All About Affordable NFTs

021: Customer Service & Rise of Coinbase | Affordable Project: Wicked Craniums

 

All About AFFORDABLE NFTs, hosts Andrew aka Rantum and George from Mostly Stable on ZED Run, help navigate new projects, interview expert guests and explore NFT trends. Whether you’re on your first or fiftieth NFT, we’re going to have something for you.

And a quick note that we are not financial advisors and nothing in this podcast should be taken as investment advice.

 

News:

• Sotheby’s launches nft auction platform https://metaverse.sothebys.com/ - can they compete with NFT native platforms 

Affordable project: https://wickedcranium.com/ - staking nft  .15 floor (gw)

• • https://opensea.io/collection/thewickedcraniums 

Theme:  new platforms for NFTs will have much better customer service = better onboarding than an open sea

• Opensea.com 
• Be careful with transferring NFTs and high gas fees
• https://makersplace.com/
• https://niftygateway.com/ 
• Superrare.com

 

 

020: Understanding NFT Tokens & Staking | Affordable Project: MekaCats

 

All About AFFORDABLE NFTs, hosts Andrew aka Rantum and George from Mostly Stable on ZED Run, help navigate new projects, interview expert guests and explore NFT trends. Whether you’re on your first or fiftieth NFT, we’re going to have something for you.

And a quick note that we are not financial advisors and nothing in this podcast should be taken as investment advice.

• Affordable project: https://www.mekacatsdao.com/ mutant cat fractional play…(gw)
  Programmatically generated cute MekaCats are on a mission to capture the mutants that have swarmed over the Metaverse.
• MekaCats is a DAO that captures and fractionalizes Mutant Cats for its members. In the vault, the $MECH token represents fractional shares of Mutant Cats NFT. The token can be acquired by staking your MekaCats.
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  • https://opensea.io/MekaCats_Vault
  • https://opensea.io/collection/meka-cats 
  • Cool cats > Mutant Cats > Mekacats 
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  • Keep Us Honest: Quick highlight on any past projects
  • Go through the AAA valuation checklist

 

Theme: Staking vs passive income (not the same, different concerns) 

Resources

• https://bitcoinist.com/use-your-nfts-to-lend-borrow-stake-and-earn-at-hoard-exchange-nft-marketplace/ 
• NFT NYC Conference= https://www.nft.nyc/
• Eth catalyst https://investorplace.com/2021/10/dear-eth-crypto-fans-mark-your-calendars-for-an-ethereum-catalyst-on-oct-27/ 
• Adobe PHotoshop export to NFT

019: Understanding NFT Bear Market Indicators| Affordable Project: TwoBitBears

All About AFFORDABLE NFTs, hosts Andrew aka Rantum and George from Mostly Stable on ZED Run, help navigate new projects, interview expert guests and explore NFT trends. Whether you’re on your first or fiftieth NFT, we’re going to have something for you.

And a quick note that we are not financial advisors and nothing in this podcast should be taken as investment advice.

 

Affordable project - TwoBitBears 

• • https://opensea.io/collection/twobitbears
    Officially described as “A series of 5000 Hyper-Realistic Algorithmically Generated Crypto Collectable Bears Minted on the Ethereum Blockchain”, this collection literally features “bears” depicted in two bits. Each is made up of two single color squares, and named after famous artist and NFT personalities. 
  • Completely Generative, On Chain ERC 721 with Computationally Randomized Attributes and Limitless SVG Scalability. Oh my.
  • Visit the Two Bit Bears website and Discord for more details.

Understanding NFT Bear Markets

• When do NFT bear markets tend to occur?
  1. Often occur when major cryptocurrencies (BTC/ETH) make runs higher
  2. Many collectors look to sell, prices drop quickly, especially on more speculative projects
  3. Tracking market: https://www.cryptoslam.io/nftglobal 
  4. Strategies
     1. Look for opportunities to get into great projects
     2. Make WETH bids when buying, look for sellers dropping prices repeatedly
     3. Be prepared for floors to drop even further after a buy before NFTs surge again

Resources

1. 1. MLB Candy NFT packs coming 10.26 - https://mlb.candy.com/

018: Deep Dive: ZED Run Expected Value Breeding Theory

All About AFFORDABLE NFTs, hosts Andrew aka Rantum and George from Mostly Stable on ZED Run, help navigate new projects, interview expert guests and explore NFT trends. Whether you’re on your first or fiftieth NFT, we’re going to have something for you.

And a quick note that we are not financial advisors and nothing in this podcast should be taken as investment advice.

Resources

• Summary of general ZED Run Breed theories
• Full theory: https://3anft.com/ZED-breeding-theory 

The Expected Value Breeding Theory is a practical way to breed in an uncertain environment for new and growing stables that doesn’t require an advanced stats program or a massive budget. It is more practical math than it is theory but it is more likely to catch on to call it a theory in ZED world. 

The goal of Expected Value Breeding Theory is to optimize for the highest quality breed attempts at the lowest possible price. The expected value of a breed is calculated by factoring in breed cost, racing cost, donkey floor for breed type balanced against the actual odds of getting a ‘winning’ horse based on the current bred population. Thanks to a recent update to the KnowYourHorses.com filtered horse queries it is now possible to quickly calculate ‘winning’ horses vs total bred population.

017: Fractional NFT Ownership | Affordable Project: Shark DAO

All About AFFORDABLE NFTs, hosts Andrew aka Rantum and George from Mostly Stable on ZED Run, help navigate new projects, interview expert guests and explore NFT trends. Whether you’re on your first or fiftieth NFT, we’re going to have something for you.

And a quick note that we are not financial advisors and nothing in this podcast should be taken as investment advice.

Affordable Project: Shark DAO

• • Twitter: https://twitter.com/sharkdao
  • Discord: https://discord.com/invite/8aThDGXHqH
  • Website: https://sharkdao.community/ 
  • Sushiswap:  https://app.sushi.com/swap?inputCurrency=0x232afce9f1b3aae7cb408e482e847250843db931
  • SHARK snapshot: https://snapshot.org/#/sharkdao.eth

Theme: Fractional NFTs

• Fractional.art - platform to allow anyone to fractionalize an NFT
• Niftex.com - similar to above
• DAOs - when DAOs buy, generally done so in a different manner where DAO owns asset, DAO members own ‘governance’ over that asset, not direct control
  • • Mutant Cats Dao buys Punk (also CoolCats)
      • https://mutantcats.io/ 
  • PartyBid.app
    • Group pools funds to purchase NFT
    • https://www.partybid.app/parties 
• NFT Liquidity Pools
  • Purpose
    • Allow for easy buying & selling of popular collections (floor generally)
    • Enables those without funds for a full NFT to invest in collections
  • Platforms
    • NFTx: https://nftx.io/ 
    • NFT20 liquidity pools
• NFTfi - lending protocol: https://nftfi.com/ 

Additional Resources

• • Coinbase nft marketplace
  • Artist Arihz released contest/project titled Tiles & minted 50 pieces to each of 12 NFT DAOs - https://medium.com/@FLAMINGODAO/the-tiles-contest-7187a1bb355d
  • https://thepanels.art/ 

016: Understanding NFT Roadmaps actually mean | Affordable Project: Cryptobots

Affordable project: Cryptobots 

1. 1. - https://opensea.io/collection/cryptobots 
   2. - https://discord.com/invite/Pq4zy48NJb
   3. https://cryptoticker.io/en/cryptobots-overview-first-play-to-earn-nft/

Theme discussion: Understanding NFT project Roadmap terminology

1. 1. 1. Seems to be a checklist people throw into a road map let’s dive into what they mean and what they’re actually worth… 
      2. Merch - metfactory
      3. DAO
      4. Game
      5. Sandbox
      6. Feature X
      7. Breeding/Forging
      8. Events/access
      9. Marketing agency/work
      10. Future air Drop to holders
      11. Distributions to owners
      12. Apocalypse
          
          

Links

STX network on top of bitcoin 

015: What are Generative Art NFTs? | Affordable Project: Enchiridion

News: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/120022/opensea-delists-dao-turtles-project-citing-financialization-concerns

Affordable Project: - Enchiridion (0.16 floor, ~ under 0.2, by reputable artist team that has used pieces as an entry for live discord games.

1. What is Generative Art?
   1. Not predetermined, generated at mint
   2. https://opensea.io/assets/art-blocks-factory?search[stringTraits][0][name]=Enchiridion&search[stringTraits][0][values][0]=All%20Enchiridions&search[toggles][0]=BUY_NOW 
2. Platforms
   1. Factory, curated, playground
   2. Avoid “gas wars”
   3. Artblocks
   4. http://ethblock.art 
   5. https://gen.art/ 
   6. Artist direct sites
3. Additional items to research
   1. Artist history - examples of past projects
   2. Other projects published?
   3. Is the code original? 

Resources

• Andrew/Rantum helping lead an upcoming course on Dune & web 3 analytics - https://ournetwork.mirror.xyz/7kL5D5wq4tNUzarKj9WEiTzX2OQjf5WOQmuzISzMrDM
• Autoglyphs from Larva Labs
• Squigly.wtf 

014: Understanding Digital Land NFTs | Project: The Sandbox

News: https://decrypt.co/83237/coinbase-nft-marketplace-social-feed 

Affordable project
The Sandbox: https://www.sandbox.game/en/ 

Theme discussion: Digital Land

• Decentraland 
  • https://decentraland.org/
    Launched in 2017, nice graphics
  • Popular for galleries & many early artists
• Cryptovoxels
  • Launched in May 2018, easy to build
  • Popular for galleries & many early artists have buildings here
  • Opensea: https://opensea.io/collection/cryptovoxels?search[sortAscending]=true&search[sortBy]=PRICE&search[toggles][0]=BUY_NOW 
• Somnium
  • Great graphics, somewhat limited use cases
  • https://opensea.io/collection/somnium-space 
• Sandbox
  • Gaming focused, many partnerships
  • https://www.sandbox.game/ 
  • Opensea: https://opensea.io/collection/sandbox 
• Axie Infinity
  • https://marketplace.axieinfinity.com/land/ 
• NFTWorlds
  • New project, launching apps for Minecraft integration soon
    Affordable project - land?
  • Quick highlight on any past projects
  • Go through the AAA valuation checklist
  • Opensea: https://opensea.io/collection/nft-worlds 

 

Links

• Niftygateway.com  connecting to opensea
• Link to Rantum’s Gallery 

013: Digital Horse Racing for Profit | Project: ZED Run

All About AFFORDABLE NFTs, hosts Andrew aka Rantum and George from Mostly Stable on ZED Run, help navigate new projects, interview expert guests and explore NFT trends. Whether you’re on your first or fiftieth NFT, we’re going to have something for you.

 

And a quick note that we are not financial advisors and nothing in this podcast should be taken as investment advice.

 

Affordable project: ZED Run

Opensea: https://opensea.io/collection/zed-run-official 

Website: zed.run

 

Theme discussion - ZED Run figuring out a first horse

• Horse racing, andreesen $20M, 2019 founded in Australia
• Race (free races 20k/day)

• • Breed to sell/stud
  • Flip
  • The basics
  • The 3 ways to make money
  • The attributes
    

• Where the market has been where it has been going
• Is it ‘too late’ to join ZED?
• The future is the community
  • ERC Tokens and ZOmbie Racing Tournaments 
• Where is the value right now? 
  • Legendary Naks are at or below breed price
  • Finney Genesis horses with 10% win rate
• Where is it going? 
  • https://product.zed.run/tabs/15-under-consideration 
• The must-know tools of ZED Run

012: When to HODL and When to FFDL | Affodable Project: ChainFaces

All About AFFORDABLE NFTs, hosts Andrew aka Rantum and George from Mostly Stable on ZED Run, help navigate new projects, interview expert guests and explore NFT trends. Whether you’re on your first or fiftieth NFT, we’re going to have something for you.

 

And a quick note that we are not financial advisors and nothing in this podcast should be taken as investment advice.

 

Affordable project:  Chainfaces
Opensea: https://opensea.io/collection/chainfaces

Randomly generated on-chain ascii text faces. All attributes and metadata are on-chain and easily viewable via the etherscan UI. The face generation algo was shut off after 10000 faces were minted. Project was launched in January 2020.

Symmetry can be in one of 3 tiers: 0, 50%, 100%. If both eyes match and both face pieces match, the face will have 100% symmetry. If only one of those match, the face will have 50% symmetry. Golf Scores are an aggregate score of how rare each of the 5 face pieces are for a given face. Percent Bear is a score that gives 16 points for each bear piece, and then adds to a random number between 1 and 20. Combo score is calculated as: Percent Bear / Golf Score

created by natealex

Theme/Resources

• Signs To Run from a project
  • Falling floor
  • Lack of top price paid for top rarity
  • Has it peaked?
  • Story: Cool cat flip success
    
  • Empty discord
  • Founders flee from NFT Game Evil Ape
  • Not hitting roadmap
  • Technical glitches
• Mooncat comeback - the retro/historical angles