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Opepen Chat
Recorded: May 26, 2023 Duration: 1:20:00Space Recording
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I'm just playing moderator host here, but definitely this is an open discussion.
Anybody who wants to come up and speak, please do raise your hand.
This was going to be a lot less formal of a space until about right now.
But really quickly, let's just recap.
What an amazing week for the Jack Butcher ecosystem.
You know, starting with Elements checks, both the Christie's auction and the decentralized auction that ended yesterday was a massive success that sold out.
Happy to say I was amongst one of the buyers to pick up a physical print that we'll be getting here in the next few months.
Today, there was a collab that was announced with Punk6259 and the meme cards, which I think went live already and sold out.
And hopefully that introduces even more people to this community.
And then on the Opepin side, just a ton of extraordinary activity in the last week.
Thousands of new sales, new unique owners, crazy diamond-handed people emerging, just swatting away offers left and right, which is great to see.
And I think the coolest thing is a lot of people just talking about Opepin and a lot of past community members stepping up to answer questions, help people through it, resolve any complexity that they may perceive to be here.
It's been pretty special to watch. I haven't seen anything like this in a while. It's really, really cool.
And then, of course, props to Jack and Jaleel and Traf, who, you know, they've been super busy this week doing both the media tour thing and also shipping products consistently and pretty damn flawlessly.
So, it's been awesome. But, yeah, I mean, to the discussion at hand, release three and four happened moments ago.
So, we'd love to hear people's reactions. Facts, thanks, man, for jumping on as co-host.
You want to try to, I'm assuming you're at your computer, you see the release, you want to talk through what you see.
Obviously, this is audio, but maybe you can talk a little bit about kind of, you know, visually what you're seeing in terms of three and four.
Yeah, sure I can. Thanks so much for having me. Thanks for everybody who joined the space today and has been participating.
Look, I mean, before we even move forward, I think first and foremost, board, I have to compliment you on your arrangement of four cubes.
It's a beautiful green color there. And, you know, I'm really happy that you got that.
For people who don't know, Board came on our podcast. We host the Never Fade NFT podcast.
And one of the discussion points, and, you know, he's anon, right?
And, like, mostly we have guests that we have on video because we're making the video content there, too.
But he's anon, so we're like, okay, how do we navigate that?
And he's like, I've got this great, you know, like, PFP that it moves when I speak.
And so he came on with that.
And I'll pin that episode up to the top here shortly.
And so, but we talked about on the podcast the potential of him, you know, getting a Pepin that was on brand.
And so, sure enough, like, when this green, this board, Elon Green came available on the market.
Now, this was before, and, you know, I think a lot of people are familiar and have been watching in and watching and tuned into this.
But for people who aren't, you know, this was before, I think, this last big push on Opepin where there was a big momentum shift.
And so he came out and he sniped this green one off the market for 10 ETH.
And it was funny.
There was a comment of, like, somebody saying, you know, it's just four cubes.
Can you believe somebody spent so much money on this?
Like, basically, who would buy this for 10 ETH?
And then so that's the meme now, the four cubes meme.
And, of course, like, timing-wise, like, that was insane, incredible timing because after that, we've seen sales up to 25 ETH, which one of those was, you know, one that it seemed like you wanted to part with.
So you got your green.
Congratulations on that.
And you currently hold 700 Opepin.
So you are the Opepin king and you played the Web3 NFT game like a fiddle.
You chess master.
Congratulations to you.
I can speak for myself and probably everybody else on this, in this room that we would all, we're envious of the position that you put yourself in here.
So I think before, you know, before we hop in on what's coming out with these releases, can we get a little commentary board on this journey for you here the last, gosh, couple months?
Well, I'm a modest man and I don't necessarily want to pretend that I'm brilliant.
I just had a good gut feeling about this project.
And, you know, instead of hyping with my words and screaming on Twitter spaces, I just make moves with the wallet.
And here we are today.
But I'm really happy I got the green one.
And I do want to say the cool thing about this community is it's been really nice.
Like the guy who kind of poked fun at me for buying this Opepin, you know, he's now like a friend and, you know, he's in the community.
He bought Opepin.
So what started off as kind of a, you know, a not very good exchange on Twitter turned into everybody welcomed him in.
So it was it was cool to see it.
And I've I've felt very, you know, welcome into the community from the start.
And it didn't hurt that I've been, you know, hopefully acting as a good holder.
But, yeah, man, it's it's been great.
I, I, I just really love the biggest sort of reaction from me on the overall project is I love a perfect balance of constraint and of freedom.
And so Opepin has this really great through line of this shape, you know, that the Jack created that is a derivative of Pepe the Frog.
But now you're seeing just so many versions of that and the idea of being able to continue to create variety and uniqueness in this, this shape, this anthropomorphic, you know, Pepe the Frog.
But in so many different ways, it's just so cool to me.
And it really feels like an innovative project that has caused me to feel something that I haven't felt since like the origin of, you know, 2021 projects, Apes and otherwise.
So, yeah, I it was really, really fun to see what's happening.
But definitely don't want to talk too much about me.
I mean, definitely want to talk about the latest drop.
Thanks, Warren, for for pinning.
But, yeah, I mean, really, anybody who's on stage right now want to hear your reactions.
I know that the there were first rumors of one of the artists, the collab artists being Batsu.
Batsu was an artist who basically and he might join.
Actually, I DM him.
He might join us soon.
You know, he was one of the one of the artists that kind of inspired the original Opepin design.
And then there were sort of hints of him joining Jack in creating a custom Opepin.
And then a few days ago, he basically started tweeting about it, which, you know, didn't all didn't confirm it entirely.
But I think everybody was like nine, nine percent sure that he was going to be involved.
And of course, now we see the 003 full circle release, which to me is just incredible.
You know, it's the modern Mondrian Pepe color scheme looks amazing.
I can see on the Opepin art site, they are all way over allocated.
So this release is definitely happening for anybody who doesn't know or is newer to the ecosystem.
Every Opepin release, you get to see first what the art looks like.
If you want to opt into it, you can basically say, yes, you know, I opt in with my blank Opepin.
And then there will be random selections of whose Opepins actually get updated in terms of metadata.
And then, you know, if you're lucky, you get the art that you opted into.
So there's 80 total split up into six different categories of different rarity.
And, yeah, we've got basically one that's created by Batsu and then another, which is more of like a color color scheme.
And I believe that one is made by Jack and team.
But, yeah, anybody else on stage would love to hear your reactions.
Thanks, Bord.
And, you know, I know, you know, you're modest and you don't want to talk about yourself and that's respectable.
But I will say before, you know, like, first of all, hype on the on the Batsu, like there was there was there was speculation that it could be a collab with him.
Because Jack has mentioned multiple times about how inspired he is by Batsu's work and the geometric, you know, style.
And and so to see this come through on this very next release is fucking amazing.
Number one, and also speaks to, like, this idea that, like, we all believe that Jack has a really good pulse of of what the market favors, too.
And, like, that's the beauty of this kind of whole Opepin release strat that, like, nobody's done before.
Whereas there's 200, you know, packs, quote packs being released.
But, like, we don't know when and the timing is kind of controlled by not kind of just controlled by Jack.
But it's like you want somebody that has a pulse of the market to have be in a position like that to have control of when that happens.
And then the opt in option.
So right now, you know, Opepin.art, it's the website.
So right now, if you go to Opepin.art and then you look through the sets, you can see set number three, which Warren pinned here, and set number four.
And you can choose to opt in.
And by choosing to opt in, you're basically saying, yes, I want the Opepin that are in my wallet to be participating in this.
And maybe I'll get one of these and maybe not.
And it also is, like, a marker of demand, which right now, obviously, like, you know, everybody's super excited and hyped.
But it's, like, really interesting because, you know, if at some point something is not in favor, it just won't get released.
And we did confirm with Jack that and Jaleel that those will just, you pretty much, like, if they don't get oversubscribed, you won't see those again.
But this whole subscribing in and out of the drops is definitely a new concept and introduces a lot of game theory.
So, you know, I don't want to just hold the mic on my soapbox here.
So happy to have input from anyone else.
My co-host on the Never Fade podcast and someone I do business with and worked with and met through the Bored Ape community is Good Month Eve.
He's on the speaker panel.
What's up, Good?
What's up, Fax?
Bored, how y'all doing?
Exciting, exciting Twitter spaces here with this drop going on.
I just keep flipping back and forth between set three and set four.
This is beautiful, man.
I think one of the most interesting things is, you know, this one, Tidal Full Circle,
and the board mentioned it and hit it on the head there,
that this was the original inspiration for the Opep and Mint Open Edition.
And, you know, I originally, when I grabbed those back in the day,
originally I just thought, like, having them side by side up on the wall
and, like, joking like they were, like, the first dollar you make in business
and getting them signed was good enough.
So the fact that we're here with this Opep and drop is wild
and Bats dude coming in and taking it full circle.
I see he popped in.
I don't know if he's still here.
Oh, yeah, he's still here.
So if we could get him up on stage, I'd love to hear from him.
But looking at what he put forward here, it's wild.
I think, you know, the 20 editions with the nod to the 3D glasses is huge.
It's great.
All these go independently hard in their own way.
I'm particularly very curious with the shared background
between the one of one and the fourth editions.
I think those definitely kind of stand out almost as, like,
a sibling relationship.
And the other thing with the consensus drop, you know,
one thing about Jack and the way that he's approached these projects
from the jump, starting with Chex,
is the numerology has always been dialed with Jack.
He's never gone into anything without the numbers making sense to him
first and foremost.
And it's fun to see because I remember when, you know,
Chex had come out.
He was going through the kind of analysis of the burn mechanism
and really taking into account the spacing of the Chex.
And that's where, you know, it was the 80, the 40, the 20, the 10,
the 5, 4, down to the 1.
And that numerology is kind of came over to Opepins,
the way it breaks up an 80 set.
And then, once again, with consensus,
each one of these Opepins categories for these editions maps directly to the elements
that just went down for that phenomenal performance with Christie's
and then the Christie's auction on chain.
So, this is beautiful to see.
And I think what a way to bookend that Christie's auction for Jack
by having this forced set of consensus up here.
It's going to be interesting.
You know, I...
Oh, might have lost good month there.
Or it's me.
Fax, can you hear him?
I think he rocked momentarily.
Good moment to say hey to Bats.
Thanks for coming up, man.
Hopefully, it's a big day for you.
How do you feel?
Yeah, what's up?
Well, thanks for having me.
I'll appreciate it.
Oh, God, dude.
I don't know how to explain it.
I mean, I feel like my machine is about to explode
with all the notifications that are coming in.
But, no, I mean, it's great.
I think, you know, I tried to say it in that tweet thread,
but it's just, you know, it's just kind of wild
how everything just works out in this way.
And it's truly, you know, just come full circle like this.
I got to ask, did you and Jack and Jaleel and team
kind of plan that you would leave some breadcrumbs
and allude to you being one of the collaborators?
Because you kind of, you didn't confirm it,
but you kind of hinted at it.
Yeah, I think, you know, and I, it's so funny.
I, well, Jack approached me, gosh, I don't know when that is.
Jack, you could probably remember,
maybe it was like a couple weeks ago, three weeks ago
about doing a set.
And, of course, like, you know, I'm on that shit.
Absolutely want to, no doubt about it.
And so as we are working through them,
you know, working through the set,
you know, I'd mentioned Jack,
and I really hope that this didn't, like,
ruin any of your plans, Jack, or anything like that.
But it was like, I was like, hey,
can I just, like, start teasing?
You know, let me just, like, share one of them.
And he gave me the green light.
So I knew that, you know, it was coming.
I didn't know if it would be today or, you know,
weeks or, you know, sets that follow this.
But, and I didn't, so you probably saw me, like,
avoid a lot of questions.
It was like, hey, are you dropping today?
And, like, you know, I don't really know,
and I don't want to confirm yes or no.
But, yeah, I mean, I'm stoked.
It's awesome.
And, like I said, I just, honestly, like,
from my story as a designer, you know,
I can, so long ago, like, discovering Jack's work.
So, you know, I've known, you know,
about what he's done with Visualize Value
and everything for so long.
So it's just like a, I don't know, man.
Life is just, like, fucking weird in that way sometimes.
So it's definitely, like, one of those surreal moments
to kind of, I'm going to try not to say this too much,
but, like, come full circle,
which is, you know, exactly why we titled it that.
Yeah, I mean, you're all playing around with an idea.
You know, Matt Fury came up with this character
and then it's being reimagined in so many ways.
And Jack reimagined what you did.
You reimagined what he did.
You know, curious, like, you've kind of operated
with a lot of constraint with your art before.
What was the assignment?
What was your homework assignment, basically, with this?
Like, was it basically, you've seen, you know,
did Jack go to you and say, like,
you've seen the, you know, the first round
do some damage with it?
Or, like, yeah, how much, how much constraint did you have?
Yeah, not really.
I mean, you know, it was basically the prompt was, like,
hey, go create a set, you know,
just to have the freedom, what, you know,
just use, you know, your ideas and your taste
and just, like, how you work and create something.
And I did.
Bats might be rugging.
Sorry.
Well, well, maybe we'll...
Testing, testing.
One, two, three.
I hear you, Warren.
Yeah, Warren.
Bats, if you can hear this, yeah,
your internet might be out for a minute.
But, Warren, that's a good moment.
What's your reaction?
Yeah, I think that 003 and 004 couldn't be any better.
Yeah, it's been a full circle moment from my observation
over the past many months and whatnot.
And, you know, to find ourselves here in, you know,
late May after the, you know, Pepe, the coin,
and just kind of like this meme coin cycle,
we're trying to get NFTs, like, you know,
the heartbeat recovered, I guess.
You know, some excitement in the space
and just, like, some really good collaborations.
And I think that this is just the epitome of all that.
Yeah, agreed.
I think there needed to be a little bit of a cleansing,
a little bit of rehab that the whole space had to go through
with the meme coins.
And this is a really nice counterbalance to that, in my opinion.
You know, everybody has their own feelings on it.
Bats, good to see you back up here.
Hopefully you can hear it.
Yeah, I can hear you.
Yeah, just to, you know, quickly follow up what I was saying, too.
You know, I'd put together some iterations,
sent Jack, like, a Figma link,
and we kind of jammed on it for a little bit
just to refine the set of touch.
You know, I had developed, in total,
probably, like, 20 or 30 options
that I had ended up cutting down myself
and presented Jack with nine,
and then we just kind of worked through those to,
you know, like, refine it.
Some of them looked a little too similar.
Maybe, like, weren't quite, you know,
didn't work super well as a whole set,
but, you know, I'm just,
I couldn't be happier with where all of this landed.
Yeah, I was there.
Hey, Bats.
Oh, yeah, Bats, just curious.
How did you approach the,
kind of the addition set up here?
Because, you know, you're going from a 40, 20, 10, 5, and 4.
So when you think about a 5 edition versus a 4 edition,
with it just being one, one Opep and off there,
what kind of approach do you take to the distinction
Honestly, man, it was like throwing darts at a dartboard.
It was just like a gut reaction kind of thing.
You know, there was definitely no method to it.
I think the only, you know,
the only, like, thing that I was certain of
was that, you know, the one that is more square
and, like, that true kind of profile
that set a lot of this off would be the one of one.
Like, that's it.
Everything else was more so just in the moment.
Yeah, this feels like the 404.
This feels like the 555.
You know, other than that,
there's no equation or anything like that to follow, for sure.
Bats, is the one that I pinned up here,
the one of ones?
Can you speak on, like, how you and Jack
came to that conclusion with that one?
Yeah, I think that was just, you know,
I think it was more so me.
And I, you know, I assume Jack agreed
because I was like, this has to be the one-on-one.
You know, again, like, to speak to it,
I think it was, you know,
going from the kind of original approach
to Geometric Pepe and, like, deconstructing him
and trying to capture the essence of Pepe
within, you know, something that is a little bit,
there's not a better way to explain it,
but something that's, like,
a little bit more artistic and deconstructed.
And you kind of, like I said,
you still capture the essence of him.
That was, like, always the approach for me
from the get-go whenever I started
the collection itself.
And so whenever Jack released
the Opep and Drop,
again, it's very, like,
similar deconstruction of the thing,
similar approach.
So it just felt right,
given that those two things
kind of had this squared off,
you know, very, very straightforward look
that you see there.
It just felt right to be the one-on-one.
Like, it, I don't know.
I just, it couldn't be any other way,
I think.
Yeah.
Appreciate it.
You're also a holder of Opep and
of a blank Opep and at least one, I know.
How does, how does it feel
from that side of things?
Like, you know, as an observer,
as a fan,
did you pump Jack for a bunch of information
and he wouldn't tell you or anything?
Yeah, yeah, right.
Trying to get the inside alpha.
So, no, I mean, it's,
I love it, man.
Honestly, it's such a fun,
it's just, like, such a great mechanic.
It's, it just,
it kind of keeps you on your toes
and I think I'm,
you, you get this,
I'm sure everybody experiences
that kind of, like,
tension between,
all right, dude,
do I opt in now
or do I wait?
Do I opt in now
or I wait?
And I think that's just,
like, a really fun,
you know,
like, mechanic to kind of go by.
It keeps things really,
really interesting
compared to what we are
traditionally used to here
where it's, like,
a, you know,
10,000 of these things
and they're all gonna reveal,
you know,
whenever the fuck.
I love being a holder of them.
I need to honestly,
like, pick up more.
I finally,
I picked up a one-of-one today
after fumbling the bag
when they were, like,
I don't know,
like, two ETH
and I was like,
damn,
I need to, like,
scoop a few of these.
Like, some one-of-ones
would be sick.
So, I picked up one today
but I need to grab
some lower edition one, too
just because I feel like
that kind of tension
that I described
that's gonna come along
every single set
so I'm like,
man,
if I could just, like,
constantly opt in
every single week
or, you know,
every single drop
I might as well
because, you know,
it'd be a blast
but, yeah.
Yeah, I mean,
that's definitely my plan.
I want all 200.
I want one for 200.
Yes.
That was the grand plan.
Yeah.
Just because
Pine or PM,
you've been so patient
with your hand up,
you have a question
for bats
or comments
or anything?
Yeah, well,
I'm fucking
mind blown.
I don't know.
I knew bats
was gonna have the series
and we saw,
of course,
the tease
but the set is like,
I don't know,
it's amazing.
I see all these references
to different art
things
which
is kind of, like,
great
and somebody mentioned
also before
the 3D glasses
and,
I don't know,
it plays with this abstraction
and then
it kind of, like,
links to,
oh, my cat
is in the lid
or not.
It plays with
these references
but they are, like,
also not so clear,
like,
the,
I forget how I said,
the 4th edition
is, like,
totally, like,
Picasso cubism.
There's the Mondrian
references,
Andy Warhol,
like,
I don't know if this
is, like,
intentional
or just appears there
on your style of working
do you,
do you get inspiration
from this,
from art history?
Oh, yeah.
I mean,
absolutely intentional.
I would be
definitely the first person
to tell you that.
I, uh,
my background
is design
and I,
I was heavily studied
art in college
and have just always been,
you know,
kind of infatuated with it
and I saw an opportunity
to kind of take those
inspirations and,
and apply it to this.
yeah,
that's,
you're,
you're absolutely spot on.
I mean,
that's,
there's all kinds of
references to,
you know,
them,
many,
many,
like,
graphic design greats
of Bauhaus
and that kind of thing.
they're always kind of,
like,
top of mind,
whenever I'm working
through them.
By the way,
Bats,
you,
you tweeted something
to the effect of,
everybody who picks up,
one of the,
Opepins is going to get
a fun,
fun prize in addition.
What's that all about?
Yeah,
the fucking,
the,
the bomb grip,
Opepins.
Yeah,
I mean,
it was one that,
I had,
like,
we had kind of on the set,
as we were,
like,
working through them
and refining them
and,
and defining the six.
and I just,
you know,
it would have been fun
to include it in the drop,
but I just don't,
you know,
it didn't go along
with the set as a whole,
but,
like,
you know,
the whole story behind,
like,
the bong rip Pepe thing,
gosh,
I don't know.
I mean,
we would just,
whenever January kind of came around
and my work started picking up
a little bit more,
I think,
you know,
80% of my tweets
like,
replies or reactions to things
were,
like,
bong rip Pepe,
and it just kind of became,
you know,
this thing that was,
you know,
just,
like,
tied to me a little bit more.
I mean,
it's always,
like,
in my,
GM Pepe collector chat,
like,
we're always,
everybody's just always posted
bong rip Pepe,
so I was like,
well,
I have to make one of these.
but yeah,
since it,
since it didn't go with the full set,
I figured,
why not just,
like,
airdrop it to holders
who,
who collect from,
from my Pepe set.
I'll probably snapshot it
sometime next week
and,
and drop around then.
It feels like a really nice compliment.
You have this super classy,
clean,
minimalist design
and then just this,
like,
trippy,
bong,
you know,
bong illustration.
It's like a perfect compliment.
Love it.
Yeah.
Well,
awesome.
yeah,
I mean,
thanks for,
for coming up and,
and hanging out.
We were excited when the rumors
were swirling about you doing this
and,
I'm really happy now that you're,
you know,
the first,
the first,
artist,
collab,
on Opepin.
That's,
that's a big deal.
And,
assuming this thing becomes
a long-term historical project,
it's a nice feather in the cap.
So thanks.
I mean,
thanks for doing it.
That's awesome.
Yeah,
absolutely,
man.
And,
and like I said,
thanks for having me up here.
And I mean,
I could,
I could go on and on and on.
but,
you know,
again,
just want to give thanks to Jack and Jaleel
and,
and everybody who has just like supported
and enjoyed my work,
especially like over these past,
seven or eight months has been like quite,
quite a whirlwind.
And I don't know if I would have told myself
last year,
that this would be happening now.
I'd be like,
whatever,
you know,
fuck you,
you're full of shit.
but it's just,
honestly,
it's truly a dream.
And,
I'm,
I'm really grateful for all this.
So just everybody who's listening,
I appreciate you all.
and I hope to,
continue to just deliver and make things that people enjoy.
Cause that's kind of what it's all about.
Heck yeah.
I mean,
before I guess we switch to some other topics,
do you want to just give everybody a quick,
notice of where they can find your stuff besides,
your Twitter handle here?
Yeah,
I think,
I've got a,
I've got a link tree,
that you can,
go pop into.
And there's a bunch of,
links to,
you know,
my additions,
some of my one-on-ones,
those kinds of things.
I've also got,
you know,
I've got some work that I've done with,
fake rares as well as notable pepes.
and then,
yeah,
I mean,
that's,
that's about it.
I'll have,
I'll have hopefully another series or collection drop in later this year,
that I'm,
that I'm really,
really excited about,
but I'm just going to kind of take my time and give it a few months and,
make sure that the time is right,
whenever I drop it.
Awesome,
man.
Well,
yeah,
follow,
follow bats.
He's great.
and his art is fantastic.
And I can't wait to sit and stare at the screen for an hour and decide,
you know,
which ones I'm going to opt into,
which of course is going to be all of them,
but I'm just pretending like I'm going to think about it.
but,
yeah,
I mean,
certainly want to give some attention to,
collection,
or drop Oh four zero zero zero four consensus that feels relevant to,
to the checks,
you know,
project that,
that just,
ended elements.
yeah.
Anybody have thoughts and reactions on,
on zero zero four.
I was just going to say first,
really nice job,
Jack and Jalil.
I feel like I've been part of this project for a year already with how much
stuff has happened these last few weeks.
man,
it's,
it's crazy.
like,
I don't,
I don't,
I don't even know what,
what to focus on.
There's just so much stuff going on at once and everything's like amazing.
And,
you know,
my initial goal with,
Opepin was to get one of every edition and,
you know,
kind of relax and,
and see what my collection looks like at the end of this.
And now I,
I realize I do not have enough Opepin and I need to get a lot more,
you know,
stay with the excitement.
And,
you know,
I'm,
I'm looking at the numbers right now.
you know,
even for the one of 40,
I only have one of those and already have a one out of over one in a
thousand chance to get one of those.
and,
you know,
just,
and everyone is different too.
So like,
you know,
I've seen some people,
you know,
say maybe the,
the forties are,
you know,
not the best way to go,
but I mean,
even if you get a one of 40 in this collection,
you'll have a different PFP of everything.
It's,
and then also,
I mean,
going back,
that's first really,
good job on your collection as well.
personally,
I'm a really big fan of the,
20 additions and the 10 additions.
I really like that green,
background on the 20 additions.
So I'm going to try to go for,
those two,
of course,
the one of one and one of four,
also a big fan of,
but yeah,
let's,
let's see what I get.
I mean,
it's like hitting the lottery.
I get into any of these two sets and,
just amazing job from both the VV team and bats as well.
And I think like,
what we got to remember is with each one of these drops,
obviously there's this like opt-in and then this like anticipation of,
you know,
am I going to potentially land one of these,
which,
is very exciting.
But then after that,
you know,
once the reveal is,
it happens,
then there's this like very dynamic and interesting secondary market action.
Whereas like,
you know,
people don't know at first necessarily where to price these things.
And,
you know,
sometimes that leads to opportunity,
right?
Like,
of course,
looking back to this like series one and two drop,
you know,
like those series ones were available in the secondary market at,
at first for,
I don't know what the lowest sale was,
maybe like an accidental one,
right?
But maybe like an ETH or,
or one to two ETH.
And,
and so I've had people,
you know,
so I know a lot of people probably feel like suddenly very underexposed to
OPEP in,
and certainly you're not alone.
And like,
I've had multiple people say,
Oh my gosh,
I'm,
I was going to buy one of those series ones,
like at two or three ETH.
And like,
what was I thinking?
And now they're like deliberating,
whether they're going to pay,
you know,
today's price,
which imagine this all happened in like a week.
So kind of crazy how the space works.
And it's kind of like a,
you know,
really a nod to like consensus and how momentum can shift when you kind of hit
this like tipping point.
But yeah,
I wanted to like kind of highlight the fact that each one of these,
each one of these releases,
there's this like pre-release anticipation phase,
then this like reveal phase,
and then this like wild secondary market phase.
So if you think about it with like NFTs in general,
you know,
it's like,
it's always when the NFT first comes out that some of the wildest action happens
in the secondary market.
And so like,
it looks like Jack and Jaleel has,
have lined us up for a lot of exciting kind of moments here.
And so I,
and I think one thing with NFTs is like,
how do you sustain interest and how do you sustain that excitement?
And this is definitely a new approach to,
to trying to create like a long-term sustainable,
exciting experience.
So I'd love to see it.
And I know we,
I know good got rugged.
I don't know if you realize good,
but you got rugged kind of midway through what you're saying.
I'm not sure if you wanted to finish your,
your thoughts there.
Oh man.
I don't know where I got rugged.
I was,
I was probably going over the,
the consensus piece.
Did you hear me say about like Jack and numerology?
Was that,
did that come through?
Yeah.
Yeah.
you basically,
you basically cut out at that point.
Oh yeah.
I mean,
just briefly,
I was going to say for those people that were following Jack from the
beginning of checks,
he was just very thoughtful on numerology of,
you know,
spacing of the checks and the breakdown of the numbers and burning.
you know,
cause I think from the outside perspective,
if you saw the burn mechanisms go 80,
five,
four,
you might've been confused,
but there was a lot of thought process that went into that.
And that numerology is kind of came over to the 80 pack,
representative of the 80 checks for Opepin.
And I just was,
you know,
it's just nice that all these sets with the Christie's auction line up to
the Opepin sets.
It just makes it very clean.
So each edition has that same category,
but on that consensus note,
you know,
Jack made the claim of PFPs being beachfront property,
when he decided to take,
you know,
when he did the,
the,
O O P P F P tweet.
and here it is,
right.
You went after the Christie's auction consensus checks,
drop the elements drop.
And now there's an actual direct tie to get the beachfront property to
those,
those physical prints along with the digital art.
So it's like,
that's full circle.
And this isn't even the full circle,
labeled drop.
So I find that fascinating,
but this is incredible.
I think it's incredibly bullish on this.
I find it extremely fascinating that set three and set four can feel so monumental.
I didn't expect that to be honest.
I thought set three and set four were going to be interesting,
but to have one of them be,
you know,
the,
the,
an ode to the beginning and one be a capstone to what just happened is,
it's pretty astonishing.
And that's,
I know,
I know you might be tired of talking,
but that,
that fuzzy green,
that static green that you have going on,
that 20 edition set just blown up on my wide screen right now.
And I don't know,
I don't know what's operating on me when I stare into these 3d,
these 3d glasses here with this green background,
but I'm loving every bit of it.
So thank you for the art,
sir.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I second that.
Jack,
thanks for,
for coming up.
Are you,
are you done for the week?
Can you take a nap or are you going to ship a couple of things over the
weekend?
How are you feeling?
Boys,
I'm just in a tire repair station right now.
I've got a nail in my tire.
the universe is balancing everything out as expected.
It feels appropriate.
If that's the worst thing that happens to you this week,
then you're lucky,
man.
We're in good shape.
Yeah.
thanks everybody for,
participating for opting in for hosting this thing.
And,
yeah,
I was planning on just listening when I rejoined.
it gave me the,
the,
the invite and the join at the same time.
So I was just going to,
sit and listen here while I negotiate without a wallet to get my tire repaired
over here.
Cool.
I think,
no worries.
Dude,
I'm dying over here,
guys.
I can't even believe that.
Yeah,
man.
Do you think you would take any old pepin or no?
Well,
yeah,
we'll try.
We'll try.
I might be a long pitch,
but we'll try.
Well,
that's all.
Yeah.
obviously,
hang out Jack.
And if you,
you know,
when you're done negotiating,
don't,
don't pay over 150 per tire,
by the way.
but yeah,
but,
but yeah,
thanks man for joining.
And if you,
if you have a moment or want to chime in,
obviously please do.
this is great.
I mean,
I think the funniest thing to me and Jack's been very vocal about this,
is just like the progression of putting out,
you know,
this idea of an open edition for free.
And then pretty much saying it's not,
that's all it is.
We're done.
You know,
don't expect anything to,
this incredibly intricate,
thoughtful mechanic that a lot of us haven't really seen before.
It's almost maddening to me,
how quick that,
that happened.
you know,
as somebody who like,
I spend a lot of time,
iterating on game design and just going through it for a year or two years
and rewriting how,
how a game mechanic works.
And then this guy just in three months,
you know,
obviously with help from others,
but pulls off what is just an incredibly clever mechanic is,
is just,
it's amazing.
And it's not,
you know,
I often don't see these things as like a bolt of lightning,
but it's really a reflection of deep thinking that enters your
subconscious.
And eventually it comes out in different ways.
And I think that's what happened here.
And,
and Jack's been very,
thorough and,
you know,
putting out just great artwork and thinking and design,
for years and years and years.
And I think,
you know,
now we're benefiting from that with this particular project.
So bravo to,
to him.
I'm,
I'm,
I'm glad that this didn't end up just being a simple experiment.
It still is an experiment,
but it's not simple.
that's for sure.
But,
yeah,
Pim,
what's on your mind?
Yeah,
my mind is being blown away.
I have so many stimulations in my mind.
I'm seeing the art.
I'm hearing all these interesting points.
it's amazing.
yeah,
I have a couple.
I will,
I will just go quickly through them.
I don't know if my mind will be able to handle it,
but,
what,
what I found the most,
one of the most genius things is exactly.
Somebody mentioned it before.
Also is,
the most fun part of NFTs is in the revealing parts.
And,
Pepin kind of like has this unlimited on reveal parties,
you know,
and it's,
it's going to take years for all of them to reveal.
So we are in for like an amazing ride.
and the fact that we can opt in and then after,
each reveals this,
I found very interesting after each reveals,
there's like this kind of like subcultures appearing of holders of those 80.
Right.
So we saw it with the first one and then they had the,
they made their own,
Twitter group and they are like,
you know,
they're becoming this little community inside of the bigger up happening community.
And what's going to be interesting is that the more Jack starts to collaborate with other artists,
you're going to get all this different community.
communities becoming part of this one big up happening community.
And,
yeah,
that is just like fucking genius.
So I think,
yeah,
I don't know.
this,
this is a very interesting development and,
but it's also a very nice one that,
the one ones of the whole collection,
we also got a group.
Now we're getting everybody that has a one,
one in there.
This is also like a separate collection,
like on top of that.
So there's all this communities inside of the community and network effects happening in between all of them.
It's like mind blowing.
And last thing was,
in the consensus number 004 that just dropped,
that refers to,
of course,
the elements that we all participated on yesterday,
but it was really funny.
Somebody tweeted something like this,
like,
Hey,
it would be great to use elements,
in the,
and then Jack reacted with this emoji.
And I was like,
a hundred percent,
he's going to do it,
but he already did it.
So that illustrates how,
far ahead,
this team is with,
with,
with,
with everything.
So thank you,
Batu and Jack for,
for this amazing experience.
Yeah.
I was curious,
to your point about,
you know,
community,
Jack had stated,
I think yesterday,
about,
you know,
the fact that Opep doesn't have a discord.
It doesn't have like the centralized place to converse.
it's just naturally happened.
And,
and as you said,
Pim,
there's,
you know,
there's Twitter chats and,
and,
and private discords and all these things.
And I kind of dig that.
I kind of liked that it's emerging naturally where,
you know,
the team can focus on shipping the product and not worry about community
management and stuff.
And that's pretty unique to the NFT space.
I'm curious though,
how you guys feel about it.
You know,
do you see that as a good thing,
a bad thing?
Again,
I'm not,
I'm not pushing either way.
I'm very happy with sort of the organic nature of how these groups are
developing.
I guess if I'm playing straw man,
the downside is that,
you know,
not all information will be accurate and,
and some people will,
you know,
push or share information that,
you know,
perhaps is not really official,
but yeah.
How do you guys feel about,
you know,
sort of the less centralized format for communications?
Man,
I think it's,
specifically shaped a wonderful community.
and it could just be by happenstance,
but what I particularly noticed was because there was no forum,
like no established official forum for people to gather in.
It made,
it made people speak up in an intelligent way,
or at least a,
maybe intelligence,
the wrong word,
but at least a,
thoughtful content,
manner way on Twitter,
whether it be on the timeline or through DMS to really kind of almost,
have like proof of,
you know,
proof of participation or proof of knowledge in the space,
rather than just popping in a designated spot.
Obviously you do lose a little bit of,
reach that way because there isn't an easy spot for you to jump into,
but there's,
there's one thing that at least is,
is clear that came out as a by-product is that every single person who got
engaged,
prior to this point or up at this point with the elements auction,
is that there,
there's no shortage of information for them to go gather themselves and kind
of build their own lore around,
which I think,
you know,
we can't,
we can't possibly understand the effect that that has on this collection,
that community while we're in it.
But I think when we do some revisionist history on it,
we'll find out that everybody has their own kind of unique perspective that
they've had to sleuth their way into this community.
And,
you know,
I don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing.
And to your straw man argument,
definitely there can be cracks in the system,
but right now in the market that we're in,
it's net new,
it's a great experience.
And I wouldn't have wanted any other way,
but I'm curious on your take board and facts and anyone else.
I can hop in there board.
You know,
I think there's pros and cons.
I think the,
one of the pros,
like to your point is it kind of stimulated people who were really
motivated to be involved and wanting to,
you know,
network and participate,
you know,
express that through like a D more decentralized way.
And I think that there's a lot of positives to that.
And it starts to kind of really,
it kind of underlines this big point that I think is very relevant with OPEP in,
which is a permissionless proliferation of the meme,
you know,
which is this idea that the more people who,
you know,
share the idea in their own way,
in their own,
you know,
platforms and art or,
or however they see things,
then that idea in this case,
like the,
the meme of the OPEP in,
you know,
grows and proliferates and creates,
you know,
boundless lore essentially.
And,
and that's kind of,
I think ultimately with the direction that this,
everyone like wants to see this go and grow.
And so anything that would precipitate that without would stimulate behavior that,
that feeds into that,
I think is great.
The,
the downside then is like,
we do have clearly like a lot of people who are hyped about this and want to
participate and want to be active and hold on one second here.
all good while we're sorry.
I was just going to say that with this network and like the economic energy
that's,
you know,
just circulating through this network.
I feel like if there was a more centralized approach to organizing and
capturing that,
then it would perpetuate that and allow for more faster proliferation.
you know,
my opinion.
So that's kind of like the pro con that I see there.
Yeah.
I mean,
to me and anybody who's followed,
you know,
Jack's work,
like discord as a product is like the antithesis of minimalism,
right?
It's like,
if you want to communicate information to people and onboard somebody into
ideas or a project it's like taking a website and making it more
complicated and then having a bunch of people shouting on top of it.
So it has become the de facto centralized hub for,
for NFTs and stuff,
but I'm,
I'm definitely a staunch critic of it.
So I,
yeah,
I'm very happy with the approach here and really it feels like the
website,
you know,
like Opeppen.art does a lot of work as well as of course you know,
tweets from,
from Jack and team.
I saw Jaleel snuck up here for a second,
but then he got shy,
which is cool.
no pressure,
sir.
Good,
good work today and the entire week.
But yeah.
Yeah.
Pim,
what do you think?
Well,
I think Jaleel is still up here now.
I see him at least.
I see him as listener.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
I think,
I mean,
I think it works very well that you kind of like create the,
the arts and the community appears around it organically.
And,
and I don't know if you know the story of how Jack and Jaleel met,
but maybe he can tell it is himself.
That's actually illustrates very nicely how people are seen as
participants and they're stimulated to,
you know,
do your own thing and react to it.
And,
and don't be just a consumer,
but join the community and participate and create because everything is,
is free to use.
You can,
you can just grab it and make your own.
And I think this in the longterm is a lot,
a lot more effective and a lot more fun.
Well,
I know Jaleel,
thanks for coming up,
man.
I know you talked a little bit about how you guys met over the few spaces
you've done and did one this morning.
And it was very much fitting,
you know,
your story of kind of reaching out and following Jack and eventually partnering
with him.
But how do you,
how do you,
how do you feel about,
you know,
again,
like pretending you're in the shoes of a,
a fan or like a,
you know,
a consumer,
a patron of,
of Opep and like take yourself out of it.
What's your favorite part?
Like,
it's hard to step away from something you work on so deeply,
but what's,
what's the most exciting thing for you?
Hey,
everybody.
That's probably the,
the,
the fact that we revealed all the rarities up front.
I think that was a super interesting approach.
And then have these little preset drops.
I think from a collectible dynamic standpoint,
it makes it's made,
it makes the collection super interesting.
Like,
I think I mentioned this shortly on the podcast with good and facts.
Designing a collection that's fun and easy to collect and make sense to
collect requires,
I think like a clear distribution of rarity.
It's funny if we think about it,
like before there was right rarity,
we made our own rarity,
by just looking at the numbers and by introducing this very simple edition
size based rarity system up front,
it makes sort of collecting these more like little cards or whatever,
a much more enjoyable experience at multiple entry points,
which I think is also very healthy to have whales be able to go for the
rarer ones.
and everyone else go for the 40 editions,
for example.
And yeah,
so that mechanic of just having all these predefined and that defines basically
the entire collectible dynamic of the,
of all 16,000 tokens,
I think it's just fun.
And then of course,
these little drops that keep us on our heels,
it feels,
definitely,
definitely interesting.
Sorry,
that's,
I'm so tired of that.
it's okay.
It was,
we're not,
we were not expecting you guys to join and it's incredible that you did,
and doing everything you did this week on top of being dads,
is amazing.
So thanks for even just being on stage.
It's incredible.
yeah,
I am so excited about the fact that this is done in increments of 80.
It is,
it is you guys signing up for a long period of time.
you've built a system that's pretty,
you know,
repeatable,
but the part that isn't repeatable obviously is sourcing amazing partners and,
you know,
coordinating all of the back and forth of,
approving art and keeping everybody,
you know,
tight lipped until the right moment and,
and who knows what else will come up.
So it's cool.
It shows a really powerful commitment.
and I,
I commend you guys for,
for doing what will probably take,
you know,
I would imagine at least a year,
probably,
probably more,
but that's cool.
But what I was going to say is the increments of 80 to me really,
is you guys giving this,
a proper spotlight,
you know,
to every artist that you end up working with.
If you drop a thousand or 5,000 at the same time,
it's,
you know,
it's fine,
but doing 80,
just like,
it's such a powerful stage that you're giving other people,
who you work with,
who may or may not need a stage,
but like that,
it's just a sign of respect.
And I,
I love that.
And I think it was Pimu said,
you know,
these sub communities,
the emerge,
they can just decide amongst themselves.
You know,
if you're,
if you're within a particular group of 80 and you really love that art
style,
you can decide within that 80,
what's the most important trait for you.
And the people who really love set three and the people who really love set,
you know,
200,
they,
they don't need to necessarily compare themselves to each other.
They're just like operating in a different world.
It's kind of like,
you know,
you're a Picasso fan and I like Dali and they're both great and we don't need to
compete.
And that's what you've created instead of sort of like,
you know,
10,000 things that sort of look similar and we're just kind of competing over
tiny nuances that maybe aren't really that different.
So yeah,
super smart.
And again,
just really,
you know,
appreciate that you guys are helping elevate other artists.
What's up,
Gino?
Thanks for joining.
You might've,
you know,
you might've been in that weird purgatory where you don't hear anything while
you're coming up as a speaker.
I was in the,
the,
the twilight zone for like five minutes trying to work through,
I felt like Rick DeSantis just trying to climb through a,
you know,
a primary announcement.
How's everyone doing?
How are we doing?
Good.
Yeah,
we've got about a hundred thousand less people in here,
but I think the people,
the quality of the people in here are much higher.
So what's the,
what's your,
what's your reaction?
Are you,
are you opting in today?
Are you going to sit on it?
What's your,
what's your strategy?
I just came back from a fresh haircut.
I don't think Gino's up on the speaker yet.
You said what?
Sorry.
What's up?
I don't think Gino was up on the stage.
I'm here.
Can you not hear him?
You might be rugged.
Yeah.
You might be rugged.
Yeah.
He's good,
Matt.
I think you're a,
you're probably on a,
on a tape delay,
whatever the Twitter's version of that is.
But yeah,
Gino's good.
Go ahead,
Matt.
Matt.
I think if you want to hop down,
we'll let you back up.
Usually that will reset it.
or you could just close the app on your phone.
You know,
that always works.
What's up,
Gino?
How you doing,
bro?
Good,
Warren.
Good.
Yeah.
I just got a haircut.
Just got my nails manicured.
You know what I mean?
You know,
the first thing I did board,
I went ahead and I opted in for all of it.
Cause I just can't fucking,
I didn't win any,
I didn't win any,
on my previous opt-ins.
and then I,
a few days ago,
Jack,
lower the volume on your phone.
So you don't hear this.
Jaleel,
you too,
please.
I sold an Epi pen or an Epi pen and Opepin because I was trying to get more
this auction.
I was trying to get more.
Opepin will not help you.
if you were having an allergic reaction,
Opepin will not save your life.
I sold my Epi pen.
Please do not take any medical advisors.
Yeah.
So I fucked up and I fat fingered a fucking four,
a four,
Opepin at the floor because I was trying to get liquid for the auction.
And,
I've been,
I've been grieving with this loss for a couple of days now.
So I went and bought a couple other,
just like,
you know,
what's the 40 trait.
What do you even call them?
whatever.
I bought a couple of 80,
the 40,
the 40,
yeah,
40 banders,
40 banders.
I bought a couple of 40 banders and,
yeah,
I opted in,
I opted in for all of it.
I really want,
I really want a full circle though.
That shit.
I don't know.
Something about full circle just looks,
you know,
Did you do a chef's kiss?
Is that what that sound was?
That was a chef's kiss.
Yeah.
You're looking at the first left facing Opep in there with the one of one on
the full circle,
I think,
right?
We got confirmation.
That's the first left facing.
Oh yeah,
you're right.
The pupils,
the pupils are on the left.
so that's,
that's a good point.
That's a,
that's an ultra rare Pepe.
it's a great,
great call out.
Yeesh.
I have a soft spot for the,
the one in the four,
because of the grid in the background and it,
and it just making me have Tetris vibes,
you know,
growing up and,
and seeing that sort of dynamic of shapes.
you know,
am I wanting now to build a game,
a Tetris,
you know,
clone that looks like Opep in,
I don't know.
We'll see.
It seems like it'd be fun.
but yeah,
I agree.
These are just amazing.
I was going to buy a couple more.
I only have,
I have five right now.
I was going to buy a couple more and I got back and they just,
they've pumped.
So I'm going to just rock with these five for now,
but did you guys all opt in?
I'm a little late,
obviously to this chat.
Yeah.
I mean,
if anybody like,
there's a lot of questions being asked,
the opt in is what?
48 hours.
Is that correct?
you know,
it's a provably random drawing.
So it doesn't matter how early you are.
You have all weekend basically to,
you know,
opt in if you want.
Yeah.
It's 72 hours.
You have two days and 22 hours left.
the team is being very generous and giving everyone time.
even though they get peppered with when,
when,
when,
when,
when,
and no time at all to do anything,
they,
in return,
you know,
give us lots of time to make decisions.
So the,
the good news is that,
you know,
the 200% required to,
you know,
make sure that the collection goes live is far exceeded,
which is not surprising.
so it's definitely happening.
And now it's just a matter of,
do you get it or not?
Hopefully you do,
Gino.
I'm sorry that,
you know,
didn't work out for you before,
but I better,
I better fucking get,
I'm going to be,
I'm going to be,
I'm,
I'm sliding in Jaleel's DMs.
I'm sliding in Jack's DMs.
I'm going to need a full audit.
a blockchain audit.
Also,
I'm just going to totally ambush the stage.
Well,
cause I'm just coming in like a fireball.
I had so much fun doing that auction yesterday.
I know this is in a pepin space,
but I had so much fun doing that auction yesterday.
and I want to congratulate you board on just a fucking alpha grail.
You dog.
You,
can we get some,
some hearts in the,
in the audience,
please?
Yeah,
that's a big shout.
We totally forgot to mention that.
We should mention that.
Let's also give some hearts for me who won one.
Let's give a heart for me.
And then let's go ahead and give a big thumbs down for Burrs here who,
bid me up with one second left.
Go ahead.
Everyone give Burrs a big thumbs down.
poor Burrs.
yeah.
And Gino,
I think,
you know,
if you miss,
if you miss,
rather than DMing,
I think in reality,
you're going to be fireballing right into the secondary market.
Let's be real,
you know,
about it,
but you,
you know,
you did mention that the alpha auction and that was something that I kind of
wanted to bring up to board because I know you've gone super heavy.
pep in and not so much checks,
but you went ahead and grab like this ultra grail,
you know,
addition,
obviously.
I mean,
element obviously.
And so I heard you,
mentioning something about possibly some ideas you had for the physical of
that.
Is that too premature to kind of touch on right now?
Or do you want to give us any thoughts about that piece?
Yeah,
well,
I I'm glad,
I'm glad I just found out that I,
I won that,
that piece.
I gave my kid my phone just to play with for a few hours yesterday.
And I guess they must've pressed the buttons.
And I won,
I won a,
one of the alpha element checks.
So this is,
this is,
I'm excited.
I'm not angry about it.
but yeah,
in all seriousness,
it was awesome.
it is actually my only check,
which some people will,
you know,
shame me for,
but I,
I really got into,
Opepin,
to a very severe degree,
obviously.
And checks is,
is something that's really interesting to me.
But,
because of like the,
the,
the physical prints that were coming with,
the pieces from,
from this,
this week's auction,
it was really exciting to me to grab one and,
and,
and wanted to support the team as well.
And,
as I tweeted,
yesterday,
just kind of wanted to send a message and a signal and I'll let people interpret it however they want to.
But in terms of the physical piece,
you know,
I was kind of thinking,
and this is not set in stone,
but I'd really love for it to be,
up somewhere public.
I'm in,
I live in Southern California,
so I'd be very curious if there were like a gallery or a museum,
even,
if they wanted to display,
if they had room to display the fire alpha elements check,
I'd love to lend it to them so that,
you know,
a lot of people could see it in person.
And perhaps that's something that we'll,
you know,
discuss with the team,
but it doesn't need to be stuck in my house.
So I definitely would love for anyone to be able to,
if I may,
I absolutely love that.
I actually,
Jack and I talked about this,
a couple of days ago to allow,
like,
I think once one such interesting prospect of NFTs and digital art that is paired to physical or digital provenances that is paired to physical art.
Is it being displayed for the public and museums and such?
as you all know,
on the,
on the elements auction,
we reserved quite a few tokens,
and prints for the archive,
and visualized value.
But we,
we definitely are considering the idea of allowing,
holders or owners of these to sort of opt in to submitting them to,
the archive or a gallery as well,
rather than claiming them as of now.
And then,
and,
and then we'll try to with you holders with,
with the team,
et cetera.
this isn't a done deal,
but,
but we're,
we're thinking about it,
to try and get these into,
into nice places for the public to interact with.
and then sort of in that context,
make the digital provenance of it,
obvious.
So of course it would say owned by board.eth,
for example.
but yeah,
that sort of brings it full circle,
right?
The physical and the digital and the,
the,
the amazing prospect of digital provenance appeared with like physical,
public,
good art.
love that.
And another,
if I,
if I,
if I may,
I pinned this tweet.
Sadly,
it happens obviously to,
to very experienced people in the space.
Also,
Bharat Krimo from the,
the six,
five to nine team tweeted that he,
lost a bunch of his NFTs while trying to opt into a pep.
And,
obviously I don't,
I haven't actually found out which,
which scammer site he was using.
but obviously,
obviously there's already stuff out there,
which is a very upsetting and sad,
of course.
to one note for everybody trying to opt in to,
or pepans on the site.
if you open this,
this little tweet that I pinned up in the,
in the,
in the space,
you can see a screenshot of what the message would look like.
So our,
our signature is not a transaction request.
So there's nothing with,
it doesn't have anything to do with ETH or gas costs or anything like that.
If you see anything like that,
close your browser.
and the,
the signature request,
the message is a clear text.
Hey,
I'm trying to opt in,
or I want to opt in.
I want to submit my OPEP in for possible artwork reveal in the following set.
And then it sets the,
it says the name of the set and the OPEP and IDs that you're submitting.
And if it's anything other than that scheme,
then it's most definitely a scam.
and then also as a second note,
we do support delegate cash.
So if you have your NFTs in one wallet through delegate cash,
you can,
approve another wallet to be able to sign on the half of,
of your vault that holds the NFTs.
And you can use that on our side as well.
Yeah.
Thank you for that.
and honestly,
everyone in this room,
just commit to,
to your brain.
pepin.art and just go straight there.
Don't click anything is my policy ever.
so best,
you know,
best of all,
just go straight to the,
to the website.
this also kind of speaks to why we,
you know,
why discord is not necessarily a good thing for this community,
but yeah,
I mean,
thanks to Jaleel for that and for implementing delegate cash.
super important.
And,
you know,
the reality is,
is if the trajectory of Opep and,
you know,
continues in this direction,
then unfortunately there will be more people who pop up who,
who are scamming and trying to,
you know,
steal stuff.
the other thing I was going to say is there are a couple of fake Twitter
handles out there that are pretending to be Opep and AI.
And honestly,
I try to report them like every day and anyone who's listening to this
report those accounts because when you do it in mass,
it shuts them down.
and until I have a direct ear to,
Papa Elon,
nothing,
nothing I can do to get these killed.
please.
Yeah.
Just try to squash these things.
Cause it ruins the experience for people in a,
in a really significant way.
so that was the Debbie Downer report,
but an important one.
I figured I'd wrap this up,
in about 18 minutes.
Cause we've been going for almost 90 minutes,
which is awesome.
Jaleel or Jack,
if you have removed the tire,
the nail from your tire,
any,
any sort of,
you know,
thoughts or,
you know,
things that you want to reflect on after a pretty insane week before we
kind of close out.
Boy,
I got a price update for you.
What do you think?
Tell me it's under one 50.
Five bucks.
What?
they were able to patch it.
They patched it.
I'll get it replaced tomorrow,
but just to get me,
get me home five bucks.
Incredible.
You gotta love it.
You gotta love it.
A generous tip was,
was provided.
Incredible,
incredible service.
reflections on the,
talk about,
talk about mechanics.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
incredible,
obviously mad,
mad few days specifically,
just,
we're up in New York,
then back for these elements auctions.
And then we were kind of,
you know,
debating whether or not to,
I think we mentioned a couple of days ago that we were going to do three and
four,
or it's been kind of dropped in a few conversations that once we had this
stuff out of the way,
we would get back to the drop schedule and it just felt like,
especially the,
the fourth set and the,
proximity to those auctions closing and that project,
being complete in some ways,
it felt like,
having this occur,
close to that was a,
you know,
conscious decision to capture a moment in time.
and obviously including bats as the third set kind of,
in my mind,
one,
two,
and three have very significant,
themes that are,
you know,
influential to the,
the formation of the project in the first place.
Like with number one being basically that iterative process,
us landing on that silhouette by,
going back and forth on Twitter for months.
The second being this kind of rabbit hole that a lot of us fell down for the
last couple of months of,
generative AI,
the commodification of image making,
all of those themes that are like hovering around everybody's head.
And I think,
a very interesting when juxtaposed with digital ownership,
provenance,
all of these themes that we've been talking about since,
well before checks,
but specifically,
you know,
since January.
And then the third set being bats,
which was obviously a massive inspiration for the initial image that kicked off the project.
And Jalil,
his project,
originally called punk scapes now called scapes.
It was a combination of bats and Jalil's work obviously have,
come together to create that initial image.
And then the fourth set consensus was very much a collaboration between Jalil and I on the artwork front.
And all of that texture you see and the translation of the physical pieces in elements to digital,
those same techniques are used in,
the consensus set number four.
So trying to link all of these chapters together,
not necessarily,
you know,
they can obviously all exist by themselves,
but the sequence and the order and the days on which they're released,
all has significance.
And everyone here,
definitely,
Jalil is massively responsible for,
you know,
pulling ridiculously long days and nights and getting this stuff together.
And when,
when we're like,
what do you think it would take to get set three and four?
I was like,
we could do it today.
I was like,
maybe we'll do it tomorrow.
so just incredible,
just incredible turnaround time on implementing these,
incredibly complex,
systems.
And,
even the elements auction,
another shout out for that on the technical side,
like shipping features in the middle of deployment based on,
you know,
what we were seeing and how people were interacting with it and taking real
time feedback and literally writing code and pushing it out five minutes
later.
It's just,
just insane to watch.
yeah,
massive hats off to Jalil,
Traf,
everybody who was involved in the,
bringing the element stuff to life.
And,
feels,
feels great to be thinking about set five.
Dun,
dun,
dun.
Yeah.
Jalil is the,
is humanity's light,
and hope against AI,
the,
the level of,
being able to ship,
is uncanny.
And,
I think he can do better than any machine can,
at least for now,
we've got another year left at least before the takeover.
So thank you Jalil for being on the front lines.
any,
any final thoughts from you Jalil,
as we,
come to a close.
and I'm,
I'm not good at receiving all this love.
thank you all so much.
it means,
it means the world,
it means the world to be able to work with Jack on all of this.
It's a huge honor.
And,
I enjoy the process very much.
So thank you.
Thank you all.
Awesome.
Well,
thank you guys for,
for being on stage today,
Jack and Jalil.
And,
we did not expect it.
This ended up being way bigger than we predicted.
I think a lot of us now want to go and,
and stare at Opepin.art,
myself included,
and figure out what the move is.
thank you everybody for joining this space.
Hopefully we can do more of them in the future.
but this has been an extremely exciting week.
I'm honored to be a holder.
I'm honored to be a community member and,
hope you guys have a great weekend.
And I hope by Monday,
you know,
that,
you picked up the Opepin you want.
Hey,
boy,
I just want to say,
man,
thank you for being such an incredible steward of this,
project here.
We're incredibly lucky to have you.
appreciate that,
man.
thanks for,
thanks for having me and for doing this stuff and always here to help if I can.
All right,
everybody have a great weekend.
we should be dancing.
No man sitting in the east wing at the west wing of this mansion.
What's happening?
I am holding my arms.
Every word that I see is coming straight from the heart.
if you're trying to lay in peace on,
I'ma leave the door open.
I'ma leave the door open.
I'ma leave the door open,
girl.
I'ma leave the door open.
