All humans are dead. The Minters are the only survivors, thanks to minting their brains as NFTs. Join us in the exciting journey through Minters World.
Immerse yourself in the interactive universe, filled with storylines and breathtaking visuals. Hop on the stage at FVCK THE MINTERS club, find forgotten wonders on Alta Kei, discover the depths of cosmos on Prea Station, and get a taste of everyday life on Yoma.
Minters World features two NFT collections: our flagship, The Minters, and DroEats, launched as a free mint on the Arbitrum network.
The Minters:
Q1: Will the skull be the main motive within The Minters NFT collection?
Yes! We intend to make our skull design iconic among the growing web3 pop-culture and beyond.
Q2: On which platform will The Minters minting take place?
The Minters will be minted on Ethereum (Mainnet), and listed on Opensea.
Q3: How much will the minting cost?
The Minters NFT will cost 0.05 ETH.
Q4: How much will the minting cost in gas fees?
It will be a standard minting fee on Ethereum, varying depending on the global Ethereum median gas prices.
Q5: How will you use lore and story-telling to expand Minters World, and how will the lore connect The Minters NFTs?
Stories were once told by the bards in taverns. People tired of the hardships of everyday life, could gather around the campfire, and listen. Web3 tech-stack completely changes storytelling. We can distinguish the ingredients a skilled storyteller has in web3:
- NFT (as a medium for the phenomenon of scarcity to appear in the digital world)
- Crypto (financial layer moving in the speed of fiber cables)
- Words (stories itself)
- Music layer (sense of hearing)
- NFT (as a visual layer of storytelling)
- Physical places & objects
- Technology (on the whole spectrum)
The web3 story told perfectly should make use of all of these ingredients. Mixing NFT traits is a form of art itself. We did our best so that each Minter NFT is truly unique. Why? Because the world is not as simple as tribes. Perfect NFT collection should have the iconic design (The Minters “skeleton” base), but each of the NFTs needs to be identifiable only by the connections made with storylines itself.
Imagine seeing Luke Skywalker and Clone Trooper in the same NFT collection. At the first glance, you wouldn’t know their shared identity.
Q6: The Minters NFT collection seems to feature a diverse set of planets and worlds. Will each NFT be different in terms of culture, storylines and identity?
Minters World's first release features a desert planet of Alta Kei, with the society structure formed around the abundance of water, Prea Station, Yoma and FVCK THE MINTERS music club.
The Minters NFTs are then split between each of those 4 places. They will feature different trait types, visuals, styles, and histories (and even culture!). All glued together by our iconic skeleton design.
Q7: Are you planning on expanding the visuals of The Minters collection? From pixel art to something different?
Yes. The Minters pixel art is the tribute to the pioneers - Long Live Cryptopunks! Expansion of The Minters, planned for mid 2023, will feature new visuals, allowing us to tell even better stories, and reach the mass audience, used to a different visual styles, than a native NFT community.
Q8: What are the references and inspirations for The Minters IP?
The skeleton base is extremely easy to capture in various styles, and we naturally realized it during the planning phase.
Q9: Will The Minters and DroEats be able to work independently, in the project environment? Or will some actions require having both of them?
The Minters and DroEats are connected inside the omnipresent storyline of Minters World. DroEats serve at the FVCK THE MINTERS music club.
Holding both of them is not required for the project related actions. Especially as we intend to make holding The Minters NFT socially valuable, while DroEats are the exploration of the financial value creation design space.
Q10: Will the main collection use multichain technology?
Multichain technology can have its usage in creating mini-games like on-chain Raids and Capture The Flag. Arena System will be on StarkNet, so in some sense yes, we will be using multichain technology.
Q11: Why is your base skeleton model so chad-ish?
Yes. It is.
DroEats
DroEats love eating! That’s why they’ve made their own restaurant chains, and now compete with each other.
DroEats were created by Minters World, and claimable for free. They are under a CC0 license. A group of holders, now called DroEats DAO gathered together and decided on launching a collective of developers that will develop DroEats further.
Q1: Arbitrum NFTs are rather not well known. What do you think would need to happen, to increase the adoption of the Arbitrum network, in terms of NFTs
Fundamentally Optimistic Rollups introduce a list of improvements. We can have sub $0.4 transaction fees, while sharing Ethereum security. Why is that important for the NFTs? It was clearly visible during the DroEats free mint - $1.5 in ETH to mint an NFT.
There are at least two successful NFT collections on Arbitrum. Both with a great PMF, memetry, and amazing community. Smols & Legions from TreasureDAO. For us, it’s clear that Arbitrum will be a go-to L2 for NFTs trading among the Ethereum native community.
Two fundamental changes need to happen for Arbitrum NFTs to go mainstream. 1) Proper NFT marketplace. Trove is a great upcoming contender. 2) Unique NFT project that will deliver a mainstream application. Might be a game or DeFi app with a revenue sharing to the NFT holders.
Q2: What is currently known about DroEats? They were a free mint on Arbitrum, with a huge set of diverse and polished traits, made by the emerging NFT artist (anon?) Julia Salva. Could you tell us a little bit more about her and her future involvement in the visual side of DroEats?
DroEats NFT is a collection launched by Minters World, as a way to showcase our technical, and artistic expertise. Featuring 3500 pixel art robots, with more than 270+ carefully crafted traits. DroEats NFT IP will be used in the upcoming DroEats game.
Julia Salva is one of the Minters World artists, creator of DroEats, and a biologist by profession. She is now responsible for working on The Minters, together with 3 other MW artists. To not dilute the DroEats value with the additional supply, she won’t be working on any DroEats visual extensions, except for the fanarts.
DroEats DAO is the collective of Solidity developers & engineers, building applications on Arbitrum. Their first product will be DroEats: base-building web game.
Q3: From what we have already heard, the DroEats game is being developed. Could you tell us a little bit more about it?
DroEats is our take on base-building games. Mixing styles of Clash of Clans and Shakes & Fidget. DroEats NFT holders will become owners of their own restaurant chain, with other players being able to join them. New, non-NFT owner players are randomly assigned to one of the 3500 restaurants.
Players complete mini-games to earn in-game coins, which can be spent on upgrading their restaurant, and fight with other players. Mini-games are meant to be easy and quick to play, yet pose some interesting challenges for the players.
Players will constantly face-off challenges connected to the limited space in their restaurant, so they need to be extremely thoughtful of their decisions.
Q4: What's the game release timeline?
6 months from July 2022. Staking, and other things discussed below will be ready early July.
Q5: Were you planning on utilizing DroEats traits, to give them a specific usage? Maybe a production of certain in-game goods or resources in DroEats could be done with only a handful of traits?
Despite the multitude of DroEats traits, 1 DroEat = 1 DroEat. During the DroEats Season 1, certain traits won’t matter much. General rarity will matter in a small way (1.5x max yield multiple). Yet, using traits as an identification method to produce various in-game resources is something we are exploring. Traits will be important in Season 2.
Q6: What will be the utility of DroEats NFTs? Are you aware that native-token integrations in P2E games don't work in the long run?
DroEats isn't a Play-2-Earn game (well, not in the standard meaning of it). We aren't fans of P2E solutions. As Axie Infinity and many more have shown, P2E gaming models are inherently unstable, only fitting in the growth phase. DroEats will have the in-game currency which isn’t an ERC20 token.
Money goes in, but where does it go next?
To DroEats NFT holders. Revenue from DroEats is split between all DroEats NFT holders, creating a real utility. Due to that, DroEats NFT will be:
- A socially valuable PFP
- A "share" in DroEats, generating revenue for the holders based on the game adoption and other not-disclosed things we are building
- The account in DroEats, that can be sold with all of its progress and player's that are tied to it (a holder of DroEats NFT is an owner of the whole restaurant chain, not only his/hers own personal restaurant).
To make it simple, let’s say a new users A, B, and C get assigned to the restaurant #732, which is owned by the DroEats #732 NFT holder. They progress, having a lot of fun, competing with their friends, and the global leaderboard. 10% of their in-game resources goes to the DroEats #732 NFT holder. #732 also gets the monthly yield split, in the form of ETH.
Q7: What's the point of using blockchain in your game?
We will use Arbitrum blockchain to implement Soulbound NFTs as a certain in-game resource, access boosts for the buildings, and unlock additional time-sensitive activities in the Arcade - "mini casino", in which users can gamble their in-game money for extra profits.
Nothing like this could be made possible without ETH as-a-currency integration. Rather than spending their resources from Soulbound NFTs right after the purchase, users can choose to hold onto their additional resources, creating the interesting in-game meta behaviors.
Q8: Who will fund the development of DroEats? Will there be a DroEats token on Arbitrum? If so, who will get it? Are you guys planning a public token sale?
Minters World: The Minters & DroEats is self-funded. DroEats DAO is launching a DroEats token, to help bootstrap DroEats game development. Giving the wider community a possibility to bet on the DroEats (game), IP & success. We view ERC20 tokens as a liquid exposure opportunity for investors who are not keen to hold the NFT itself.
40% of the DroEats tokens will be airdropped to the DroEats NFT holders, in a span of a month. We are following the steps of $YFI and $MAGIC, implementing fast token distribution, extremely low initial FDV, and raising only the needed minimum - to hire more developers, establish the initial DAO treasury, and finalize the game.
DroEats token will give DAO members a signaling tool, to change & influence the in-game meta, connected directly with the cash-generating mechanisms.
What’s important - buying tokens is not necessary. NFT holders will receive a free token airdrop. Participating in the token sale is the additional way to gain liquid exposure to DroEats.
Q9: What's the upcoming DroEats DAO on Arbitrum? How will it be different from the other hundreds of DAOs, and how do you expect it to perform into a broader Arbitrum ecosystem? Are you planning any Arbitrum-eco integrations?
DroEats DAO is meant to be a collective of Ethereum developers building applications (GameFi & DeFi) on Arbitrum. DroEats NFT gives the access to the gated-community or builders, developers, and researchers, willing to build DroEats game and beyond.
The core team of the DAO will be established from the Minters World developers, working pro bono for the DAO. With the capital collected from the donation event, and game revenue, we plan to further expand the reach of DAO, attracting talented programmers and scientists, while funding open-source infrastructure initiatives, focused, but not limited to Arbitrum.
Long term vision of the DroEats DAO is simple - establish a Decentralized Society of engineers, developers and scientists, fund public, open-source infra, apps & research (not limited to cryptography field), and build the foundation for, what we call a “digital revenue objects (DRO)”, powered by the hyperstructures revenue streams.
Q10: Why do you even need a DAO?
DAO is needed to properly decentralize DroEats IP, and establish a freely functioning collective of Arbitrum developers.
Q11: If there is a DroEats token, are you going to allow us to provide the liquidity (LP) or implement a staking mechanism? If so, what are the benefits?
Majority of the initial liquidity will be provided directly by the team (mix of ETH from the donation event + DAO treasury tokens). It will be on Uniswap V3 1% pool (to incentivize further MM LP additions, without the need for native-token incentives), with the team LPing over the whole range (if you don’t know what it means, check out the Uni V3 documentation).
Staking mechanism will be implemented for the DroEats NFT (40% of the total token supply, with the full distribution happening over 1 month). We don’t have a plan for staking for the so-called “pool2”, beyond swap fees - meaning DRO/ETH pool staking. Additional native-token incentives might be provided from a pool of team’s token supply, and are currently being discussed.
We were researching a proper incentivization mechanism for weeks, trying to find a novel solution that won’t lead to the extensive token dumping by the “farmers”. Due to the nature of in-time changing game-theoretical solutions, for both native community and external MMs/DeFi participants (for-profit oriented, without the need to keep the project alive), we think that the 1% swap fees pool is the best we can do, in the initial stage of DroEats.
Q12: Is there going to be a DAO’s treasury? Is there going to be any governance process for people to get involved with?
Initial governance will be in a form of off-chain signaling, done via Snapshot voting solution. At the beginning DroEats will need a fast-executing, centralized team of developers. When more people join a core team of DroEats DAO, we will do everything to fully decentralize the governance, and build on-chain voting. First off-chain signaling, then on-chain voting, are both being done by the DroEats DAO token.
DroEats DAO plan to build up the treasury via the various activities - DroEats game revenue, Arbitrum infra/apps with turned on fees, and debt products. A more detailed explanation will be released with the DroEats DAO whitepaper.
Treasury usage goals are connected to the long term vision of the DAO, which was already described.
Q13: What kind of incentives do you plan for DroEats NFT & token holders?
DroEats NFT - yield rights, without the governance rights.
DroEats DAO token - governance rights, without the yield rights.
DroEats NFT holders will receive 40% of the DroEats DAO tokens, in a distribution lasting 1 month. Token gives you the ability to vote on DroEats game meta, and a potential native-token integration to the DroEats game.
Q14: How do you plan to get the revenue?
DroEats is a free-to-play game, but you can pay for a multiple of small “time-boosters” and gambling-like activities. These include, but are not limited to, playing Arcade (in-game casino), buying Soulbound NFT as a not crucially needed in-game resource, and time-boosters for the base building. Also refer to the long-term vision of DAO (DAO will build other dApps on Arbitrum).
After weeks of the in-deep research, we are assuming that a potential NFT game player is willing to spend ~0.0059 ETH daily, which (at the current DroEats price of 0.14 ETH) would mean (with 1000 active players), a yield of 440% APR paid in ETH for the DroEats NFT holder. We tend to think that these assumptions are still highly downgraded.
Question arose - why would anybody spend $$ in the free-to-play NFT game? To progress faster, and be at the top of the leaderboard, score the highest in the season rankings, winning the grand prizes.
Q15: How exactly will DroEats generate yields, and how technically will it be distributed?
Since the DAO controls DroEats, yields will be distributed from the DAO multisig wallet directly to all the DroEats NFT holders, splitted equally (later, a rarity weighting with the max cap of 1.5x will be implemented). Accrued yields will be distributed at the end of each month.
Q16: What is the expected yield?
We can’t really tell at the current stage. It will mainly depend on the DroEats game, and later dApps success. Whitepaper will feature a different models we are incorporating to predict the possible yields, and the results of these tests will be made public before the token donation event.
Q17: Do you have any experience in DeFi systems?
Yes. Most of the Minters World developers were either professionally using & testing DeFi since early 2020, later becoming early farmers on Solana, Avalanche, and many more.
Q18: Will there be any other ways to get the yield except by owning the DroEats NFT?
No. Holding DroEats NFT is the only option.
Q19: What’s the role of rarity in DroEats NFT collection?
Rarity of DroEats NFT will later have a weight up to 1.5x during the monthly yield distribution.
Q20: Is it worth it to own armed DroEats? (trait)
Yes. Traits owned by DroEats will grant certain in-game perks.
Q21: Are you planning to expand DroEats via the additional NFT collections?
No, unless it would highly benefit the current DroEats NFT holders, and only under the assumption that the majority of the new collection is given to the current NFT holders.
Q22: The initial distribution of DroEats is quite small. Are there plans for some sort of breeding dynamic to increase supply as the user base scales? Or will the new collections be dropped? Many games started with a lot of promise, but ran into trouble, after diluting the NFT supply too much. How will you solve this problem?
On-chain data tends to disagree. During the mint we have allowed for only 1 DroEats NFT mint per address. Even after two weeks of secondary market trading, collection of 3500 is being held by 2000+ addresses. We don’t have any plans to dilute the NFT supply, since it’s not needed.
The DroEats gaming model was carefully crafted to eliminate such issues.
Q23: Can we learn more about the DroEats core development team?
On day 1, it will be the same development team as Minters World, working pro-bono for the DroEats DAO.
Q24: Do you plan to onboard any celebrities or influencers to the DroEats DAO?
For DroEats, our goal is to onboard active builders and developers.
Q25: Do you plan any cooperations with Ethereum Mainnet based projects?
DroEats are fully focused on the Arbitrum ecosystem.
Q26: Why did you choose Arbitrum, when other networks are cheaper, eg. Polygon?
We believe that the Optimistic Rollup solution which Arbitrum has taken is a better long-term scaling technology for EVM architecture.
Q27: Will DroEats participate in any kind of Arbitrum ecosystem bootstrapping?
We will work hard so that this question can be answered with “yes”.
Q28: Knowing that the DroEats mint lasted 3h and was totally free, quite a few wallets admitted that they’ve minted a few dozen DroEats. Don't you think by looking at the transactions that the price is artificially pumped? And the bubble will burst soon and a lot of those who buy at $100 will never get that money back?
Yes, the bubble will burst. On a more serious note - you will never see DroEats DAO core team publicly discuss price-related topics. We will keep building despite the open market fluctuations.
Secondary market prices will always be the function of fundamentals, growth betting, promises, and hype mix.
DroEats DAO, Token, Game Whitepaper: Further documentation will be released this month.
Minters World
Q1: What distinguishes Minters World from hundreds of new NFT projects?
Craft that was put into making The Minters both visually unique and diverse, allowing a completely different people to still be able to identify inside one universe.
Current NFT collections are good for tribe building. If we are to create the open metaverse, we need to move beyond it.
Our world class storytelling, as a way to entertain and connect the community, which could be seen during Wonders of Alta Kei history.
Q2: What can we do (right now) in Minters World?
At the current stage, Minters World is not ready. You can join our Discord music club, listen to the FVCKING DJ playing live 24/7, hold DroEats NFT, socialize, and wait for more!
Q3: What’s the most crazy thing we will be able to do in Minters World?
Virtually? Have you seen the movie Avatar?
Physically? Minters World space club sounds good?
Q4: Do you have any P2E game in plans for Minters World?
Both DroEats and StarkNet-based Arena System won’t be P2E games (although both of them feature money-making mechanisms). Games should be fun to play! P2E models turn gaming into working, which we don’t particularly like.
Q5: In your roadmap, there seems to be something called Arena System on StarkNet. Could you tell us a little bit more?
Arena System will be a digital hunger game arena, allowing you to bet on heroes and characters participating in the arena event. We are using fractionalization, making NFTs liquid, and trading on the public markets, so that users can invest into heroes at the early stage, becoming owners of the ever-changing actors fighting on the Arena.
It’s a dream of ours to deliver an immersive coliseum experience, using NFTs.
Q6: What's the timeline for the Arena System release?
You can expect whitepaper and the initial designs EOY, with the Arena going live in 2023.
Q7: Will it be possible to bet on robot’s fights via the Arena System?
Not robots, but heroes!
Q8: Why StarkNet?
We won’t be able to model certain Arena events on Ethereum, the same as we can with Cairo.
Q9: “Play on Arena” - planned for 2023. That’s a lot of time! Is it going to be a real game?
Yes, it’s going to be a real, fully playable, multiplayer game.
Q10: Are you planning any real world events?
Minters World Digital in Q4 2022. Minters-Con in 2023. We are coming!
Q11: Creating another, separate collection to The Minters (I’m talking DroEats), with a different name, might lead to confusion, and attention/capital dilution. How does the team plan to create a branding that will (at the same time) highlight connections and differences between The Minters and DroEats?
We have created DroEats to showcase our NFT building skills. DroEats, despite having only a supply of 3500, feature more than 270+ traits. They were free to mint, and we intend to build a world class utility around them. DroEats DAO has a clear, long-term goal. DroEats are our exploration of possibilities emerging in the natively digital revenue streams design space. Focused on bringing value to the whole Arbitrum ecosystem.
The Minters are our flagship product. In lore, they coexist. DroEats serve food and beverage in FVCK THE MINTERS - one of Minters World locations.
We are builders and artists. It’s clear that both The Minters and DroEats brands will become well-known names inside, and outside the NFT community.
Q12: Can we expect more of these types of “side” collections to be released in the future within the realm of Minters World?
Yes, but not faster than in 2023. And if so, it will be given for free to The Minters holders. We think that in the future the top volume NFT collections will have 100k+ NFTs. They will be much cheaper, but that’s what we need for mass adoption.
Q13: Do you have any plans to make Minters World a movie franchise? Comic books? Maybe games?
We don’t limit ourselves to just one medium. Movies and books, or even comics are complementary. The great tools to engage the mass audience.
Q14: Is FVCK THE MINTERS Club being abandoned? Why the name change (Minters World), and how will you try to keep FTM - maybe some music activities?
No! It’s for sure not being abandoned. Minters World name better describes our NFT-powered world: Alta Kei, Yoma, Prea Station and FVCK THE MINTERS. 4 initial locations community adventurers can freely explore!
FVCK THE MINTERS will be more alive and active than ever. Live music events, bar & smoking room minigames, social events and partyyyyyyyy!
Q15: For now, in terms of music on Discord, there were plans for live DJ music nights. How will you engage the community on a deeper musical level?
Music is one of the ingredients used to tell the stories in the web3 world. You can be sure to have a lot of music interactions depending, where your Minter currently is. Is she participating in the space voyage around Prea Station? Or sunbathing by the pool on Yoma? Music will connect with these locations.
Ps: Yes, live DJ music nights are coming!
Q16: Any chances that you will expand the music side of the Minters World? FVCK THE MINTERS Club seems great, and the DJ BOT is planning a banger music. Are you planning on working with music artists?
Yes! Music is one of the most important ingredients of our storytelling. Working with a renomed and upcoming music artists is a top priority for Minters World.
Q17: Let’s talk about a simple Discord interaction - #bar and #smoking-room. You currently have a fun bots set up, serving community members drinks and tobacco. Do you plan on expanding these fun, little community features? I’m having a lot of fun using them daily!
Yes we are. Bar and smoking-room were made to closely imitate the experience we all know from being in the physical clubs. In the future, they will become a place for The Minters all around the world to chill, smoke a blunt, drink and network.
Q18: Are you going to release Minters World token?
Sorry, but we can’t comment.
Lore of Minters World
Q1: What's your experience with sci-fi storytelling, if you are planning to build Minters World in this specific theme?
Our main writer has 7 year professional writing experience. He’s obsessed with sci-fi - from books, through games, to films. Wonders of Alta Kei were barely a short preview of what is coming to Minters World.
Q2: What inspired the ideas behind some of the initial stories you’ve posted on Minters World?
A mix of Dune and Arcane styles was the initial inspiration for Wonders of Alta Kei. Story itself was solely written by us.
Q3: I really like the lore and stories behind the project - maybe because I love RPG. Do you have it already created? I mean, the storyline, or is it being constantly written?
We view Minters World as this huge place, with hundreds of potential storylines! Most of the initial story is being written right now.
Q4: What do you mean by interactive storylines? Is it going to be some sort of RPG or a game? Maybe tasks for the community? Riddle to be uncovered?
Would we be good writers if we revealed the details of the story at such an early stage?
Q5: Who’s behind the Galactic Chronicle?
If you are asking about the lore itself, Galactic Chronicle was created by the independent group of journalists from Yoma. Over the years it established itself as a main source of daily information from Minters World.
The person creating the lore is stokarz, our founder.
Q6: What characters appear in Minters World?
On Alta Kei you can meet traditional Sky City citizens, Magnates from Clouds, victims of the FLUX infections, roaming nomads and many more. And that’s only one planet!
Q7: What’s inside the briefcase from your stories?
As we already know from the Wonders of Alta Kei, the story ended with professor Hyeong Iseul discovering a mysterious letter, from what appears to be a member of a distinct civilization living on Alta Kei, before the first Minters inhabitants came there thousands of years ago.
Q8: What percentage of wealth in Minters World is held by the rich, esteemed Minters class, compared to the underpaid DroEats workers?
The dark side of the DroEats will be further explored in the canon stories. Although at first they seem to be joyful little robots, the reality isn’t quite as simple. I wouldn’t be so sure about who holds the most of the Minters World wealth.
Q9: What is love?
When you kiss Your Minter goodbye.
Q10: Are skeletons the prime Minters race? Are they “stronger” than DroEats? What are the other races living inside Minters World, and can we expect them to be featured in The Minters NFT collection?
You can expect some of the other races to be featured inside The Minters NFT collection, yet we can’t say anything about it right now. They will be rare.
Q11: What treasures does the Alta Kei hold?
There for sure must be something valuable this godforsaken desert planet holds, right? These gravitational fields appearing in the Wonders of Alta Kei can’t be accidental.
Q12: Can DroEat and Minter be related in some way?
Cross-racial sex between Minters and robots was forbidden by the Second Schism.
Q13: What are the symptoms of FLUX (heavily poisoned water from Sky City) disease?
We’ve heard the stories of a pure madness in the eyes of the victims. The journalist reporting on that case committed suicide soon after.
Q14: How is the special beverage from FVCK THE MINTERS Club - Monkey Gu, prepared?
Ask DroEat at the bar, but it’s probably a well-kept secret.
Q15: Would you consider AndroEats, human-like shaped robots, serving futuristic food and beverage, to be your next collection?
Do AndroEats dream of electric DroEats?
General Questions
Q1: What do you think would make Minters World stand out from other NFT projects in the long run?
Team commitment, perfect execution, unique IP, and of course, creating the immersive stories.
Q2: How many months of work without community support do you have in terms of the budget?
Three years.
Q3: What kind of challenges or threats do you see for the project in the short run?
As we decided to notify our community of The Minters price during the first days of our project (0.05 ETH, and since then the price of ETH dropped -40%), and we are not planning on changing it, dropping ETH’s value might mean that growth will take some more time. We can still build everything we want, even with ETH being at $1000.
Q4: How experienced is the team regarding web3/NFTs?
Our founder has been in crypto since mid 2017, and started playing with NFTs in mid 2020. The rest of the team joined crypto in 2020. We hold a deep knowledge of both vibes and tech.
Q5: What inspired you to drop what you were doing before and to pursue Minters World building?
We simply believe that NFTs are the future of mass entertainment, and that nobody is telling the stories with NFTs and tech like we can.
Q6: When we talk about building a proper digital world, immersive lore and a wonderful visual aesthetic are important, to leave a lasting impression on the people discovering your project. How far will the team go, to achieve this goal, keeping the high retention of the new users?
For us, a new user should know what Minters World is after the first 3 seconds. And he/she should be completely fine with that knowledge going forward! But, the signs that there is something more hidden inside should be obvious.
We will always be on the verge of technology and art, creating a social value for The Minters NFTs, and the whole Minters World. No burden is strong enough to stop us. That’s why we took the necessary steps to have the right engineers and artists to achieve such goals in the long run.
Q7: It seems that CC0 (Creative Commons 0 license) is increasing in significance in NFT meta. What is the team’s stance on CC0, and a long term vision for the open licensing (if applied)?
Here is a short thought experiment. Let’s extract the “meme”, and see how fast it can travel through space (with space being a digital, pseudo-geometric construct, where the individual actor is the shortest connection point). Now assign one of the two characteristics to the meme: private licensing & cc0 license. What travels faster? Can you see it now?
Q8: The traditional gaming model and web3 games like Axie Infinity maintain a tight control of the IP to deliver a cohesive experience, do you think using cc0 could backfire down the road?
Possibilities of a global community building are endless with CC0 licensing. Quoting @evets.eth: “once you’ve been red pilled by the flywheel potential of cc0 brand building, everything else will seem so insignificant. Almost a toy that is fun but simply not important.”
Q9: CC0 and open metaverse ecosystems seem to be in their first stage of development. How are you planning to approach that?
Decentralize The Minters NFT IP with CC0 license. Build with teams creating open metaverse infrastructure. Fund the public goods related to the open metaverses. Have our own, strong presence in the metaverse since the beginning.
Q10: Are you planning to doxx the whole team? Their Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram profiles, so it might be clear who’s responsible for the project?
Our founder is doxxed, and we intend to protect the privacy of our team members. Judge us by our creations, not identities. We think that the current pressure of doxxing is dangerous and pointless, since we are creating a world where digital personas will matter (we see this already with PFPs).
Q11: We know that you have already set up a real company developing Minters World. Are you hiring?
Soon, yes. First opportunities to work among us will emerge via the DroEats DAO.
Q12: Are you open for seed round investments?
No, Minters World is currently closed for any seed round investments. To gain the exposure, you can purchase DroEats NFT on the secondary market, or buy DRO tokens on Uniswap on Arbitrum.
We are always happy to chat with the long-term valuable partners, with the similar vision for GameFi as us, willing to invest in the highly engineering oriented teams. Contact @stokasz on Twitter.
Q13: What’s the real impact the community has on the project?
For us, the community is a living and breathing digital nation that will be connected thanks to the stories and The Minters PFPs.
Q14: As a community, how can we help the project get more publicity?
Use The Minters as your profile picture on social media!
Q15: Are you planning any potential integrations with other “metaverses”? Like SandBox or OpenMetaverse?
We hope that The Minters will have their place in OpenMetaverse, where all the community members can dance, party and have some digital fun.
Q16: What’s the plan for brand marketing? Both pre-mint and post-mint. Do you have any collaborations already set up? Are these collaborations focused only on the Crypto/NFT world or maybe on the real world?
Web3 pop-culture will naturally emerge from the normal pop-culture. We hope to be the pioneers in this change, connecting both of the worlds. Marketing campaigns with the web2 brands could be a gateway for the project like The Minters to reach mass recognizability.
Q17: When are we getting a sales bot?
The only reason why we don’t have the sales bot yet is, that TofuNFT doesn’t have the public API, nor any standard bot isn’t integrated with it. When The Minters launch on Opensea, we will have the sales bot immediately.
Q18: What’s the ultimate goal of Minters World?
To tell the stories with NFTs and technology like nobody else before.
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