What is good everybody, holy heck
Already got some amazing friends hopping in here
Johnny Utah, holy heck great to see you
Already got oni force on stage ready to go love to see it
Is that starboard who's behind the oni account
Sometimes it's Bobby, but we're not right now. It's not Bobby. It's it's been
There's starlardy I seen in the crowd. Oh, yeah, he's coming. He's coming
Yo, share out the room. This is the spot. This is the place to be this morning
We're gonna be having a very timely
Timely and exciting conversation
About the upcoming mint for the fallen
Bitcoin ordinals are up big
So go on down to that speech bubble. Give it a like give it a repost
We're also gonna give away some whitelist spots for droppers today to help incentivize the friends to be sharing it out and participating
So quick note on that I have I have my generative AI project droppers launching on Thursday also
So that's gonna be happening
Yes star where you might have to hop out and hop back in it seems like you're having trouble connecting
We'll try this one more time see if it works this time
But we'll get you up here
We'll get on the show here in just a moment
But yes, very very excited to have our special guest star already. All right, it looks like it happened that time
GM sir, are you there? Are you with us? Yeah?
Hello, I hear you there you are
How are you this morning I'm great I'm excellent good morning everybody, how are you?
We're good, we're just getting tapped in here check-check
Should be on the the right mic now
But yes, thanks for thanks for coming back man. You know, you're one of our
Special guests at this point one of our favorite features that we could be having on here
Especially at this at this pivotal moment for the oni force community and IP, you know
We're on the brink of something special
I appreciate that. I appreciate that greatly
Does it does it feel like you're on the brink of something special? Where's your mind at?
You know, I know that you've been working hard on a lot of things
But like how yeah, like did are you just kind of like, uh, you know, we're good
Yeah, I just got to do the things one step at a time or do you do you get like amped up?
Do you feel like something big is coming? I
Definitely get amped up. I try to remind myself that it's all step-by-step and not to get too too crazy for sure
No, I could get pretty hyped up. I sometimes I when I start thinking about all the cool things we're working on. It's
You know, it's hard to sleep I get I get all manic or something but
But no, I'm I'm pretty happy actually because last year it was a tough year
We spent a lot of year-of-the-year building like while the market was, you know
Doing what it was doing is it was a really rough market
but we made it through you know and and now like a lot of the seeds of what have been
Planted or finally starting to pay off which is very very exciting, you know, very very rewarding and and frankly, it's
It's really cool to see like like some of these things that we
Started last year finally coming into fruition. So very grateful
Yeah, it's definitely we're definitely in a very different spot from last year that is for sure
You know now we can we can dig a little bit more into that here in just a moment
but also feel free of course to be pinning any specific new and
important items up top, you know, I know that there's some events happening this week the
NFT web 3 conference tour has begun again, you know
There's a lot of people coming back from NFT Paris right now. He's Denver's kicking off
NFT NYC is about to be happening and then it's straight into V con like this is when shit gets really crazy
And I know that y'all have to have some things planned for eat Denver
But also, you know just for you
I know you're like out there doing PR like crazy right now doing a ton of these different
You know podcasts and shows
You know, how many have you even been doing like wait, what can you tell us right now?
Just about like the amount of content that the touring the events and everything that's that's going on
Hasn't been too crazy. I think I've been doing about a show a day about I think
Yeah, this is the first one, right? Yeah, I feel like it could be crazier
You're doing at least eight hours a week
I think on spaces at this point at least at least some of these spaces go longer, but
It's all part of it, you know
and also I do like going out on spaces because it's a good way to check in with people and kind of see where we're at and
See sentiment and get asked like really good questions and and all that stuff
So yeah about phone a day that the tour or the physical tour is gonna definitely go nutty this year
Cuz you have a lot lot to do so, I think it'll be really fun to connect with people at events and stuff
Especially I'm guessing sentiment will be better this year
Yeah, the energy is definitely gonna be a lot different than some of the last conferences
We've got like a bunch of only fours fam hopping in here now
We got our snitch and Bobby son as well GM to you both. Hi. How are we doing?
I'm good. I'm good. It's uh
Always fun to see Starla de back and our favorite morning show. Let's go. You say that to all the hosts get out of here
Get out of this is our favorite. That's fair to say
The only one I mean it it's the only one I truly mean it
Okay, well you've been hosting us graciously since even before so you get the credit for being an OG and a real supporter
I think it's important to point out
Yeah, definitely nothing fake about it
That's for sure. I so I appreciate that but yeah, it's great to have like a full
Owning panel up here cuz uh, you know, you do have a legit team around you now, which is which is great
I know it's it's taking some time
To really fill it out. I think you know, Bobby's been there since the beginning too
And I I understand has taken on some more sort of responsibilities and roles
So yeah, maybe y'all can just talk a little bit about like what's going on with the team
You know, how is the team shaping up anything you can share just in terms of how the team's operating and working towards this this fallen?
Added more members to the team
It's been really great because they're they've all really come from the community
So, you know, it's nice to
Be able to work with people who have been familiar faces, but also watch them
kind of flourish and do do what they do and so obviously like
Well, James has been with us for quite a while now, but obviously starting with James to to
Zilla at like our gaming like
You know, it's been it's been great
We've been basically what we've been doing is we just been really focused on this launch obviously
but aside from the launch we actually have a ton of
Projects and things that we're working on. There's always about five or six different things
We have to be developing or delivering working on delivering at the same time. So it's not just the ordinals launch
You know like our fortnight stuff
Comic books, you know merchandise like all those all that good stuff we've been working on it every day and
So yeah, this year's gonna be a great year. I think this is gonna be year for only holders to to remember
They're gonna really really I think appreciate what the journey that we put them on this year
It's gonna be a lot of fun. Like it's gonna be a fun journey
I think again last year was a lot of building and a lot of kind of
You know, this year is like all about delivering and just getting people
Excited. Oh, yeah, and there's definitely a lot of different issues and we'll try and dig into as much of those as we can here today
Again very excited to have you I got excited. I kind of just jump straight into things
We didn't even really set up the show that that well here
But Bobby go ahead and hop in with any other notes on that before I'll re-ranch it will kind of kick things off properly
longtime listener not first-time caller, but I always appreciate what you all are doing over here at web 3 and
Yeah, just it's wild that y'all have gone three hundred and forty two episodes like massive shout out for that
I I know how much time and effort it takes to even just do these on a regular basis
So mad props to you. It's been really great to be on the oni force team recently is
longtime community member
OG mint like been here never left
You know the oni I rock is the one one of the two I minted
so, you know, it's it's part of me at this point and
it's really been a whole different experience working with the team in such a great way I get a little peek behind the curtain and
now instead of playing the
Hunting the alpha and I have to protect the alpha and only
Tell what I'm allowed to tell so
that's a whole different, you know dynamic that I'm getting used to but
overall, it's been great to work with all these guys and work with community members like my role is to
Be the bridge between the team and the community and not just make sure the community is heard but also
you know make sure communication is good or at least improving and
If you're a community member or you want to learn more about oni
I am just a DM or a ticket or a you know, a tag away
may not respond immediately, but I will get back to you and
yeah, it's just been a whole different experience working full-time in the space and
Couldn't be happier and we're excited to work with these awesome people
Love that. Love it. Yeah, and you deserve a lot of respect to you
I mean, thanks for the kind words Bobby
You've definitely been one of the most active and engaged and positive people that I've seen consistently in the oni force community since day one
So it's awesome to see people like you
Getting elevated getting some of that responsibility, you know and getting even more involved
And yeah, I was dropping some things in the discord yesterday and you're like immediately there responding
So quickly it was like before I could even press enter you were already responding
So yeah, I was like, wait a minute
Amazing well, yeah, it's great to have you with us too, man
Again much much love and respect to you and and of course art snitch our friend who you know
None of this would probably be happening without him as well
So anyway, let's re-ranched it real quick because I again I got excited
I like only fours hopped up here immediately Star Wars and I just started talking like we're old friends just catching up
But let's let's provide a little bit more context here because
Key it really is it's so important and this is GM web 3 so we'll say that out of the gates greatest morning show ever invented
For obvious reasons primarily today because of you fam and our great guests star warty who is the CEO of oni force
PFP project the first left facing PFP project the first real anime
Project, of course, you know
Yeah, well, we'll stick it. We'll stick with that first real anime first left facing PFP an amazing project
Did some amazing things and a lot of you are probably familiar with with the story
It's been through some ups and downs was taken over and then brought in star warty as the CEO and they've been
Rebuilding and doing a lot of exciting same things since they've never diluted the project
Which is one thing that really makes it stand out from all of those og projects. They've never expanded or done anything other than the original
the ethereal enclave of course and
Now though they are on the precipice
They are looking at their first expansion project into a new chain
No less into the Bitcoin network with the fallen which if I'm not mistaken will be
3333 so keeping it relatively
Low, I guess forever a PFP project. They've been sharing out a lot of the art
There is some more info pinned up top as well
But you know y'all have been starting to share and tease out a lot of the art over
The last you know a couple weeks. It looks phenomenal. I
Have to say that you know selfishly that's the thing that I'm most excited about is just to see
More of this artwork more of the lower and to see some really really high quality
I'm very very excited about that so before we jump further into this conversation though
You know hopefully that was a little bit more context about what we're talking about of course again
This mint is coming up very soon. I don't know if we even have a date yet, so maybe we're gonna get a date today
I don't know. I'm gonna do my best to ask as many questions as we can. I know it's it's close
I know we've gotten that much that it's very close, but first and foremost before we do that
We have one one question one ask of everybody here
And that is of course share out the space and you know what we're gonna go ahead and give away five Oh
Gee whiteless spots for my project droppers minting this Thursday on base
to those who share out the share out the show and
Drop their ethereum addresses in the comments, so that's all you got to do to get entered
And I'm gonna randomly select five winners who participate and help share out the show today
Cuz that it's important we want to get more friends in here
We want to have a good time and we want to celebrate and support this awesome team and this awesome project
That's all you got to do share out the show drop your ethereum address in the comments and five people will win
OG whitelist for droppers minting this Thursday, and that will get you
Priority access and a steeply discounted mint prize. I think it's just like 0.01. So very cheap on that
So anyway, alright, I think I think we contextualize what's going on with Oni
I think I think we hit is there anything that I missed there and just like the context of like where we're at in
So I mean, maybe let's let's jump back a little bit because I again I started all over the place
But we were talking a little bit about events and so I know Bobby
I believe you're gonna be out there at a theorem Denver
Tell us tell us a little bit about what you've got planned it are y'all trying to hit this whole conference tour
Are you trying to be everywhere?
What can you tell us about the specific events y'all are gonna be hosting?
Yeah, I actually I'm a native
In Denver these days last few years. I've been out here actually since I've been in web 3 I've been out in Denver and
This is my first conference
I ever went to as I started to go down into the rabbit hole and it's it's kind of surreal that
my third eat Denver I'm you know working on a team and
I'm helping put together a community event myself and another local
We actually found a little event venue
it's like the Vietnamese coffee shop and they do stuff like this once a month where they
Do a little get-together for not just you know
Their community but also just locals you want to stop in grab some coffee grab some food like that's kind of their vibe and
It it actually makes us very well with like the anime oni branding
They did like a lunar new year event last month
Like coming into this month, so it just it all worked out
Hero space new one of the owners and so we were able to
Negotiate getting in there. We've got a DJ who will come through got some visuals that will be set up that are only centric
we actually do have a pair of son where that we're gonna be giving away and
Some posters from San Diego comic-con last year and just a vibes
It is open to holders and non holders. It is this Thursday
At tea cafe from 6 to 9 p.m.
You are more than welcome anybody to come through if you are in the area
Just send me a DM and I'll get to the details
We'll actually be sharing them on the main page probably later today
Really just want to hang out with people. I've already kind of connected with the some other local
Onis and some people who are just in town. So come through hang out and
Yeah, that's that's kind of it. That's the pitch. Yeah. Yeah, I wish I was gonna be there again
I went to the last two eat themers
I'm not gonna make it this one, but I'd bet I'd definitely be there if I was eat themers always a good time
No, I was gonna say, you know, that's
You know before Bobby joined the team
We announced only world leaders which you know
We've tapped a bunch of holders who are in different cities around the world to start to put together
In the case of East Denver and looks like we're gonna be doing something surrounding NFT NYC
You know, they're a little bit more than just a community meetup. It's kind of backed by only four
So we're putting some some power of the brand behind it in a little bit
Ways to kind of make it a little bit more of a fun event because we know a lot of people travel to these events
From around the world and it's great time for only to meet Oni and just hang out and vibe and you know
Get some stuff and so so yeah, so East Denver is kind of one of our first ones
We're close to finalizing in a TN YC community event
And then we're talking about a bunch of other events this year as well
Nothing locked in but we definitely want to be kind of around the world
Yeah, it's it's a lot man. Again, you know star wordy started you started to like list off all the different initiatives
Events on their own is just such a such a big thing to be undertaking
You know, so it's it's cool that you know
Y'all are finding ways to try and and host community events at a lot of these different spots
Are you actually gonna travel to any of them yourself or are you relying upon the team to kind of hold it down?
I'll definitely be traveling. I've been after last year. I kind of purposely chilled out a little bit last year was like
Insane like I was traveling like I think a total of maybe
Ten months out the year. I remember there was a stretch from like
October where I was home total probably less than 12 days
Like and so I go like I think I even came back from Japan at one point just to get like mail or like I have
To do like some sort of like like errand or something like that
So this year I'm gonna be a little bit more strategic
So gonna be all over the place, but I'll be at NFT NYC. I'll be at NFT LA
I'll probably go to Dubai
And then there's the BTC Asia and Hong Kong. Okay, so now it just sounds like I'm about to go through the same shit
Yeah, all the big ones for sure and then and then this year we're we want to
Lead up to something amazing at Basel is the goal. So we want to have like a really great year
Build up momentum and then just drop the bomb at the end of the year and do something that nobody's ever done. Heck
Well, that's great to know cuz yeah, I'm taking it much slower my conference travels
I was doing the tour for like almost two years like a year and a half straight
And so I'm I'm chillin right now, but maybe Basel will be a great time to get back out there
Would love to get back to Basel. Also, we have Mo Runda joining us GM. Oh, so great to have you. How are you?
Damn, I'm I'm a great. It's an owning Monday. So
Yeah, and and you know, it's it is a big Monday big Monday vibes
I think most people are feeling the bull is
Back or at least we're in that sort of disbelief phase at the front end
Bitcoin ordinals, you know, let's let's hop into that. Of course. I'll welcome my other
Famed co-hosts here Biggie Poppins and nifty Q glad y'all made it coming hot off. Say what in the morning?
Happy to have y'all glad you made it
but let's talk about ordinals in the market briefly because I know as
An insider in a way that this ordinals project was actually postponed like, you know, this has been in the works for a long time
This is definitely not something that y'all are rushing to market with
To just try and catch a wave or anything like that. No, this is very
Strategic and a lot of effort a lot of time has gone into this it was actually postponed
But now it seems like as you've planned this that the timing may be perfect
Again ordinals have been absolutely flying a bunch of the the bigger ordinals collections
Doing incredibly well right now things like the node monkeys
Bitcoin puppets quantum cats, etc
Are hitting all-time highs right now like doing like 2x is 3x is or something like that just in the last week or so
So things are going pretty crazy
A lot of people expecting that ordinals are gonna have a really really strong narrative in this cycle for a lot of different reasons
How are you thinking about the market right now and the timing of this and any other details?
You can tell us about the specific timing and the strategy around
Launching this project on Bitcoin
Did I rug no, no, I was muted yeah, no, no, I was gonna say timing almost couldn't be better
It would it's almost like we planned it
But I don't think we planned it this way. I think we're just we're lucky
I think I like to say in this space. It's like you never know what's gonna happen
So really the only way to time the market is to just work as fast as possible
and I think the amount of
Effort and attention to detail and art and all that stuff like literally this is the fastest
We could have made it because we we spent like four or five months just looking for the right artists
We've spent like four or five months on the art now
You know, it's been it's been quite a journey and the whole time. I mean I was always a believer in ordinals
That's why you know, we did start last year
which is is pretty good for us in terms of just perception and
Yeah, it was just more about like, okay when we're ready to go if the market's not so hot
Then we'll just kind of keep it small if the markets gets better. We'll we'll make it larger
Initially, I wanted a 20k collection actually. I wanted to go crazy
I wanted to like just slam it down on the space, but I don't think the market's ready for that
So we just stuck with the
Personally like the lower supply. I think that that's probably smart
20k would have been interesting. It definitely would have expanded the project, but that's that's a that's a lot a lot
It would have to be like free. Yeah, it would like a world. It's like free 20k, but you're right
It's better to start off exclusive and smaller and then we could always grow it versus if we were to jump right off the bat
And also the collection the quality of the collection is incredible since we've drawn enough traits for 20k
But we're stuffing them into a very small supply. So the art is gonna be amazing for people
I think they're gonna love what can you tell us about?
like the the specifics about
The art and the price etc. I think the price is is it point zero seven seven
For holders is point zero zero seven seven zero zero. Wow. Yes. I mean that's that's still really
With Bitcoin got to do the double zero. Yeah
It's actually a really good price. I mean ever since we announced it people were quite bullish in terms of the
The pricing so I think that's that's really huge
Non-holders the allow list is point zero zero nine eight
For the public it's going to be point zero one six. Got it
So yeah, still very affordable for a quality project like this and then the process, you know you I'll ask this question though
you know, maybe I can open it up to
Biggie and Q and mo if they want to hop in with anything but
My understanding is that Brian Lee is still very much been involved
But maybe he's taken a little bit more of that higher level creative director role
like you said you brought in another artist to really kind of do the the sort of
Time intensive work of drawing out all these is that is that accurate?
Has he been kind of like overseeing and creative directing it or what can you tell us about the the creative process there?
And also, can you tell us exactly how many traits?
You're hitting me with some good questions
So I'm complex has stayed on from the beginning as a
Consultant art director adviser and also artists. He's been doing art as people have seen with his promo art
He told me right off the bat like, you know
What like last year or something when I know he told me when I first met him
He's like he's never gonna draw another PFP collection again
So I think he's pretty the funny part is the funny part is actually at one point
Even though he said that this isn't what what a big heart this guy has
I kind of dragged him into doing it because there was a point where I was like
I don't think we're gonna find an artist and then I was like, you know
You might have to do the new collection and he was like kind of silent for a little bit and then and then he came back
He's like, okay. What do we got to do? I'm like man. This guy's a fucking trooper dude
Like he swore off doing PFP collections. He was getting ready to roll up the sleeves and go to work again
But but we got very lucky
You know every artist that we looked at they were all amazing, but it was about okay
How do you take the vibe that was created and kind of push it forward but stay on brand?
And so I'm complex looked at every artist that I brought to him. We did test rounds with each artist. He would give feedback
Finally when we asked Alex who's a community member by the way
Which is another amazing like kind of win for the community
But he just did one sample and we're both immediately like oh, okay
This is the guy like jobs done
And so since then I'm complex is like every step of the way not just on the collection but lore
Anything we need like he's always talking about even just talking about things like merch and fashion and clothing and stuff
So he's been very very involved. He's he has
Some backgrounds that he's contributed to the collection as well that people are gonna see which is a nice nice touch handmade touch
And then in terms of traits, I think we have
Wow, okay, there's the thing is there's like
Pure traits there's probably over I think there's like 300 plus traits or something like that
And then there's a bunch of sub traits because like there's a hoodie
So it's like, okay these some of these go under the hoodies
So they like kind of had to redraw it a little bit or whatever. So we might have like
like 350 or almost 400 but
It's kind of crazy. Yeah, that's that's a that's a good amount of traits and just for context
Board apes, which is a 10k project is around 150 ish. I think it's like a hundred and
175 okay. Yeah, so I knew it was in that in that realm
And that was kind of kind of set a standard, you know more or less
So I always kind of look at that as like, okay, you know, that was that was meaningfully differentiated
You know board ape still has an issue where there's a couple traits that kind of sit around the floor
And so you see some that are kind of similar in there
So that's kind of like on the low end for a high supply
But so when you're talking about just three thousand three hundred thirty three with you know
Basically double the amount of unique traits
That means that you're gonna get a tremendous amount of differentiation and uniqueness across the collection
Which is really fucking exciting and and also just makes it super fun to be like digging through it and seeing all the awesome
Characters and possibilities and you know, you'll basically come across almost endless different
Variations and character styles. So yeah, that's that's really fucking exciting
Sorry, yeah, I'm trying to hop in that one. Oh
Yeah, no, no, I was just gonna say like what I've been warning people is like
Like previously like if you were to look at a collection especially like on the open sea or something and you would say
Okay, there's this mask and there's like 2% supply of this mask, right? And that's kind of like how you look at rarity and stuff
Because we have so many traits for such a small supply like
Everything's kind of rare almost so it's more like the combination of stuff. So it's what mask what hair
Like what skin color like how does it all and and that will kind of show like quote rarity
Although on ordinals like they don't really it's not a thing right now
But we want to get rarities
Yeah, the whole question of rarity is is interesting. Like does it matter? Does it not?
I think that we're starting to see, you know
Once once money comes back in and the bull market comes back in speculation starts coming back in you start to see those
Quote-unquote grails of like the super rare ones and people buying above the floor
It does start to matter a little bit more again
I think generally speaking what we see is people just try and find something that they vibe with, you know
Just something that they aesthetically like but you know at the higher end. It does seem like rarity does still matter
Bitcoin is an interesting one because I'm still relatively new
I've only got you know, I just bought about like my last two
Ordinals, I'm up to maybe like six or seven ordinals. I hopped in maybe like a month or two ago, finally
So I'm still relatively new and like warning about it
But the rarity thing is is is an interesting question of like how how do you balance that and how do you think about that?
In this market. Can you give us any other alpha on?
The rare traits or rare count like the most interesting things that people are gonna really fuck with like do you have any?
any idea of that because I'll like I'll give another example like nifty cues rocking a daub and
And in and in say network right now people have picked up on naked traits
So like naked dogs have their own subdow and like, you know
They like there's all these naked collections now that are like creating subdows within there's do you have any anything like that?
that you think are going to be the really remarkable special traits that people are gonna I don't know rally around
Yes, we do many I mean, you know, even though
rarity, especially when we started was not a thing on ordinals I knew like
It's important for collecting right like you kind of like why would you buy something for more if you don't know?
Like what the value is. So so we'll definitely have like gold versions of stuff like gold masks and gold traits
Which I think will be very obvious in terms of rarity
Certain traits like we have a hoodie like we're kind of dividing into sub collections
Which is very interesting because kind of like within the three thousand three hundred thirty three, there will be like a hundred and eleven hoodies
or sixty six hoodies, sorry
and then there'll be like a hundred and eleven like of this kind of like minimalist aesthetic where it's like a gray background and
Like it's it's muted colors and stuff
And then we even have some new skin types which are gonna be or body types which are gonna be pretty rare
I saw I saw a zombie trait
They're all zombie. Okay, cuz that's the fall like alright
So that I think that's the whole concept of the fall and I guess right so I guess we can get into the lat
That a little bit more, but I do I do want to get my other co-hosts in here. So Q I see your hand raise go ahead
Jim what's up, brother? Good to see you, bro. Yeah. Thanks for having me
You're one of the goats man for real and I don't throw that around lightly. So I appreciate you joining brother
I'm excited for this drop
I almost feel like those properties like that gift that you were mentioning like have to be community
like emergent from the community like the project doesn't itself say like oh these naked's will
Will be legit and they'll form a dad. It's almost like the community just gets a hold of it and runs, but
Yeah, Henry. I'm interested man like this cross community
Building or cross chain community building has always been fascinating
from like the Utes time and and
The gods where they're moving from Solana to polygon and then to a theorem and then they're kind of like
Oh, we kind of want to consolidate our communities now
like it's just been a fascinating kind of idea for me that they these projects would attempt to
Build a community cross chain and I just wonder how you plan on like fostering
that kind of feature right because obviously now you're going to be on ordinals and aetherium and
How you plan on kind of meshing both communities or do you keep up, you know, do you have them be separate?
Like I'm just interested in your your take here. Yeah, we're definitely gonna mix them up
I think that the from the beginning
The purpose or one of the goals of the collection is was to foster a new
Growth like for our community as overall I think the way I look at it is like no matter what chain you're on
There's always gonna be artists. There's always gonna be developers
There's always gonna be people that love anime love storytelling all that stuff
So it doesn't really matter what chain you're on like if you're into
fashion lifestyle like story like really cool like just interactive experiences on on chain like
We're gonna be the project for you. So I think Bitcoin is the first test of that
I could tell you like after having spent a lot of time with the community and met a lot of the community there
Fantastic. It's a fantastic community. I mean like every chain probably has their own sub characteristics
But but um, they're they're really beautiful people and really serious builders, which is a really important part for us
So I think what we're gonna do is we're just gonna focus on the vibes and the fostering artists fostering builders
Staying on top of like the latest
technologies and experiences that are on both chains and
Then just fitting them into our brand so that everybody gets a chance to express themselves and participate
And just kind of build one what you know one oni community like right off the right off the gates and
Yeah, and just kind of focus on that
It can be technically daunting to handle that in certain aspects of it, right?
So yeah, it will be interesting to see how that plays out
And again, I'm sure you know, you're not too worried about that right now since the primary focus is this, you know
Expansion of the community finding new ways to bring people in and build it out. But yeah, I
It'll just be interesting to see, you know
how that tracks from there and you know when it comes to things like events or other types of
Initiatives where you have to be, you know, sort of aggregating across chains like
Hopefully again, there's gonna be more infrastructure and tooling that supports that
I know there's things like subber and these different community management tools now that are focused on like cross-chain integrations
So yeah, hopefully there's gonna be even more of that available in the coming months and in the next year or so
That'll really help these types of communities thrive
So you don't have to you know
Do pull a pull a buck in to gods or whatever and then start having to you know
Caravan your way back to one chain or something that'll be awkward
Maybe you can talk more about the fallen because again you were kind of leaning in there to the fact that all of these are
Zombies, so what's like what is the fallen, you know, how does this fit into the war into the world?
What can you tell us about these specific?
3333 characters and how they relate to the ethereal enclave and the original
Sure. So, you know, the cool part is that the fallen
Actually were revealed or teased
Because this was a concept that we came up with like shortly after I came on board as project manager
So it's actually really cool to see them like kind of coming to light because like from the beginning it was kind of like
Okay, we have the heroes the enclave for the antagonist
How do we make sure that if they're cool like they fit into the Lord in a way that makes sense that they're
Inspired by the meta and you know at the time, you know for people that don't know it's like, you know
To say the least I mean, you know, so it was it was really tough out there for a while
And so the fallen actually were initially they weren't
Zomb like we call them zombies because it's the easiest thing for people to wrap their head around but they're not really zombies
but the inspiration behind for the fallen were
fear and uncertainty and doubt and so it's kind of like
Taking like this concept of Star Wars with the light in the dark or even deeper than Star Wars
which I think Star Wars took it from is more like Eastern philosophy of yin and yang and stuff and
and then it's like, okay, if you mix in like
Extreme cases of fear uncertainty that like how does that manifest? You know, it's like it can make people really toxic
You know, I mean and then if you have like a group of them then the group could become really toxic and it's like
You know in this world what happens is like if you get infected with this nanovirus
Which is kind of the beginning of it then depending on what you do it affects your actual physical
Appearance plus like your powers and stuff like that. So it's kind of like going to the dark side, but it's like
more like mixing in kind of the zombie idea ish
combined with like your spirit and energy and stuff like that, so these represent the
the villains from the past that have come back to get their revenge now that the Enclave has
fallen and the gates or the barriers have kind of opened up so they're now starting to invade the
Enclave and it's going to be up to the
The heroes of the Enclave the seven thousand seven hundred seventy seven to kind of step up and become
Like heroes like called the call to action. So that's kind of the phase we're going into right now with the Lord
Love it. So yeah, you've got the the duality
Being set up now the the light and dark the good and evil the antagonists
Coming in through this collection
Know that you know the other part of that's this that's really interesting that sort of anchors this collection on
Bitcoin is the fact that you
Do some early inscribing you created I believe seven early
Inscriptions of the main characters
Of the upcoming like comic book series and all this type of stuff
What what can you share about that about, you know, I would definitely say start light because a lot of engine
All right, I'm gonna mute him
Yeah, where where what can you tell us about
About that and how the comic books and everything is gonna sort of fit in or any other development that's happening there
So we I'm trying to figure out what I could say
Um, we definitely inscribed the first seven ordinals last March, which are the seven characters that the heroes from our
One of our upcoming comic books, which is the team book. So it's kind of like our X-Men or something. We inscribed
You know the first seven heroes or whatever
So they are gonna be the the main characters of that comic book
And you kind of see them popping up into the storytelling here like we were kind of revealed that they're called the nameless
Which is really cool because it ties into the original lore of the project plus like makes it make sense in terms of storytelling
and then there'll be other books that tell different stories whether it's our only hunter X like Wolverine type character or
You know new characters and so what we're about to begin is an opportunity for the community to
participate and create stories with us
but also potentially see some of their characters or creations get in and
included in the actual canon and the things that we publish and stuff like that, so
kind of the way that pudgy kind of had like their
14 holders be able to license their characters
Back to pudgy to using the toys
We're gonna be giving a lot of holders an opportunity to participate in our expanding universe through comics and webtoons and stuff
Man, that's such a big undertaking to actually pull this off
You know part of the original promise of distributed IP and decentralized IP
You know, these these are all these ideas that we were like playing with and thinking about and
Philosophizing whatever, you know, we were talking about all these things back in like 2021 clubhouse rooms about the potential for this technology
But it takes time and it's it's incredibly difficult to actually execute on a lot of these ideas
And there's so much that has to come into play
You know, we're only just now starting to see things like made by apes and then you mentioned the pudgy penguins
I forget what the name of their platform is, but they've got a new IP platform and they
recently were reordered back into Walmart and
Holders of the specific penguins that are getting created are basically getting licensing cuts
Through their at their licensing platform now, so we're really starting to see these things come to life
Again, I understand this is such a difficult undertaking and actually a truly
complicated thing to really do
Where are you at in that process or like how are you thinking about, you know, trying to provide those types of distributed IP?
You know sort of benefits back to holders. Like what is that? What do you think that that looks like realistically for only force?
Think for holders we need to provide them with as many
Avenues as possible. So there's the full
You know to avoid turning our NFT into a security
We're gonna have to like if you want like the pudgy way like to have your IP licensed in our official merch or things that we
You know, you're gonna have to KYC
But the cool part is like you actually get direct royalties and payments from that
So it's kind of like my vision from day one was like, okay, if I own the first drawing of
Spider-man, let's say it's like
Technically spider-man is like a 16 billion dollar
Character so it's like any time he appears somewhere
I should probably get a piece of it if I own that first drawing is is kind of what web 3 is setting up
and then from there we can create
passive opportunities like let's say you own a bunch of
Oni and you don't want to do the work of like creative stuff
like you could just kind of
license it back to us like stake it so to speak and let us do stuff with it and then we'll
We'll just develop it for you and then you could benefit to all the way to
like if you want to be part of our franchise program and you want to start your own business or you want to
Build your character out and do your own comics or do, you know a coffee company
whatever it is, like we will support you and
Provide you with marketing resources and all these sorts of things
So yeah, we're gonna give people a lot of opportunities
I think kind of conceptually what it is is like from the core like we'll always be building
The cannon plus the distribution whether it's comics or toys or things like that and then every step of the way
Community members like a way to plug in and you know have like even like with our gaming stuff
Like we were like putting people's PFPs like, you know in our map and stuff, which you know
it's not like they make money from that, but it's like
Little things like that which are fun and cool all the way up to the oh, I want to I want to build a business
I want to create this turn this into a valuable character like, you know, etc. Will will help you there
Love it. And I do want to you know, kind of follow up on the gaming stuff here in just a moment
But Q Mo or big you do you have any questions or things you want to chime in with?
Just up here hogging the mic right now
Nothing. All right, then let's let's yeah, let's double tap on the gaming situation. So
Y'all had a big activation around this fortnight map. I know that it's been a big initiative is
building out this only force
Island world, you know, it's a whole map that's basically bringing the world of only force to life in
Fortnight and you did the juju Smith Schuster
Tournament with him as a big part of that
What can you tell us, you know after that experience, you know, how are you thinking about this any next steps?
How is gaming and fortnight?
How's this fitting into the plans for 2024 and beyond?
The gaming event was hugely successful for us
Ever since as soon as I heard that fortnight had it had a program where anybody could build their own maps
I just knew we had to get in because
That's a huge audience for us to potentially tap into
So what we're gonna be doing is when we are doing it is we're building our own gaming brand which is only gaming
it's the intention is to make it like the hundred thieves of
Web 3 kind of like a brand plus a launch plant pad plus like a marketing platform
Because at the end of the day like we want to grow our IP and we want to expand our audience and we also want
to make money so with fortnight that was kind of like hit all those things because
When you do really well at UF and you can make a lot of money which that that
Revenue can then go back into the project and benefit holders
So it's important for us to create like really awesome gaming experiences using other people's software tech and platforms that are pre-built
But then also as a web 3 company. We want to push web 3 gaming forward. So
we also want to have this brand and this platform where we can
Bring on partners like we have shrapnel or nifty island
It's like we want to help launch other people's games and you know
Bring users and stuff like that and then reward people for participating through our point system
and this is really important for us because like, you know a lot of
Brands you saw kind of pivoted into gaming where maybe that wasn't their initial
Mission statement which has had kind of mixed results. I feel I think what a lot of very diplomatic way of putting that
Are you sub tweeting board a piaquo? What are you doing here? No, not at all. I mean I actually yeah
Execution is is the difficult part as we all know right? Like if you think about gaming
It's like there are triple-a publishers that have had
Triple-a hits that could still spend like hundreds of millions and have a dud
Right even with all the experience and their team. So we all understand that like gaming is
Fucking hard, you know, so for us
Everything we do kind of has to be methodical and smart and you know, we are a startup
We don't have a hundred million dollars to even blow on anything
So I think where we're approaching it is that number one?
Like we're not a publisher yet
Like we're not trying to say oh we're gonna build the next triple-a game like no like let's work with other games and platforms
Who are successful that have a target audience that we want to reach because again right now we just in
Expansion IP and community expansion mode
So how can we work with them and also learn from them, right?
Like we can see like what's working what's not worth like I think Dookie Dash was great
Right, like I could see only for starting off with like a like a like a more of a pop-up game arcade, you know
Yeah, you know like that was smart
like I think once you get into other questions like metaverse and stuff it gets difficult, but
So and then also there's a hole where there is no web 3 gaming brand that is like a hundred thieves of web 3
Like everybody's in a rush to be like the publisher
it's like we don't need to be the publisher right now we could just be the brand that everybody knows and trusts and then
genuinely builds a bridge where we onboard more web 2 people because
Unfortunately as everybody knows like a lot of people who should love NFTs hate NFTs
So it's like gamers comic book fans
animators like they all hate NFTs and it's so stupid because that's literally like the best audience who should love it like
Technically, right speaking. So so I realized like a
Lot of projects are in this mode where they're like trying to prove themselves like oh look at me
Like I could do something in web 2. I'm real like I'm a real boy, you know, like and it's kind of like
Well, also we could have a job where we just onboard people and and bring people to web 3 from the web 2 space
So I think that's really our focus with gaming is to establish first a web 3 brand and then a global
Yeah bringing bringing people in and then up turning some of those negative
Expectations or the you know, the FUD that's already out there is a huge huge undertaking a huge challenge
It's gonna be very interesting to see what happens with gaming this year
Because it does seem like we're on we know like we we have quality games now coming out of web 3 but
Is the adoption there? Like I still don't know
I mean, it's like um every step of the way you take a couple steps forward and then see where you're at
You know, but I think just like with each projects how it penetrated pop culture in the beginning
I think you're gonna see a little bit of that with gaming and then most of them are gonna fail because again games are
Really hard so most of the projects are gonna be like not have long-term users and but it may it's all part of the learning
Experience and you know, so there needs to be a hit like this just needs to be one hit
Where nobody knows that it's NFT powered. They just have so much fun. It's like an amazing game
Millions of people love it and then they're like at the end of it. They're like, oh shit like I get paid from doing this
Yeah, well, that's that's ultimately it's gonna be it's gonna be a mix of things
It's either going to be something that like you said it like has blockchain integrated
But it's sort of underneath the surface and it's just a really great game and then all of a sudden
It's it's like that Trojan horse moment where it kind of sneaks up on everybody and then they all start
understanding just because they love that that game so much why it's valuable and they're already using it or
It's also and I guess and it's also gonna be the money
So if if there's like another like a better a little bit better game
Like an ax infinity or something where people are actually making like ridiculous money for playing it
That's also gonna drive a ton more attention and interest and what's happening. Yeah
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This is more like a gaming related question
Most of the games I play I just skate through without ever buying anything
But is it enough to is it enough to just own assets within or do you or do you have to make money from playing it?
Because I feel like that's the part where people start like it starts become not as much fun
Is when you're like doing it to earn money. What if you just own the assets, you know that people want to use
Like I play a lot of fall guys for instance, you know, and I don't buy my little outfits
But if you're gonna use that as an example
You know, I think that's a great point. I think just like I'm similar to you actually
I'm not very good at doing the grinding for I like just to play and like if I have a game that
wants to charge me for stuff, I just kind of
Avoid it and play the part of it that I don't have to pay for
But I think it'll there will be a still a value because you have these assets
Let's say you have a character it could still be leveled up
You could still have items that are dropped to you or or even experience points that you gain
All these things should be transferable in the future. That's really what NFTs are. Anyways, just allows you to transfer things
So so I could see like a casual gamer still getting value out of it
But obviously just not as much as somebody who's like grinding or spending money or you know doing those sorts of things
Yeah, I love it. Great points all around and
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And arts niche all of y'all give us some some last thoughts here on that
Like what do we need to know about the mint? Do we have a date?
What can you tell us about the things that need to be happening?
I know that like one of the last things that has to happen this week is the collecting of the Bitcoin addresses
You know y'all been doing the the points thing tracking points points
But I think that part's kind of over so what can you leave us with that's like the need to know
Information about this upcoming mint for the fallen. Oh
Yeah, well it is we're gonna be announcing the date very soon
The goal is to start up the pre-sale page for holders so they could reserve their spots and get it locked in at the price
That we should be announcing very very soon
And then the official like mint date for the rest of everyone else
You know, we want to do it before mid-march at the latest. So we're just kind of
trying to get through the
More technical side on the back end before we announce the date
Heck yeah. All right. All right since you guys any last words here you want to throw on
No, man, I just you know similar to some of the members of the team, you know being a holder first before joining the team
It's just like it's just so exciting to see the next step come out more lore come out
I mean, those are the things that I'm most excited about the lore and the art and man these these these ordinals, you know kick-ass
Heck yeah, y'all kick ass. Thanks so much for joining us again
Any last thoughts from cue Mo Biggie any y'all got something to throw on here before we jump out. I
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