"A sword is only as good as the man who wields it.” - George RR Martin

In the hands of the right person the sword becomes lethal, an instrument creates music, a brush transforms an empty canvas, and random numbers generate masterpieces.

It is all about who is doing what with their tools.

This was never more clear in crypto than with the “fiverr” art meta meme in 2022 had frenetic mint outs with short term price pumps leading to their complete collapse in 2023.

Without an authentic community all of these collections failed.

In walks Jack Butcher, Jalil, and the vv crew with a vision and nurturing a community of accountability and ownership within their collections Checks and Opepen.

By having permissionless and trustless states built within Checks it is all about the community taking the collection where they want it to go. You buy, migrate, sacrifice, and burn down to the Check state you want.

With Opepen the inflection point happened with User Generated Content, or User Generated Opepen, powered by nouns ai . wtf as a tool to formulate any variation of Opepen a holder desired. Jack and Jalil took the collection one step further with their introduction of Opt-In to mint which meant community dictated what type of art their Opepen becomes.

No DAO, with their messy tokens and proposal process, required.

No official discord to control or gatekeep community discussions.

Checks and Opepen are authentic community driven projects and that is one of the core reasons it will live long beyond the point of Jack and Jalil actively engaging in it.

"A NFT collection is only as good as the community who wields it."