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So, I’ve been cooking up an idea for a potential NFT project. Here’s a bit of monologue of where my mind is at. What is the number one desire for those who mint and buy into NFT projects, using the most broad terms? Value. Simply, it’s value. Value can take many forms. Obviously, it be financial value, everyone loves to see their NFT portfolio go up in price. Value also includes community, identity, connection, and so so much more. I believe we need to redefine Value with this next NFT cycle. So, my idea is this. I want to open a business. I have years of business expertise, from supervising call floors of 150+ to going to events and vending high value collectibles, and everything in between. I believe that an NFT-adapted business idea, where the NFT holders hold a portion of equity in the business and receive quarterly profit sharing, depending on the business profits quarterly. To do this, a mint price of 0.02 per NFT with a 10K collection would create 200 ETH of starting funds, roughly 450K currently. Even a 0.01 mint price would net 225K to start with. The goal would be to use the funds to fund the business start up as well as start up marketing. There’s many business ideas this could be adapted to, but I believe aligning with the IRL collectibles market would be best. There are numerous opportunities in the market for those who have capital to spend. It would be a long term hold NFT, but I feel very strongly that the initial mint price would be fully paid for in the first 9-12 months, if not sooner. And those who held longer would reap even higher rewards, and could sell their NFT/business equity whenever they desired. The NFT would be a profile picture that would be instantly identifiable with the brand created, and would also be unique from the other 9,999. Identity is MASSIVELY important and a great way to create value for your community. Monologue over. Interested in this? Want to work with me? Or even just feel like having a chat? Feel free to dm me 📥 #NFT #NFTS #Ambition #BusinessMind #LetsWinTogether

@iammattiex 70 is such a low mint number. Probably will cook hard. I just want one for the art and future ip tbh lol.

@ShogunReborn Yep you’re right

A free mint of 70 supply minting today... Can't wait to collect my own key

@oluwaseuntakeof @yugen_gg No, but I NEEED it 😵‍💫

Gm Gm CT It’s the day for @yugen_gg 70 supply Free mint Did you make it ?

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Over the years, we’ve made a lot of changes to the brand, the logo, the characters, the art style, and everything in between, but never really formalised any of it until now. That was because I was never fully 100% happy with what Sappy was at any given moment; there was a massive divergence between what Sappy was, and what *I* knew Sappy could be, and commiting to those earlier versions felt extremely premature. Ossifying these things didn't feel like the correct thing to do, especially when I knew deep down that they would have to be aggressively scrubbed away or retconned (which gets really hard to do once a brand starts to genuinely penetrate and build momentum). There was also a divergence between what Sappy started as, what other people wanted it to become, and what I wanted it to be. Early on, I did see Sappy as more of an art project than a traditional "brand", which is why I leaned so heavily into memetics at a time when practically nobody else was doing it, and why I treated the character more like something alive and culturally reactive--much closer to how people think about memecoins nowadays and not too dissimilar to performance art. I also hated the word “brand” and the corporate aura it brought to the community & surrounding subculture. Being honest, I still think there’s something correct in that instinct. NFTs derive most of their speculative value (aside from the occasional airdrop narrative) from the community and the interconnected social clusters around them, not from “IP growth” in the classical sense. At the same time, it felt like there was enormous pressure (especially in comparison with other PFP projects) from speculators to turn the Thing into something bigger and larger scale than it is right now, because in startup [& crypto] culture, growth is treated as the ultimate metric, and it was applied directly to NFTs despite mostly being antithetical to the IP business. Internally I wanted to avoid this, slow down and take time to figure out what the brand should be, which sounds like total crazy talk in the crypto world because there's a lot of pressure (rightfully so) to grow grow grow, at all costs. We still did it of course, because I'm way too competitive of a person not to, but I think it was very evident from the outside that my heart really wasn't in it (at that point in time, chasing those specific reasons). My dopamine receptors might be fried, but I still find directing/creating a meme that people genuinely find funny more rewarding than watching a random reel of ours get 40M views or having billions of GIPHY views or whatever other metric sounds good to say out loud. What makes this all so strange is that NFTs are hyperspeculative assets that need constant cultural fuel to keep the surrounding network expanding faster than the floor price alone would justify. That model is in many ways at odds with how truly loved brands are formed. Real brands are much more malleable, they take time, they evolve; they’re not meant to be frozen in place on day one, and they're not meant to be subject to a quorum when more drastic changes that disturb the status quo are made. Some of the most adored brands globally took years, or even decades for the artist/creatives to actually hone in on their essence that was then expanded upon and delivered to the world. And I think to some degree, crypto and NFTs create such insane mental dissonance for builders. They train you to focus on things that aren’t actually important, usually through confirmation bias or false signals--of course it would; when you look around and see some random builder making some logically illogical absurd Thing that somehow (unsustainably) prints tens of millions overnight, it becomes very easy to convince yourself that the weird Thing is the thing that works. That's the thing that finally cracked the crypto formula, that's the model that works, that's what with a little iteration could lead to the golden goose that every retail investor, VC investor, and every crypto founder has been chasing since the first smart contract was created. It's somewhat embarassing to admit, but I spent years of my life believing that "tokenomics" was a real thing or that /if you just tweaked [insert random weird crypto-native variable] just slightly enough it could work/. It's different now that most of the speculative juice has left the industry and everything has deflated, clarity is much more abundant now. Another embarassing thing to admit is that a lot of the things we are doing for Sappy now are things I would have done years ago...if the brand was founded outside of crypto, and if I listened to my gut earlier. There really is no excuse for that, other than psyopping myself into believing that there was some special "model that can work for NFTs", or that building a crypto-founded character had to take a non-traditional route, or that what peers were (also) currently doing was the correct way to build, and not just appeasing a shrinking echochamber whilst playing the ponzi token fugazzi game. I wish I could have learned these things a little faster, but I also did start out as a tech bro undergrad that knew next to nothing about brands or art or IP outside of random video games I grinded. I didn't participate in consumer culture or fashion or anything similar at all, I knew next to nothing about business outside of briefly being into crypto/blockchains, and was purely operating off of my gut feelings and what seemed correct to me. Arguably that gut instinct was pretty precise, but the inexperience & uncomfortability is what led to not being able to pull the trigger on certain things or execute in the sharpest way possible. In truth, there is no other way it could have gone because most of those things had to be experienced and there is no real way for it to be crash coursed. This post was supposed to be a two-liner about how I'm redoing the brand properly from the ground up, with unique aesthetics, a cohesive universe with real character development, comics, longer form content (thanks to AI), sharpening every touchpoint, creating proper funnels to guide normies to our products and become buyers/users, but it ended up becoming this long-winded explainer of how we even got here in the first place. Which is a little poetic, because the path to the end is never straightforward. [Also sorry to rug you but this logo isn't actually a final logo I just like many aspects of it and what it represents]

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@DaFameless @CyberKongz @PieusStarus Congrats!!!! That’s so freaking cool, positive experiences like this is what will help grow the space :D

I am genuinely speechless. I have spent the last week fighting bots and managing WETH offers just trying to secure my first @CyberKongz Evolution. Then, out of nowhere, @pieusstarus reached out in the Discord and gifted me one. After 4 years in Web3, I am rarely surprised, but this level of generosity to a stranger is what makes this space special. It is the ultimate proof that the "Kongz together strong" mantra is more than just a meme. Huge thank you to Piestar for the legend-tier welcome and to @HenryTheGrape for building a culture where this is even possible. The bids are off and I am officially home. 🦍🍌 #CyberKongz

@kikiviell Flipping for burgers during the early run is a negative force against the space. Hold longer. You’ll be better off than a quick flip.

gm guys, lets hunt stealth mint again looking for free mint then flip easy > $30 lock in

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@0x8i11i0n Exactly. Posts like the one you quoted show who really is an OG of the space and who isn’t.

Ok but all that work for 400 😂 Sigh. You would cry if you know how much money people make on stuff like $upeg and $asteroid You people need to work harder and spend your time on the right things instead of burger flipping. These nfts are meant to be collected, not farmed for peanuts and burgers. Mint them keep them hodl them unless they go crazy numbers. If you want to flip for 40$ go do shitcoins 😓

@ClanCard_eth A proper gentlesaur 🎩

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@SIPPNFTs It’s sad tbh. The space needs to support cheap paid mints more. Creators need a pay off of sorts to make it even worth building in this space. It’s a fair symbiotic relationship, as long as they don’t abuse the supporters. Free mints will always be a tough meta to beat though

• Free mint. Paid mint. Lessons there NFTS

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its worth finding our own worth

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who’s active right now? making a list

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