change. 

To buy the Premint Collector Pass from OpenSea, you need to register an account at the website. Then, you connect your crypto wallet of choice to OpenSea. Finally, make sure it has enough Eth loaded to pay the price for the listing as well as covering the gas fees. 

Once that is all done, all you have to do is press buy and the pass will be yours so you can unlock the powerful features of the Premint collector software. 

Conclusion

NFTs are increasing in popularity every day, and this means more and more projects and collections launch. With the volume of NFT projects out there it gets very difficult to sort between what you’d be interested in and what you wouldn’t be. 

With the Premint Collector Pass you get early exclusive access to a powerful piece of software that makes it much easier for you to keep track of what you own, which lists you are eligible for, and which new mints that might pack a punch in your NFT portfolio. 

If you want to take your NFT game to the next level, acquiring such a pass and unlocking the software’s features is a pretty great way to go about it. The project is in continuous development, so it is a gift that keeps on giving.

The Complete Guide to Goblin Town

Goblin Town is an NFT collection that NFT fanatics are losing their minds over right now. In recent weeks, this collection managed to outsell BAYC in trading volume and sales, which is quite an achievement on its own. 

But let’s take everything one step at a time. We have to figure out where the success Goblin Town has experienced stems from, and what this collection is all about. You might be used to “Aping in”, but now it’s time to get “Goblin’d in”!

What is Goblin Town?

Goblin Town is an NFT collection consisting of 9,999 unique pieces depicting weird and unsettling goblin characters built on the Ethereum blockchain. Sounds pretty standard so far, right? You’d be quite wrong!

The drop of Goblin Town didn’t involve collaborations, campaigns, whitelisting, anything at all. Nothing was done on their part to stir the waters, and yet a flood in the NFT community was created. 

This is likely because the mint for a Goblin Town NFT was free, which in today’s NFT market is quite a rare thing. And for this reason, the project doesn’t have a roadmap, a discord, or any utility at all. Basically, the NFT is useless in itself. 

However, you do get all the commercial rights for the particular Goblin Town NFT you own. This means you can use it however you want. You can put it on merch, make cartoons of it, create a story about it etc. and charge money for it with no issues at all. 

It is hard to go into much detail about what this project is all about and what it is trying to do. After all, most NFT projects go into extensive detail about what they want to achieve in the metaverse, and what they want to give to their holders. 

Goblin Town? Nothing at all. No statements, no mission, no core philosophy. Nothing is stated clearly and intentionally. Even the team behind the project is anonymous and hard to say anything about. But there have been rumors that Yuga Labs (the creators of BYAC) are involved somehow. But we can’t know for sure.  

Why did Goblin Town get so popular?

Normally, it is easy to explain why an NFT project gets popular. Often, it is because they have a grand vision and lots of utility that makes them attractive to own. 

Goblin Town was not inherently very attractive to own when it came out. After all, you couldn’t use it for anything, so where did the success come from?

Firstly, we can talk about the project’s success with brand-affirming marketing. Notice how they communicate with the community on Twitter. It’s pure gutterspeak with weird fonts that only a select group of people are privy to. 

Essentially, it is an organic way to generate attention and build hype that is different from essentially any other NFT project. 

Secondly, we can talk about what they represent: counterculture. They are built in abstracted shapes, and this style of art has always been about nonconformity. This is truly what WEB3 is about as well – breaking the norms and doing things differently. 

This makes Goblin Town into the embodiment of exactly what NFTs are and should be all about, even though it is not apparent from a first glance.

Lastly, we can talk about their launch execution. Goblin Town was launched in a bear market, which is usually a poor idea. But thanks to the mint being free, they created a community that valued vision and not money. This translates to strong loyalty. 

This provided Goblin Town with an alternate way into the blue-chip space of NFTs. But let’s see, whether the popularity will reach those heights. 

How are Goblin Town NFTs made?

Goblin Town is a generative NFT collection. This means we are dealing with digital art pieces that consist of a number of different traits, 193 to be exact, that are then randomized to create a total of 9,999 uniquely weird goblin characters well-suited for PFP use. 

You’ll quickly notice that these characters aren’t… the most appealing to look at. They’re sickly frail, have twisted body proportions, and they have these most surreal expressions on their faces. 

They are truly pieces of art that try to break our comfort zone, and expose us to something much further away than what we are used to. That is partly where their success lies as well.

How do I mint Goblin Town?

To mint a Goblin Town NFT, you had to go to their website and navigate to the minting section. Then you had to connect your wallet. This could be done easily by scanning a QR code. 

Once that was done, you could mint a free Goblin Town NFT per wallet. That was the limit, and it was put in place to avoid someone buying up a ludicrous amount at once. 

While the mint is now officially over, 1000 goblins have been reserved, and may be awarded later on. 

How to buy Goblin Town

Since the mint for Goblin Town is now over, you will have to use secondary listings if you want to get in on them while they’re still hot. 

You can find Goblin Town NFTs on the big marketplaces such as OpenSea, LooksRare, and X2Y2. If you want to buy from these sites, you typically have to create an account and connect your crypto wallet to the site.  

Once that is done, you need to make sure your crypto wallet has enough Eth to cover the price of the Goblin Town NFT and the day’s gas fee. 

While the mint for Goblin Town NFTs was free, the price for them on secondary listings aren’t at all. The floor price on OpenSea is, at the time of writing this article, 4.98 Eth which is a significant sum. 

Conclusion

Goblin Town is truly an oddity in the NFT community right now. With a massive trade volume sold, and the hype building up to the boiling point, we truly are standing at the threshold of a unique time in NFT history. 

Goblin Town succeeded against all odds, and so they have made a blueprint for other projects to break into the scene in the future. Where Goblin Town is headed, we don’t know, but the journey has been exciting so far. It probably will continue to be so.

The Complete Guide to Llamascape

From the creators of Llamaverse comes Llamascape, a fantastic and fun play to earn and land experience based in Minecraft!

In Llamascape NFT collection there are plenty of rewards to be earned and fun to be had, so let us explore how you can get involved and what to look forward to.

What is Llamascape

Llamascape is one of the newest entries into the popular world of NFT gaming. And this time, it is set in some very familiar surroundings: Minecraft! The game most of us as children (or for those of you in the older generation, your children) played extensively for years. 

It is a large world filled with factions, the ability to build what you want, you can spend and earn like crazy, own your very own land, and even charge rent for it!

Llamascape facilitates a large and dedicated community here for people to engage with NFTs in a new and refreshingly fun way. 

Llamascape is powered by the popular and powerful Gridcraft Network that hosts many similar projects. In fact, Llamascape and Gridcraft have now fully merged, but more about that later. 

To be able to play on and access the Llamascape hub you will need to have staked a Llamaverse NFT beforehand before you can get a whitelist. 

Keep in mind, the hub is not the full world. This is where they host events and easter-egg hunts that can help you get onto the whitelist for the real Llamascape.

If you don’t have a Llamaverse NFT to stake, then they often drop surprise whitelists on their Twitter. So keep an eye out for that!

Llamascape and Gridcraft has merged

The creators behind Llamaverse have this core belief: they want to bring their holders as much benefit as possible. This same core belief has transferred over to Llamascape as well. 

For this exact reason, Llamascape has decided to merge with the large and powerful network: Gridcraft. 

So, Llamascape holders will not only be holders of Llamascape, they will also be Gridcraft holders, entitled to any benefits and utilities that come with that. 

Gridcraft is a massive network that contains a lot of worlds and mini-games. As a Llamascape holder, you will be able to access them all.

However, there are also some notable changes to Llamascape as a result of this. Instead of LlamaGold being the currency in Llamascape, now $BITS will be the currency instead to create uniformity in the large network. 

Also, if you are whitelisted for a Llamascape land plot, you may have an opportunity to mint a Gridcraft Identity NFT.

More news is to come in the future.

How are Llamascape NFTs made?

When we talk about Llamascape, it is the land within the game that you will be buying. This essentially means you’re purchasing your very own slice of heaven in this world.

These plots of land consist of 40 different biomes and cities which will guarantee a huge variety of plots for players to run around on. Customization will be through the roof!

Right now, we do no not know much about what these biomes and cities are going to be like, so that is up for speculation.

Once you have your land, you can customize it if you want! Let the creativity flow, make it into your own paradise.

You can also just choose to select a template and go from there if you want the legwork done for you.

How do I mint Llamascape?

If you want to get in on some Llamascape NFT land you’re going to have to get a bit lucky. 

The project is not launched as of today and there is no announcement of when a public mint will happen. 

However, whitelists are often being shared. If you want to get whitelisted, you should keep a very good idea on their Twitter account that often gives them away to people who like, share, and do other fun small challenges. 

When the mint does happen, the whitelisted users will of course be allowed to proceed first. Once they have minted their reserved NFTs, the rest will be up for grabs by anyone fast enough. 

How to buy Llamascape

It is currently not possible to buy Llamascape NFT land. 

But it is very likely that when the mint has ended, that you will be able to purchase a Llamascape NFT land plot from places like OpenSea. 

Conclusion

Llamascape is a promising virtual space that embodies the true spirit of play to earn games and good fun. It is set in Minecraft, and honestly, how can one not love that?

The project has yet to release, but with their merger with the powerful and vast Gridcraft network, we are very certain that something great is ahead of this project. This will be a world where you can be exactly who you want to be.

The Complete Guide to Llamaverse

Llamaverse is a funky and fresh NFT collection created by the founders NFT Llama and Helle along with their team that has their backs through thick and thin. 

Check out also their cool Llamascape NFT!

The genesis collection depicts funny and wacky llamas in many shapes and sizes, and they provide excellent and broad utility for their holders. Let us dive deeper into this project and explore just what it can do for you.

What is Llamaverse?

Llamaverse started off very modestly as a free Discord server until it eventually was revamped into the Llamaverse we know today. A true rags to riches story, essentially.

Llamaverse is an NFT project that aims to grab all the good things about NFT projects and then mash them together into one single entity. 

This ties in well with their core focus. Their core focus is to ensure that every holder, despite their different interests, will be able to find something that benefits them in the Llamaverse project.

Essentially, they want to change the whole NFT game through Llamaverse. Not only will they provide many benefits, but they will also establish connections to different communities, so you can get in on their goodies too!

As for the NFTs themselves, they are based on a well-known animal that we all love or hate: the llama. This makes them relatively similar to the Alpacadabraz project in appearance and style. 

The general theme around them is the llamas’ journey through the metaverse, so there is a lot of space travel and cyberpunk gadgets involved here. Quite a neat aesthetic that encapsulates the futuristic aspects of the metaverse as a modern world of limitless opportunity. 

As mentioned before, the team is spearheaded by the founders NFT Llama and Helle. Joining them are BrotherAli (business relations), NFT Cheetah (ADM/secretary), Tavo (Administrator), delta devs (Developers), NPRUSSELL (Artist), Parameta (Artist), and Baehlee (Video/GFX).

Together they form a dedicated, ambitious, and innovative group that shows the true power of WEB3. 

What utility does Llamaverse give?

Llamaverse brings plenty of utility on the table for its holders. And these utilities vary quite a bit – giving a little something to everybody. 

Firstly, we can talk about their internal ecosystem and the token associated with it: $SPIT. $SPIT can be generated by staking your Llamaverse NFT and some of their sub-NFTs. 

Once $SPIT is generated, you can spend it at their marketplace. Here you can purchase rewards that have been supplied from Llamaverse’s connections to other projects. 

These include access, whitelists, NFT raffles, and other cool things. 

$SPIT can also be used to create Spit Buddies. This is Llamaverse’s crossbreeding NFT program. Essentially, you can crossbreed a Llamaverse NFT with another associated NFT to share in its benefits. Kinda neat, right?

Secondly, you also unlock access to a bunch of useful NFT tools such as Alpha Sharks Tool, Ape Chef NFT Tool, Brn.Tools, Discord Trading Bots, and flooredApe. 

And lastly, there are the many connections Llamaverse has made with other projects, that allows owners of a Llamaverse NFT to gain access to a larger slice of the metaverse.

How are Llamaverse made?

Llamaverse NFTs are digitally generated pixel art pieces that exist in many different shapes and sizes with widely varying traits and backgrounds. 

Essentially, the pieces are created by combining these elements together randomly in every possible combination. This means that no Llamaverse llama is the same as another – they are all unique. 

There is also a distinction between the NFTs in the collection. You have animated and static llamas. The most common part of the Llamaverse Genesis collection is the static llamas. They are just computer generated pictures as you’d expect from most other NFTs. 

On the other hand you have animated Llamaverse NFTs. These have cool and unique animations and effects. Out of the 4000 Llamaverse NFTs, only 500 are animated. 

How do I mint Llamaverse?

The mint for Llamaverse happened in three separate stages. All stages took place on their website at the “Mint” section. 

Firstly, Llamaverse’s original boost holders started out with getting a free mint for a Llamaverse NFT. Then a public sale happened where 12% of the statis llamas were auctioned off. Lastly, whitelisted users could then mint a statis llama for 0.18 Eth.

Seeing as the mint took place in February, you should not be surprised it is already over. In fact, it was one of the fastest mints in NFT history. 

How to buy Llamaverse

Now, since the minting is long done, you will have to find an alternate way to get your hands on a Llamaverse NFT. Luckily for you, it is quite simple!

You simply just have to find a secondary listing of them online where private collectors sell their pieces. Marketplaces that offer Llamaverse Genesis are OpenSea, LooksRare, and X2Y2. 

Depending on the site, you usually have to create an account. Then you have to connect your crypto wallet to the site so that you can make transactions. 

Locate the NFT you are interested in. Make sure your wallet has enough Eth to pay both for the NFT and the gas price of the day. Voila! Now you own a Llamaverse NFT and can start staking it for $SPIT!

At the time of writing this article, the floor price for a Llamaverse Genesis NFT is 3.4 Eth which translates to 6156 USD.

Conclusion

Llamaverse is really a jack of all trades NFT that wants to give everybody a little bit of something. That gives them a massive reach in terms of a target group, and it probably also helps explain why it is so popular. 

By getting anything from cool and powerful NFT analytics and sniping tools to direct connections with other NFT projects that you can benefit from too, it is very easy to see that you do get a lot for just owning one NFT. 

The team behind Llamaverse is very ambitious and motivated, and they are always working on improving and bringing new utility to their holders. It will be exciting to see what the future holds for them. 

One thing is for sure though – it’s most likely going to be a real party!

Monster Racing League is an exciting, Play-2-Earn multiplayer racing game that combines skill and strategy. Similar to other Kart racing games, the game is extremely fun to play. Whether you’re letting off some steam during your coffee break, settling a friendly wager over who’s getting the next round, or hosting a competitive tournament with your community, Monster Racing League has got all the tools you need!

You’ll even want to play it without the Play-2Earn rewards!

The unique design of the Monsters is unlike anything else in the NFT space and alone would make a great PFP. With up to 6 NFTs in every container including 2 with legendary opportunities and the chance of 1 of 20 passive earning tracks, this is more than just a normal NFT mint.

Holders will be given a choice of whether to mint and hold their assets on Polygon or Ethereum. The game is being built on Polygon for optimal gas and users will need to have the assets on Polygon for game utilities. The assets can be bridged between Polygon and Ethereum networks easily, via the website. This innovative solution allows users to have a choice as to which network they’d prefer to hold their assets on.

Developed by award-winning game studio, Flightless in New Zealand.

Check out the latest NFT news here and see what’s coming!

What you get

Minting soon are 5,000 containers for Phase 1 of the sale. 

Each container unlocking between 4 and 6 NFTs once opened.

• Origin Monster – Chance of 8 Legendary Monsters
• Vehicle Cosmetic – Chance of 95 Epic or 5 Legendary
• 1-2 Tribe Abilities 
• Boost pack of 20,50 or 100 cards
• Chance of 1 of 20 passive earning tracks

Mint

2,500 available to mint on Polygon

2,500 available to mint on Ethereum

Whitelist 24th June – 30th June 

• $200 USDC (Polygon or Ethereum)
• Max 2 Per Wallet

Public Sale 

• $TBC
• No max per wallet

Full Breeding program with a proprietary chromosomal breeding system to attain monsters with different speed, skill, smart stats, different colors, and visual traits. 

Origin monsters are only available from containers and come with the unique benefit of being able to integrate supported VX/3D rigged collections to bring other NFT projects into the game, on their own track. 

Key Points

• Demo game available now.
• Full game launch in Q3 2022.
• Holders will get access to the 3D versions of their monsters.
• The monster artwork is flexible allowing for new game modes beyond only racing cars. 
• Breeding, Staking, and Renting before game release.
• Ongoing development and release of tracks, vehicles, cosmetics, etc.

The complete guide to Cyber Snails

The Cyber Snails project is an NFT collection that launched early in 2022. It is a project that seeks to set itself apart from the rest of the community by becoming one of the top alpha communities on the metaverse. 

So, which utility tools and functions does this ambitious NFT project offer, and what can you use them for? Read along as we explore this project further. Buckle your seatbelts!

What are Cyber Snails?

The Cyber Snails NFT project was established by a group of seasoned NFT traders. Their entire goal is to create a space and a community solely dedicated to making the best NFT trades as possible – getting in early, getting out big, essentially. 

By owning a Cyber Snails NFT you will unlock access to a bunch of really useful features that make you a better NFT trader. 

For example, if you own a Cyber Snails NFT, you can stake it to earn @UPLOAD tokens. These are ERC-20 utility tokens with no financial value on their own. However, in their slice of the metaverse they are very useful. 

You also get access to the Snails Alpha Service where founders, staff, and members share research and profitable moves to enhance your trading game. 

There is also a community wallet managed by the founders that each member will have access to. It will provide great value for everyone involved. 

Finally, post mint, there will be access to alpha tools such as automated monitoring and trading solutions to help the community trade more effectively.

How are Cyber Snails made?

Cyber Snails is a computer generated, 3D pixel art NFT collection depicting snails. To make them unique, each Cyber Snails is a randomized creation of a bunch of different traits over the standard snail body formula. 

For example, the snails can be different colors, have different backgrounds, effects, and they may be organic or mechanical. 

This allows for a wide variety of different snails, and this explains the quite large supply of 3300.

How do I mint Cyber Snails?

To mint a Cyber Snails NFT, you had to navigate to their website and connect your wallet containing enough Eth to mint the NFT. 

If you owned the Cyber Key NFT before the mint, you were allowed onto a whitelist for the Cyber Snails NFT project so you could skip the line.  

How to buy Cyber Snails

Considering the minting period for Cyber Snails is now over, you have to try your luck with a secondary listing to get your hands on one. 

Luckily for you, there are plenty of them available on several marketplaces. You can buy Cyber Snails from OpenSea, LooksRare, and X2Y2.

To purchase a Cyber Snails NFT from these marketplaces, you need to register an account on your preferred marketplace and connect your crypto wallet to it. Load it up with enough Eth to cover the listing price as well as the gas fee and then press “buy”.

At the time of writing this article, the floor price on OpenSea is 0.039 which makes it very accessible to most people interested in buying an NFT.

Conclusion

If you’re curious about how you can become a better trader that makes more profit from your purchases and sales, Cyber Snails is a project that has a lot to offer you. 

With their aspirations of becoming the biggest high-alpha NFT community on the web, you will enter a community with very motivated and competent traders.