Projects
![]()
No projects found
Investors
New
DAO Treasuries
DATs
Lend / Borrow APRs
Chains
Categories
Spaces
cooltimes w/ Iron Paw Gang, Saved Souls, Realm Hunters, etc
Recorded: April 11, 2023 Duration: 2:16:43Space Recording
Full Transcription
You are now listening to the champion sound, Night Owl Sound, the world's greatest sound.
Night Owl Sound
Night Owl Sound
Night Owl Sound
Night Owl Sound
Night Owl Sound
Night Owl Sound
Night Owl Sound
Night Owl Sound
Yo, what's up everybody?
Poser Richie over here, one of the founders of the Poser Party.
And yeah, our headquarters is in Amsterdam and we're just two days ahead from the Mint on OPC also.
So, for all the projects that have experienced Mint week already, we're in quite a hectic phase right now, but we're stoked that we're here.
And yeah, we're minting Thursday, 9 a.m., we're minting Thursday, 9 a.m. Pacific time exclusively on OPC.
So, yeah, it's hectic.
It's become like the music your dad listens to, the music your dad listens to, but I actually had one of my good friends in this space say, hey, the Alpha is Poser Party.
And this is a person I like literally never fade when it comes to me, and this is a person I like literally never fade when it comes to Alpha.
So, why don't you, for me and for everyone in the crowd, just tell us what Poser Party is.
Of course.
I'm here also with Poser Izzy, the other founder.
He just joined in, so sometimes he will add something.
Maybe you can introduce yourself real quick, Izzy.
Yo, what's up? Poser Izzy here, one of the other founders.
I'll let you keep it off, Richie, and then when you stop talking after about 10 minutes, I'll say something.
Cool. Can't hear you too good, though, bro, so maybe you need to fix something.
It sounds like he's at the bathroom, in the bathroom, at the party.
You know when you're in the party, and you go to the bathroom, and you can still kind of hear the music,
and you're kind of vibing while you're like, take like that kind of focus.
That actually could be the case. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, so give us the TLDR.
Yes. So, yeah, our project started just for the love of Web3, and also for the love of dance music, obviously.
We have our team and ourselves have quite a big track record in the music industry, especially the dance industry.
And yeah, we really believe that Web3 will have like the biggest impact on the whole creative industry,
and also on the music industry, specifically, since the internet.
And yeah, we really love like the counterculture part of the Web3 space.
And so we searched for something that was specifically designed for the Web3 space,
but still also makes a lot of noise on the Web2 side of things.
Because although we believe that Web3 is the future for the music industry,
the gap between Web2 and the Web3 space is really big, especially on the music side.
And we think that the potential of Web3 technology can be utilized if we have mass adoption.
So that's why we're set up like how we are set up.
What we're going to do is we are like a counter movement which pokes fun on pop culture.
Pop culture, what is dominated right now by like these perfect Instababes and bulky boys who create these unachievable beauty standards,
unachievable wealth goals, and creating this real fake image around themselves online.
So we thought it's time for an experiment.
If real people act fake most of the time,
why not create imaginary people with like the most crazy storylines ever,
which would be in the real world would be like the biggest outcasts out there
and turn them into the biggest superstar DJs possible.
So that's what we're going to do.
We are going to launch three virtual artists,
Trap House George,
Steroid Ron,
New Ace Jimmy.
They are going to be brought to life through music releases,
animated videos,
live and digital performances,
and their social appearance.
Yeah,
really also releasing and making a lot of noise on the Web 2 side of things,
but also on the Web 3 side of things.
Wait,
let me,
let me stop you real quick.
Cause I,
yeah,
of course I want to get ahead of what some people in the crowd are probably thinking.
And what I'm kind of thinking is like Web 3 music projects don't have a great track record.
Why do you guys feel like you're the ones to get this thing right?
Totally.
I think the biggest problem with,
with current music NFT projects is that they are already doing what,
how the future should look like.
And that we're not just there yet.
So we are positioned more like a brand play than a music NFT play.
We are building the poster party out and we are really establishing these three virtual artists like personal brands.
And they will do what every mainstream artist also will do and then get eyes on the project and build like the Web 3 side of the project step by step together with our community,
who has a big say in co-directing the careers of the virtual artists,
presenting creative proposals,
thinking along with business proposals or moves that we should make or shouldn't make.
aside from all the utilities that are behind the holding and NFT of us.
What's the actual NFT going to look like?
What's the actual NFT going to look like?
I see a little echo.
Is it going to be sick?
What are we exactly making?
So it's a supply of 777,
it's a 7777 supply,
sorry.
These three characters are in the same collection.
So yeah,
around 2,500 each character in the collection.
Art is done by John F. Melta,
the legendary John F. Melta,
who has like this crazy,
I obviously love the art.
We've been searching for a long time.
I think I checked thousand designers before I finally found John F. Melta.
He did some big things for Adult Swim,
Netflix,
Facebook,
yeah,
a lot of shit.
You should really check him out.
And yeah,
it's like,
it's really colorful and bright.
There's a lot of humor and funny shit and funny surprises in the collection.
And yeah,
he really matches our,
yeah,
sort of punk,
rebellious nature that,
yeah,
the project obviously breeds.
Is it too late to get in the party?
Do I have to be on like a VIP list?
Am I still able to get in or what's going on?
You guys,
we're closing the list actually right now,
but Izzy,
maybe you can tell something about this because this is your space is out to some listeners right now or do something cool.
Do something.
Let's do it like a keg stand of whitelist spots.
Come on.
Let's,
what are we doing?
Izzy,
Izzy,
get the floor.
Get the floor.
Can you guys hear me?
Am I,
am I good?
Still in the bathroom,
but yeah,
go ahead.
Damn,
I'll try and shout then.
Maybe that's better.
Yeah,
we actually closed the allow list just a second ago.
We might be able to do some last minute tweaks to it before we send it to OpenSea.
But yeah,
if there are people like in the crowd loving what Richie is saying and want to join the party,
jump into Discord and we can see what we can do.
Yeah.
Take a screenshot of this space right now and go,
go flood,
go flood them.
That sounds fun and manageable and not stressful.
Two days before a minute.
Right,
guys.
All right.
Poser party.
Let's go.
You guys got a great team.
I see NFT boy in the crowd.
I know he's bullish on the project as well.
Not really bullish on him specifically as like an influencer.
He's kind of cringy,
but bullish on a poser party.
So appreciate you guys.
So this Thursday,
OpenSea.
we're going to,
we're going to reverse the OpenSea curse.
We definitely will.
All right.
Yeah.
So yeah.
you have one,
one left.
Yeah,
go ahead.
The mint,
the mint price is,
0.029.
that's,
that's great.
That's a really,
that's the sweet spot.
I'm so glad to hear that.
I should have asked.
That's a good,
that's good mint price.
Yeah.
we really wanted to find a way to,
to have a,
to build the biggest community as possible.
So that's why the supply is relevant of a relatively high.
but yeah,
that's why we want to keep the mint price low and affordable.
some bullish other points,
I guess,
is that we have an official partnership with Warner music and also with
probably a label,
some big established names in the game.
we have a big,
team of,
of the sickest producers.
One of them is a sub groove or multi platinum worked with Steve Aoki,
Chesto,
all the big guys.
So yeah,
we have some real,
real forces,
behind us and,
yeah,
to make some,
yeah,
to organize the biggest motherfucking party in the year.
Yeah.
Just a note.
Steve Aoki is probably,
probably want to just keep that one in your back pocket.
He's kind of known as a bear signal,
but,
yeah.
Yeah.
I figured,
I figured,
but from a music perspective,
from a music industry,
point of view,
he's done some big shit,
but,
yeah,
he's,
he's also worked with cashmere and yeah,
like big,
big names.
Beautiful.
Love it.
let's do music NFTs the right way.
Let's party and don't be a poser.
go follow poser party.
Jump to the discord.
If you guys want more information on that upcoming drop this Thursday,
thanks for coming to hang out guys.
thanks a lot for having us.
And thank you for,
for listening to us.
stay tuned.
And,
yeah,
we got to run though,
because yeah,
for all the people who knows,
how the last days before mind are,
we need to grind our,
till the wheels of fall off.
So we need to leave.
Shout out to the other projects and,
and bless you all.
Word.
Thanks again,
man.
Okay.
We're going to move on to another upcoming project that I'm just insanely,
insanely bullish on.
I made a YouTube video about them two weeks ago.
They reached out to me afterwards.
I was like,
Hey,
can we please do a Twitter space?
Steven D gen civilization.
basically this is a,
it's already got a great community.
well,
D gen civilization.
What,
what's up?
How are you doing today?
Excellent.
first off,
huge.
Thank you for that video.
That was a really,
really fun to see on the timeline and,
and,
kind of to find the channel.
And,
yeah,
you just,
yeah,
thank you for that.
That was,
that was,
so you guys are also the team behind alpha dog.
If you guys don't know what alpha dog is,
it was a hundred passes.
Correct me if I'm wrong anywhere,
but a hundred passes minted two years ago.
And you guys have done one year ago.
Collaborations with tempers.
You've done collaborations with OSF,
Macbess,
pretty much anyone who is a huge one of one artist.
You guys were an art access pass for a hundred members.
great community.
Now you guys are coming out.
D gen civilization,
which is your PFP project,
right?
Exactly.
Yeah.
So we're,
yeah,
we minted our two year pass a year ago.
So we're halfway through the first two years.
And yeah,
and we kind of,
when,
when we first created alpha dog,
we kind of saw a spot in the market there,
where there's a lot of people asking us,
and trying to like figure out how to find NFT artists and how to,
like,
I guess,
like discover,
new art.
And so,
myself and,
the birds 23,
who's in the crowd,
we kind of created alpha dog so that we could use our network and
curate,
an incredible list of artists.
So our first year was absolutely incredible.
Terrell Jones just,
did our 12 month reward.
So that was the final drop of the year and,
Jack NFT was the,
our,
our first drop of year two.
and that was,
yesterday.
kind of,
we're just started starting off with a bang.
and,
yeah,
so now we're moving on and I'm moving on.
We're,
we're adding a D gen civilization.
So as you can imagine with a hundred dog tags with alpha dog,
it's a small community and you really don't know what it's like to be part of it unless you are part of it.
And so we really wanted to have a lower cost to entry and a collection of a lot of fun to kind of expand on like the frog culture aspect of the NFT community and bring in more people and, but also bring in our curation and the, the, our, our main strengths that we've kind of had, we've, that we've developed with alpha dog and bring it to more people in a, in a, like a different way as we expand the community.
How did you guys get such great artists to collab with?
Because I,
again,
correct me if I'm wrong.
I see that one of the main tent poles of D gen civilization is,
some,
some raffles and maybe being able to get access to,
to some one of one art or some art.
How is that going to work?
How do you guys land these,
these Terrell Jones?
I mean,
he's probably one of the hottest,
one of one artists right now.
How are we going to be getting access to these types of art?
Artists are art,
through D gen civilization PFPs.
Yeah.
I mean,
a lot of our initial,
I guess,
curation was through artists that we had collected and we had gotten to know.
And to be completely honest,
a lot of it,
the same way you and I met,
a Twitter DM,
kind of reaching out once we kind of had our platform and like,
I kind of our,
our plan behind us,
everything really fell into place.
And a lot of artists were really excited to kind of be part of what we were
building.
So the kind of the main,
the main focus of D gen civilization is every day that you hold your D gen,
no matter how many you have,
you'll earn XP,
like,
like,
like a video game,
like leveling up system.
there's no staking.
You'll earn it.
it's,
it's tied to your wallet.
It's a non-transferable token,
like some no securities,
anything like that.
and you'll be able to like accrue your lifetime XP.
Even as you spend it,
you'll always have your lifetime.
So if you're a longer holder,
there will be benefits down the road for the amount you've accrued over time,
but you'll be able to redeem your,
your XP,
kind of in the initial format will be to enter into raffles for NFT art that we're
curating kind of alongside our year to pass for alpha dog.
We're going to,
we have a lot of artists that we've been chatting with and we're kind of excited to,
to kind of begin the first few drops of DGEN civilization.
But for example,
if you have,
let's say 30 days worth of,
of XP and there's a piece of art that's coming out that you really,
really want,
you can like,
let's say as an example,
one XP would be one raffle,
ticket.
And then you could use all of your XP you've,
you've accrued,
to kind of give yourself a better chance to,
to end up with that piece.
So the people,
so we're,
we're trying to find a way to make sure that whether you have one DGEN and you
bought it yesterday,
or you have a hundred of them and you've held them for two months,
then everybody has a chance at incredible art that we're going to be
curating and having a lot of fun with,
and kind of a lot more down the road as well.
So we're,
yeah,
kind of trying to bring,
bring together the PFP community and the art collectors in,
in a really fun way.
Yeah.
I love it.
the on ramp for DGENs to DGENs,
DGEN and just some poor,
let's talk about the art a little bit.
Cause I also think that's another reason to be bullish on a project.
If you guys click on the DGEN civilization account,
you could see,
I mean,
how would you describe it?
Pepe,
Pepe influenced,
Pepe style,
PFPs,
people love Pepe.
So am I right for describing it that way?
Yeah.
I mean,
we can't describe it that way without there being DMCA related issues as to be
completely honest,
but yes,
like,
like frog culture,
the Pepe culture in NFTs is,
is prominent to say the least.
And we wanted to find a way to bring out as much of that as we could into a
collection without it obviously being Pepe because it can't be.
and so we wanted to make sure that we had,
we could bring in everything that we,
we've seen in the NFT culture,
in a way that kind of like,
like symbolizes the,
like everyone who's going to be collecting.
All right.
Give us the alpha.
What's,
I mean,
how does the common folk get involved in DGEN civilization?
When does it drop?
give us the alpha before the alpha.
Yeah.
So we,
we meant on 420.
so the white list is at 11 AM Eastern time.
So we're,
we're really coming up on it.
so the supply 4,269,
we're really leaning into the meme numbers,
but we're keeping it,
we're keeping it low.
Like we,
we didn't obviously didn't want to do a 10 K.
and,
yeah,
so we've been,
we've been kind of working with a lot of different groups,
a lot of our,
our artists,
that we've,
that we've gotten to know have been doing raffles for whitelist spots.
I know we talked with,
with you about,
about doing some spots as well,
which we can kind of chat about later.
and so,
yeah,
so the Mimprice is 0.05 for whitelist and,
every whitelist has two mints.
We can kind of all believe in the,
the,
the rule of twos for buying NFTs,
buy one,
buy two,
and then you can sell one,
to cover your costs and ride one for,
for as long as you want.
so that's,
that's kind of our,
our overall plan for,
for mint.
And you'll be kind of accruing your,
your XP from the minute that you mint and,
and your DJM is in your wallet.
Have you guys leaked any alpha on like potential artists that will be doing,
will be doing drops that will be raffled off for DJM civilization or am I,
am I prying too much?
we actually,
so we have not specifically talked about artists that will be doing drops.
We do have,
we do have 10,
one of ones in the collection from some very prominent artists.
like Matt Souser,
King Xerox,
Bongo,
like Adam Dispro.
There's a ton of artists that are,
sorry,
there's 10 artists that are doing one of ones in the collection that we've been
slowly revealing.
and,
so that's kind of a good,
some of them are alpha dog artists,
some of them are not.
and it's a kind of a good taste at what,
what you're going to expect from the drops as we're moving forward.
so yeah,
we're,
we're,
we're,
we're keeping everything,
keeping everything.
Well,
at least so far,
we haven't talked about the actual drops that are going to be happening,
but we've been having a lot of conversations with artists and,
trying to just plan it all out.
it's going to be a lot of,
a lot of fun figuring out,
like value supply,
and just making sure that everybody can take part and,
and,
and,
and get incredible art in the process.
Well,
even from afar,
I've always been impressed by alpha dog.
And,
I think you guys have a great team.
Do you just want to talk a little bit about,
you know,
yourself?
This is Mondog behind the account of DJ and civilization,
but you just want to talk a little bit about yourself.
I know that's hard sometimes,
but talk about you and your team and why you guys feel like you're,
you know,
top tier team in web three.
Yeah.
So I,
I guess,
yeah,
myself.
So that Mondog,
I've been,
I had it in the NFT space since summer 2021.
And that's kind of when I really discovered art and kind of fell in love
with it.
And I really,
I kind of resonated with the ability to connect with the artists,
understand their work and,
and just like how incredible it is that we have access to the best art in
the world from anywhere.
And it's,
it's just such a,
it's such a really,
such a cool time to be in the space.
like there's,
you're not always going to be able to DM.
Like,
like,
just like artists,
like,
I mean,
it's going to be,
it's going to be out of like,
like when there's more people in the space,
it's going to be like a lot less accessible to have these conversations with
artists and get to know them.
so myself and,
the birds 23,
who's,
in the crowd,
we've been,
we've been in the space about the same amount of time.
And,
I mean,
you,
like,
it's,
you,
like we,
we kind of started planning out off the dog as a two year pass.
I mean,
it's like,
sometimes we wish we'd done a one,
we'd done one year and kind of kept it more,
kind of like that kind of smaller scale,
but we,
we rolled it out as a two year pass and it's actually been incredible.
we minted for two weeks each,
and there hasn't actually been a sale under that,
on secondary in the full year since then,
which is really cool.
and,
and like,
we've really gotten to know the people in the community and that's been a huge part of it.
So when we,
when we rolled out year one,
which was virtually all,
like the whole calendar for year one was displayed when we minted.
we've been communicating with our collectors and a bunch of whom we've been communicating as
we've planned out the gen civilization,
to make sure that it's something that they're going to want to collect.
Every alpha dog holder gets five free mints and one list for five more if they want them.
and we wanted to make sure that everything that we're rolling out is exactly what our collectors want.
So we,
we've spoken with collectors as we've developed our year two calendar and we're going to be doing the same for year three going into that.
it's,
like,
like we,
we really were the first like art curation pass.
I know there's a lot of them now.
and we've been,
and kind of been,
we've been fine tuning it,
as we've gone.
I think most of them are much shorter timeframes,
but,
we've been really focused on,
on setting a long-term goal and just delivering exactly what we say we're going to.
We're not going to promise you.
A million things that we're going to deliver half on.
We're going to tell you exactly what we're going to do and we're going to do it.
And that's,
that's kind of how we,
we started doing things and how we're going to keep doing things.
You said you're not going to promise a million.
Can you promise me a million dollars?
this guy,
I think it's,
you know,
you mentioned five free mints for,
for alpha dog holders,
where sometimes people would be like,
that means they're going to dump on our heads.
You've shown the community has shown that they're loyal and they believe in you.
They have conviction.
And that's why I think D gen civilization,
again,
this is,
this is not a paid shill or anything like that's not how you guys roll.
That's not how I roll.
This is just,
I genuinely feel like this is a project that people are going to see on open C on blur,
whatever they use in a couple of weeks and be like,
fuck,
why didn't I know about that?
And it's right there.
It's right there in front of us.
So thanks for coming on today and really appreciate you for 20,
right?
We're going to be able to,
to roll up a little bit and mint.
Is that,
that's the date.
Cool.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Next Thursday,
420,
11 a.m.
What's the mint price for what?
0.05 public.
Actually,
I went list 10,
0.069 public.
If we get there.
You said 16.
So we're waiting.
We're,
we're,
yeah.
So we're,
we're waiting to see,
what happens,
but with the interesting demand so far,
we're,
we're,
we're not sure we're going to make it to public,
which is really exciting.
it's like in this market,
it's,
it's terrifying to do anything.
but we're,
we're,
we're,
we're pushing forward and we're,
we're really excited about the response so far.
Yeah.
I'm bullish.
Thanks again for coming on Mondog and,
we'll talk again soon.
Yeah.
And I,
you and I,
you and I talked about doing some spots and I,
I guess one thing I figured might as well mention if anyone is
interested in,
in whitelist and hasn't had the opportunity or entered any of the
premiums,
I chatted with the birds.
he's going to be looking through comments if anyone is interested.
There you guys go.
And,
just like,
just like leave a comment with a frog emoji in your wallet and we'll,
we'll go through and grab some to add to our,
our list.
so yeah.
And,
yeah,
thanks.
Thank you again for having me.
If you guys don't already know,
we'd love pretty bullish on front.
Yeah.
We got link Marine toads on the stage as well.
That's another project.
That's.
Get pretty toady with it.
We'll talk to them a little bit later right now.
We're going to move on to a project that just dropped recently.
You guys all know the name.
If you haven't seen the art,
do yourselves a favor,
go feast yourself on some of the best art I've seen of 2023.
amazing community.
I know there's a couple of community members in the crowd for iron Poggy.
If you guys want to come up and powwow a little bit request on up,
because you guys definitely showed out,
but,
iron Pog gang.
Hello.
How are you?
how's it going,
man?
Fantastic.
Thanks for coming on.
dude,
what,
what's the,
just got to say big fan of,
of what you're doing.
what's the reception like,
bitch?
I mean,
to the art,
are you kind of just,
you feel like the community is really excited with these revealed NFTs?
Yeah,
man,
the reception to the art has been,
anything I could have dreamed,
could have dreamed of,
right?
Like I,
I going into this,
I wanted to make,
the best animated collection.
The most complex traits,
the most amount of traits,
that has,
you know,
PFP ability with it,
that anyone has ever seen.
And I feel like the way that,
that it's been received,
I feel like I,
I succeeded in that respect.
So it's been amazing,
man.
I wanted every piece to feel like a one of one,
you know?
Yeah.
And,
and I think you definitely achieve like very unique traits.
it's,
it's quite the sight to see you guys definitely go check out the Ironpaw gang Twitter account.
if you just want to do your eyes a favor,
how,
how long did this project take you?
How long did this all take?
I mean,
it doesn't seem like something that was cooked up over the last couple of months.
man,
it's been,
it's been,
about a year in the making.
so for,
for those of you who don't know right now,
the person speaking is,
is Adam Ape,
the artist behind the project.
I started my web three career on Solana,
and for over the course of two years,
became one of the highest selling one of one artists,
on Solana and wanted to make my East day,
debut,
with an animated collection that really just,
just like up the bar in terms of,
you know,
diversity,
quality,
and then,
you know,
animation is much stronger with sound.
So we,
I added unique sound,
sound effects for every single trait.
So every single Mac and driver comes with their own unique soundscape,
which is,
which is something I don't think I've seen done before.
I've seen music,
but I don't think I've seen,
generative sound effects.
So I really just wanted to up the bar,
man.
Like,
and I think,
you know,
I think it's the work sort of speaks for itself in that regard.
Yeah.
I mean,
NFTs are,
are obviously a very visual medium.
I don't know that we've put any,
focus on the,
the auditory element of it.
Do you think that,
like how,
how,
how much have we left on the table by not having,
you know,
a certain musicality to,
to these PFP projects or just to,
to NFTs in general?
I mean,
when it,
when it comes to art,
right?
Like I,
I really wanted this project to be,
an art collectible with a PFP element,
right?
And gamification and story elements too.
But I,
I want the owners of this to like,
if they have a token frame to put it on their token frame or put it on their TV and put the sound up and have it be an immersive experience.
Right.
So visual art is,
is awesome by itself.
But if you can compliment that with,
with,
audio art as well,
to me,
it just makes the whole thing much,
much more immersive and,
and engaging.
So I want,
I'd like to see more of it.
Cinematic is how I would describe it too.
Like,
I feel like each one of your pieces tells a specific story.
and the musical element to it only enhances that.
I'm going to ask you a really tough question right now.
And I got to take a deep breath for this one.
Cause it's basically,
I'm going to ask you like,
what's your favorite child?
And that's always like a tough question for a parent to ask,
but do you have any traits,
any,
any specific loops that I'm not even talking about,
like the most rare one.
I'm just ones that like stick in your head that you're like,
I really like how that came out.
you know,
it's been,
I have some favorites that I had before mint,
but the way that certain people have like,
have just been vibing with certain traits or like coming up with like,
we should make a Dow about this.
I don't know if you've seen the hamster wheel legs.
people were talking about making a hamster Dow.
I thought that was like such an interesting way to build on the humor of
that trait,
which,
you know,
I thought,
okay,
it's kind of funny.
I don't know how much people are going to like this,
but to see that sort of resonate with people,
that's become one of my new favorites.
I mean,
I'm pretty partial to the fire ones.
You know,
I was rocking the fire,
the fire purebred PFP for a while before mint.
I think like,
I like,
depending on my mood,
I like the humorous ones.
And then sometimes I like the serious ones.
So it could be like,
you know,
the gun or the,
the,
the hamburger grill,
you know,
really just depends.
I feel you on the hamburger grill.
There's like a French fry one.
I saw the other day that I was just like,
yeah,
I like that.
and we got a couple,
we got a couple of people on the stage right now.
Speaking of,
you know,
the community,
we got quarter of milk.
I know he's heavy in the community for iron paw gang,
a quarter of milk.
Wanted to ask you real quick.
yeah.
What have you seen from,
from the community being inside the community?
We just had,
you know,
Adam talk a little bit about,
the,
the sub dows,
that have started to permeate.
what,
what are you kind of seeing from,
from the community?
Hey,
I'm a girl surprised.
I'll start off with that one.
I get that a lot.
firstly,
man,
I need to change my PFP to an iron paw sitting up here.
I mean,
I'm really recognizable as quarter milk,
but I'm looking down at all the other PFPs and just as amazing at the
community it is.
And I don't have one.
So I think today might be the day I have to change it.
but I think community has been amazing.
Like they said,
Adam has created something that is perfect for token frame.
it is something that's not just a work of art is so much that went into a
different traits,
the sound,
you know,
just by itself.
It's amazing.
And the fact that he has more factions and it's lore and,
you know,
he just kind of quickly dropped,
you know,
the,
that it could become a game or it can be so much more.
You know what I mean?
Like the thought that it went into,
this isn't just something that happened overnight.
He's built this for over a year.
And I think people are really excited about it.
We just have to continue to get the word out.
And,
you know,
people like Vincent,
everybody that just keeps supporting.
It's been awesome.
and IPG on top.
We will get there.
I promise.
I like the milk carton.
Very cute.
but yeah,
I think an IPG could,
could be fitting.
Yeah.
We got Vincent on the stage as well.
I know you're somebody who,
is accumulating.
what do you,
why do you love collecting this art?
Yeah.
Cool times for having me up in a quarter milk.
Shout out to you.
And Adam,
I'm glad to be on the stage with you.
Yeah.
I just want to share my two cents because,
you know,
on our YouTube channel,
we've been covering NFT collections for,
both Solana,
Ethereum,
now even Polygon over the past,
over those past two years.
And it's really hard to find an exciting project that you,
you know,
connect with.
Well,
well,
with the community,
with the artwork.
I think what's really standing out with this collection,
that there's a reason why I'm acutelying is because,
you know,
I've always been a big fan of voxel monkeys for so long.
And it's been really hard for me to get an entry price because,
you know,
you're,
you're seeing floor prices of multi hundreds to even multi thousands of
Solana,
which converted into us dollars is quite a bit of money.
And so now,
you know,
I was trying to score a whitelist for this,
you know,
iron Paul gang for so long.
And I'm glad that Adam had taken his time to curate this artwork for so
long,
because you can tell in every single trait that he has that you can tell
there's some intention,
but also the nostalgic memorabilia within those traits.
And I think that really touches a note on people who grow from all ages
from,
you know,
I think from like 24 to even 45,
depending on what year you were born.
So most of these traits I'm looking at,
I'm like,
wow,
you know,
I can imagine that the IP rights for these,
it could attract big name brands,
but also,
you know,
there's some talk around maybe possibly future down the road that there
could be actual toys.
And I'm like,
this is the first time as a grown ass 37 year old man where I'm like,
these collectible figurines,
if that were to happen in the future,
it would be majorly bullish on top of having an NFT where you have those
rights.
And so when I look at the community,
the community is super strong.
The PFP artwork is actually quite amazing.
I'm seeing all the PFPs right now with iron paw gang in the chat,
but also how supportive they are with each other.
I mean,
just me talking with quarter milk,
you know,
via online through these,
you know,
posts just makes me feel like I'm really connecting with somebody.
And that's something you cannot price in.
That's in fact,
it's actually priceless.
It's something where,
you know,
that this collection is going to be bullish in the short to immediate
term.
In my point of view,
just to close it off,
this collection at its lowest price point should be at least one
Ethereum.
I mean,
right now it's at zero.
0.26 at the time of this recording.
And it's only,
I've only seen people accumulate with only 8% lists on the floor.
So with that said,
just want to give a shout out to you guys.
Thank you so much for having me up.
And yeah,
thank you so much.
Yeah.
I appreciate your perspective there,
Vincent.
I just shot you a follow,
man.
Thanks for coming up.
And yeah,
it's always cool to see collectors with,
with conviction and hear their POV.
Adam question for you about iron paw gang.
So we've seen with,
you know,
other RCC projects,
it's,
it's about the R.
But we've seen,
you know,
invisible friends did a Kith collab.
I mean,
we've seen cool collabs.
Where do you see iron paw gang IP being used?
Other than just the images and the,
you know,
the MOVs that we're looking at.
Do you,
do you foresee any collaborations,
anything down the line for iron paw gang?
As of right now,
everything is on the table,
right?
So I,
I would love to do a game or I would love to do a,
I would love to do a toy.
I think all of those possibilities are one of the reasons why I think the IP is,
has strength and has potential.
And then even,
you know,
the,
the holders IP licenses that they own the license for the NFT that they,
they hold.
Even,
you know,
even short term,
short,
short form animated content.
I think,
I think it has the potential to scale to all of that stuff.
So yeah,
for sure.
I think I'm,
I'm optimistic and ambitious about where this can go.
And all of that stuff is certainly on the table.
God.
Yeah.
I think the thing that gets me at like the,
the physicals would be something really cool.
I don't even,
that would be,
wow.
Imagine waking up Christmas morning,
you're a 10 year old child and you see a bulldozer with,
you know,
French fries sticking out of it.
Just,
it would really,
it would really warm the heart.
I think.
How long have you been last,
last question for you?
How long have you been animating?
Because you're awesome.
Which would give me,
give us a little story.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I appreciate that.
It's been,
it's been a long time for those of you who know me or know my story.
I work professionally in the web to space.
And,
and I guess my two,
I've been doing it for like 12 to 13 years now working for media and tech
brands.
And my two,
I would say my two biggest claim to fames are I animated the A24 film logo
that you see before all of the really iconic and,
and culturally important TV shows and films.
And I also worked on the,
the Google rebrand dynamic identity that they rolled out,
I think in 20,
2014.
But yeah,
I've been,
been animating for,
for a really long time.
I went to art school with DK.
He's an old friend.
So yeah,
that's,
that's just like the,
the cloth that I'm cut from.
So I,
I tried to apply those 12,
13 years of experience to this collection and really,
really make it,
you know,
something that I felt I could feel proud of,
you know,
10 years down the line.
Yeah,
certainly timeless.
You know,
I'm,
I'm in my room right now.
I got,
I got turbo man.
I got like one of those old turbo mans from jingle all the way.
And,
you know,
for some reason,
iron paw gang just gives me like that sense of nostalgia to,
there's something that I'm nostalgic for that,
you know,
isn't really even nostalgic.
This,
this project came out,
what last week?
And I'm really excited to see the future.
I think there's so many possibilities.
I really appreciate you joining the stage today.
And yeah,
I'm a big fan.
Shout out to everybody in the crowd.
It was an IPG gang.
Appreciate you,
man.
Thanks for having me.
Appreciate it.
Fire.
All right,
cool.
Yeah.
Go follow iron paw gang.
Appreciate everyone that came up quarter of milk.
And,
and we had some other people,
we'll chime in there.
Appreciate everyone in the crowd joining from IPG.
We got it.
We got another,
we're just doing,
we're just doing big guests today,
guys.
I mean,
by the way,
280 people listening right now,
shout out to all of you guys.
Make sure to give me a follow.
If you like this type of content,
give all these speakers a follow.
there,
there's a lot of great people on the stage right now.
but maybe none greater than saved souls.
This is arguably the hottest project out right now.
and a mysterious one.
but we're going to talk a little bit about what they're doing.
Save souls.
Welcome captain.
Welcome to the stage.
what's up cold times.
How you doing,
man?
Fantastic.
I put out a tweet earlier today and I said,
there's,
there's a play out there that not that many people are talking about,
but it's really,
really obvious.
And mostly everyone responded and said,
save souls.
Why do you think people are getting so excited about save souls right now?
You guys feel like a train that can't be stopped.
I hope so,
man.
I appreciate those kind words.
That's,
that's all the community just absolutely crushing it.
in regards to why that's the case,
I think it's just because we took a different approach to what the,
current meta seems to be right.
Let me start from this.
We reverse engineered this.
So we really tried to start with the end in mind.
We watched the 2021 bull market and we saw how amazing and how exciting and
how energetic,
you know,
just the vibe was,
and it was such a beautiful time to be in NFTs.
And then we saw what 2022 came with and we just saw how everyone became so
pessimistic and,
and tribal.
And what we realized is that during 2021 communities is what made things
thrive.
And at a certain point that started to fall off to where the community
wasn't nearly as strong.
People were worried about silly shit.
So what we went and did is we looked at all the mistakes of all the past and
we looked at all the successes and we just try to take the best of every one of
them.
And we thought if we could make the ideal project that we would love to be in,
how would we do it?
And what we came up with was save souls.
And how did like,
like what,
what was this project just came seemingly out of nowhere?
What,
what was like the,
how did this all come to be?
Cause it just came on my radar.
I saw like,
shout out to slinger who's a speaker right now.
I saw him tweeting about it very early on,
but tell us a little bit about the thought process of,
of how this thing got,
you know,
started.
Yeah,
absolutely.
So one thing that,
you know,
as you watched in 2022,
there was a lot of over promise and under delivering that would happen in,
in different projects.
And then along with that,
you know,
there's the whole meme about,
you know,
can the devs do something when there's an announcement coming.
And so what we,
what we learned when we figured out is that consistency is what people want.
People don't need big bombshell announcements once every three months.
If they have consistency,
that's what they need.
So we wanted to do this kind of as a sleeper project.
And what I mean by that is we just did the traditional collab building process with all of our collab partners.
We decided to airdrop them a safe soul rather than doing a whitelist.
One part of the 2021 bull run that we didn't like was the whitelist.
This grind sitting in your chair all day with the fake interactions on discord.
And we said,
how can we get that same energy without that grind feeling?
So we did a completely public mint and then we airdropped all of our collab partners and the project did pretty well.
We sold out within the first 25 minutes and most people just thought it was a PFP project.
We didn't promise anything.
We didn't say that we were delivering anything.
It was just,
this is strictly art and that's it.
And then as soon as the reveal came,
we dropped the bombshell of,
hey,
the only way that you can reveal your PFPs and your NFTs is you have to build a community.
And the only way you can build a community is by helping others out.
And so we flipped the switch in terms of instead of building a project and then having a community come,
the project could only work if the community was being built in the process.
And in the process of this happening,
it built some of the most beautiful relationships,
camaraderie,
and you have a bunch of people from a bunch of different communities that are all in one focus,
central hub with the same mindset now of we're here to help and serve others.
And we're here saving the space in a sense of we're bringing the bull run back.
We're bringing the hype back.
We're bringing the positivity,
the good vibes and just the character growth to come with it.
Yeah.
And I think that's evidence through the life preservers,
like not only like the bull run,
but it's just like a lot of people were getting disenchanted and getting bored and kind of burnt from different projects.
And I feel like that life preservers,
you guys literally throwing out something that's like,
Hey,
we're here to do something fun and kind of pulling people back into the space that we all love.
That's web three.
Yesterday,
you guys tweeted out something.
I want to ask you about it.
Phase two.
Phase two,
baby.
Sounds fucking hype.
So it's pretty fun.
It's pretty fun.
So here comes the other part,
right?
During 2022,
we realized that projects would be really hyped.
They would mint out and then they would fall flat on their face right away because everything,
everything was overpromised and was not able to be delivered.
Everyone would collect the mint funds and then they would have no ideas and no execution.
And it would take three to five months for something to happen.
And when you're spending your money on an investment and NFT,
whatever the case is,
you know,
it's all speculative risk,
but you want to be able to see something tangible right away.
Buyer's remorse is one of the quickest things that happens as soon as you mint the project.
So how can you from A to B,
A to C and so on and so forth,
create something that keeps a whole community engaged and their attention focused from the moment they get in to the moment that they potentially leave.
And so phase one was the whole innovation process of you have to help somebody reveal their NFTs because you can't reveal your NFTs themselves.
And people thought that that was the end and then that was it.
Well,
the problem is we have phase two,
phase three and phase four already mapped out.
Phase two is already done,
even though we're just starting it today or rather yesterday.
And so phase two becomes the gamification of finding the treasure.
What is the treasure of web three?
Well,
that's what everyone's currently on the,
on the quest for right now.
And so if you hop in the discord,
what you'll find is that on,
you know,
at eight 30,
nine 30,
and then on a Tuesday,
it feels like the bull run 2021 because you have people that are searching for clues on this gamified quest.
Everything we're doing has been an Easter egg hunt from how we minted the art we created,
how we structure discords,
how we structure announcements,
how we structure graphics.
Everything is a massive Easter egg hunt.
And so 24 seven,
you have people talking about what the hell's going on.
What does this mean?
And you have a whole collective community that the utility is the community.
And when I mean that,
I'm saying everyone is always working together.
No one's worrying about dumb shit because they're trying to get to this treasure chest of what web three is.
I just got to say something.
Like I said earlier,
like,
you know,
you're doing more things than just bring the bull bull run back.
I think you actually might be bringing the bull run back because,
it's not definitely not me.
We've got 330 people in here right now.
And that's,
I used to only get those numbers like a year and a half ago.
And I'm,
I'm all in.
Like,
I just think the community engagement is so important.
And why do projects succeed?
It's because that type of community engagement.
So I think,
you know,
these,
these treasure hunts,
the maps,
it will all work out because people are interested in it.
I'm actually,
I'm actually on a marketplace right now and I'm,
I'm,
I'm buying a safe soul.
I just found like a one with 3d glasses right on the floor.
I don't really understand why that's.
Yeah,
that's a bit.
That's a good one.
All,
all the traits are great.
So we have this little,
we have a few different inside jokes going on right now.
You know,
one of the inside jokes is there's no floor safe souls.
There's just rares and ultra rares because everything looks so good that it
doesn't matter if it's rarity 9,999 or rarity one,
it's all pristine.
And it was built that way because we want people to be proud of the PFPs that
they're rocking.
And it was everything down to the minute detail was built just for this
reason.
I got my brother,
sir screen.
And I know he's heavy on the creeps movement.
He's got his hand up.
What's up,
sir screen.
my lizard.
I heard you were trying to maybe grab one of these souls.
And I just thought I would recommend grabbing a snork,
you know,
snorks to the moon,
bro.
this guy's a trade shiller.
my brother slinger had to come in here and pie real quick.
let me,
let me ask slinger a question real quick.
Cause slinger,
you're somebody who's,
you were literally,
you literally define alpha before the off.
I saw you tweeting about save souls very,
very early on.
You've been ahead of the game when it comes to a lot of different communities in
the NFT space.
What,
what made you convinced that save souls was something?
before I start talking,
my baby is in the talking phase where,
yeah,
she just rambles like I do.
So anyone who knows me really well can just imagine how much this baby talks.
So she's screaming.
But yeah,
this,
this,
this project is like,
you just know sometimes,
like I'm a designer,
I'm an artist.
You know,
I work full time UX UI.
So I pay attention to things like brand,
sort of like congruity,
like just like how consistent is it across the board?
Are they like,
they just kind of like instantly when I saw the website,
I was like,
this is nice.
Like this is polished.
Why is it this cheap?
And it just like kind of appeared like a really overlooked opportunity.
Everyone's been talking about certain projects in the past two weeks.
And it was just like,
a buddy told me that he was going to get some,
right?
You know,
he got like 20 or 30.
And then we all kind of just started buying more and more.
And I was just like,
why is this dipped so much?
It was like 0.004,
0.008.
The unique holder count was really high.
And I was just like,
well,
this is looking really good.
And so it started to go down,
I guess like mentors and,
and whatnot.
We're looking for the quick profits,
you know,
the spaces.
It like,
even just like the inception of it just defines everything that's happened in
Web3.
Like people are just looking for that quick exit.
Like they just want to recoup their gas money,
whether it be like the mentors or the botters or trying to like,
you know,
reset their initial like,
you know,
cost investment.
And,
and so,
I mean,
that's,
that's what I did,
you know?
So I just like observed everything and I was just like,
I'm going to go in as hard as I can on this because you know me,
it's just like,
I get on ground level and just try to find that like one project that I can stick
around for a long time.
Like last time it was genuine undead.
That was August,
you know,
and I was,
I was deep in there for like six,
six,
five months and,
you know,
just enjoy the hell out of it.
Right.
Like I love one collection at a time and to really fully enjoy it.
So yeah,
I think this is it.
You know,
this is like the next big thing.
It's like,
everything is like kind of ticking boxes and the discord wasn't open.
Like I'm just buying these and I have no idea what's coming.
Right.
And it's just like the discord opens up.
Everyone hops in there.
We're trying to save each other's NITs to reveal them.
We're revealing them.
We're seeing the art.
I'm like,
dude,
this art is perfect.
Like where are the floors?
It's not maybe everyone's style.
It grows on you.
I think,
I think it is everyone's style.
I just pinned the one that I just bought.
Cause it's perfect.
Like it has my OG.
Like I used to have a cool cat with an orange beanie and this one has an
orange beanie and that's got the 3d glasses.
Like it just feels like cool times.
But dude,
like I feel like,
I mean,
you're just talking about your child.
Like when your child liked this art,
like it's very accessible.
It's not too grim.
It's not.
for sure.
For sure.
Yeah.
And you know,
you know,
what's like,
what's so gigabrain about them is that we know how many projects that
feel to kids that like that dads and moms and families will buy.
There's a profanity,
profanity filter in the discord.
I was like,
I've never seen this.
Like we're D gens.
Like,
shouldn't we be able to post what we want?
No gifts.
I think you could post pictures,
but like the entire engagement at the start was people talking to each
other.
It wasn't gift spam.
You know,
we could see what everyone was saying and,
and talk like everyone knows each other.
It's been less than a week.
I have 4,000 messages in there.
I've got a problem,
but you know,
it's just like,
we're just in there.
You know,
everyone's got a lot of messages there.
It's nonstop.
You know,
someone posts something,
there's 150 reacts.
So I mean,
get in there,
man.
Yeah.
I'm a,
I'm a hop in just cause like it's rare to see movements like this.
So yeah,
definitely.
Yeah,
man.
For sure.
For sure.
And I wanted to ask save souls himself.
I mean,
we had surf screen come up and talk about a specific trait.
Was it two,
but I don't even fucking know.
Whatever.
what have you seen from specific trait communities?
That's kind of impressed you is,
have there been certain traits that you feel like have kind of,
understood the mission,
understood how to maybe band together to solve the,
the,
you know,
the maps and like,
what have you seen from some of the sub trait communities?
Man,
you're going to get me in trouble here.
man,
you'll get me in trouble.
for sure.
Let's do it.
Let's call some.
For sure.
It would definitely,
it's definitely the crown.
The crowns right now,
them,
them boys do not play.
They are very,
very strong and united.
If you drop a crown on the floor,
it's like dropping gold.
Like it will get scooped up so quick.
So I would say the crown gang followed by the tattoo gang,
would probably be like my top two in terms of just amount of strength of what
people are picking up.
But there's,
there's so many,
the,
the black backgrounds as well are really,
really hot.
So you can't really go wrong.
This should have been my first question because now,
now I'm like,
I'm filtering.
I'm like,
I just,
I just bought another one.
All right,
let's black back.
Oh yeah.
I don't see any black,
black backgrounds.
here's damn.
That one's fresh.
There's a lot of really cool traits,
man.
I really liked this.
This almost reminds me of like,
like some OG Nickelodeon,
like,
you know,
Rocco's modern life,
like,
Doug,
like,
I don't know.
It gives me like going back to that word nostalgia again.
there's a trait on here called just sacred souls.
How did,
what does,
what does that exactly mean?
those are just the one of ones.
okay.
Word.
Yeah.
They're the ones.
Damn.
The deep sea diver.
Fuck.
I might need that for something's fishy.
Holy shit.
and it's animated too.
Oh yeah.
That's like my discord.
that's number one rarity.
Fuck.
I'm going to throw a wee bit on it right now.
The last sale was 0.5.
Who the fuck sold that for 0.5?
That was four days ago.
Damn.
Gomba fucking came up on it.
what,
what's impressed you with the most safe souls about,
about the community?
Cause I mean,
it's not every day a project just,
you know,
mints out and,
just becomes like a movement.
It's,
it's the amount of people that are taking accountability and taking it upon
themselves to go be their own type of leader.
So typically from what we've seen,
you know,
when you,
when you run a project,
you,
you delegate certain tasks and responsibilities,
right?
And from probably day one,
maybe day two,
there's just been select people that will just go do stuff by themselves.
They'll go organize raids.
I don't know if my girl Nancy's on here.
She's such a sweetheart right now.
We have three,
maybe four maxed out Twitter groups of just raids.
And Nancy just did this out of the goodness of her heart.
No one asked her to do it.
of course we're taking care of her for it,
but it's like,
that's what I love is that people are just selflessly going out of their way to help push
something that they believe is a good movement.
And because they're doing so they're actually being rewarded for it,
you know,
from the treasury ball.
And it's not something that they knew about.
That's not something that they asked for,
but it,
it really resonates with just the heart of the mission that we're really,
we're here to save web three.
Like we're in such a beautiful space that everyone can win.
Like it,
if we can get back to the idea of everyone can win and we're not each other's competition,
we're competing with each other,
not against each other.
This thing will blow up so much quicker.
And I don't mean save souls.
I mean,
web three in general,
I mean,
mass adoption,
I mean,
moving liquidity from web two to web three,
like that's the overall mission.
So if we can set the presence of that's what,
you know,
we want to go make happen and we'll go be the change and we can start some
movements,
then that's kind of where it is.
And people are just kind of taking that mission to heart.
So I think that in itself has been the most impressive part of the community to me.
I've always pride myself on having the alpha before the alpha,
but I'll put my hand up.
you know,
I'm not going to say I was the earliest to save souls.
I'm just figuring things out right now.
I see a tweet from a couple of days ago where it's,
you know,
one of those looking glasses,
like binocular looking glass for like a pirate ship.
And it says new achievements await.
Are we unlocking new items?
What is that exactly?
Yes.
So everything that we're doing is gamification,
meaning from day one,
we set up custom profiles and portfolios for people.
So when you minted,
you got your own profile page right away.
So again,
we didn't mention any utility.
We just brought it right away and we didn't,
we put it in printer faces and then people understood what was started to
happen.
And so when you hop onto save souls dot art slash profile,
you enter in your wallet address,
which you can do right now,
and you'll see your own custom profile for cool times.
You'll see the NFTs that you own,
and then you'll see a list of achievements.
And so as we go through these phases,
phase one,
we were helping to save souls and helping to reveal the PFPs.
So there were three different life or three different lifeguard achievements
just for that.
Right now we're going through a different phase.
So the whole idea is we keep people engaged through achievements and with
achievements come rewards.
And so it's ultimately it's,
we're stringing people along through engagement and gamification.
So everyone is rewarded for activity and it feels good.
It's like when you're playing Xbox and PlayStation and that,
that achievement pops up when you're in the middle of,
you know,
halo,
you usually hit the home screen button just to see what the achievement is.
Well,
that's what's happening right now is whenever someone's doing something and
they're getting a new achievement,
people are refreshing their profile page,
you know,
two,
three,
four times a day just to see what achievements are popping up.
This was a free fucking mint.
Wow.
Yeah,
it was free.
And then the additionals were 0.009.
I want to also say,
cause it sums it up a little bit better.
I'm going to try and keep it to like two sentences.
so there's the reveal process.
New.
The achievements,
flawless,
gasless transactions for everything.
Nothing has failed.
I don't know who these guys are.
This isn't their first rodeo.
they,
I either are trolling us with these Easter eggs and hints,
but like they just know the space.
They know what they're doing.
So whatever is going to come,
I'm like not going to miss it.
Like,
that's all I could say.
It's just,
it's just too good.
I always had the alpha.
You know that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've never faded you slinger.
Did you want to say something to save souls?
I cut you off.
you're good.
I was just saying he gets it.
This man gets it.
Yeah.
Fuck.
Well,
somebody just tweeted at me.
They,
they showed me some of their achievements.
They got the narwhal award,
a humpback award,
and I see a question mark blue whale award.
So God is what,
what happens when I get all the awards?
Man,
if I told you,
you'd have to kill me.
it wouldn't be fun.
Whoa,
man,
you too,
you way too cool,
brother.
You over here doing great things for this.
Yeah,
you're right.
Family friendly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But no,
man,
if we set up the treasure hunt of the year,
I can't say anything about anything,
but I'll say this,
the achievements obviously play a role.
Obviously you want to make sure you can get as many as possible.
There may be a point where if you don't have a certain amount of achievements,
you may not be able to participate in certain things.
you know,
let's go get some shit done.
Let's,
let's make sure that we're on top of it.
We're engaged.
we build as a community and we go get all the achievements we can.
I'm ready to run through a fucking brick wall.
Sir screen,
please,
please don't shill the tubes or the snorkel or whatever the fuck you say.
What do you got for us?
Sir screen.
I mean,
I did reply to your pinned with,
with my clean snorkel,
but that's not what I was going to say.
I was going to say,
you know,
I joined the community early and I was really excited,
like getting that creeps vibe in the discord,
you know,
which really captivated me.
Cause I think right now,
like everything's kind of running to zero and you know,
it's,
it's the usual mint out game and everybody's buying to flip and all the rest of
And I get in that discord and everybody's like,
everybody's just having a good time.
Nobody's talking about the floor.
Everybody's talking about the ones that they're seeing and,
and like what,
you know,
what they wanted to pick up next.
And,
and how diverse the community was,
was super impressive to me.
I mean,
obviously it's nice when you join discord and there's people,
you know,
from the web three space,
you know,
from a variety of different projects and they're all just in there chilling,
having a good time.
The VC is a late cool times,
probably a little too rowdy for you,
but you might check it out.
You know,
what is that supposed to mean?
Too lit for me.
I am lit.
I'm the Liddiest.
honestly,
I did see here.
I did see the snorkel.
You,
that one is very fresh.
And,
yeah,
I agree.
The snorkels are really fire.
yeah,
I'm kind of,
I've been like trying to do this interview while also like,
I'm still have my page open to the number one ranked,
diver.
that guy might need to come home with me.
If anyone knows gone back,
let me see his wallet here.
fuck.
He's got,
yeah.
Tell him,
tell him if anyone knows him,
tell him that that needs to come home for me.
I'll,
I'll two,
I'll give him the two X.
I'll give him one.
Actually,
what is that?
One ETH FUD?
I don't know.
I'll,
I want it.
It just looks really cool.
fuck.
All right.
I gotta,
I gotta finish this space.
I can't just go on a deep,
dark path and to save.
So save souls is one of those projects that has so many cool traits that he can just
be like,
it'll be like two days.
I haven't shaved.
I haven't showered.
family's like,
are you okay?
And it's like,
save souls.
We have memes about that.
Do you?
Yeah,
of course.
Of course.
You nailed it.
That's exactly what it is.
I mean,
the community is very welcoming.
Somebody just tweeted at me,
some,
some like full size pictures of the,
the PFP that I just bought and the pin tweet up there.
so yeah,
I haven't had anyone do that for me in like a year and a half.
so bull markets back on confirmed by the captain himself,
save souls,
go give them a follow back.
I feel like we can,
we can go on a lot longer with you guys.
We've got a couple other guests,
but let's do this again soon.
I'm in,
I'm going to join the discord later.
Yeah.
Cool.
Grab a floor,
grab any floor.
I don't know what the trait for on the snorkels are,
but I know that I have one or two and I'll just,
I'll trade it with you.
Hit me up later.
All right.
That's it.
Wait,
what,
what are we trading?
I have like two snorkels or something.
I don't know what the floor is on those.
I don't care.
Just grab one floor or two and then I'll just give you one and trade it with me.
Trade me whatever for you.
The cowboy hat on the floor is kind of fire.
It's kind of lit.
I don't know.
I got to listen to Cap though.
I'm kind of hunting for tattoos.
There's a black background.
That looks pretty good.
All right.
Yeah.
I'll hit you up,
brother.
Yeah.
Go give Slinger a follow,
by the way,
guys,
because he's literally the definition of a before a and follow my guy.
Cap save souls.
Let's do this again soon.
Cap.
Yes,
sir.
Hey,
real quick.
If anyone likes and retweets the post you,
you put up,
we'll give away a save soul in 24 hours.
Sheesh.
You heard the man.
You heard the captain.
Captain's orders.
Go light,
reach week,
go raid that.
And somebody's going to be getting saved.
Absolutely.
We appreciate you,
man.
Thank you for having us.
Thank you to all the wonderful communities and projects that are on here right now.
Salute to you guys.
I will be giving you all a follow whoever speaking and much love.
We'll see you soon.
Much fucking love.
Yeah.
Holy shit.
What a crew.
Yeah.
Over 300 people in here for save souls,
iron pod gang.
What a group.
We're going to go back to an upcoming project here right now,
guys.
So if you missed save souls,
if you usually miss projects,
let's,
we got some upcoming projects.
We're going to talk to you right now.
We got retro hunters right now.
What's that retro.
What up?
What up?
Cool times.
Glad to be able to jump on here and talk to you one-on-one finally.
And it's great to be up here with a group of,
you know,
such monumental projects,
save souls,
realm hunters,
iron pod gang,
the whole nine yards.
So yeah,
glad to be up here.
Thanks so much for the opportunity.
I saw,
I saw my good friend,
aunt T boy the other day,
describe retro hunters as having a team full of chads.
Tell us a little about the team because it seems like it's stacked.
Of course.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I'll dive in a little bit about like who we are,
the project,
our team,
of course,
and kind of why,
why we're going to be the chads of the gaming space.
So pretty much we're a Web3 oriented gaming company aiming to really breach
into the Web2 space with our competitive edge being,
you know,
asset ownership and the benefits that those bring.
And you may ask like,
okay.
what's different about you guys from the other bunch of projects that are
aiming to achieve the same goal besides just obviously the niche in the
game itself.
And I think the main thing is just like our Web3 native team,
right?
Pretty much everyone from our team is Web3 native,
except for a handful of developers and ultimately understanding the space,
being able to scale in the space and having the people that have successfully
done it in the past to replicate that process at a much higher scale is
ultimately what's going to make us,
you know,
you know,
much different from our predecessors.
So me personally,
I'm the founder.
I'm wire Nick.
I can't join up from my main account since Twitter won't let me join from a PC,
but I've been in the Web3 space full time for the past three years.
Now I created my first Web3 business around two years ago,
and that's,
that's been scaling ever since.
It's not my full time thing anymore.
Focusing on retro hunters now,
but that's doing that's done around a million dollars in profit almost since we
started it.
And it's been able to generate over eight figures of profits for our members of
that company.
And so,
yeah,
I mean,
I've also done marketing for a few projects,
done advisory,
advisory and helped out a ton within the space,
scaled,
traded,
degened the whole nine yards.
I've been both the flippers.
I've been the bag holders.
I've been the active community members.
You know,
some of my bags right now are just like a Zuki's,
Valhalla's beans,
everything kind of cover everything used to be a doodle a cool times,
but you know,
we're,
we're down six figures on that one.
We don't talk about it,
but you know,
I know my strengths as a founder.
I know my weaknesses.
So keeping those weaknesses in mind,
we've gone forward and generated the Avengers of a team pre mint pretty much to
go forward and execute at the highest level possible throughout some little
soundbite stats for us in terms of like names,
statistics,
et cetera.
In terms of our team,
you know,
we've accumulated some of the best advisors in the space.
We have some of the best developers,
game strategists,
et cetera.
You know,
we brought in a $10 million evaluation pre seed before even having a company,
having any sort of social,
any sort of social recollection or traction to prove ourselves through.
And the reason we were able to attain that,
I think is obviously through our team.
Some,
some names on the stage right now are Mishu Min and Tima founder of DGEN radio and
Fankari.
They really help with a lot of the marketing networking strategy,
et cetera,
alongside of my personal expertise.
But on more of the tech side,
the things that you don't see on a day to day basis,
my co-founder and CTO,
he was a previous senior engineer at Amazon.
He's been in a solidity developer for the past six years,
started crypto mining in 2017.
You know,
he's pretty much the yin to my yang.
I come up with all the cool shit.
He makes it happen.
Additionally,
we have,
you know,
top designers from Netflix,
Pixar,
IMAX.
And he's now working full time for us,
Brandon Richard going on from there within the gaming world.
We have a really stacked team there as well.
Ben McKenzie is one of our games specialists and strategists.
He was a previous professional gamer within the smite world.
He has over a quarter million dollars in winnings and also helped them a lot
with their game development strategy and execution.
Additionally,
one of our advisors,
Rustin,
he was the founder and CEO of Highground,
which is a physical tech wearable company,
kind of a unique niche that he kind of started on his own.
And he recently got acquired by a hundred thieves,
which is probably the biggest gaming organization in the world.
So having access to his network,
his expertise and his knowledge is just highly beneficial.
And so,
yeah,
that's kind of our team that was able to achieve that level of expertise and
respect to be able to go forward without even a product,
social media,
social traction,
and be able to earn,
you know,
10 million pre-seed valuation.
We didn't end up moving forward with it due to the constraints that it
would put on our company,
pretty much turning us all into employees rather than founders.
So rather I've bootstrapped over $400,000,
which has allowed us the runway to be in development for over a year,
create work with our AAA game development studio for a year plus and pretty much
hire and manage a team of 60 plus people to then get us to the point of post-mint in
which we have a series A in our pipeline.
yeah,
a lot of exciting stuff going on and feel free to ask away in terms of anything that
is on your mind,
any questions about our project product post-mint pre-mint.
You got it.
You just had to bring up the doodles side of it.
You just had to mention why.
How would you do that?
I can't go two hours on a Twitter space with someone just now.
Yeah,
you're,
you're definitely an OG in this space and we,
you know,
you got,
you got a couple of your advisors up here on the stage that I'm fans of,
of course.
I mean,
you,
you,
you guys could have done a lot of different things.
You chose to do a gaming project.
That's tough.
That's not easy.
Why go the hard route?
Well,
I mean,
personally,
in terms of gathering financial gain within the Web3 space,
it hadn't been a very large struggle for me,
regardless of,
you know,
how corny that may sound.
you know,
you know,
my previous business was doing six figures a month in profit trading alone.
I was generating probably around the same.
And I,
I kind of had an outlook on life that like,
I want to do more.
I want to create something notable and I want the,
the best team and the best access to be able to achieve that.
And as an avid gamer,
my whole life,
me and my co-founder are both literally nerds when it comes to gaming.
we realized that Web3 by far had the biggest opportunity within the gaming space.
at the time of us creating the idea for retro hunters in February of 2022,
no one had really been pursuing the route of Web3 activation within gaming as we were aiming to do,
which was asset ownership.
And it's,
I'm highly,
highly appreciative of,
you know,
the first movers like you,
the labs who have gone through and battle tested it,
and confirmed that,
you know,
our concepts really were going in the right direction.
so it's honestly,
it's a,
it's a long-term game for me in terms of my input and output compared to the monetary gain that we bring in from Mint.
It wouldn't make sense for my time,
but I'm not here for the short term.
I'm here to scale a community,
bring this to light and make this one of the,
you know,
the leading gaming companies in the world,
which,
I'm not too sure if you know,
but those have the opportunity of reaching nine,
10 figures,
11 figures plus.
So that,
that's what I'm here for the longterm and utilizing Web3 is the vehicle to achieve.
That is my ultimate goal.
So we got one of the goats in the space TMA on the stage.
What's up,
bro?
Thank you so much.
You are a goat.
I'm not a goat in any way.
I'm far from it,
but thank you so much for hosting this space.
Love you,
bro.
we haven't chatted in quite a long time.
so glad you hosted this space.
There's so many amazing projects up here.
Ironpaw gang.
I'm a holder,
save souls.
I'm a veil there.
shout out to all of you.
Like,
you know,
you guys are killing it.
Absolutely.
so many amazing people down here,
but yeah,
moving back to retro hunters,
right?
Like I think people just think of gaming NFTs and they kind of get scared,
but they don't realize there's so much potential within the gaming industry.
And this market is just untapped right now,
right?
Like we're literally waiting for one person to do it.
Right.
And I think retro hunters has potential to do that.
Not only does it have the stack team,
but the fact that the game itself,
and I,
I'm going to give a little alpha.
I've actually seen the games behind the scenes,
but it's super interesting,
right?
Like it's super unique.
It kind of brings in both web two and web three and it combines it together.
So I,
I think there's something there.
There's a lot to the gaming aspect itself.
It's just this raw untapped market that people aren't paying attention to,
but I think it will boom in the near future.
Yeah,
definitely.
And kind of going off of that a cool time.
So feel free to cut me off.
If you want to add anything else,
but one,
you know,
financial note that people always mentioned to follow after is fall after the
industrial money,
right?
Most of the times the big people that know what's going on are the big people
that have a lot of money and know what to invest in.
And we've seen constantly throughout this past year,
even during a bear market,
we'll see venture capital firms investing millions and if not hundreds of
millions of dollars into web three gaming companies because they ultimately
see the potential.
So us kind of just taking a different approach,
more of a web three native approach,
right?
Due to the fact of how our team is compromised and,
and how we aim to scale.
We're taking a different approach.
We want our community to be those that are early and those that have the
upper hand compared to the industrial,
the,
you know,
all of the higher up investors and market makers within the space as both,
you know,
flipper investor,
community member,
et cetera.
I realized that like,
if you stay true to your initial community,
as safe soul set,
if you stay true,
you stay active,
you constantly provide what's coming next and keep,
you know,
vagueness high while still delivering.
It pretty much creates the ultimate environment for your company to succeed.
And it's,
it's really a cool battle testing grounds that web three has created.
If your company succeeds in web three,
it's one of the best signs for these venture capital firms.
If you look at something like D God,
Suzuki,
they might not be bringing in active revenue from a product,
but they have multi a hundred million dollar valuations.
And it's because,
you know,
they see the capabilities of these teams.
And if we're able to succeed in such a highly volatile and highly unpredictable market,
the,
the,
the scale of which that can reach outside of web three,
utilizing our initial community and stuff as a vehicle is just uncharted.
All right.
I got a question for you.
What's the fucking game?
A hundred percent.
I mean,
we've actually,
one thing that I really take pride in is that we've actually created multiple different gaming.
Yeah.
It's dope.
Well,
sorry to cut you off,
but I'll just say this.
I covered it in my YouTube video,
which if you guys want a little bit more in depth analysis on retro hunters,
I did it on YouTube,
but the website is fucking a one.
All the trailers been a one.
And yeah,
you've built cool mini games just to get involved in the community.
So hat tip there.
Yeah.
A hundred percent.
Let me also go ahead and just pin our website up there on the top for people who are interested in checking it out.
But pretty much our official flagship product that we're aiming to scale with is going to be,
it's in the strategy niche and it's an auto battler style game.
So pretty much it's one of the most highly accepted strategy games because it's easy to onboard users.
And it also allows for,
you know,
a world of different strategies and metas and stuff to be born from.
We've seen some of the top grossing mobile games take this approach.
Things like Clash Royale,
Clash Mini,
all these Supercell native games.
And those are the top contenders in the market.
We're talking games that bring in over a billion dollars of revenue per year and are valued at tens of billions of dollars because it's a gaming style that anyone can learn how to play.
The onboarding,
the conversion is super easy.
And then it also allows,
you know,
try hard gamers,
more of the competitive type of users to really indulge in like the strategy and the different play styles and stuff.
So I also pinned a tweet earlier on of a little sneak peek of our game.
It's also pinned on the top of our feed.
But pretty much that's a little sneak peek of what's actually coming for our game.
We have full gameplay ready to come out in the next very soon time frame.
I don't want to say dates,
but very,
very soon.
And I can't wait to really exceed expectations with what we have coming out.
Are you going with more of an arcade vibe?
Because that's certainly what,
you know,
you get from some of the mini games and,
you know,
the website.
So ultimately the,
the difference within,
like we're creating pretty much a universe of like a lore storyline and really trying to emphasize that emotional connection within our community and our product,
which has been working,
you know,
very well.
So just to throw out some stats out there,
our mini games brought in over a hundred thousand plays in the span of two weeks.
And in order to play,
you had to do things like follow us on Twitter,
like,
and retweet tweet tweets,
refer friends,
et cetera.
So created a really cool organic way of earning whitelists and competing for whitelists.
That was also enjoyable,
but pretty much the approach of like the arcade machine was ultimately to focus the experience,
right?
People value nostalgia so much within the space.
And as you know,
safe souls mentioning previously,
we really want to target those,
those receptors within the brain that let out so much serotonin and enjoyability and creating experiences and giving community members an amazing experience is what we're aiming for.
And arcade games for the mini games was our first approach of achieving that.
So the mini games were arcade games,
but the official game is going to be on your PC.
It's going to be a cartoonized 3D style games utilizing the characters within our lore.
And then we're eventually expanding it out to mobile as a way to bring in no constant revenue,
scale our initial community and really grow the web through space through asset ownership.
Give us,
give us the TLDR real quick on just,
you know,
when is the project coming?
How can people get involved?
I ran a giveaway,
I think yesterday in my discord,
but give us just the highlights on,
you know,
when this whole thing's happening,
how people get involved.
Yeah,
of course.
So in terms of the timeline,
we're definitely aiming to move forward by the end of the month.
A lot of the announcements in terms of the mint variables,
mint pricing and stuff is all going to come out fairly soon.
Being,
you know,
our team is very much within the web three space.
We know how to tread along the thin line of,
you know,
mint price,
mint variables,
and how to make sure that it's competitive enough to not only one target high community members that aren't just there for a quick flip,
but also to kind of subside to the,
to the meta of like making it competitively priced,
if that makes sense.
So in terms of joining in,
one of the best opportunities was to play those arcade games and compete.
Those competitions are now close.
So the main opportunities now are,
you know,
like attending AMAs,
being active in our community,
and we also have an opportunity,
you know,
when it comes to the conclusion of our time up here,
I have a really cool thing.
Yeah.
Give something away.
What the hell,
man?
Do something,
Debs.
Here we go.
Yeah.
You know,
I'll start it up right now.
So if you go to our account,
our discords in our bio through our link tree,
what's a,
what's a,
what's a fun password,
cool times.
What's,
what's something that,
what's a creative little password between retro hunters and cool times.
Retro times.
There we go.
All right.
Everyone that's listening in here,
if you're interested in potentially attaining whitelists,
we'll be giving away three spots to those that joined our discord and
literally just drop retro times in the general chat.
I want to see you guys all spam it in there,
rate the discord,
make sure it's all nice and active.
And we'll be going through picking three of those different commenters and
active community members to be upgraded to whitelist.
And yeah.
And in terms of other opportunities,
it's mainly just joining in being an active community member,
supporting our,
our vision,
supporting our team.
And we have a large team of solely just discord oriented and community
oriented members that are actively looking out for all those different,
you know,
supporting community members within the space.
So be active.
It's,
it's not going ignored.
And we're constantly keeping our community updated with what's going on in
terms of allocation and giving out new opportunities to join our project with
the highest level of conviction.
Yeah.
So head to the discord spam retro times in there,
put,
make them put it on slow mode,
make them be like,
Holy fuck.
This is a bad idea.
You know,
like remember the,
the OG days when it was just the chats would fly like crazy.
go do that right now.
Retro times,
go get yourself hooked up.
And I'm going to,
I'm just going to give my Stephen A.
Smith hot take right now.
Like I'm kind of sick and fucking tired of these gaming projects that it's
just like,
it's a bunch of nerds and they're just like,
yeah,
Nintendo,
we're former Nintendo,
former Sega.
And then they have no idea how to navigate the testy waters of web three.
I think you guys have the perfect mixture of,
you know,
funding and a web three native experience.
So you guys know how to navigate these waters.
You've been through here.
You've got some great advisors.
retro hunters go in the discord right now.
And,
yeah,
thanks for coming on,
bro.
Much love brother.
And yeah,
I highly agree.
I think,
you know,
the web three native should be on the forefront and the developers need to be back there doing
their,
doing their job and make sure the product is enjoyable as possible.
So that's the way we we've created our company.
So thank you so much for the opportunity.
It was great being up here and yeah,
feel free to jump to the discord,
ask any questions.
If you have any,
ping me wire,
Nick in the chat.
I don't mind.
I'm active all day and every day.
So that's my job.
Much love everybody.
Yeah.
Cool.
yeah,
go do that retro times.
That's a pretty cool.
I might just change my name at retro times.
all right.
We've got another dope project on the stage right now.
upcoming project.
Cause again,
it's not just enough to have the alpha need the alpha before the alpha.
so we've got link Marine toes.
They're doing something real cool.
And,
they have,
they have toad PFPs that just look fucking sick,
which I like link Marine toes.
What's up?
Hey,
how are you?
Cool times.
Fantastic.
So just,
just,
just give us,
give us the overview real quick,
because this is a project for chain link lovers.
Do we have any crypto people out there right now?
Did I get that right?
You guys are,
or like kind of a,
the chain link PFP.
Yeah.
So that's,
that's,
the initial target was,
a core community of link Marines,
but now we're shifting our target audience to,
just NFT D gens in general.
having that core community of link Marines,
is important to us because part of the project is,
supporting chain link build projects,
in terms of getting allocations to projects early,
via launch pad that we're voting,
or other airdrops.
But now,
obviously the NFT D gens are,
are different than the,
the crypto D gens.
There's,
there's two different types of D gens and they both are,
awesome in their own respects.
Also,
I just want to give a quick shout out to all the projects that were spoke,
they have spoke before.
Love the art on literally all of them.
Communities look super strong.
So this makes me bullish for,
just NFT projects in general,
moving forward in the bear market.
So props to you guys.
but I'll just go into like a quick overview.
So it's,
a community project go by community in general.
Like I,
I work for the community essentially.
I'm a link Marine.
I've,
I've been here since 2020.
I've ran my own successful podcast called base space where we brought on 70 plus,
industry leaders ranging from open C to face to blue network,
chain link.
If you go to base space dial,
you can check out all those people.
I've missed quite a few of those mentioning,
but,
so I'm kind of in charge and helping with the community and,
and content on this side.
but holders will get access to white white list and,
airdrop allocations from future build projects.
that's kind of our goal right now.
In addition to build projects,
we're looking to be a launch pad for other NFT projects.
They're looking to launch their NFT and,
other crypto projects as well.
with a focus on obviously legitimate projects,
pump and dumps.
We don't want any of the scam projects coming on.
but our longer term goal is to establish ourselves in the chain link ecosystem as
the main supporter of the build projects.
if you're not familiar with chain link build,
it's a new initiative that bill,
the chain link is set out in their economics 2.0 to help fund,
revenue in the projects and reward holders of staked link.
so we are building something called the lily pad,
hence the toads.
but that will be our launch pad.
and if you hold more toads,
you'll be able to have bigger allocations to future projects,
which if you're bullish on chain link itself,
then you should be bullish on the chain link build projects.
There's a lot of exciting projects being built,
like a decentralized data warehouse space and time.
blueberry is a decentralized perps protocol where you can leverage,
different defy tokens,
as a hedge bet.
mine network we had on recently,
there's quite a bit of build projects.
but I'm going on a tangent.
I'm sure you probably have questions.
Well,
you mentioned earlier,
you're like,
you're trying to market to,
to NFT G Gens.
And I mean,
you got the Pepe kind of inspired PFPs.
Like,
you know,
if you Pepe it,
they will come.
I'm pretty sure that was the quote from field of dreams.
Right.
what talk a little bit of just,
I know you're not trying to go too heavy on chain link,
but I'm not like a huge crypto guy.
Why?
And I know you,
you have a lot of team members who are like former advisors,
former team members on chain link.
why are you bullish on chain link?
Why?
I don't really know much about it.
Yeah.
A lot of people actually glaze over what chain link is.
Chain link is a decentralized Oracle network.
And what an Oracle is,
is basically a third party device or service that allows real world data to
from,
well,
real world data to come on chain,
securely via smart contracts.
So feeding secure data to our smart contracts without chain link,
we wouldn't have DeFi without chain link.
We wouldn't have dynamic and empties.
So like a lot of these NFT projects that you see are changing their traits
based on a certain set of parameters.
You wouldn't have those NFT projects.
or maybe you would,
but they would get exploited as we've seen with like flash loan attacks and
DeFi.
it's because the projects weren't using a chain link oracles.
They were using a different,
Oracle.
And I don't want to,
I don't want to throw any names out there.
I'm not trying to shame other oracles,
but chain link is the industry standard.
so that's why I'm bullish on chain link.
I think it's one of those,
we were talking about earlier projects that are here to stay.
we were talking about NFT projects that are here to stay,
but in terms of DeFi projects,
chain links like the glue to everything.
So chain,
chain link,
I feel like is the Amazon of crypto.
they're the biggest data protocol in the space right now.
And I see them being here 15 to 20 years from now,
just based off their technology.
They have.
so talk,
talk a little bit about your team.
Cause if you're going to like Marine Toad's Twitter account,
one thing that I've noticed is you guys are constantly tweeting out new team
members and advisors,
and there's a lot of impressive people.
Talk a little bit about the team.
Yeah,
sure thing.
so Simon,
who is our co-founder who actually came on bigger space last time,
by the way,
my name is super high frog.
I'm,
I'm filling in for Simon.
I work on the community side,
helping with content and advisement of just like the link community in
general.
Simon is our co-founder.
He has had his hands in a lot of different NFT projects.
but he works for a,
a web three advisement and management company,
which I won't docs because I,
I don't think I'm allowed to.
and then we have Chaz from MDMA and Alex from MDMA.
They're,
helping with our marketing.
MDMA,
I believe that.
Yeah.
They have some cool branding.
It's like,
okay.
Red pill.
Yeah.
I was like,
I'm pretty sure I took that at a music festival like five years ago,
but yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
and then we also have,
if you don't mind bringing Wando up,
he's one of our community generals that,
kind of got elected.
He's just been helping push the project as well.
some other advisors are chain link build.
Yeah.
Wando gun requests if you'd like to come up with that.
I know you're,
sitting here in the audience.
but David posts is one as well.
He's,
X IBM and X chain link.
we have some other chain link kind of,
employees that have left and,
or are still there,
that are helping advise us as well.
So it's kind of like a,
without chain link labs because chain link labs is the,
the company that built the chain link technology without chain link labs
having to touch,
an NFT project,
right?
Because they're focused on building,
technology instead of an NFT project.
We're kind of the community ran,
project of sorts to be there.
When are you guys dropping?
I won't give a date,
but I will say may for the first two weeks of may.
And I actually put above,
we're running,
we're closing the registration for pre-ment tomorrow,
I believe in opening the discord,
but I just,
I threw a link up there.
The discord is open tomorrow.
It's closed right now.
and then the,
the pre-ment or registration for pre-ment link is above as well.
but we've been super focused on organic growth.
So you,
you won't see like 30 plus thousand followers on our account.
we started marketing to two months ago and have grown from 132 followers to
around 1300.
The discord has 500 plus people in it.
which have all been organic.
So we're,
we believe in slow building,
but also executing on utility.
I'm not going to beat around the bush.
Like I know certain people who are bullish on this project.
That's,
that's why I am.
But also I've just,
one of the reasons why I was like,
all right,
let's do this was because look,
people fucking love the Pepe and style,
a styled PFPs.
Like those have never not been a banger.
I mean,
am I wrong about that?
you're not wrong.
The frogs always win.
What's up?
Thanks for,
thanks for calling me.
I'm super high.
Yeah.
I just want to,
I was appreciative actually,
getting,
kind of the general title,
for L toads.
And it's interesting kind of hearing,
the opening up to kind of like D gen and FT is at large.
Cause I,
I kind of came from,
came in through the chain link community side.
and I'll just give my kind of like,
you know,
view on L toads and then pass it off.
Cause I didn't get,
I didn't,
I wasn't,
expected to get called up,
but what I think is cool is L toads has the ability with chain link and the
build project and the network kind of,
of community that's come together.
That's building this and giving feedback around this.
Like we're all,
link Marines and into chain link for all kinds of the reasons.
Super high said,
we see that chain link is going to be,
you know,
that glue and the infrastructure to really allow the,
the space to succeed,
you know,
and be what everyone wants it to be.
And,
and also give tools to developers and,
you know,
the next generation of builders to be able to do it even better,
even more simply.
And a key example of that is,
chain link functions that just dropped,
but it's,
it's really cool that now,
you know,
there's this NFT project.
the art is great.
It's inspired,
you know,
obviously by Matt Fury's art,
but,
you know,
the Pepe has been kind of weaved into link Marine culture.
Since kind of,
you know,
4chan days,
2017 and even probably before,
but like,
it's cool to now have this,
community coming around chain link.
That's,
yeah,
really,
interested in the project,
educating and learning about it.
We go out to,
the events that chain link,
holds and we're kind of there with,
the,
the community advocates that chain link have.
Some of us like are,
and so it's cool to have like this positive community that's coming around,
learning and educating what,
what we think is going to be like the glue that's going to make this industry,
and space secure and thrive how we all want it to be.
So very appreciative to come in through the community side,
making memes,
having fun,
and really like kind of spreading chain link in a positive way,
which I think,
oftentimes does not happen.
and historically like kind of a part of like link link,
link marine culture even has been through fortune,
which can often be like a kind of dark place on the internet for some people.
So we're having a good time.
We're making memes,
we're learning,
and,
we want this space to succeed.
so really happy to be,
named a general and,
have a,
a super cool,
general,
PFP that I was able to craft and yeah,
get in the discord and like reach out to the team and provide feedback and,
and learn about what,
like where this is headed.
And the team is super open and,
and responsive too.
So just shout out to,
super high and Simon and,
the rest of,
the rest of the team and generals and,
L toads of the future.
You're not wrong.
somebody who's like,
yeah,
the,
the,
the chain link stuff sounds like alpha.
And then I'm just talking about fucking Pepe.
Yeah.
That that's where my mind,
that's where my mind's at guys.
We got big brains.
I'm saying there's some big brain,
like chain link,
you know,
OGs in this community,
which is cool.
Cause like oftentimes the link Marine community,
isn't really like kind of in NFT D gen culture.
And so,
you know,
me kind of being,
you know,
finesseful,
like all up and trying to explore crypto,
you know,
all over the place.
It's kind of cool to see that like these communities,
combined in a way.
Finesseful.
that's,
that's definitely going to be in my new vocabulary.
shout out to my guy Wanda.
yeah,
I'm not going to lie.
There,
there's a project out there.
I'm super bullish.
I don't really want to get,
I want to keep it kind of quiet right now,
but teen dog,
their,
their founder is Mr.
Gentle Ape.
He's,
he's also the founder or he's on,
he's a part of BBRC Ivy boys.
and they're doing a bidding system right now.
And I just pinned it up to the top,
you know,
biggest bidders Kongs with,
you know,
6.6,
nine gag CEO,
6.90 dingling,
7.42.
it looks like the highest bidder right now is actually link Marine toads.
my guy,
simple Simon,
who's the co-founder.
I mean,
he's,
you know,
OG punk,
got a bunch of grail NFTs.
yeah,
you,
why?
I mean,
this is,
there are some whales involved with this project.
why,
why did Simon decide to ape in so hard on that,
that bid?
I mean,
outbidding dingling.
It's a big move.
Yeah.
It speaks to like Simon being in the culture as,
as well as a lot of other people on the project.
Simon's been here a lot longer than I have.
I think he said he's been here since 2018,
2017,
maybe earlier.
I came into the crypto space around 2020.
well,
there's multiple reasons.
One,
he's a collector.
If you go look through his,
his open sea wall,
he's got a ton of Zookies.
He's got a punk.
He's got,
you know,
like you said,
some other grail NFTs.
And the second is brand awareness.
so in an organic way,
I mean,
we're putting the money up to help bid on another project.
He likes the art on that project.
he's connected with the mean land team and some,
some of the founders of the mean land teams,
like nine gag.
so I think he was just showing support in general and he,
this is his project as well.
So he's,
just trying to help push awareness about,
L totes.
Yeah,
I was also a bidder,
but you're not wrong.
You're not wrong about the whale part.
I'll give you a little out.
But there's a,
there's one billionaire in the discord.
I won't tell you who it is,
but there is a billionaire in the discord.
Jeffrey Epstein's in a disc.
I'm just kidding.
fuck.
That was,
that was dark.
Yeah.
Shit.
I don't,
I'm probably getting deep platform pretty soon,
but no,
for real.
I'm,
you know,
I've talked to simple Simon before he's,
he's gig it out.
He's getting a brain doubt and he's a big time collector.
And I,
I usually just follow the big time collectors.
And I saw that earlier today.
cause I was bidding myself on the hedong auction.
And then I was like,
wait,
what the fuck?
Link Marine toes is like the number one bidder.
I was like,
okay,
that's,
that's definitely alpha.
Definitely wanted to have you guys on here today.
so just give us a quick TLDR cause you guys have discord opening tomorrow.
Prement links.
Give us,
give us a once over again.
Yep.
so just join the discord up top.
I mean,
it opens tomorrow.
So I just,
I'm going to delete that tweet after I hop off the space.
register your wallet for the prement.
We are going to allow people to prement up to seven NFTs,
seven toads,
for prement.
There's 777 for prement.
77 of those will actually be raffled off,
starting tomorrow,
I believe.
and then we have 7,000 for public met and then 2,223.
So it's 10 K total.
those are going to the treasury,
the toad Dow,
which is going to be the community,
is actually going to vote on how we use the treasury.
75% of all the sales go to the,
to the Dow.
25% goes back to the team,
to fund all the costs that,
you know,
we've spent spending this up,
and getting people involved in the project and whatnot.
but yeah,
the vision is to use the treasury,
for the community and further the utility of the project,
whether that's building out,
more utilities or bringing on more partnerships and,
projects onto the launch pad.
it's really up to the community to decide,
launch is coming within,
like I said,
May.
So first two weeks of May.
so just keep your eyes and ears peeled.
Join the discord Mike,
which is one of our community guys.
He's,
he's basically running the discord for us.
super open,
super cool guy.
we run weekly spaces,
community spaces,
and then we also run weekly to bi-weekly spaces with chain link build
projects.
So you can get sort of the alpha on new chain link build projects as
well.
If that's something that you're interested in,
hint,
hint,
those are going to be hopefully the,
the projects that we are doing the,
the pre-sale allocations for.
So just some alpha to look into if you're interested in those
projects right now,
the only way that you can get,
allocated to those projects is if you stake chain link and the
staking pools are filled.
So hint,
hint,
wink,
wink.
yeah.
Thank you again for having us on here.
Cool times.
We definitely appreciate it.
Yeah.
If you guys go on the link Marine toads,
Twitter account,
you can see me.
I'm always like replying bullish on you guys,
bullish on simple Simon.
good luck with the auction too.
It looks like you guys are probably going to be the top bidder.
I know the top 10 bidders get a special prize.
So it looks like a link Marine toads can be getting some,
some extra marketing there.
they've pinned some things to the top.
Go check those links out.
If you're interested,
pun intended.
Actually that wasn't a pun intended,
but it worked out.
yeah.
Link Marine toads,
Wando,
who I guess left the stage.
appreciate you.
Thanks for coming on.
Yeah.
And then one last quick shout out to all the other projects who have
spoken and are about to speak.
like I said,
really cool art from a lot of these projects,
super bullish communities.
I mean,
I'm just scrolling down to see a ton of PFPs of,
of these different projects.
And,
I'm starting to get bullish on a few of them myself.
props.
Yeah.
Not going to lie.
I really stacked lineup.
only getting,
we're only just scraping the alpha right now because I know we're like way
behind schedule right now,
but we got realm Hunter on the stage right now.
realm Hunter.
What's up?
Hey,
Hey,
Hey,
doing good.
Doing good.
Thank you for,
thank you for inviting us to this.
absolutely.
I had to add some other gaming projects come on.
I was like,
okay,
well,
let me reach out to realm Hunter because,
you guys minted recently,
right?
Yes.
We actually,
minted a couple of days ago and,
you know,
we had a bit of difficulty during minting due to the amount of like traffic we
had.
And then there was some,
community,
kind of like server communication issue with my Jiki dance front end,
which kind of reduced the momentum,
but,
you know,
we have a lot of things build up in our fundamental.
And I think it's quite a good opportunity actually,
for those of you who want to know what we're really building and,
you know,
to really kind of see what we're building.
And in fact,
today,
I think in this space,
we're probably going to be sharing some alpha about what we're revealing
because we have a key that is about to be revealed soon.
Shit.
Well,
I'm excited to get the alpha before the alpha.
I mean,
I saw it even earlier today.
you guys did a snapshot at 12 PM Eastern for an airdrop.
What,
what's that all about?
Right.
I think,
I think maybe we can go,
before we go and discuss about that,
to just give context to everybody who's listening,
what we're doing,
right?
Because that's important.
So at one Hunter,
we're trying to kind of reimagine a new entertainment franchise for 150 million
creature collection fans across the world.
So we're building multiple things here.
So we have a super awesome game,
which,
you know,
if you've seen our trailer,
it's kind of a mixture of Pokemon and Genshin.
And the first version of the alpha and the demo is going to be released in the next two to three weeks.
And we have also within this franchising ecosystem that we're building,
we have like media as a comic,
we have,
you know,
multiple different kinds of,
you know,
spinoffs on games,
movie merchandise.
And the point is for us to really target huge mass adoption.
And,
you know,
there are people working with us like,
Yoshihisha Hashimoto.
We haven't really like pushed his name out,
but he's,
he's an ex director at Sega and also the ex CTO of Square Enix who kind of made Final Fantasy 14 and Sonic.
I don't even know,
I don't even know those games,
but yeah,
he's working and advising us to make sure we have a very awesome game.
And,
I think one of the things that people are not aware about our NFT mint,
which I,
you know,
we kind of wanted to keep it mysterious,
but,
you know,
because of the mint,
sort of,
you know,
that didn't really work out well with the mint experience.
but one of the most important thing that people need to know about our NFT is that it's actually a factory NFT.
It's like Diki Daikaku.
It's all like dimensional.
It gives you access to the whole ecosystem by printing the NFTs.
And,
you know,
you will,
if you own one of our keys,
you would be able to get access to all our gaming characters.
And that's probably like going to be super valuable.
You know,
once we start really onboarding very,
very,
you know,
like normal web two gamers,
that's going to be something that they,
really want.
And you'll be able to get it,
by just holding the key.
And,
you know,
if you own multiple,
right,
you can get access to low supply limited edition collectibles like PFPs,
a LANs,
and you will need that thing that we just airdropped called a key chain,
right?
So the idea of the key chain is that you kind of like combine the different keys and then you have to kind of like use the right combination to get the low supply,
collectibles essentially.
One of the things you mentioned,
which of course is going to be a huge component for the future of all,
you know,
web three games is onboarding web two users.
How do you guys feel like you're equipped to be able to do that in a large capacity?
I think for us,
one of the key differentiating point with our project,
with a lot of other normal,
web two project as well,
is our way of building.
It's a little bit more like Patreon style building.
I don't know if you know,
Patreon,
they have like a couple of games there where they release,
like their game every single month.
We're actually going to be doing that because by releasing something every single month or every,
you know,
two months,
at most,
you're iterating very fast and you're able to get to the stage where the product is much,
much more developed.
And this is super crucial because most game launch kind of fail,
right?
Because there is so much games already out there and you don't really have like kind of like a market fit yet.
The point is,
I think for us is to make sure we get to the part where,
to get the,
to get to a product that people really,
really enjoy.
And that's the strategy that we are bringing in here.
And the reason why we're starting with WebTree is because there's a huge,
I mean,
there's not a lot of gamer here,
but there's a lot of,
patrons,
a lot of people who can really support projects.
And we're not just building a game.
We're kind of also building a franchise,
right?
An ecosystem of IPs.
And I think by mixing these,
like this,
this method of building the game every month,
iterating with the community,
the community builds,
you know,
a lot of trust to us.
And then we can continue building the,
the franchise essentially.
So I should,
I should probably like chill out a little bit,
but what,
what is the alpha that you're going to share?
Because now I'm just like,
it's,
you teased us a little bit.
Do you have anything you want to share?
right.
I think yes.
So basically,
one of the things that we did announce a couple,
days ago is that we're going to be distributing our ecosystem token to
holders.
And it's super important to understand the value of our token.
It's because,
you know,
we are fundamentally,
we started as a game by project,
right?
We are a CD five incubation project.
And the last CD five project just launched recently did like a 25 X.
And this is a bear market.
And if you know,
gaming tokens like axes,
you know,
they did like a $9 billion at all time high.
We're issuing around 2.5% of our token.
And you will need to know kind of like the special traits in order for,
you to combine with the key chains.
many of actually we haven't really revealed all the traits yet in our
discord.
I can share some of it today.
So if you're interested in,
in looking in,
you know,
in shopping later on in our,
in our,
in OpenSea or in other marketplaces,
some of the traits that you should look into in our first stage reveal is
actually the luck basically.
So we have a luck element in our key.
we also have actually multiple different other traits,
but that would be one of the most important ones.
And then the airdrop,
did you want to touch on that a little bit?
Yeah,
the key chain.
So the key chain is kind of required for you,
in order for you to combine the keys and,
that will allow you to get access to,
for example,
the token airdrops,
I'm sorry,
the token allocation.
And it also allows,
it also gives you in the future access to our limited edition PFPs,
LANs,
a lot of different,
different things.
So the key chain is actually something we haven't really marketed out yet
because we do want to just focus on pushing the keys first,
but it's super important that the key chains,
for people to know that you need to have the key chain in order for you to
combine the keys.
Right.
and yeah,
we have key chains.
You,
you get,
you know,
rewards through the,
through that key chain.
Better,
better yield,
better rewards.
Yes.
Better yield,
better rewards.
Pretty cool.
yeah.
So a couple of days ago,
you guys minted out,
as you mentioned,
the key of salvation,
one of these bad boys going to reveal.
Well,
we're actually going to be revealing this in the next couple of hours.
And,
yeah,
we're just finalizing a lot of things.
So actually our team is working,
to make sure the uploads is,
is all,
properly done.
Actually,
that's why this,
this AMA was,
was,
sorry,
this Twitter space was,
was a bit of,
you know,
we're just doing this while,
you know,
preparing,
preparing for the,
reveal as well,
actually.
Wow.
So yeah.
What,
what can we respect for,
expect for review?
I mean,
this is a couple hours,
so this is something you guys can,
you know,
everyone out there will be watching out for,
on your,
your marketplaces.
What,
what are some expectations we can have for,
I mean,
what,
what exactly did the NFTs look like?
What did the keys look like?
Yeah.
So we've actually hinted a little bit about how our key looks like,
around January with like a 2d sketch post.
So there will be,
the,
the keys,
it's kind of a combination between several laws.
it's,
it's,
there's three kind of keys that we have in our,
in our,
Genesis salvation key.
So it represents three different house with three different
characteristics.
And those characteristics are going to be embedded in the model that
we created.
So it's actually a 3d render model,
within our game,
graphics.
So it's actually also pretty nice looking,
just like what you saw in the trailer.
And that's one of the things that,
that,
that you kind of want to look at when you're buying the key is kind of
like the lock element.
So we have several metadata that we're going to be releasing,
in the first stage of the reveal,
we will be releasing kind of like the lock element of the metadata.
And there's also going to be two things.
one is called like a podium,
a podium and a pillars,
but yeah,
we don't really want to tell everybody,
what the meaning of the podium and the pillar,
but I can tell you,
you want to find podiums,
which has a lot of the,
you want to find the one with a lot of podiums basically,
but you'll see the name actually in the metadata and in the render of
the image later on.
I feel like right now there's a lot of competition for gaming projects.
Like there's a lot of different gaming.
I mean,
we obviously see like a polygon,
you know,
permeation of polygon projects.
What,
what makes you think that realm Hunter is going to stand out above?
you know,
not,
not to make this a competition,
but,
what makes you feel confident and what do you guys are building?
I think fundamentally,
it's really because we started this game,
not because we want to make a web tree game,
right?
You know,
I've been a big fan of,
the Pokemon series,
but I just find it that the way the web to IP,
a business model work is a bit something I don't like,
right?
You don't have ownership.
You actually have to keep buying their,
their,
their,
whole entire ecosystem.
And the worst part of it is that the games that they created,
it's not that great.
And back a couple of years ago,
the story,
this whole entire realm Hunter,
I think journey started because we wanted to make an alternative to work
that kind of like,
you know,
franchise.
And there's been a lot of like demand for this alternative.
If you see in the market,
right,
regardless of,
you know,
there's so many different,
like kind of like monster taming clone,
there's always buyers for them because there's a need for a higher
quality version of that experience.
And,
you know,
realm Hunter fundamentally starts building with that,
you know,
that motivation.
And I think that's really important because at the end of the day,
we need to know who we are targeting.
And for us,
we want to target the,
you know,
the subset of the creature collection of fans that are disappointed with the
state of the current market.
And we want to offer them a very unique experience within the web free space,
which we're digital ownership.
And fundamentally this allows us to really set up,
I think a good amount of user base and really start scaling up the
franchise.
So for us,
it's really about getting to know who we want to work with,
who we want to really target.
And of course it has to be a big market,
right?
But yeah,
that's,
that's why we're,
we feel comfortable because,
you know,
we're building technically something we want to play ourselves.
And I think that's something that can actually also be played by
other people.
And we can,
you know,
of course iterate and keep making this happen.
Keep building it up.
All right,
guys.
So reveal coming a little bit,
a little bit later,
airdrop impending,
I guess,
for the key chains,
the keys revealing soon around Hunter.
I mean,
you guys have a stack team.
I mean,
there's a ton of hype around this project for good reason.
And I think you guys have a great plan to onboard web two users because,
you know,
we're sometimes we exist in this web echo chamber of web three.
But nonetheless,
really appreciate you guys coming on sharing some alpha too.
Anything else you want to add?
that's okay.
Thank you so much.
By the way,
the key chain has been airdropped to our users.
So I just,
yeah,
I just,
I don't want to get information.
Perfect.
All right.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
Appreciate you guys.
Go give them a follow.
Stay up to date.
I'm going to be a pretty busy next couple hours for them.
So stay tuned to stay on the lookout.
Quarter of milk.
What's up?
Hey,
this is first off in a fantastic space.
I would love to,
I know we didn't have a long time to talk about IPG,
but I would love to kind of take a little bit of time back.
If that's okay.
There's been some great discussions.
I don't think we really went into what IPG is,
if that's okay with you.
I know that I and Paul is still on stage.
There's been just,
you know,
people are talking about traits.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's run it.
Go for it.
Over 600.
Yeah.
I mean,
look,
I mean,
it's,
let's just start with what the background of Adam,
as he kind of talked about Adam created the 24 logo.
You know,
he's been an animated artist for,
I think now,
what,
13 years in the making.
He had two previous collections that are voxel monkeys,
which is the top rated collection at that time on soul.
It's a different type of pixelated art.
So he's really been evolving.
What he's done is two previous projects have,
you know,
stand in the test of time.
I think it's,
they were selling for like 15 K or something amazing.
And they're still up really high.
And that's what kind of got them to iron Paul.
These are literally,
and I will go toe to toe with you.
The best animated art that's out there right now.
There's 600 different traits.
I'm sorry that I'm so animated right now.
Like it's just,
it's just really awesome.
From the different signs that we have,
we have 341 different mech traits and there's 323 driver traits.
That's over 650 traits in a 4,000 collection.
This beautiful one of ones that we're called,
that are called pure breed.
There's three other factions that are coming and champions have been released right now.
Or the teasers for it.
And these are going to be,
we don't know exactly.
They are going to be airdropped,
but this is just a collection that's going to stand the test of time.
We have merch coming soon.
And one of the coolest things that's coming right now,
that I don't think a lot of people maybe know about,
we have driver swapping.
So if you have two mechs,
you can literally driver swap them.
Like the drivers can be rotated from one to the other.
And I don't think a lot of other projects have that out there right now.
So it's really bringing another dimension to already the best NFT in the space right now.
So I asked Adam earlier,
what are some of your favorite,
what is your favorite trait?
Mine?
Oh my God.
That's such a hard,
I am a part of the hamster Dow.
my favorite trait is probably going to be the wolf,
like a cab.
I really love it.
It's part of the purebred of Damon Headstone.
And it's just a really awesome design.
But this,
I mean,
like I said,
there's so many,
there's like,
you have the,
the pink floored,
prism,
the rainbow prism.
And I really like kind of shooting out.
One of the really cool things about some of the traits is that they're,
since the lore behind it is a little dark.
You read up on the lore about it.
It's that,
kind of humans have,
are now gone.
Different animals have now taken over in different factions.
And so Adam wanted to bring it that it's a little more lighthearted.
So there's literally like hot dog launchers.
You have suntan squirters.
Like there's some just awesome traits.
And there's definitely going to be ones for everybody.
And I think all of them have their own story that you can make behind it too.
Adam,
am I missing anything?
That,
I mean,
wow,
that,
that was a,
that was an awesome,
sort of like overview of the projects.
I'm sure you're checking in and yeah,
driver swapping,
which,
if you hold a,
red,
not driver,
if you swap your,
a purebred driver into your purebred Mac,
it unlocks a animated background.
so there are 40 purebreds total,
20 of which were minted together,
20 of which were minted separately.
there's a little bit of gamification on how you can trade into the purebreds.
So that's just one thing that's coming.
Yeah.
ZB looks like we got a RCC lover on the stage.
yeah,
definitely.
thank you for pulling me up.
Sorry for interrupting.
I'm excited to be here.
You know,
I think I'm a low B carrier when it comes to the collectibles that we've been talking about,
but I wanted to mention maybe a couple of my favorite traits,
just how I became in the space today,
honestly.
but I'll start off with my favorite traits.
Honestly,
I really like the organ treat.
There's not a lot of them,
but I like that.
There's just like this consistent sound.
I'm in the background and I really like,
so similar to how you're saying,
like the save souls,
that the crown trait is something that gets super easily.
The crown trait for iron Paul being like,
good luck finding one of those on the floor.
Transparently.
I'm lucky.
I I'm,
I'm,
this is probably the last space that I talk about it.
Cause I probably have over allocated breath into this,
but I love my,
my driver so much.
I love my whole kit and caboodle,
but my driver,
I joke is like a secret one of one.
Because,
it has a crown,
but it's got hood up,
which is kind of another really kind of small trait.
so you can't visibly see the crown.
And I actually really liked that.
I say like,
you know,
I'm a humble collector.
I don't got a lot to spend in the space.
Most of it's me trying to,
to grow small and dream big,
you know?
but my first love kind of switching gears now,
was the RCC space with slim hoods.
I know that's kind of a,
a low,
not a low,
but like just a,
a back of like one of the first collections within RCC,
you know?
So it just really got me into NFTs.
And I was just watching a bunch of,
you know,
I hate to say it like Tik TOK and YouTube were like saying,
you should check out NFTs.
and then I,
I love the slim hood a whole bunch.
Then it skyrocketed as RCC became more popular.
And then invisible friends came out and I was like,
man,
invisible friends is something else.
So as I started more so like watching collections,
seeing how things changed and grew,
I was like,
I need one of these things.
and then just seeing like how iron paws come out.
I love it.
one of my favorite posts that,
Adam's had so far has been,
the one with the different like races and races is probably poor factions.
That's better verbiage,
but it just gets me really excited for the future.
the champions talk sounds really cool,
but I love all of the traits,
you know,
again,
I said that the Oregon one's really cool.
I talked about,
you know,
the favorite traits I have with my driver,
the hood up in the secret crown.
I also do have IPG chain,
which is pretty dope.
but I also,
I love the cat like traits.
I don't have that.
I really like the,
the cat shooting out the hair balls.
It's really cool.
The sound effect is legit.
I like,
I agree with you.
Court of milk,
the prism is so sweet.
Any of the ones that are like flying with lasers is really cool,
but I've talked a bunch.
I just am appreciative of being up here.
Go RCC,
go IPG.
And,
hang out in the VC.
Sometimes grandpa's like the champion in there.
He's helped me become a holder of many of these collections,
but there's some other good people and the RCC community.
but thank you all.
I appreciate your time.
Well done,
Adam.
Excited to be here.
Thank you,
sir.
Yeah.
It's been such a sweet evolution for,
for RCC.
Like I,
I was collecting slim hoods pretty early on and,
iron paw game.
This feels like,
like,
you know,
Bulbasaur or like Charizard.
It feels like the fully like evolved version.
Like,
it's just so intricate.
It's like,
I remember when you're,
you know,
Charmeleon would,
would evolve into Charizard and you're just like,
holy shit.
There's so many more bells and whistles.
There's so many more fire coming out of that,
out of his back.
Oh my God.
so certainly a big fan and,
yeah,
that's pretty much all I can say,
Adam.
Anything else?
Thank you,
man.
Yeah.
I just wanted to say,
I just wanted to say like,
you know,
you were saying NFTs are a visual medium and,
and I think,
you know,
that was the,
one of the original use cases for this was,
the tokenization of art.
And I feel like this is a sort of back to,
back to basics approach where I want people to go on open C and,
you know,
even if the floor ones look as good as the rare ones,
they're just browsing through all the traits,
spending hours,
just looking at all the detail,
all the,
all the blood,
sweat and tears that I put into this.
Cause I really did,
you know,
that sounds cliche,
cliche to say,
but dude,
I like the last year of my life has been dedicated to this.
And I just want people to,
to really appreciate and enjoy the art and,
and sort of like back to basics,
like,
yeah,
tokenization of,
of some of the best art around.
So thanks for having me,
man.
Yeah,
absolutely.
I'm a huge collector.
I like a huge toy collector.
I have so many toys and,
there's always like these,
these,
you know,
I love just looking at and discovering new,
new,
new toys.
And I sound like a nerd,
but I feel like,
projects like iron pogging is,
you know,
something that even if you don't have one,
you don't have the money you're listening right now,
just,
just go on to open sea.
And it's,
it's definitely one of those carrots that,
you know,
you'll look at and you'll be like,
Oh man,
I've always wanted to save up for this or that.
And,
or just,
you know,
enjoy it.
cause it's something that,
you know,
I have friends of mine who are like,
Oh man,
I just,
I just need one of those.
And,
I get the kind of same feeling when I think about toys that I collect.
And don't just listen to them.
I mean,
don't just look at them.
They all have sounds.
So each tray has their own sound to it.
So it's really,
really fun to go through open sea and listen to the different traits with the
sounds.
And,
you know,
it really helps you become,
you know,
choose your favorite.
You really bond with certain ones.
that's how I picked.
I don't always,
you know,
there's some amazing ones,
a quote unquote in the floor,
whatever you want to call them.
Cause they're all really one of ones,
but really go through them and find one has a story for you.
that's at least what I did.
Yeah.
I've been definitely sleeping on the audio aspect of it.
Like I've seen that the Twitter,
previews that had music on it,
but like I haven't gone through a lot of them on open sea with the music.
And that's just,
that's,
that's incredible.
retro hunters with the hand up.
What's up?
Yeah.
I mean,
I kind of wanted to add some context to this conversation with that.
I don't pause mentioning,
but Oh my God,
I'm,
I'm actually the definition of one of those people that'll go on open sea and just scroll through hours of like every single trade of every single collection.
and especially iron ball game,
dude,
you guys had so much different variety and highly crazy guys.
We're,
we're going through the QC of our art right now personally.
And even though we're not like an artwork collection,
we have like 11 different base characters that all have different subsets of traits and stuff.
So we're pretty much creating 11 different NFT collections within one and the amount of effort and time it must have taken to animate every single one of those traits and make sure that all fits congruently within each other.
It's just like highly applaud you guys for that.
and,
and cool times,
literally exact same thing,
bro.
regardless of how weird or like cringy or nerdy it sounds like toys and like physical figurines are so sick to me.
They're,
I have like literally five different NFT collections that have rugged over the past year,
but I just have like their physical figurines in my room.
but yeah,
I'm a huge fan.
and I definitely do think,
you know,
you guys are going to kill it.
I can definitely see the effort on,
on a very large scale.
Thanks man.
Yeah.
There's certain things that,
you know,
come in,
come and go in the NFT space.
this isn't what,
I mean,
I remember like really early on in the NFT days,
like I was just,
and I have it on my wall right now.
I'm just like still like obsessed with his project called sub ducks by Frankie nines.
And I know like every single trait,
like I've looked at every single NFT.
and I'm glad that there's projects out there that are kind of sparking that same kind of,
curiosity and imagination for people out there,
like quarter milk ZB.
so yeah,
I don't know if anyone else wants to come up and talk a little iron pogging.
I mean,
there's certainly a really devoted fan base.
I probably haven't buried my head in enough of the iron ball gang of it all,
but that's why I wanted to have you on the Twitter space.
And I was like,
so excited.
You guys were,
were able to come on today and shout out to coin Billy.
I hit him up and,
he was able to contact Adam and,
yeah,
just,
again,
if anyone out there,
hasn't just browsed the collection,
even if you're looking to trade or not,
go do that.
It'll be like a massage for your brain.
all right.
I gotta go eat dinner guys,
but that's,
that's pretty much it.
I mean,
iron paw gang retro hunters go.
You have quarter of milk a follow too.
I love the passion.
ZB appreciate you.
You must be pumped up.
You got garbage friends coming soon as well.
RCC continuing to just,
you know,
do cool shit.
so yeah.
Shout out to everybody in the crowd.
Love you guys.
thanks.
Thanks for tuning in.
This was a fun one.
It's really fun to talk to cool projects,
cool founders.
And,
yeah,
I like doing this stuff.
So yeah.
give me a follow,
give everyone else to follow.
I'll be back Thursday with another one of these spaces,
but,
yeah.
Until then,
let's just,
let's hit,
hit some music and,
say goodbye.
And it's weird.
It ain't no noise.
Yeah.
Fuck.
I just got my,
I just got my,
I forgot that I was famous.
I cut that top off.
They're coming in addition.
Yeah.
Marty wrinkle.
Yeah.
Just in case it start raining.
Yeah.
Fuck.
I just got my,
I just got my,
I just got my,
I forgot that.
I was famous.
I cut that top off.
They're coming in addition.
Bring the shot.
Marty wrinkle.
Yeah.
Just in case it start raining.
Okay.
I'll be set to watch China.
He's 24 care.
Wagyu.
You boys got to shine off the beat.
Yeah.
Say.
niggas fake.
You ain't no thing for me.
Yeah.
Yo as a little sneak peek.
Yeah.
Now you got to take a backseat.
Take care.
Barter from ski.
Turn us into legends in the streets.
Yeah.
Now I'm in my bag to say the least.
They was trying to label me deceased.
Someone got to show me the receipts.
Girl.
If we on the island,
then you know it's not no coney shit.
it's not no statin' shit.
I ain't no no phony shit.
I'm good.
I don't need shit.
Who's he good?
He don't need shit.
Talking about they took my bitch.
You know that ain't my only bitch.
Brought her to the crib.
She walked the front door on some holy shit.
Don't ask for no feature.
Only reppin' on my homie shit.
Let my brothers come up off my name
and they don't own me shit.
I can't let you come up off my name
till I'm at the gates.
Early.
Came back.
Richie.
Hermes.
Split up.
I can't let you come up off my name.
I can't let you come up off my name.
I can't let you come up off my name.
I can't let you come up off my name.
I can't let you come up off my name.
I can't let you come up off my name.
I can't let you come up off my name.
I can't let you come up off my name.
I can't let you come up off my name.
I can't let you come up off my name.
I can't let you come up off my name.
I can't let you come up off my name.
I can't let you come up off my name.
I can't let you come up off my name.
I can't let you come up off my name.
I can't let you come up off my name.
I can't let you come up off my name.
