Sticker NFTs - BLEETZ Update

October 10th, 2024

Disclaimer: This is an article we wrote on the Mirror.xyz dApp that automatically gets trnasformed into a NFT. Minting is OPTIONAL, you don’t need to mint this in order to participate in our Ecosystem. If you mint these articles, they will only ever be memorial NFTs with no actual value in the Ecosystem.

Stickers are LIVE on BLEETZ and here’s what you can do with them!

But first, let’s start with a short guide on how to create your own Sticker NFT!

All users can create 1 Sticker when they join BLEETZ and can mint it for FREE!

Head to www.bleetz.io/my-sticker
Choose to upload a picture from your gallery or take one specifically for this ocassion!
Play with the Shape Generator to fit your image and preview it in all Tiers before deciding which image and shape are the best!
Click “Generate Sticker” to create it and mint it at the same time!

The creation and minting proccess should take less than 10 seconds to process and no wallet sign transaction will be needed.

Check out the chain explorer link here: camp-network-testnet.blockscout.com/token/0x9c774FfC8e47188d78cEe63728eAF68a66d264E8

Contract address: 0x9c774FfC8e47188d78cEe63728eAF68a66d264E8

Why Stickers?

Stickers enable fans to express emotions that may be difficult to articulate in text. From a psychological standpoint, visual representation allows for more nuanced communication of feelings.

Users might send a "cheerful" sticker to encourage their favorite creator or a "funny" sticker to participate in a humorous moment during the stream. These visual elements help users regulate their emotions by channeling their reactions in real-time, fostering a more immersive and emotionally engaging experience.

Moreover, livestreaming, as a parasocial environment, often creates a one-sided relationship where fans form emotional connections with creators. Stickers allow fans to "enter" the emotional world of the stream, enabling a two-way emotional exchange, which fosters a deeper connection.

This emotional engagement builds attachment, a critical element in maintaining long-term fan loyalty.

Another reason why we chose to implement Stickers lies in their ability to shape and reinforce social identity.

For creators, stickers are not just tools for fan engagement—they are also part of how creators brand themselves. Custom stickers often reflect a creator's unique personality, humor, or style. By offering branded or personalized stickers, creators extend their identity beyond the stream, embedding themselves in the community’s visual lexicon.

According to Social Identity Theory, individuals derive part of their identity from their membership in social groups (as we’ve seen with the Azuki effect). Exclusive stickers not only represent a user's identity but also signal allegiance to the creator. This "in-group" feeling reinforces community bonds and encourages a sense of unity among fans, enhancing the fan experience.

Cool, now, why make them NFTs?

Sticker NFTs take the benefits of regular stickers to the next level by adding ownership, rarity, and reward mechanisms into the equation. We’re in web3, let’s do it the web3 way!

Unlike traditional stickers on other platforms, Sticker NFTs allow users to truly own their digital assets. Owning Sticker NFTs means having something with intrinsic value that can be traded or showcased.

Beyond the financial aspect, there’s no fun stream without a bit of playing around. Sticker NFTs bring a playful, gamified element to the platform by allowing fans and streamers to unlock rewards through their use. Our Stickers introduce a reward mechanism that benefits both fans and creators. As fans use these stickers during streams, their power grows, evolving their rarity, leading to potential rewards for both the user and the streamer whose Sticker is being used.

Plus, our Stickers are extremely easy and fast to create. You don’t even need to connect a wallet or sign a transaction to directly mint them into your EntertainM account’s smart wallet (mID).

Stickers Rarities

Sticker NFTs are dynamic ERC721 NFTs. Their rarities are determined by the Stickers power. The higher the power, the higher the rarity.

All Stickers begin at Tier 1 (Silver) and are evolving up to Tier 6 (Meta). To evolve, Stickers are pitted against each other and the ones with more power get the higher rarity.

Tier 1 (Silver): 30%
Tier 2 (Gold): 25%
Tier 3 (Holo): 20%
Tier 4 (Star): 15%
Tier 5 (Matrix): 7%
Tier 6 (Meta): 3%

How they work

Everyone can create 1 Sticker when they first join BLEETZ.IO. The Sticker will be automatically minted as well and added to the Sticker Packs.

The newer the Sticker is, the more chances it will have to drop more often.

Use Stickers in the chat during livestreams to raise their power. If you are using a creator’s Sticker directly during their livestream, the power of the Sticker increases by 5 points instead of 1. *The sticker can be used only once per stream.