8/17 Future PROOF preview hosted in our Discord.
Today more of a table of contents what we’ll be announcing on August 30th.
More of a casual conversation today.
Community should be the first to hear things and going forward something we are trying to improve.
Some announcements we will wait till Future PROOF, but want to give you a heads up on what we’ll be talking about.
You’ll see new announcements touching all collections.
We’ll be talking about events, CC0 plan, and the DAO and more.
When we think about how we build in general, the PROOF formula is not about jumping around from one project to the next.
But want to support and innovate our existing projects.
Highrise
Single, token-gated place, curated based on what you hold.
Where you can go for everything from research to podcasts to merch and more.
Can see DAO funded proposals.
It's a primary dashboard.
But also a way to showcase NFTs and have deep analytics.
Imagine a world like if you click on the art, get info about the art, commentary, similar collections and more.
Want to go really deep on the analytics about the art.
Discovery of new artists is very important.
Want to layer social on top of it. Will it be chat? Lots of speculation. We’d like to explore different social interactions.
Don't want to launch yet another chat app.
Try radical new directions to see if it’s better and worth turning into something full-time.
Highrise is a playground to go out and build and explore.
We want you to try it out and get feedback from you.
We want a hub that you’ll visit daily.
It’s not a drop of land that you’ll hold on to while things get built.
It won’t be a speculative asset.
It’s more of a tool that we’ll build for collectors and token gated projects.
Once we fine tune it and you like it, we can roll it out to a wider audience.
Moonbirds
What is the goal of Moonbirds? What are we trying to accomplish?
It’s to be a big part of culture and have mainstream awareness and adoption.
You don’t get there by following someone else’s playbook.
To have the impact we want, we can’t copy what has been done.
We will share more details about how we turn this brand into more mainstream.
Has to be a grassroots movement and also supported by PROOF.
More details about the DAO and CC0 on the 30th to help bring more awareness to the project.
Deploying capital to community endeavors is great but if you’re not helping these things with team resources and project management then it may not work out.
Kickstarter campaigns are a great example. Get funded and then fail because of no support.
We want to hire people so these projects can get support and help them get launched.
You need ongoing capital.
We’ll be announcing how we’ll have money to fund the DAO.
We’ll talk more about details about upfront capital to get this started.
We also want to expand our community over time.
Ravens, the trademark, was leaked.
We are thinking about expansions but not charging for it.
Nor is it time to dilute the market with a lot of NFTs.
Thought of a way to slowly and thoughtfully expand the Moonbirds community.
Slow intentional growth is important to us as we grow this community.
Want it to be organic and intentional.
But not with a crazy drop people pay for but rewarding nesters.
There is a reason why birds nest.
They sit on nests because they hatch things, and it doesn’t all happen on the same day.
Expect things to kind of trickle out. It’s a different vibe and it’s super cool.
For the expansion collection, we want to create a collection that feels a part of the universe but feels different aesthetically.
It won’t be low fidelity graphic as Oddities.
You’ll be able to see the expansion happening in real time daily.
Oddities
We wanted to do Oddities cause we have a great relationship with Gremplin.
The mistake we made is we allowed speculation to run rampant and people thought it was the next big Moonbirds drop
How do we bring Oddities along for the ride with the expansion?
We see there’s a community around Oddities.
But there will be a direct tie in with Moonbirds expansion.
As a holder, you will have a decision you have to make.
Burn your Oddities to be a part of the Moonbirds expansion?
Or do you keep it and stay with the Oddities community and what we’re building?
There will also be specific things that only exist for Oddities as well. The decision is up to you.
@gremplin is excited about this idea.
Supply on Oddities will decrease when people choose to burn theirs.
Will have more details on the 30th.
PROOF Collective
@punk9059 will be coming on stage on the 30th to talk about what is coming up on the data side like deep dive reports, more real time information, etc.
How can we highlight some of the best artists?
How can we find the next Xcopy?
How can we give the collective more fun things to participate in?
We’ll go from Grails II to really ramping those things up.
We like the mechanic to grails.
Going to double down and go after more artist collaborations on a much frequently.
10 events a year for the collective. So almost one a month.
Future PROOF after party on Aug 30 at Belle's Beach House - Venice, CA . +1 will be allowed. Tokenproof. PROOF, MB and Oddities.
Sept 13 PROOF Collective only meetup in San Francisco
Europe meetup dates will be announced.
Art Basel event is being planned in Miami.
We want to be a top 3 projects. Building out the DAO. Funding it. Helping people build and give resources to help.
Nesting is very important with the expansions of Moonbirds.
More on the 30th.
Oddities can burn if you want to join the Moonbirds community or you can keep your Oddities and see supply of Oddities decrease as it’s being burned.
Highrise is the connective tissue for all things that PROOF does.
Gallery, analytics, help you make better decisions.
All token-gated resources in one easy to use dashboard.
We also want it to be a social layer as well eventually but not just another chat app.
We want to open this to other token gated communities.
New name will be on the 30th. Highrise was just a temp name.
One more thing we will be announcing on the 30th.
We said to be nested for a long time and we’ll talk more about it.