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Issue 93 

That's a wrap! January 2023 is finishing up as we enter week 1 of February. Let January be marked as the 

month Solana rose above the mud-slinging across the blockchains to show that it IS indeed a vibrant, thriving 

ecosystem supported by its users. In fact, this resurgence may well have been attributed to the broader 

community spurred on by the onslaught of meme coins beginning with $BONK and then quickly followed up 

by $FRONKS, $DOGGO and the myriad others. 

Does this mean that the influencers have become rational and been brought into line? That scammers 

have curbed their behaviour? Projects no longer intently rug their communities? No. Unfortunately, the 

unscrupulous remain the same. This is perhaps why @SolanaSensei's recent tweet addresses these 'bad 

actors' highlighting that KARMA has a way of catching up with them. I'm of the same opinion since my wallet 

exploit in July of 2022. Karma will catch you up! 

The #SHILLzine vault has grown considerably during this month of January, 12 new additions in the last week! 

Over 350 NFTs in the vault. Thanks to the great features on NFTEYEZ I can have it scan my wallet and make a 

collage for me. NFTEYEZ can even make posters of your NFTs with QR code! 

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It has helped this magazine achieve 608,582 views across 92 issues (previous week = 595,369 ). A quick 

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Dear Ruggers and Scammers, 

If you ever think you can get away with 

the impact of your actions, I feel sorry 

for you because you cannot run away. 

No matter where you are in the world, 

your negative karma will follow you. 

Expect a lot of pain and suffering. 

JrdnJord 

TheSovereignNFT

EYES ON 

FRONKS 

CyberPunks 

Secret Sphinx Society

@subaruimpreza09 

I’ll admit, I used to dunk on @mindfolkART. They were an obvious ponzi that got spread too thin. I thought there was no 

way they could wrangle their multiple collections to get back on track. Well, they might actually do it, and here’s how 

TLDR; stop fading. 

In their own words: Mindfolk Renaissance is “an OG solana project being reborn into a powerful web3 collective” The 

Renaissance was a period in history where humanity went through a transformation. It was about art, ideas, and progress. 

I’d say it’s a fitting name. 

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Mindfolk is building a formal DAO with gamified governance 

(from the previews, it looks like some sort of 

mobile app experience). The DAO has control over the 

treasury that is funded from mint and royalties. DAO 

members can make and vote on proposals. 

These tenants fit nicely into the context of Solana’s current 

landscape. 

The first proposal: State of One, a web3 art agency designed 

to discover and onboard great artists onto Solana. 

I like how Mindfolk’s team is setting the stage for proposals 

related to art. Quality art has always been Mindfolk’s 

strength. 

How will they wrangle all of their collections into one? All 

old Mindfolk projects turned into capsules of various levels, 

with perks related to the upcoming mint. Here’s a guide: 

To summarize, Mindfolk Renaissance is about... 

Art 

Empowerment 

Growth 

Community 

Unity

@cryptosile 

It took me 18 months of coding on #solana to learn an important lesson...it’s not about what you 

#buidl, its about handshakes. I have written code for so many well-known #solanaNFTs projects, 

and even more for @CyberFrogsNFT, but still get faded... even @aeyakovenko. The message: team 

derugged @CyberFrogsNFT with 1000 bucks more than 1 year ago, put so much work into it to provide 

tons of utility... thank you @HelloMoon_io for everyday data - probably one of the healthiest charts in 

the space. 

@CyberFrogsNFTteam never minted a collection (or a second or third like other “blue ship projects” 

did). we never took money from our holders, we just #buidl cool things, and the list is too long to fit 

into a twitter tweet...we started to earn royalties wen 0% was on. 

Most ppl don’t even know: we built one of the first non-escrow staking services on #solana and did 

trait swapping for over a year until other awesome projects come up with that and minted a project 

around it, just to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars and failed! Congrats! 

We provided so much utility (some as whitelabel service) for so many projects - special thank you to 

those, who never talked about it! 

You know whats funny? We just keep building, and we flipped them all mid and long term! 


in the bear 

@GigaDAOio 

GigaDAO | Nerdz Mint Upcoming and Joonbas.sol | GigaDAO 

WHO THEY ARE The core team first met each other in September 2021. After a few months officially rebranded to GigaD- 

AO beginning of 2022. Collection size: GigaDAO Loot Boxes: 999 were airdropped to the users who chose not to refund 

after the first failed mint. 

CURRENT PLANS GigaDAO is a community run project (no VC funding) that has the fastest, most stable and most reliable 

decentralized infrastructure on Solana. GigaDEX will be available in January 2023 and from there it will become the staple 

trading platform across Solana. 

CURRENT PLANS Created several revolutionary technologies that are staged deployment in 2023. Including a free DAO 

tooling system, Mirrorscan Database and Listener, & Raid2Earn. We leverage our expertise in technology to bring our 

clients exceptional user experiences.

CURRENT PLANS GigaDEX is designed to be one of the most robust and comprehensive NFT exchanges available. Our 

platform will support a range of advanced trading features, including fractionalization, spot trading, margin trading, and 

leverage trading. 

GOALS To become the number 1 DEX and pave the way for Decentralized Finance for the future. 

SPOTLIGHT Our CLOB performs 2-3x faster than any current implementations and with a failed transactions rate of

LOOTBOXES GigaDAO Loot Box is our genesis collection made up of 999 NFTs. We hold these dear to our hearts as our 

OG Community of a year ago stuck by us through the 5+ pivots we made in 2022. 

NERDZ Entreprenerdz is our PFP collection which we so desperate want and need. Our @NerdzNFT will be ground zero 

for reshaping on-chain technology and will help pioneer the future of Solana and governance.

$GIGS Supply: 10B GIGS Total Circulating: 50M instant + 450M 24 Mo. vesting (5%, Funding Round 1) IDO Presale: 50M 

instant + 1.95B 24 Mo. vesting (20% Funding Round 2) Team: 42M instant + 3.96B 36 Mo. vesting (40%) Treasury: 500M 

(locked) IDO: 3B 24 Mo. vesting (30%)

PARTNERSHIPS We have no official partnerships but we have collaborated with over 100+ projects on our new Nerdz 

collection. Currently looking into partnerships but nothing is public yet. 

BELAC MESSAGE “Belac and Alpha have been working over 12 months tirelessly giving their heart and soul to GigaDAO. 

Being fuelled purely by ambition the founders of GigaDAO have sacrifice everything including their families and friends 

to create what it is today.” - @BelacDAO 

MESSAGE “Immediately after the smallest success we turned our company into an official DAO & gave everyone the opportunity 

to purchase ownership & join us on the journey as the fastest growing most successful Decentralized Autonomous 

Organization on Solana.” - @BelacDAO 

GIGADAO MESSAGE Community built, Community run - That is @GigaDAOio.

Brett

Britt Hoffman

Crowded

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Neuromind

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Suzuki Shillsalot 

• Solana’s NFT market dominance was challenged by declining transactions and migrations. 

• The ecosystem also saw a decline in users’ interest; however, the SOL token did not suffer. 

Solana was performing well in the NFT market over the last 30 days. According to data provided by 

Delphi Digital, Solana outperformed most cryptocurrencies in terms of NFT volume and managed to 

secure the second position. 

However, despite this impressive performance, a decline in transaction count and major NFT collections’ 

migration to other chains, could pose a significant threat to Solana’s dominance in the NFT 

market. 

Eat the blue chip 

One of the key factors contributing to Solana’s success in the NFT market has been the growth of Blue 

chip NFTs in its ecosystem. 

Well, their growth has been significant, indeed, especially given the fact that many investors have been 

flocking to the Solana marketplace to purchase these assets. 

However, even though these Blue-chip index NFTs were growing, a majority of the Blue chip index’s 

volume was driven by NFT collections such as DeGods and y00ts. 

Unfortunately, these collections are now planning to migrate to Polygon. This could be a cause of concern 

for the Solana NFT ecosystem and could signal a decline in users’ interest. 

Source: NFTGO 

Another indicator behind the declining interest in Solana’s NFT ecosystem was the decreasing number 

of traders. According to data provided by NFTGO, the number of traders declined from 5,235 to 2,405 

in the last few weeks. 


Now, this fall influenced the number of transactions being made on the Solana network, as per Dune Analytics. 

Source: Dune Analytics 

Furthermore, the decreasing activity on Solana‘s dApps indicated a declining interest in the ecosystem as 

well. According to Dapp Radar, popular dApps such as Magic Eden, Raydium, and Saber have all witnessed a 

decline in unique active wallets. 

All these dApps observed more than a 20% reduction in the number of unique active wallets on their platform 

in the past week. Magic Eden, one of the largest NFT marketplaces on Solana, observed a decline of 12.77% 

in terms of volume. At press time, the overall volume on the dApp was around $21.37 million. 

Source: Dapp Radar 

Looking at the token 

Meanwhile, the Solana token observed a surge in terms of volume in the past few days. Although Solana’s 

volume continued to increase, its development activity declined, suggesting that the number of contributions 

being made on its GitHub had fallen. 

That being said, at the time of press, the price of the SOL was $25.20 after it increased by 1.14% in the last 24 

hours.

@BigsbyWest 

Why aspirational NFT PFPs like @DeGodsNFT and @y00tsNFT will change popular culture and the web. 

@CryptoPunksNFTs and @BoredApeYC continue to cement their place in popular culture around the world, for 

what they represent AND the community that is behind these PFPs. A lesson in branding is playing out before our 

eyes. 

For context, I spent 15 years in GTM roles for two Fortune 500 biotech companies operating in therapeutics markets 

valued at $15B to $300B. Marketing was something we thought about deeply and intentionally, especially in 

an industry that is high regulated and competitive. 

Steve Jobs famously said this about Apple’s marketing: “We don’t stand a chance of advertising with features and 

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enefits and with RAMs and with charts and comparisons. The only chance we have of communicating is with a 

feeling.” Feelings are what inspire. Feelings motivate. 

Many great threads have been written about the brand of @DeGodsNFT both from @frankdegods and team, but 

also their artist, @jonnydegods: 

Quote Tweet 

@jonnydegods 

I’m making the documentation behind every decision made on every detail of the @y00tsNFT artwork 

completely open to the public. https://figma.com/file/SaV5YVDYGGr93bDftfC9oN/Making-of-y00ts?nodeid=0%3A1… 

In the next few years, an NFT PFP will be more than just a JPEG. I’d argue that they communicate a feeling and 

aspiration better than any photo of a person. Take this left photo of @elonmusk vs the right cover of Elon in @ 

TIME magazine. Which one is more compelling? 

A PFP can express a person, an ethos and set of values, AND a community, better than any IRL photo. I no longer 

need to list on my profile what my hobbies are, or where I spend my time, or what I do. My DeGods PFP speaks 

for itself. 

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The power of a PFP becomes even more apparent when you think about the next iteration of the internet, navigating 

in games, AR/VR, social platforms, or the metaverse. Without knowing you , I can GET a feeling of who 

you are. Your PFP = you, your aspirations, your community. 

I am confident that NFT projects like @DeGodsNFT, @y00tsNFT, @doodles, @AzukiOfficial, @NounsDAO and @ 

pudgypenguins, to name a few, are going to be next up in a major way as part of popular culture. By major, the 

world will begin to see AND recognize these PFPs, full stop. 

2023 will be an exciting year. Despite the market and the state of crypto, great things — popular culture type 

things — have been happening on @ethereum, @solana, and @0xPolygon. The momentum will continue to 

build and we’ll see tremendous growth in ways we never expected. 

@y00tsNFT and @doodles will soon be uttered in the same sentence as @Disney and @Pixar. Or @AzukiOfficial 

alongside Naruto @naruto_info_en. And imagine playing as a @BoredApeYC or 

@DeGodsNFT in @FortniteGame, alongside rappers like @trvisXX. 

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I close by sharing a @nike commercial called “Let Your Game Speak” that honors one of the greatest athletes of 

our time, Michael Jordan. Never forget the power to inspire. And always leave people with a feeling. 

youtube.com 

Michael Jordan “Let Your Game Speak” Nike Commercial 

Quote Tweet 

@BigsbyWest 

A short thread on why aspirational NFT PFPs like @DeGodsNFT and @y00tsNFT will change popular culture 

and the web. 


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0xBanana

0xBanana

0xBanana

0xBanana

0xBanana

0xBanana

0xBanana

0xBanana

@glennhodlNFT 

TL:DR - A degen mint of 5k pixelated Ghosties known 

for brutal raiding, vibrant community, and brilliant alpha. 

I am looking to their next steps with anticipation, 

in particular the Anon mint. 

Vital statistics: 

5k collection, minted May 2022 

161.5K Sol all time volume 

Owners: 2,162 

Founder(s) & Links 

Founders: @GhostyGkd & @ShadowwGKD 

Links: 

https://www.ghostkid.io/ 

https://magiceden.io/marketplace/ghost_kid_dao 

https://linktr.ee/ghostkiddao 

Genre = Multiple. 

Difficult to pin down! 

GhostKidDAO was originally a degen mint that 

appeared amongst a thousand others in May 2022. 

Initially a pure DAO play, but they have branched out 

into gamified raiding (known as “Boonties”), and has 

been a leader in that space. GKD have also developed 

“Raiding as a service”, a form of incentivised marketing 

which was a novel concept in the space. 

This has afforded them additional income and has 

been a hugely successful endeavour. 

They developed art collabs/ upgrading, merchandise, 

their own casino, and have recently launched an 

‘incubator’, with the hyped The Anon being their first 

project to launch. 

Trading potential 

Fairly consistent sales numbers since mint. 

However, their success has meant the listed count is low 

and so not a lot of volatility in price action to manipulate. 

Not an ‘art’ play with deliberately simplistic pixel art 

forms, so difficult to see bespoke trades being a significant 

play either. 

Holding potential 

Definitely more of an NFT to hodl, as it gives access to the 

DAO, boonties, casino, and revenue share. 

Utility 

Multiple utilities as stated above. 

In particular: Alpha. 

Although I have never been a holder, I have always heard 

great things about the GKD alpha, and they are well regarded 

as a DAO, with a good amount of WL access. 

In particular, GKD holders will all have a whitelist for the 

hyped Anon mint coming soon as part of their incubator 

programme. 

Market resilience 

The team have stated that royalties have fallen to around 

30% compared to before the 0% meta. 

However they have alternative revenue streams including 

raiding as a service, which they have successfully shared 

with their holders. 

Definitely better than some, but their mint raised a tiny 

amount as it was basically free, so this is a concern moving 

forward. 

USP/ X-factor 

It is a cliché, but the GhostKidDAO community 

has always been regarded as a massive 

strength of the project. 

I would say they have multiple areas of 

strength, but for me this is their defining 

characteristic. 

Conclusion 

GhostKidDAO is a DAO with multiple areas 

of strength. They remain fairly resilient to 

0% royalties, but with no significant mint 

funds their runway is dependent on other 

income streams. Their community is a particular 

strong area and sets them apart from 

similar projects. They are a hodl more than 

a trade. 

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subaruimpreza09 

Gods (formerly SOLGods) is an OG project on Solana 

with some of the best art on the chain. There is no 

other collection that has the same art style, and it truly 

stands out. Long-term, the goal of The Fracture (the 

umbrella project) is to become a known brand and 

operate a gamified economy for its community. I have 

seen them mention that the goal is to be the “Marvel 

of the blockchain.” Currently, Gods and The Bridged are 

the two factions on the market, and there is one more 

faction yet to be released. 

In terms of the team, Hex is one of the most thoughtful, 

reliable founders in the space. He seems to care 

about Solana itself as well, which is important during 

this bear market when projects had to start working 

together and communicating more. He is well-connected, 

and this has allowed Gods and OMNI to make 

some of the most high-profile collaborations in the 

space (including John Le and other artists for Bonkz). 

When Gods make big moves, they garner a lot of 

attention from the space (ex. before The Bridged mint, 

before Bonkz mint). However, the project has a tough 

time maintaining this attention, especially when things 

are in a building phase. This is normal for a project to 

experience, but it gives justification to the historical big 

changes in price for Gods. 

Eventually, The Fracture will release a game, which 

will be a P2E turn-taking game with strategy involved. 

There will be lore-driven missions with gamified elements 

to reward both Bridged and Gods NFT holders. 

However, the Gods collection is the priority for rewards, 

often passively. 

The community has had time to solidify over the bear 

market, and based on the Bonkz mint outcome, it was 

clear that they are very diamond-handed. They have 

a sarcastic, light-hearted vibe, and this can turn some 

people off when they first enter the community. However, 

I view the community as strong. 

In addition, OMNI Creative is a creative studio and artist 

management agency that aims to connect creatives 

with Web3 brands. They released Bonkz, a pfp where 

$BONK holders were whitelisted, and Gods received 

free priority mints. Gods will benefit from future ventures 

of OMNI as well. 

One concern I have about The Fracture’s future is 

being careful about timing of their future launches. If 

they grow too fast, they will dilute the project, but if 

they grow too slowly, they will lose momentum. They 

have many operations moving in different directions, 

and when it all comes together, it could either be a 

masterpiece or a mess. Given Hex’s dedication and 

time spent in the space, I would bet on it being closer 

to a masterpiece. Because the goals are lofty and there 

are many moving parts, progress takes a long time, and 

this is why it is hard for the project to hold onto the 

attention of the space for longer than a couple weeks 

at a time. 

SOLGods just recently rebranded into 

Gods. They made it clear they were staying 

on Solana, though. They want their 

brand to be generalizable and relatable, 

and this name change helps accomplish 

that. All in all, Gods is one of the most 

solid OG projects still around, and it has 

a bright future if the community remains 

invested and the team can wrangle their 

moving parts and expand tactfully. 


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TardoTMR 

Hey! I’m Tardo and this is the Solana Weekly Update 

1/24/23! If you do enjoy reading consider following my 

other social media profiles! 

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tardotmr 

This week for solana has been great. Twitter is happy, 

Discords seem to be more active. Solana is currently 

$24.40 USD, At the start of this seiries which was only 

2 weeks ago it was $13 USD. The entirety of the Solana 

community seems to be filled up with hopium. I dont 

think the bull is back but you dont see SPL tokens and 

NFTS pumping like they are in a pico bear. 

Thanks for reading Tardo’s Table! Subscribe for free to 

receive new posts and support my work. 

NFT View 

Most NFTs are down in $SOL value but up in USD value. 

One nft example is a Degod. at $8 USD sol they hit 650 

FP they were valued at $5,200 USD, Now at $24 USD 

sol theyre values at $12,200 USD. This is how most 

projects are currently going in price action. Correcting 

down to their valued USD value. 

Community 

The Solana community this week has been the most 

active its been in quite some time. Many people are 

slowing coming back to NFTs and crypto due to the 

recent pumps. The people that stayed and were buying 

SOL for the low are happy that their bags are pumping 

and all around just happy to network and grow their 

their extra liquidity. 

YouTube TLDR 

TOP 3 UPCOMING SOLANA MINTS(100X????) 

In this video i went over 3 upcoming solana mints, 

what they are, and why i think they could be good 

ivestments in the short-long term! 

PROJECTS: 

Mindfolk: Mindfolk 

Twitter: @MindfolkART 

Aventar: Twitter: @AventarNFT 

Holyverse: Twitter: @HolyVerseNFTs 

MindFolk 

MindFolk is a very OG collection on the solana blockchain. 

Reaching all time highs of 200 when $SOL was 

$150 USD. They reached these hights when their native 

token $WOOD was given a LP funded by royalties. 

You would stake your Mindfolk OG for $WOOD and 

gain “Passive Income.” This model was nowhere near 

sustainable and would eventually die leading the FP of 

mindfolk to crash aswell. They are taking all the feedback 

from their community and turning it into their 

new mint ‘The Renaissance”. 

Aventar 

Aventar is a project I work very closely with as i am 

their advisor helping the along the tricky path that is 

launching a SOL nft in this market. They are currently 

in talks with launchpads to mint within the next 

month. They have many pre-mint utilities out such as 

their Coin flip platform and their raffle platform. They 

are currently building out a fivver like platform called 

“Kadaa” 

Holy Verse 

Holy Verse is taking a different approach to NFTs. They 

are very focused on their comic books that they will 

release regularly for their holders to read. They are 

gearing up to mint their collection “Holy Verse Avatars” 

with trait swapping and some super cool utility. 

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@SharkyFi 

Solana is migrating to pNFTs - here is everything 

you need to know so all of us are kept up to date 

Everyone in the space should care about this 

change 

@metaplex introduced a new standard of NFTs 

to help creators get their royalties back. The 

new asset class is called “programmable NFTs” 

which will exist alongside “normal NFTs”. (We will 

refer to them from this point onwards as MIP or 

pNFTs). 

Everyone in the space should care about this 

change. It’ll most likely become the predominant 

standard for royalty enforcement going forward. 

Most of the top marketplaces, AMMs, lending 

protocols and staking protocols are actively working 

on adding support for it. 

It’s very likely that a decent chunk of the NFT collections 

on $SOL will migrate to it in the next 30- 

60 days. If you’re a protocol developer – you have 

time until January 27th, 2023 to add support for 

it or you highly risk your protocol not working 

with this new asset class. 

The very simple mental model of how it’s going 

to work is as follows – it would let creators decide 

which protocols their NFTs are allowed or not allowed 

to interact with. This is achieved by having 

the ability to modify allow-and-deny lists. 

For example, somebody might decide that a 

marketplace called Closed Desert (made-up for 

this example) is not good for their community 

and can decide to completely prohibit all kinds of 

trading there. 

To achieve what’s stated above, creators would 

have to make a decision to migrate then initiate 

migration after a 14-day grace period. Migration 

will happen programmatically, and will be “all or 

nothing.” 

If some NFTs in a collection cannot be migrated, 

creators will be informed immediately and no 

NFTs will be migrated until that is resolved. 

We will cover what you need to know as: - Creators/Collection 

owners - Protocol developers - 

Degens/NFT holders 

For creators/collection owners If your collection 

is immutable, you cannot migrate to pNFTs. First 

off, you need to understand the short-term implications 

of migration and long term after that. In 

short – if you chose to migrate before main protocols 

are ready, the NFTs in your collection locked in 

those protocols will get “stuck” there and/or those 

protocols simply won’t work. For example, if you 

collection uses staking, the staking program needs 

to be upgraded BEFORE the migration initiated. 

You don’t have to migrate, it’s completely optional. 

You can keep things as-is if you are satisfied with 

the status quo. You will have 90 days after Friday, 

January the 27th to decide if you want to migrate 

or not. 

The decision is more nuanced than it seems. The 

new protocol is not “obviously better” as it comes 

with a significant set of tradeoffs that you should 

evaluate carefully. If top collections migrate, it 

doesn’t mean you should! 

Every community and project is unique and, in the 

future, we believe that both standards will co-exist 

depending on their use cases. We wrote a document 

that aims to help you with those decisions. 

Find link at the end of the thread. 

Before initiating migration, you’d have to make 

sure that all protocols & wallets that are used/love 

by your holders have added support for MIP. 

Examples of these include, but aren’t limited to, 

the following: - marketplaces - wallets - AMMs - 

lending protocols - staking contracts - anything 

else that transfers, burns or freezes NFTs You can 

check current adoption status here: 

notion.so 

pNFTs Protocol Adoption Status 


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DAM ZINE

DAM ZINE

0xDeadSoul

0xDeadSoul

2ongsdrawing

ACTMOVE

AmeT

Amir

ArtPardini

Britt Hoffman

Chappo0_0

Chappo0_0

Crowded

Chris Fairley Photography

DanielArtist

DeadlyKittys_

Donatello

DrRobo7

Erik Andreoli

Kevxn

@quincy_sol 

A long thread on generative art for Solana audience. In anticipation of the launch of @CodeCanvas_Art, I will 

do a few threads on gen art both from my personal experience and from a more technical aspects that could be 

beneficial to Sol collectors who are not familiar with it. 

Today, I will go candid with my own personal experience with gen art mostly in ETH and Tezos. It should give 

some perspective to Sol based collectors who do not have exposure to gen art. Pieces you see in this thread 

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some I own, some I used to own and some I do not. 

As many of you may know, my main focus of collecting has been abstract art. I started collecting digital abstract 

art around October 2021 and had been aggressive on the genre until early 2022. 


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Once I got comfy with my collection and the genre, I started to look at something new and rather challenging, 

but still mostly abstract in its look; generative art. 

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Back then I had heard about ArtBlocks and crazy run in late 2021. But like most things in ETH, it felt overwhelming. 

Gen art scene looked massive and intimidating form the ouside, and I had no idea how to start. I could 

appreciate aesthetic side of some collections but not all. 


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Then I thought of a guy with SMB pfp who I remembered 

his tweets on gen art before: Mr. @DoomOperator. 

I randomly dm’ed him to seek advice on gen art. 

(A lesson here: do not hesitate to reach out for help to 

educate yourself on new thing) 

Doom since became my teacher and navigator of the 

scene. I threw most stuff I found and was interested 

at him. He was basically gen art OG and know ins and 

outs of the scene, including technical aspect of it, 

which is very important for appreciation of gen art. 

With his guidance, I explored gen art scene both in ETH 

and Tez simultaneously. With his help I got to mint two 

of the best collections of 2022 in Memories of Qilin 

and Anticyclone. 

After a while of full time maneuvering in the scene, I 

started to realize full appeal and potential of gen art 

within crypoart context and beyond. It is fascinating for 

many reasons. 


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To me it’s art that is originated from code that can live on 

chain, is native to the digital world, and highly scalable. 

Which in turn means bigger community and network effect, 

while still be aesthetically pleasant when done right. 

And many of them come in as abstract form, which has 

been my area of liking. So the transition to gen art is 

not too difficult. But it is still quite acquired taste that 

requires good amount of orientation and education to 

appreciate fully it. This takes time. 

For some basics, “generative art” basically refers to art 

that is created with the use of an autonomous system 

i.e. art programmed using a computer that intention- 

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ally introduces randomness as part of its creation 

process. 

This is unlike analog art, where complexity and scale require 

exponentially more effort and time, which makes 

gen art fitting to create big collection of highly complex 

art. 

This entails elements of chance, accidental discovery, 

and spontaneity that often makes art great. And computer 

excels at creating art with great complexity at 

scale, and can repeat processes near endlessly without 

exhaustion. 

And it is a genre that will only get better with more advance 

tech, tools and display becoming available. (I will 

go into more detail on the technical side in a separate 


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thread next week) 

In addition to the aesthetics and being digital native, 

gen art has ultra-strong and dedicated community of 

artists, collectors and builders behind the movement. 

They have been there through the fud of “gen art is not 

art” period earlier and keep delivering and growing. 

New artists and collectors keep coming and old ones 

do not leave. I also found a good portion of gen art collectors 

does focus on gen art alone and not much else. 

And for a good reason; development within the scene 

is more than I can cover even when I try fulltime. 

If you are bullish on Solana for community reasons, I 

feel the same towards gen art community; the community 

is real and they are here to stay and will only keep 

growing. 

The community is so fascinating that this coming May I 

will attend live minting event in Tokyo for the first time. 

And it will be my first in real life cryptoart event. 

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As we experience firsthand with PFP, people want to be a 

part of something bigger with memetic resonance. Long 

from gen art collections give holder that feeling. In ETH 

things like Squiggle or Fidenza are great examples. 

I feel the solid community aspect of gen art derives 

partly from having “long form” collections like we see 

with ArtBlocks and fxhash (what will happen in @ 

CodeCanvas_Art). Having a popular art collection of 

500-1000 pieces can create solid network effect and 

community. 

With big art collections of say 500-1000 pieces with good 

network effect also come much more liquid and robust 

secondary market when compared to cryptoart market in 

general. 


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Discussion on liquidity of cryptoart is usually avoided by 

artists and collectors for some reason. But to me it is one 

of its great appeal when you can buy, sell, upgrade with 

ease. Strong constant demands are there for popular 

collection, even in bear market. 

In short, in the past, each era is defined by certain 

movement or style or art. In this digital age, 

we may have more than one. But I feel gen art can 

be a defining for the web3 artistic movement. And 

I think it is on a good track. This is it for this week. 

Again, to Sol collectors, I suggest you follow 

@CodeCanvas_Art. And on this Wednesday 

25th @SolanaLegend will host a space to 

specifically discuss long form generative art 

in Solana context. Stay tuned for that. My 

thread will continue after. Cheers. 

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Madmonkee

Madmonkee

MariliaHenriquesART

MariliaHenriquesART

Monstick

None

None

Shadowmoon

Simaleksic

Swegyc

ZufarRobbani

andrealitmus

ajibaskara

andrealitmus

arcmikkelsen

arcmikkelsen

arcmikkelsen

illxmono

kedaiuncle

erhansol

fraim.10

jamshid66

mr_tldr 

A thread breaking down the project fundamentals of Helions. 

Helions Official Links Twitter: @helio_pay 

Secondary Market: https://magiceden.io/marketplace/helions… 

White Paper : https://docs.hel.io/introduction/welcome-to-helio… 

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/Helio 

Before we begin, this is not NFA but merely a summary 

of the project. Hope it helps when you’re doing research! 

What is Helions and what do they do? 

Helions was founded by 2 founders that previously 

scaled and sold their web2 businesses for a total of 

$600M. Helions is a PFP NFT project built on top of a 

web3 payment platform called Helio. 

The problem statement that they are tackling are 

threefold: 

1. US Merchants handover approximately $138B in transaction fee 

each year 

2. Projects wasting time and resources building their own payment 

gateway 

links. With Helio’s “no-code” check out page, anybody 

can create and customize their own check out page 

with just a few clicks. Once it’s one just send the link 

around for people to access and purchase your items 

Pay Links are very suitable for E-commerce stores, 

NFT sales and WLs, Donations and Tips and paying for 

hidden content. Pay Link is very customisable and user 

friendly as they allow NFT-gated payments, split payments 

as well as payments using any SPL tokens 

Users can customize their own descriptions, upload 

images, set the price and quantity to be sold, limit 

the sales per wallet and such. The final checkout page 

is clean and simplistic and the awesome part is, the 

transactions are rapid quick and smooth. 

3. 1st gen crypto payment gateways are not optimised enough 

Hence the birth of Helios, a solution that provides 0% 

transaction fees and processes at a much faster rate 

paired with a smooth interface that can deliver an 

amazing UX. 

Here’s a list of tools they provide: 1. Pay Links 2. Pay 

Streams 3. Invoicing 

Pay Links 

Pay Links enable users to create their own payment 

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Pay Streams 

Prior to this, current first gen crypto payment gateways do not support recurring payments and with Helio’s payment 

platform, the issue has been solved. Pay streams now allow users to set up a monthly subscription payment 

method through Helios. 

To set up a monthly subscription checkout page, all the user needs to do is set the price, time interval for every 

payment, and the subscription period, it’s that simple. Customers can also have the option to stop the subscription 

anytime and receive their money back. 

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What does holding a Helion grant you? 

1. HelioX 

2. Rev Share 

HelioX 

HelioX is the premium version of Helio that unlocks more features that were mentioned earlier in the thread 

such as NFT-gated payments, Split payments, 0% transaction fees and etc. 

If you’re interested in using HelioX, you can either hold a Helion or pay a subscription fee for 2 SOL monthly. 


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Rev Share 

10% of the revenue obtained from Helio transaction fees, NFT royalties & subscription fees will be used to reward 

the holders. 75% of the total reward will be sent to holders on a quarterly basis in the form of USDC while 

the other 25% will be used for treasury. 

All in all, Helion is a fantastic project with actual use case that most of us will come across with often. I’ve personally 

used their payment gateway and it is smooth as butter. There is no doubt we’ll be seeing Helion scale to be 

the biggest crypto payment gateway. 

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mmdhsin_bghr

micalnoelson

pitb_

SaintMary

samyrphoto

sentientshapes

sicjoe

sideproject

weltton

Aethur

Art Prompt

Blockframez

ajibaskara

coldbear

farahmand

hakanbiyiklioglu

ishehri

liamoonrise

aemris

vaztified

@blessed_burgers 

Build-a-Burger is a flagship dApp that is the first community-owned, transparent, autonomous lottery 

built entirely on Solana. Litepaper: https://tinyurl.com/burgerlitepaper 

Background 

Lotteries are typically run by centralised entities that oversee the sales of tickets, the drawing of numbers, 

and the distribution of prizes. 


Problem 

Participants are unable to verify the fairness of outcomes and wholly depend on the trustworthiness of these 

centralised entities. 

Solution 

In designing Solana’s first and best lottery dApp, Build-a-Burger aims to align the incentives of Web3 players 

through the convergence of tech-enabled transparency, community ownership, degen/NFT culture, with a 

dash of anti-authoritarian garnish. 

dApp: Burgers as Tickets 

Every ticket row is a burger! You don’t have to go to McDs to flip burgers anymore p.s: we will support $SOL, 

$BONK and $bSOL on mainnet. @bonk_inu @solblaze_org @solana

dApp: Build Burgers 

We take inspiration from the real-life experience of creating custom burgers. Each number of the lottery ticket 

corresponds to a unique ingredient in the built burger, totalling 60 house-made ingredients and 1,000,000 

combinations to try your luck with!

dApp: Verifiably Random 

On a regular schedule, a lottery round is started with a certain operational time-interval, during which 

the window for ticket purchasing is open. After the round has ended, the winning ticket is drawn using 

the @switchboardxyz randomness oracle. 

Community-owned 

99% of ticket sales goes back to the community, always; the prize pool. (1% to operational costs) 


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Governance 

We are exploring ways in which the lottery can be community-governed and will be furthering this discourse in 

weeks to come on twitter spaces, AMAs, and our (soon-to-be-dropped) discord! 

LIVE! 

Build-a-Burger (BETA) dApp is live on devnet! http://blessedburgers.co 

Test it out and tag us with the burgers you are building! 

Thank you! 

We want to thank @LamportDAO for hosting the hackathon and giving us this opportunity to show the 

@solana community what we have built!

We would love to hear the community’s thoughts and have an open dialogue about our project ‍

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