As we prepare SYKO Sentient for launch, I want to highlight some stories from team members in the field.  Our first location is in the Philippines 🧵 #Near #NearNFTs #NFTCommunity

You can learn more about Syko Sentient Project in our discord channels. @SykoNearBears @nearbigbrain 

https://discord.gg/zqxr36ZY 


The teams approach the homeless or needy and ask for their help on a school/work project. The individual is promised nothing for their effort. In this way, it helps the team members not get taken advantage of. After they draw a SNBS, we pay them a sum in local currency.

One of the teams  @Jakefrbs is a couple who believed in @sgartsypix and @SykoNearBears vision, and stepped into the challenge! Here they are with Jesus.

“Jesus is the first person we approached that willingly responded. He is a disabled homeless man with no job.”

“Our journey in searching for the needy is tiring yet rewarding. Tiring because we roam the city in the summer heat. Rewarding because we could see their genuine smile upon receiving the unexpected reward for their kindness to us.” 

Jesus tries his best to survive a living everyday by asking for alms from the people passing by. He told us, “It’s better to ask for alms than to pick pocket.” 

“This moved us knowing that he could have better opportunity for him, but society leaves him no choice.”

“Jocel is our friend with special needs. She is a sweet and caring person. I asked her to draw for us and she responded excitedly. When she learned that we’re going to pay her for her drawing, she smiled so wide telling us that she will be able to buy piattos, her favorite snack”

This is two of the many people our teams are helping irl! We will render the drawings into an #NFT and auction on @ParasHQ The winner will receive the physical art as well. Revenues will reward our community, fund growth and expansion of Sentient, and 50% back to these kind souls

We hope you will join us on this journey as we use NFT’s and Art to connect with and provide people in our local communities around the world with a hand up, and a reminder that they are loved. Imagine the smile when they learn YOU bought their art.
#BeSyko Thank you @Jakefrbs 💗

Syko Sentient Project : Updates from the field

Syko Sentient Team - Philippines update 🧵 
#near #nearNFTs #NFTCommunity

The team continues to interact within the local community. We've had GREAT response! The artwork and the stories are coming in! You can track the project in @SykoNearBears discord in the # field-reporting channel.

https://discord.gg/anjjrC2Y


The team is talking NFT's and showing them our project. We exchange $Near for local currency and offer them payment in return for a drawing of our SNBS NFT. We will be uploading them and minting for auction soon!

Whoever wins the auction will also receive the physical copy of the art! AND 50% of the revenue will be given bach to the local artists! 

Providing hope and a hand-up through NFT art. 💪 

NFT's really can change the world!

We understand the challenge of charitable ventures in the NFT ecosystem. People need, want, and deserve ROI. With Syko Sentient Project value is created financially, socio-economically, and personally by reminding people of their worth; a holistic value proposition.

- 50% to the Artist wallet, which will be distributed to local     artists. 
- 25% to the Syko DAO for project administrative costs, re-investment, and further expansion to new international locations.
- 25% to the Syko Community wallet for distribution among SNBS investors.

The Syko Sentient Project acts as a crowdfunding platform to deliver financial assistance to those who need it most while simultaneously supporting the #NearNFT space and sharing revenues with investors. It is a win win!


You can  bid at auction without holding our SNBS NFT, and that is awesome if so! BUT if you hold a SNBS NFT you will take part in the revenue share from yet another stream of income that the team is hustling to create! 

Join us and #BeSYKO

Syko Sentient Project - Field Update

It's my honor to announce the newest member of the Syko Near Bear Squad Team SG @sgartsypix  Great to have you on board! SG is the visionary behind @SykoNearBears parallel venture the Syko Sentient Project. 
#NEAR #NearNFTs #NFTCommunity #BeSyko

We recently announced the Syko Sentient Project with great excitement! I would like to share more details of the project and a roadmap for this inspiring new venture.
@Anon666NFT @nearbigbrain @nearsupah 

From inception, Syko’s vision has been to reward the community by sharing revenues from the project to its investors. Gaining wealth while simultaneously creating wealth for others is the ultimate value prospect. This ideal drew me to the project. 


The team has discussed finding opportunities to expand our reach and truly make an impact for the greater good. Although, until recently we haven’t been able to realize our vision to use NFT art in this way. 

Enter one of our SNBS investors, @sgartsypix, who approached me with the idea for what is now the Sentient Project.

“Bro!! I have a plan,” he says. “I wanna take being a Syko to the next level.”

He had my attention so I asked him how it would look and the ideas started flowing.

“For starters, I’ve been roaming around tiktok for quite some time now and I saw people giving back…so, since I am here in the Philippines, I want to give them something…I want to give especially the homeless people a chance to earn money by drawing a Syko Bear...

...depending on their style, it doesn’t matter how ugly the drawing, I will just give them materials and document the interaction. Then we’ll mint the drawing as an NFT and sell it. To help the people who draw the art we’ll give them 500 pesos (approximately 1N) for the drawing.”

SG’s passion is contagious and we immediately began planning a seed investing round and forming a team in the Philippines to begin.

But, why Sentient Project?

I’m glad you asked! 

Sentient means the ability to perceive and feel things - self awareness. We crazy humans are sentient beings, but the screens, apps, and meta interactions often begin to isolate us from our own humanity.

The project goal is to help those in need financially, but as importantly to remind us all of our worth, our value, our own humanity. The homeless live on the fringes of our society, some by choice and some by circumstance.

The Sentient Project facilitates human interaction and strives to provide a measure of hope through art.

So, how does it work?

@SG has a team of four artists in the Philippines. Each team member, armed with art supplies and a full heart, reach out to homeless or needy individuals in their local community, explain our vision, and show them the SNBS project.

They offer 500 Pesos for a rendering of a SykoNearBear that we can keep. If the individual allows, the team also documents the interaction with photos or video, like the beautiful photo of Leena in the banner!

SG will then upload the artwork digitally and send it to our artist. Syko will render the drawing and mint it as an NFT. SNBS will soon hold open auctions for the NFT’s on Paras and the winner will also receive the physical art!

Ayyoo paras.id @ParasHQ 

Revenue from the auctions will be divided in a way that rewards everyone involved, similar to a crowdfunding platform.


In this way humanity gets a win all the way around!

So, where are we going from here?

I knew you were interested! 

Yes, our goal is to expand into any locations that willing SNBS investors or partners want to get in on the action.

Pulling a 10X on an investment gets you jacked up right? Have you ever felt the dopamine hit from stepping out of your comfort zone and helping others?!?! Especially perfect strangers, people you may not ever associate with?

I’ll have SG share his teams experience from the field, but everyone can see the beautiful smile on Leena’s face! Imagine her reaction when she learns YOU bought her art and she is getting a payday.

It’s been said that giving is better than receiving. I like to receive for sure, but the most meaningful experiences of my 41 years on this ball of spinning dirt have been from giving back.

Join us!

As always,

B e S y k o


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