The Chimpions
@TheChimpions
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222 Chimps on Solana // Hand-drawn, non-generative // // Fully animated // // Inscribed forever //
🌐The Treehouse
Joined September 2021
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Introducing the inaugural annual Solana awards program:
We aim to recognize and celebrate the outstanding contributions of the diverse players within our ecosystem. This is achieved by distributing rewards and prizes to not only the winners, but also all voters.
#SolanaAwards
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Happy to support
@okaybears
in their upcoming launch!
@TheChimpions
are all excited and look forward to bridging our communities together.
At our core, we are all about supporting projects that go the extra mile in their art direction and effort.
Art:
@astr0mann
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5,000+ followers in 9 days 🔥
Let's do this.
10 whitelist spots up for grabs for anyone who comments. That's all. 👇
No need for the "annoy 3 friends by tagging them" nonsense.
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Y'all are now able to express your whitelist interest directly on our website 💌
1️⃣ Go to the URL below
2️⃣ Fill in your Twitter handle & SOL wallet key
3️⃣ Submit!
That's it.
We'll randomly pick, and publish the list closer to launch.
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Did you know?
🙈 There's no pre-minted Chimpions. Our team members are whitelisted, but still have to mint themselves.
✨ Chimpions will be exclusively listed on
@MagicEden_NFT
.
🎁 We're giving away 10 (!) whitelist spots at 5,000 followers. Biggest batch yet!
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Hot damn 🔥
1000 followers in... less than 48 hours? Probably nothing 👀
Let's open up 3 more whitelist slots, just in case it's not nothing. Will pick from the comments and RTs in 24 hours 👇
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If we treat NFTs more as investments into early-stage startups, and less as a tool for instant wealth, the scene will be better for it.
Teams that are working on open-sourced toolchains, and building on one another's work are effectively decentralizing technological advancement.
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*Not* giving away 1 SOL 🙈
Will block a random "influencer" when this hits 100 likes 🤝
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🎉 The first of our Tribes has been revealed.
📖 Scroungers, scavengers, transfigurators. The Old World Cult has gone by many names. Obsessed with technology of eons past, they're masterful engineers, capable of breathing new life into even the most rudimentary of electronics.
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The "problem" of having each NFT be unique is that of rarity. When everything's rare, nothing is 🧠
Which is why we won't have a rarity chart. Rarity is primarily rooted in lore 📚
Statistically though, the rarest Chimpions have no attributes. Bare naked apes, if you will 🙈
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Many NFT projects have a strangely inverted "relationship" with their floor price.
They build products solely to make the floor price go up. They don't build for their community, but for the indirect gains. And their actions reflect this.
👇
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People complain about "paper hands" a lot. We believe that instead, sales should be celebrated and new buyers welcomed 🤝
Everyone has their own situation. Loans to pay, mouths to feed, or down payments to raise.
Why wouldn't we celebrate bringing someone closer to their goals?
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15% of whitelist slots are filled 🤝
We share all opportunities on Twitter, almost every day. You're still early.
Keep your eyes peeled 👀
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222 Chimpions.
1 per wallet.
Our whitelist and wallet limit are on-chain. No injections, no off-chain databases, no mint bots getting in.
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The whitelist spots no longer exceed supply.
222 Chimpions.
222 spots.
Any Chimpions not minted after a short window of time, will be available to the public.
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New milestone 🌟
547 DMs in a single day asking for whitelist. "Wen WL" is not a question. Nor is it a way to start a conversation 🙊
We hit 3,500 followers as well. Tell me why you want to mint in the comments, and I'll pick 3 by tomorrow 👇
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Looks like we just crossed 1000 SOL in volume.
In 8 sales.
Probably nothing.
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Different type of whitelist effort today ✨
What skillset will you bring to the CHIAO, and how do *you* believe we can improve Solana together? 🤝
Will select non-randomly from comments. Merit, not RNG, will see you succeed today👇
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Addressing an elephant in the room 🐘
There are 222 Chimpions.
There are 300 whitelist spots.
Someone will sleep in. Or forget. Or lose their wallet keys.
Having the whitelist > supply ensures we can still find each Chimpion a home, swiftly.
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Christmas surprise! One more art reveal before we go into full-on holiday mode 🎁
Another nod to one of our (and many others') favorite indie games 🎮
Meet "The Hollow" 👻
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1/
Hot take 🔥
The Solana NFT community needs to look inward to identify the reason there's been so many rugs.
Realistically, there are two incentives to attempt to build a project in this space.
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Round 1 of the public whitelist submissions is now closed 🔒
After a whopping 54,000 (!) submissions, we're closing this round. We'll take some time to purge duplicates, and blacklist those who tried to use other's Twitter handles.
Once done, we'll share the lucky winners 🎉
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Tentative launch date for The Chimpions is January 31st, 2022.
And the word "tentative" is not to be missed here. We'd rather move the launch than rush the artwork.
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Folks asking how the whitelist is getting filled 👇
1️⃣ Certified ability to hold high-value NFTs, such as Boogles, Dragonz, SMBs. This is about 10% of spots.
2️⃣ Impromptu Twitter posts and competitions, ~45%.
3️⃣ Website / Discord (once live), ~45%.
⛔ DMs for "wen wl", 0%.
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1️⃣ Why no Discord?
Y'all are a rowdy bunch. We're just hiring moderators to cover all timezones to keep you contained.
2️⃣ Whitelist full?
Whitelist not full.
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To all the "promoters" in our DMs.
We're not paying you to give away our own NFTs.
Nor do we need the visibility of what is—and I'm being generous here—90% fake followers.
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Rather than believing the survival of their species hinges on ancient trinkets, the FWP is constantly tinkering with cutting-edge technology from across the multiverse 👾
Meet some of their members; A ferocious set of triplets known as The Judge, The Juror, and The Executioner🙈
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Not calling out any projects but...
There's been an awful lot of 100% whitelist, tiny supply pixel art projects popping up this week.
Coincidence? Or new Chimpion meta? 🙊🙈
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More art, lore, and whitelist spots after the holidays. Including the different tribes.
Chimpions value family time 💙
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Chimpions take inspiration from a wealth of different sources. From recent indie game hits and older gaming generations, to entirely different blockchains.
"The Illustrator" is a nod to one of the team's favorite Ethereum projects, and of our Art Director's idols.
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Whitelist is not full. We add a small number of people every day 📃
Discord will be public soon 🙊
Website with first lore entries will be launching next week 🚀
Not releasing anything before it's truly ready. Diamond-hand development 💎👐
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Stop minting everything.
We're at a point in the NFT market cycle where the name of the game is consolidation, not boundless acquisition.
Instead of thinking about your portfolio and subsequent purchases as needing to be instantly profitable, consider their cost-benefit.
🧵/
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Let's make this official.
We've seen some absolutely incredible fan-art over the last few days!
So we're giving away 4 whitelist spots!
1️⃣ Three for the best fan-art shared.
2️⃣ One for the best lore piece on an Old World Cult Chimpion called "The Scrounger"
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Feels like we should mention this for transparency's sake.
All our Tweets over the holidays have been scheduled in advance. You're responding to a robot Chimpion.
Beep boop 🤖
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The NFT space can be exhausting. The constant hustle and bustle. Always on the move. Always building the next big thing, or investing in what you believe will be the next big thing.
Sometimes it's good to step away for a second.
Season's greetings from The Chimpions crew ❤️
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tfw when people keep DM'ing "wen WL" and "WL closed?"
(It's not closed. DMs like that won't help)
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Snuck this work-in-progress pic straight off of
@novae_art
's desk 👀
Working hard on keeping up the variety for each and every Chimpion 💪
(Please don't fire me)
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We were well on our way to leveraging a novel minting solution for our whitelist and 1-per-wallet limit ⚙️
And then
@MagicEden_NFT
just decided to build this into the launchpad for us 💪
Shout-out to
@ChartFuMonkey
and gang on the crazy fast turnaround 💯
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For an entirely different sneak peak, meet some of the Proletariat's more... exotic members.
Because there should be more to NFTs and PFPs than lasers and baseball caps 🙈
Introducing, the Tiki tribesmen 🌴
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A thread on utility 🧵
(This one's a doozy)
In between the obnoxious DMs begging for whitelist, we get a fair number of questions about Chimpions, their utility, and our plans for the future.
Let's dig in 👇
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Seeing an increasing number of BAYCs sliding into our DMs.
Apes strong together? 🙈
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We've already said that every Chimpion is unique. And we meant that.
Every single one of our 222 Chimpions will have their own backstory written 📚
Once the entire Compendium of Chimpions is completed, we'll enable holders to claim their own, physical hardcover versions.
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Endless wars against ceaseless opponents has led the Chimpions to adapt all manner of technology from across the metaphysical multiverse 📡
It is said that a certain group of Dragonz shared their technological prowess for the development of these veil-piercing goggles 👀
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There's still a whitelist.
Whitelisted folks will now be able to mint directly on the Launchpad when the time comes.
We were well on our way to leveraging a novel minting solution for our whitelist and 1-per-wallet limit ⚙️
And then
@MagicEden_NFT
just decided to build this into the launchpad for us 💪
Shout-out to
@ChartFuMonkey
and gang on the crazy fast turnaround 💯
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Fun fact:
DM'ing us with "how WL, wen WL, where WL, what WL" or my favorite, "who WL"...
...won't get you whitelisted 🚫
Please. We get 200 DMs a day.
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The Knights of Old are the militant branch of the Old World Cult, and serve as the first line of defense against all who take up arms against the Chimpions.
Donning suits of timeworn armor, they ride out under the banner of their undaunted leader, the Knight Commander.
The Old World Cult may be infatuated with the ancient world, but their wealth extends far beyond lifeless CRT monitors, and broken cables.
Among their ranks they count the Knights of Old, donning suits of timeworn armor from a realm long gone.
A realm once called... Gielinor?
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Here's what we're not planning to do.
🚫 Breeding
🚫 Staking
🚫 Sweeping
🚫 Royalty sharing
These are entirely self-involved mechanics that offer minimal benefit to holders, whilst operating in a legal gray area (at best).
Not to mention zero benefit for Solana as a whole.
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Daily reminder that whitelist is not full 📃
Only 5 slots have been filled 🤝
More opportunities to join are coming ✨
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Well that didn't take long at all.
*Not* giving away 1 SOL 🙈
Will block a random "influencer" when this hits 100 likes 🤝
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People frown upon paper hands too much 🧻
1) Without paper hands, you're not rotating new holders into your project. It becomes closed off 🔒
2) Paper hands allow for more sales volume, increasing a project's visibility.
Someone needs to sell. It's a careful balance.
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Ideas for conversation starters based on our DMs 💡
Wen wl 🙏
Wen WL sex party
I english
Can take whitelist?
Goat
In all seriousness, please don't do this.
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Addressing a whitelist concern, because we believe you can't build a community without transparency 🤝
Why did we give 10% of spots to Boogles, Dragonz, SMBs, etc?
Early-stage marketing. It's just that simple. Every project needs marketing to some extent.
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If you have 100,000+ followers and your posts get less than 1% of that in engagement, are you really a "promoter"?
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We value the uniqueness of each of our creations. As such, you won't find our NFTs to be named Chimpion 1, 2, ... 221, 222.
Each Chimpion is a warrior of their respective tribe, and bears their own moniker. Examples include 👇
The Indomitable 🔱
The Planeswalker 🌀
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These are also a good example of our views on rarity.
Each of these is a 1/1.
Each of these armor sets does not reoccur.
The only rarity is either lore-related, like the Knight Commander, or entirely dictated by visual preference.
Rarity is primarily *your* decision.
The Knights of Old are the militant branch of the Old World Cult, and serve as the first line of defense against all who take up arms against the Chimpions.
Donning suits of timeworn armor, they ride out under the banner of their undaunted leader, the Knight Commander.
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TL;DR Chimpions are minting with a delayed reveal.
Here's why that is, and a story of a community that has already shown tremendous amounts of resilience and a truly cooperative mindset.
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Rarity is in the eye of the beholder.
We keep getting questions on rarity charts, which traits are "better" than others, et cetera. That's not a thing we're doing. It's entirely dependent on your own perception.
You tell me. Which of these is more rare?
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For transparency's sake, we did actually extend a whitelist invitation to
@NFTanji
for this effort.
We support creativity and going out of your way to make something like this, and applaud doing something else than "wen WL" or "dude I'm always the first to like and retweet"
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We've received several requests for "1/1 legendary auctions"
Every Chimpion is a Legend.
These 1/1s make sense when your collection is otherwise composed of the same items in various different combinations.
There's a time and a place for generative art. This is not that place.
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There are some pieces we just cannot ignore.
This is one of them.
You're in, John 🤝
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The Chimpions are proud to present the inaugural Together We Stand piece: Forest Fellowship.
The piece was created by the incredible illustrator
@Matabolong
and highlights an exciting partnership with
@Komori_NFT
.
Read on…
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Wanted to highlight one of our other fantastic team members 🔥
Lead Developer, Lore Writer extraordinaire, and chock-full of crazy ideas —
@MistyBayouNFT
👏
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My manager tells me I get to whitelist one person because we hit 100 followers.
Let's get to 50 likes, and I'll close my eyes and pick someone who commented 👇
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5/5
Support your community builders.
Stick around for longer than the 15 minutes you'd spent flipping.
Spend that SOL on your favorite projects, rather than the next obvious ponzi scheme.
Or continue to get rugged. Either immediately, or slowly.
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In addition to the many colorful Chimpions in our repertoire, there's a number of additions that harken back to the earlier days of gaming. To the era that inspired the pixel art we see today 👀
Meet some of our more color-restricted friends 🔥
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The Chimpions are hiring 👇
We're looking for an APAC timezone moderator for the Discord server, so that we have our bases covered 💯
Moderators get WL and post-launch payments are on the table. DM relevant experience 💌
Discord launches next week 🗓️
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Some of you have asked why 100% whitelist 📃
1) A mint bot (or two) could likely buy out the entire supply otherwise.
2) The 1-per-wallet limit could easily be gamed by minting on multiple wallets at once.
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This thread also highlights why we're keeping supply (very) low 👇
Shake out the flippers and the disbelievers early. Rotate quality holders in.
It also allows for any FUD to have a smaller impact. This can easily snowball in larger groups of holders.
1/
Hot take 🔥
The Solana NFT community needs to look inward to identify the reason there's been so many rugs.
Realistically, there are two incentives to attempt to build a project in this space.
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If we haven't replied to your DMs, it's not because we don't like you.
There's a backlog of 1100+ of them. If you were capable of forming a full sentence, we'll get back to you.
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Adding to this, there's no secret Discord.
We wanted to give the team the chance to enjoy the holidays in peace, before unleashing the chaos.
I repeat.
No. Secret. Discord.
tfw when people keep DM'ing "wen WL" and "WL closed?"
(It's not closed. DMs like that won't help)
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Because our DMs are blowing up 👇
Whitelist is not full.
Whitelist will be opened shortly.
Whitelist access is not granted on the basis of DM'ing random chimp facts.
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Most commented Tweet in
#solana
Twitter?
Has to be getting close, at least ✨
5,000+ followers in 9 days 🔥
Let's do this.
10 whitelist spots up for grabs for anyone who comments. That's all. 👇
No need for the "annoy 3 friends by tagging them" nonsense.
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Collaborating with artists in the space has been one of the most rewarding things we've done, and it doesn't just stop at auctions.
We're adding their work to our actual collection!
🌈 The Social
🐸 The Friendly
💀 The Witch Doctor
Shout-outs to
@smallfroggi
and
@badluckzulp
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This was less than 5 days ago 🤯
It's been a real rollercoaster of a week.
My manager tells me I get to whitelist one person because we hit 100 followers.
Let's get to 50 likes, and I'll close my eyes and pick someone who commented 👇
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Let's make this interesting 🔥
Whoever comes up with the best name for a potential Chimpion gets whitelist access ✨
Format is "The [Adjective]" 📃
We value the uniqueness of each of our creations. As such, you won't find our NFTs to be named Chimpion 1, 2, ... 221, 222.
Each Chimpion is a warrior of their respective tribe, and bears their own moniker. Examples include 👇
The Indomitable 🔱
The Planeswalker 🌀
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The Old World Cult may be infatuated with the ancient world, but their wealth extends far beyond lifeless CRT monitors, and broken cables.
Among their ranks they count the Knights of Old, donning suits of timeworn armor from a realm long gone.
A realm once called... Gielinor?
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We're adding some nods to our favorite indie games into our collection 🏞
As an example, you might come across a Chimpion that has an appetite for... spelunking ⛏
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If you're an "NFT Promoter" and Twitter automatically flags your messages as spam, you may want to reconsider your line of work.
For projects looking to get the ball rolling, this is undoubtedly not worth it. It's almost certainly a waste of money and time.
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Moar sneak peeks! 📸
Putting the "tribal" in our tribesmen, our art director extraordinaire has been putting in the work with these masked Chimpions
🔥
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There's no way we can ignore this in any way. None whatsoever.
Welcome friends!
We're extremely glad to have you.
This is Solsunsets tribute to
@TheChimpions
, a way to share our love for pixel art and celebrate the passion and union around this community that connects art, creators and participants in a very genuine way. Artwork by
@rgb0x00
and lore by our talented DAO member
@blasfermilurks
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“I've never seen anything like it. The inner strength and agility—unmatched. They seem to handle new tech like an old toy. Machine after machine sliced clean through, with blaster wailing like a banshee seeking vengeance, its voice bearing the weight of a thousand lost Chimps…”
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You got our attention. And your creativity would be very welcome in the CHIAO.
Let's go? 🤝
So i’ve been following
@TheChimpions
for a minute now and it seems their attention is pretty hard to get.
I wonder if my exiled Chimpion can get their attention? 🙏
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Don't misunderstand, we're still building utility for the Chimpions 💪
But there's a reason product companies, like Google, don't have public Kanban boards.
Public-facing roadmaps set unrealistic expectations of future value.
Roadmaps are for broken promises and abstract ideas of value.
Art and community are the real utility.
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Sad fact, and a glimpse into the absurd "profit-over-anything" mentality that plagues
#solana
👇
Some folks have deliberately used other people's Twitter handles to register their burners.
If this continues to happen, we'll have to close this avenue to whitelist access.
Y'all are now able to express your whitelist interest directly on our website 💌
1️⃣ Go to the URL below
2️⃣ Fill in your Twitter handle & SOL wallet key
3️⃣ Submit!
That's it.
We'll randomly pick, and publish the list closer to launch.
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Some of the things we *will* be doing 👇
✨ Supporting 1/1 artists on Solana and acquiring artwork for the CHIAO
👏 Investing in teams and products that improve the ecosystem as a whole
🤝 Providing ongoing advice to new and upcoming projects, and help set themselves apart
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Shillfluencers 🤖
Would love to see if we could collaborate
Chimpions Team 🐵
Sure, but we don't pay to "collaborate"
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After reaching well over 2,000 (!) comments, here's the new names being added to the whitelist! 🎉
@dextiiir
@NFTKid2
@ninozimo
@dchristiii
@faddybaton
1/2
5,000+ followers in 9 days 🔥
Let's do this.
10 whitelist spots up for grabs for anyone who comments. That's all. 👇
No need for the "annoy 3 friends by tagging them" nonsense.
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If we haven't gotten back to your submissions, it's not because we hate them 🙈
These have been some of the most incredible pieces of art we've seen on Solana. Ever. And we appreciate y'all for it ❤️
Working on a system to formally continue to support 1/1 artists post-mint 👀
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The first and only ever auction of a Chimpion is now live 🙈
Our very own mainstay PFP, The Firstborn, is up on Holaplex 🔥
Starting at: ◎ 1
Tick size: ◎ 1
Runs for: 24 hours ⏰
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Doing a Tribe reveal tomorrow ✨
But let's make this a little different from the previous drop.
Y'all get to decide which one we're revealing. Three choices, one Tribe to showcase 👀
The Proletariat
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Planeswalkers
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Finished combing through tens of thousands of submissions in the public round, and eliminated thousands of fraudulent entries.
Will be posting the addresses of the 5 (!) winners on the website shortly.
Stay tuned! 🎉
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It’s a beautiful day when top tier pixel art gets the recognition it deserves. Congratulations to
@rgb0x00
and the
@CrittersCult
crew and holders. Grateful that our community had access to this special project!
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4/
If you're looking for a reason for the many rugs, look no further than the community itself.
Scammers are rewarded. Rugs are an obviously profitable endeavor.
Builders are shat upon. Communities at large stare at the floor price all day, and move away at the slightest drop.
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CHIAO perk secured 🤝
We'll collaboratively get to write the official Chimpions jingle...
...and have the amazingly talented
@PeterHollens
record it for us! 🔥
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Crafting our teaser website ✂️
Writing our first lore pieces 📝
Coming to a domain near you in the near future 🙊
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Today we have a very special artist spotlight and announcement. We are proud to share that we commissioned
@rgb0x00
, The Amalgamation, to create new custom banners for The Chimpions! Read on to learn more about these awesome pieces and the brilliant artist who created them...
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After a community vote and a thorough explanation as to why we're doing this, we will soon be auctioning off the first ever Chimpion.
This will be the only Chimpion obtained in this manner. It has no special benefits. It's not any more rare than others.
👇
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