SHILL Issue 29

#SHILL 

SOLANA NFT/DEFI/TWITTER COMMUNITY 

DOWN UNDER NFT 

AN AUSSIE NFT PROHECT 

DELIVering the goods 

BRANDING 

WHat exactly is ‘your’ image 

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THE GAME PLAN 

The gaming space is booming 

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CHEST FINANCE 

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the Editor 

Wise words or ramblings? 

UNDER NFT 

Digging deeper in this 

interview. 

BRANDING 

CelestialBody talks 

about the importance of 

branding your style. 

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THE GAME PLAN DOOMille has a look at 

making a game plan when 

it comes to gaming. 

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PROBABLY NOTHING 

23 Dropping, holding and 

hoping 

CHEST FINANCE V2.0 

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An exciting product 

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already now with new 

features. 

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CRYPTZERO 

Still around. Still 

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delivering quality and 

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SHILL the Mint 

Dropping, holding and 

hoping 

SOLANALYSIS 

7D Volume rankings 

MOVERS 

SolsWatch analysis of 

current NFTs on market. 

UP & COMING 

New section, where have these 

artists been hiding? 

ALPHA Mints 

Keep an eye out for this artist! 

URS ARTISTS ROYAL GANG 

The one-of-one mints you 

wish you had ALPHA about! 

NFT MINTER 

Just some of the NFTs 

floating around lately 

GRIFFIN interview 

As interviewed by artscum. 

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DOWN UNDER 

NFT 

Welcome to #Shill zine. To begin with, let’s find out a little about you the 

team. Where are you based? How many people are working on this project? 

And, what does the team bring to the Solana ecosystem? 

Firstly, we want to take a moment to thank you for having us! We’re super 

excited to join the Shill Zine family and are a big fan of the content and 

platform you’ve provided for Solana projects. It’s great to see a reliable 

source of information in the space. 

About the team, we’re primarily a tight knit group of mates! We met at 

university in Sydney, where we all studied mechatronics engineering. There 

are five of us in total, each bringing their own diverse set of skills to the table. 

This range of talent has helped us bring the project to life. Since we’re all 

based in Sydney, we had opportunity to launch the project out of a bedroom 

in the inner city. To say the least, we’ve had a lot of fun building this. 

In terms of contributing to the Solana ecosystem, we’ve developed our own 

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ole verification service, SolaBots! This was actually our first venture in the 

Solana space as we noticed a lot of projects were struggling to access a 

streamlined verification tool. Our team is passionate about providing value 

to the Solana community beyond NFT Down Under and we’re actually in 

the process of integrating a range of services such as sales, analytics and 

minting on top of verification. Check out our Twitter @SolaBots and give us 

a follow, especially if you run or know a project who could benefit from our 

offerings! 

Your concept for your NFT offering is a novel one. NFTs that are a plot of 

land in Australia and can have user information stored for all to see. Can 

you tell us a little about this idea and how it works? 

For sure! The concept of digital land in Australia is the crux of the project 

and defines how we provide utility to our holders. We wanted to move away 

from the traditional “profile picture” project and pivoted to being a digital 

land project. The concept behind this was to give our users a sense of 

attachment to their NFT, by attaching art to a plot of land in Australia. 

As a land owner, you have the ability to customise the land name and 

description, giving you full control over the space. Further, we offer the ability 

to plug your social media profiles such as Twitter and Discord, giving others 

the opportunity to purchase your land or perhaps organise a collaboration 

with you - if they like what you’ve done with the place. 


Taking a step back and breaking things down a bit, our NFT is an mp4 file 

attached to a plot of land in Australia. To create the mp4, we feed an image 

through our AI algorithm, which takes a string of text as input, and capture 

the translation from the original image, to the stylised output. We have five 

unique styles that form our art collection, which are then attached to five 

land sizes – small, medium, large, huge and gigantic. 

What’s more, we just released our fully integrated NFT art gallery, which 

is embedded in our map. This provides land owners the opportunity to 

show off their entire NFT collection. The same functionality exists for our 

Community Partners, allowing them to shill their collection and gain eyes on 

glass from various communities. We’re trying to promote cross-pollination 

between projects and strengthen the Solana ecosystem. 

Where does the team see this project going? 

This is a great question! We’re committed to delivering on our roadmap 

and maximising value for holders. A prime example of this is releasing our 

integrated art gallery. The next step is to release our native token, $ROO 

(DollaRoo). Our tokens can be re-invested into land, which increases the 

lands inherent value. As you invest more tokens, you’ll level up your land, 

where certain levels will unlock bonus features. There will also be a public 

leader board so everyone sit and envy the most valuable land in Australia. 

Once we’ve released our token, the next step is to mint the next state! So far, 

we’ve only minted NSW and have six more states to go. This demonstrates 

the scope we have to build out the project and validate this is a long-term 

play. As an indicator, our conversations end in where we want to see the 

project in six months’ time. As a small glimpse, our goal is to be the largest 

digital land project on the Solana blockchain. We understand that true 

success is often a marathon, not a sprint. 

What’s more, we’ve got the opportunity to feature our artwork at the first 

NFT exhibition in Australia, Emergence 2022 in March. We’re really looking 

forward to showcasing our interactive map to prospective investors gather 

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feedback to ensure we can continue to grow. This is just one of event we 

have looming on the horizon in the next three months, it doesn’t end here. 

Your project just finished its ‘round 2’ mint of NSW. Tasmania being minted 

earlier. Both rounds have sold out. What are some of the ‘wow’ moments 

you had during the first creations made by minters? 

We’d like to take this opportunity to quickly talk about Tasmania! Tasmania 

is land reserved for our community land partners. The majority of these 

relationships have been forged via SolaBots and include projects such as 

Frakt, BackDAO, Desolates, Furious Flowers, DeRuged Snakes, SolPunks 

RussianPunkz, Neon.Game, the list goes on! To see the full list of our 

partner projects, check out the Solana Land Community section on our map 

at https://nftdownunder.art/map. We’ve got some exciting plans of how to 

leverage this community space and build the Solana ecosystem together! 

In terms of “wow” moments, we think the support and kindness of everyone 

in the Solana NFT space is something that stands out. We’ve been 

overwhelmed by the generosity and mindset of those we’ve talked to. It’s 

refreshing to be see a culture built on wanting to see each other succeed in 

their ventures! 


Your Discord is active for a membership of 3k. What are the types of things 

your team runs to keep engagement high? 

We’d like to take the credit for the engagement we’ve seen in our Discord, 

but the truth is we’ve been blessed with an incredible community of legends. 

Our mission was to create channels where everyone could connect on a 

human level and learn from each other. Whether it be our “shenanigans” 

channel (which focuses on beer chat) or the main chat, from day 1 we saw 

deep connections established, fostering a diamond hands mindset within 

our community. 

Moreover, we focused on developing genuine connections with our users,

ealising that there are no shortcuts to this. We achieved this by us, the 

devs, being super active in our channel, answering questions, listening 

to feedback and actioning suggestions from our community. There’s no 

substitute for authentically interacting with the extended team. 

To compliment this, we’ll start running regular giveaway competitions again. 

We’ve developed a core group of legends but with the release of our art 

gallery and our token, plus with future mints of other states, we’re looking to 

onboard new members. 

Finally, I would like to thank you for your interview today with #Shill zine. 

Once again, thank you for the opportunity to share our story with the Shill 

Zine community! To all the readers, we appreciate the time you’ve taken to 

learn about our project. We hope we can crack a beer with you in the Aussie 

Metaverse one day, or IRL if you visit Sydney. 


https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/664710295 

XtillGood

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/664710228 

The 128 Club

BRANDING 

@celstialbody 

This is only a somewhat experienced opinion everything is subject 

to context. You may wonder why the hell you should even care about 

branding, you're an artist after all not a company. Remove the idea of 

a brand as a commercial entity from your mind. 

A brand at its core to me is a consistent communication of a principal 

or idea. NOT A LOGO. Now it sounds more familiar, after all is Pollacks 

"brand" not instantly recognisable? Yes it’s a style but it’s more than 

that, it's Warhol's personality, and Banksy's anonymity. 

A brand should embody you as an artist. It does not need to be overt; 

it does not need to be a 50-page design document describing the 

rules of the aesthetics that make your art. A brand is what you want 

to say about your work (and yourself if you want to) 

Branding should flow easily into what you do, and when you feel like 

you’ve lost your way it should be something to refer to that guides 

you. It's how you present yourself in a digital space, the language you 

use, the formatting for your auction tweets, as well as your style. 

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You don’t need to go out and draw up plans for all of this, but you 

should keep things consistent, and plans can help with that. You 

don't need to pigeonhole yourself in to one singular aesthetic, but 

you should remember what got you this far in your work. What is your 

visual USP. 

How does that USP feed into your online presence. My work is 

all about reconnecting and expressing ideas and identities that 

we need to feel and see more of in society. Its visual expression 

with typography, hence the use of poetry in my tweets. That’s raw 

expressive typography. 

When you start to think about these things they become more 

concrete, consider what you're trying to communicate with your work 

and identity, it gives you a reference point for whether you're achieving 

it. As importantly from a collector standpoint they know what they're 

getting. 

I missed a million things from this thread and there are plenty of 

contradictory statements and debates to be had. The art of visual 

communication is fluid and vast. Everything matters most in context, 

and its best if it provides its own context so nothing gets lost. 


GAMING 

game plan 

@DOOMille 

I wanted to write down/share my gameplan for the NFT gaming 

space this year (which as of now is entirely in the $SOL ecosystem). 

For reference I've been holding my buys/yet to make profits in the 

2021 JPEG market and I'm still new to NFTs in general. I'm just a 

guy with a lifetime of experience in the gaming industry and I have a 

decent idea of what makes a project succeed or fail. 

https://vimeo.com/user162426088 

IMO 2022 is the year when building and substance matters for 

projects, and patience is the key for investors. I think buying/holding 

NFTs for solid gaming projects early in their development will be less 

effort, less risk, and greater returns than JPEGs in 2021 

Did you find a project that has a solid team, the game looks fun, it's 

showing excellent progress towards their launch and the value prop/ 

tokenomics make sense for players? Then either mint or start buying 

on secondary. You can't get spooked by price movement or a sinking 

floor. 

In fact, many buyers will panic sell below mint within 24-48 hours. 

Take advantage. From that point, keep checking in and asking 

yourself: is the team building and moving forward towards what 

they've promised? Then keep accumulating. Are they lagging? Dump 

and move on. 

With the way things are going right now, the NFT oriented gaming 

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model is immune to crypto carnies running the play of: “Narrative => 

Hype => Pump = Dump on Suckers” (Yes, of course a few scams are 

going to fall through the cracks.) 

Success for investors hinges on the opposite strategy: you DON'T 

want to hype up a project when it's early. If you feel it has the plan 

and team to be successful and is delivering, it's in your best interest 

to keep it on the DL so you can keep accumulating and sniping rares. 

My most confident play right now is @panzerdogs. They have a 

highly qualified team showing consistent progress. The 3v3 PVP 

game design has a full demo and is based on little three-minute 

dopamine fixes that make you want to play over and over. It's a great 

game regardless of P2E. 


You think I was gonna run around shouting about how everyone had 

to buy into @panzerdogs like I was schilling an altcoin to pump my 

bags? Absolutely not! You aren't going succeed doing that with the 

current dynamics because the money is made buying low between 

mint and launch. 

(The only reason I'm even mentioning @panzerdogs here is that I've 

already accumulated a lot of it below the current floor). 

It's critical to note how this NFT value dynamic differs from the 

previous token-oriented model @ZssBecker talks about in his videos. 

That strategy centres on buying into a project and then selling into 

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new liquidity that comes with massive hype to peak the price. 

When the game value is attached to NFTs instead of coins, there are 

a limited number of admission “tickets” available to join in the fun. 

(This is why I love @KFSnft and its 1,212 membership limit by the 

way). 

As of right now I have no intention of buying tokens for games on 

the open market, because the NFTs generate them for you. The one 

exception so far has been @TinyColonyGame and their $TINY token, 

but that's because their lands haven't minted yet. 


(I broke my own rule here and revealed a top project I love in @ 

TinyColonyGame because I want to get whitelisted for those NFT 

Lands! DM me guys, hopefully it worked). 

Because the value is in the NFTs, make sure you know the rarity and 

value scheme within the game. For example, in @meekolony there's 

no difference between rarities with in-game power or airdrop quality. 

Those setups make it easier to buy into the floor and speculate for 

cheap. 

As @elliotrades mentioned, you're going to be far more successful at 

crypto and NFTs when you play it as a team sport. Do you research, 

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find a $SOL OG PFP community that you like. You'll be able to get 

priceless alpha and even some excellent whitelist opportunities. 

I was tipped off to @panzerdogs pre-mint in the @DeGodsNFT alpha 

channel, and the @KFSnft alpha channel is another great one. Those 

kinds of resources create so much value beyond the market price of 

the NFTs for that community. 

(Big shout out to the true top DeGod among @DeGodsNFT @ 

AussieNftGuy for being a BEAST when it comes to exclusives and 

whitelists. The man is crushing it this week even while fighting 

through COVID. Access to the man is worth a @DeGodsNFT on its 

own). 

I am all in on $SOL because it works, has a massive amount of 

investment capital and WILL have dominant first mover advantage 

by the end of Q1. The mass adoption retail wave you've been waiting 

for could care less about the decentralization altruism many love so 

much about crypto 

The new retail money about to bust through the crypto/NFT doors 

will want something that works, is fun, intuitive and can make them 

money for playing video games. Right now and for the foreseeable 

future, that is @solana and @phantom Wallet. Full stop. 

One exception is that @enjin/@efinityio is positioned to be a big part 

of this as well. We've yet to see what this ecosystem will do because 

all of their strategy hinged on the Efinity network, which just got 

approved for a $DOT parachain and will launch in March. 


The $ENJ + $EFI model is based on a turnkey system that will allow 

video game publishers to seamlessly incorporate blockchain and 

NFTs into their games within the background so that players don't 

see and won't even be aware of the complicated wallet stuff. 

Building a huge budget game is difficult enough, so it makes a lot 

of sense for those companies to go “Yeah, let's just go for the $EFI 

solution so the NFT and blockchain structure is taken care of and we 

don't have to think about it.” 

We don't know what partnerships $ENJ currently has lined up and 

have yet to see its platform truly unleashed, so it's hard to predict 

their place in the market. If I had to guess, in 2022 I think we'll see 

at least one AAA studio weaving NFTs into a big title using @Enjin. 

I can see @enjin positioned as the AAA publisher, and @solana in 

the niche of Indy game platform. The big publishers that would use 

$EFI in this scenario have a massive infrastructure of overhead to 

maintain, which means less revenue going back to token and NFT 

holders. 

In 2022 AAA may base payouts like we already see with their 

esports: top heavy and giving out most of the prize pool to pro level 

tournament champions. $SOL could be positioned as community 

oriented and have an ecosystem that spreads out rewards in a more 

equitable way 

Just like minting and accumulating, my sell signal will be based on 

development. This space is evolving at such a rapid pace, and it 

won't take much for a project to lag and lose most, if not all of its 

value. Watch out for empty promises of future updates. 

Based on the level of current technology and acceleration, I expect 

we'll advance from today's Atari 2600 era to PS1 level by the end of 

2022. The skill for making money is going to be knowing when to 

sell/scale out at a game's peak and pivot to the next opportunity. 

I could be wrong, but like any bull market I think it's going to be hard 

to lose money this year in NFT gaming. The risk hinges on not going 

diamond hands with Pong when Tomb Raider is around the corner. 

Don't misconstrue "hard to lose money" because as always, it's 

important to warn that NFTs are highly risky. But I see far less risk 

in the NFT model of crypto gaming because again, it'll be based far 

more on substance and not much on hype. You will see the builders 

building.

If you're not a dummy and can do basic research/invest in tangible 

progress, it's unlikely you're going to get straight up rugged. It's also 

much harder to dump an NFT collection and crash the floor to the 

point of no recovery compared to coins in the traditional crypto 

market. 

So don't obsess over hitting home runs. Look for projects that are 

positioned to make solid contact at the plate and go from there. 

You're going to have your strikeouts but be aware of those risks in a 

project when you buy in and sell when needed before the floor falls 

out. 

Otherwise, hold and accumulate where it's merited. Profits will 

come months later, right before and after launch. 

@panzerdogs floor is already at 3.5 $SOL after the 1 $SOL mint, 

and they have barely even started. Selling before the game is fully 

released would be silly. 

Again, I have no idea what I'm doing :) I don't think any of us do 

right now. If I've learned anything in my short experience with NFT 

gaming, it's that we'll see major leaps in the blink of an eye. So, 

dump when you need to. Devotion to a community is only as good 

as its project 

Most of all, have fun! Focus on profit, but also enjoy the process. 

This is SUCH an exciting time for this space. Here and now is 

something you'll be telling stories about in ten years, just like sitting 

around talking nostalgia over the fun you had playing NES games 

as a kid. 

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/664710016


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PROBABLY 

@joemccann 42.9K Followers 

NOTHING 

Risk taking is the purest form of virtue. 

Entrepreneur. Angel Investor. Margin Trader. 

NFT collector. @monkedao & @ftx_official 

from Day 1. 

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it is a subset of 

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CHEST 

finance- evolving 

$CHEST v2 —Introducing Pirate NFTs, Treasure DAO & Tokenomics, 

IDO, Retroactive Airdrop, Leveraged Yield Chests, and more 

Warning: The following article contains a lot of alpha. If you have 

any questions, please join the conversation on discord. 

SOLANA, JAN 10, 2022—Over the last month, $CHEST launched the 

first ever structured product and yield generating chest on Solana, 

attracted over $10m+ TVL, generated over 50%+ APY across 

Chests… and did all of this without a single dollar from VCs. 

In line with the protocol’s decision to raise $0 from VCs, $CHEST is 

now entering the next chapter of its mission towards community 

ownership, community rewards, and community empowerment: 

Introducing the Pirate utility NFT, the Treasure DAO and $CHEST 

Token, retroactive airdrops, and all new leveraged yield chests 

(50–200% APY). 

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Following in the footsteps of GenesysGo’s Shadowy Super Coder 

NFTs and DAO, Lifinity’s Flares NFTs, $CHEST is announcing its 

own Pirate NFTs. 

Pirate NFTs will play 2 fundamental roles in the $CHEST protocol, 

and will earn superpowers in the Treasure DAO: 

I) Receiving 12% $CHEST tokens at the Chest IDO. 

This is the most important utility to us. The protocol strongly 

believes that the biggest winners in DeFi should be the community, 

so to level the playing field with larger VC entities who monopolize 

access to early seed rounds, NFT holders will receive direct 

allocation in the $CHEST network. There are no hidden features 

here. Every NFT will be entitled to a proportional share of 12% 

$CHEST tokens at the Chest IDO, regardless of whether the entire 

NFT collection sells out or not. The distribution will be linearly 

vested over 1 year, with a bonus reserved for those who hold for the 

entire year. 

II) Up to 120% Compounded Governance Voting Power 

This is the one we are most excited about. Holders of the Pirate 

NFT will receive compounded governance votes. This means that 

for every N number of $CHEST tokens, the holder can have up to 

1.2 * N voting power (essentially an additional 20% of virtual voting 

$CHEST tokens!), depending on the number of NFTs owned. 

Ex: Alice holds Pirate NFTs and 64,000 $CHEST tokens. When 

voting at the Treasure DAO, she now has 64,000 x 1.2 = 76,800 

tokens to vote with. 

This creates 2 important dynamics for the token and NFTs. The 

most loyal users will benefit the most as they will be NFT holders, 

active DAO participants, and large token stakers allowing them to 

amplify their voices across DAO decisions, as they should, since 

they have the most at stake. This also generates very strong utility 

and value for the NFT as the value can theoretically be pegged to 

the value derived from the largest token holder, so if a whale holds 

1M $CHEST tokens, and he can derive 200,000 voting powers from 

the NFT, that should theoretically be the value of the NFT. 

The voting power also compounds in an increasing manner. For 


every additional NFT, the vote multiplier is multiplier by 2, for 

a maximum of 1.2. So, for the first NFT, the voter will receive 

1.00625x extra votes. For the second NFT, the voter will receive 

1.0125x, then 1.025x, then 1.05, then 1.1, and finally 1.2. 

The voting multiplier per NFT will be restricted to a max number of 

tokens that can be multiplied. Implementation will be detailed in a 

separate follow up article. 

Minting and Drop details 

So how do you get in on this? 

The NFT mint date is scheduled for January 19th, 2022, powered 

by the Metaplex candy machine. Only 10,000 will be available. Save 

the date! 

The exact minting price, time, and site will be announced in a follow 

up article and announcement. 

Follow updates here: 

•Discord: discord.gg/chest 

•Twitter: https://twitter.com/chestfinance 

Powering the future of Chest protocol, structured products, and 

yield generating defi on Solana will be the Treasure DAO, and 

$CHEST tokens. 

The DAO will play the pivotal role of determining protocol 

parameters, chest token rewards, and more. The $CHEST token will 

be the voting token in the network. 

Most importantly, the DAO will enable a vote locking mechanism, 

whereby stakers will be able to boost locked staking rewards, 

determine rewards and reward distribution on Chests, similar to 

Curve’s model. 

$CHEST Tokenomics 

•Total supply: 100bn 

•The treasury is used for Chest emissions to 

stakers, makers, and ecosystem expansion 

plans, as voted by the DAO. 0.5% is currently 

earmarked for maker emissions up until the IDO, 

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at which point the DAO will vote on future maker 

emissions. 

Finally, as the first to launch structured products on Solana, Chest 

is excited to announce that it will be the first protocol to launch 

leveraged yield chests. 

Leveraged yield chests will allow you to stake into leveraged chests, 

that are higher risk, but also much higher reward. This means that 

the potential APY is boosted by many factors, but losses can also 

be amplified. 

Leveraged chests will not be for everyone but will allow users to 

take on higher risk yield, something that does not exist currently on 

Solana. 

We know this was a lot of information to digest, so here is the 

recap: 

1.The pirate NFT mint is on January 19th, 2022 and will 

allow holders to receive 12% of network tokens, and up 

to 120% multiplier on voting abilities. 

2.Treasure DAO and $CHEST token will enable direct 

ownership of the protocol for its users. The IDO will be 

announced in a follow up announcement. 

3.Early stakers will be rewarded 12% of token supply. 

4.New Leveraged Yield Chests will enable exposure to 

high risk, high APY chests.

CRYPT 

zero 

@CryptZero 

CryptZero is a series of 

unique collectible avatars / 

personal profile NFTs with on 

the Solana blockchain with 

themes revolving around the 

horror genre. CryptZero is 

currently in Season 2 with the 

theme of “Ghosts”. CryptZero 

is designed from the ground 

up to last years and scale with 

overall NFT adoption without 

diluting the value of existing 

releases: 

The images are to be released in multiple seasons, 

each having a different subject. Each season lasts 

approximately 3 months (to reflect real world 

seasons) 

Royalty shares for future seasons are given to 

random holders of the current season (Royalty 

Giveaway). 

Bonus airdrop occurs mid-way through season to all 

current season holders. 

Future seasons scale in edition size to reflect the 

growth of the nft ecosystem. 

Token darwinism: Unclaimed tokens are removed from the 

collection at the end of each season in order to maintain 

equilibrium with demand wthout creating artificial scarcity. 

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the MINT 

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TOP NFTs / TOP Gainers 

The Astronaut @thexastronaut 


MOVERS UNDER & OVER 2Sol 

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UP & COMING 

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UP & COMING 

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UP & COMING 

TinyDrawings

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ALPHA

sikedelic

TinyDrawings

ALPHA 

Fallen

XeonSol

ALPHA 

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ALPHA

Keezerfeld

Chaboola

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XKONWI

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Fallen Traveler

NFT MINTER 

Sol Demon

MaskedPet

NFT MINTER 

TheDeerNFT


Bluetent3d

Did you see it? 

superjimmer

Did you see it? 

TheObserverNft

GRIFFIN interview 

https://artscum.org/griffin-dzmura-mcguire-painter-usaunpublished-submission/ 

Statement: 

The looking glass has broken, we must brave the Kaleidoscope 

mirage… 

Q: Who are you? 

I’m Griffin, an artist on the other 

side of a degree in Philosophy 

from UC Berkeley. My favorite 

mediums are acrylic paint and 

ink. One of my aims is to invite 

viewers into another world, one 

which will remain with them 

in the hidden alleyway of the 

subconscious mind. 

Q: Darkness is not only the 

absence of light. What more 

is lurking in the shadows (of 

mind)?! 

Shadows conceal, but also 

provide form and feature. 

The play between shadow 

as a metaphor and shadow 

as absence of light provides 

an interesting field of exploration. In my work I often explore 

autonomously without intention. I feel that this allows me to explore 

the shadows in my own mind without censorship. 

Q: What is the most important taboo in art? 

For me, I find the association of a price tag with a piece of to be a 

taboo that is worthy of deeper exploration. Many of the artists that 

are most widely spoken of are known in part due to the notoriety of 

their sales volume as opposed to the questions their work explores. 

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In this strange dynamism between value and creativity there’s much 

more to think on and is one of the reasons I decided to move my 

digital work into the blockchain space. 


Q: Why is the beauty in ugliness so fatal? 

Art is not just a pursuit of Beauty. In the unsettling, and disturbing, 

a whole range of emotions which are under-explored and critical to 

artistic exploration are able to be brought into the open. 

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Q: What question would you ask the most evil person on this planet? 

Though I’m not sure there’s someone who is the most evil, I’ll ask 

them if they enjoy Pineapple on pizza. 

Q: The world seems to become more and more a violent, unkind 

place. Greed and egoism seems to be the only impulse of any 

change. Did mankind still have 

the chance to build a peaceful, sustainable world for every living and 

feeling being or would it be better if somebody dispose everything in 

the sewer of the evolutionary failure? 

From my perspective, it seems that history shows us a world in 

which violence is the norm. We see much more of the ugliness in the 

world with news and the advances in new media, though this doesn’t 

imply that the world is actually more violent than it was in the past. 

A new slate, a Tabula Rasa, can be an appealing idea but in practice 

only leads to forgetting our standing as humans and moves us away 

from working on the problems we face. 


keezerfeld

SHILL Issue 29

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