I’ve been absolutely blown away by the level of execution for the OCM KARMA drop from the
@OnChainMonkey
team. The whole experience was flawless And the art is incredible. Over delivering at every turn. 🔥🍌
This is an appreciation post to everyone who has been involved in the
@OnChainMonkey
DAO in any capacity.
I’ve had the privilege of being both a recipient of grants and also serving as a community member and assisting many others with grants along the way where I can.
The OCM
A few people have asked about the theme song behind the Metablends teaser video.
As well as being a designer, one of my other passions is music.
I was lucky enough to have a musical family and learned piano at age 5 before deciding that I wanted to swap the ivories for a pair
NFT Founding teams don't get much more Crypto OG than
@OnChainMonkey
. A quick thread. 🧵
🐐 Bill Tai (
@KiteVC
)
🧠 Danny Yang (
@huuep
)
💎 Amanda Terry (
@amandaterry
)
Let's start with 🐐 Bill Tai... ⬇️
Sneak peak at the custom
@OnChainMonkey
kite board from Holy Wolf to celebrate
@amandaterry
,
@KiteVC
and the
@ACTAIglobal
team heading to Australia in December!
The board will be auctioned (inc Karma NFT!) with proceeds going to Redkite Charity. !RISE
Details soon!
Hey
@RabbiGains
I got my
@OnChainMonkey
Trophy too!
Thanks to the
@btcstartuplab
for running the 2023 Bitcoin Hackathon.
That was a tonne of fun to build OnChain Trophy.
Everyone should be building on Bitcoin!
So
@OnChainMonkey
have actually been airdropping tokens to their holders the whole time.
The distribution model is extremely clever.
It proportionately rewards those doing the most for community & spreading good karma.
Changing the world one banana at a time.
#givetoearn
#OCM
Really impressed by
@shonenjunkNFT
and the way the project is slowly growing. Amazing art and If anyone is a fan of anime/manga then this is the project for you. Team is OG in the space -
@Crunchyroll
anyone?
Well...
Things escalated quickly in the public sale.
PSTBs were signed.
Blocks were mined.
We sold out!
THANK YOU TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU BLENDOOORS.
So
@OnChainMonkey
found a way to reward people for spreading positivity on twitter. It’s having a profound effect on the tone of my feed and my twitter experience overall.
@Goodthings
- it’s working.🍌
#karma
#OCM
Regardless of the endless 10k debate,
@OnChainMonkey
is in a league of its own.
There is nothing gained by comparing it to any other collection.
There are many different narratives emerging for collectors to follow on bitcoin.
They are not all the same and thats a
Metrics lining up for
@OnChainMonkey
rn...
✅ Sales ratio < 20% (%7.96)
✅ Consistent flat growth - no lrg pumps / corrections.
✅ last 100 sales, only 2 bot-accepted offers.
✅ Strong team
✅ Value based project
✅ Technologically historical
+ community is❤️🔥
#monkeybusiness
There is a huge amount of complexity building in the
@OnChainMonkey
ecosystem.
To make sense of it all and learn what Karmas, Bananas, Missions, Desserts and Dimensions are all about - give
@RISEacademy26
a follow.
@BryanOCM
and the !RISE Academy team will be dropping regular
Punks vs OCM on BTC is a fascinating debate.
If you get a head start in a 2 person race but finish second are you still first to be in the race?
Or, like the tortoise and the hare, is it who crossed the finish line that counts?
What is the race you ask?
Which “10k
"Artifacts tell stories of the past that shape our future... As we forge ahead into a digital era, a new form of artifact is emerging, one that's bound to the ever-evolving Bitcoin blockchain."
Link to the full article below.
For those in the space who may be wondering how the “do good” aspect is still relevant for
@OnChainMonkey
theres some important context as to why the attention is all on the move to bitcoin right now.
For a start, it was never just "do good" - It was always "Do well + Do good".
Shoutout to
@harto_fr
🔥🤘
TGR minted the same day as
@metablends
and at the time I wasn’t able to really dig into the artwork as we were so focused on the curves.
Since then it’s been nice to be able to take a closer look and my level of appreciation for this particular
Come join
@VaschettoSofia
and myself as we host a very special
@OnChainMonkey
After Dark twitter spaces with special guest
@sophiaswire
- founder of Future Brilliance who led the evacuation of over 300 vulnerable Afghan women including Sharbat Gula.
.24 floor for
@OnChainMonkey
is the opportunity of a lifetime to become a part of a movement that will shape the future of the world. Please research and make your own calls on the project / team - if you’re still not convinced all power to you.
@KiteVC
@huuep
@amandaterry
Another sneak peek at the amazing kite board by Holy Wolf Custom Boards featuring an
@OnChainMonkey
Karma!
This board will be auctioned and include the NFT for the winner. Proceeds to go to
@Redkite
charity. Details soon.
!RISE
The
@ocmdao
is getting rolling for 2024!
Join us on discord for the first community call at 3pm PT today and stay tuned for spaces tomorrow kicking off at 1pm PT.
Righteo
@OnChainMonkey
crew. Let's see how many 🍌 this post can generate. Reply with a !RISE and If it gets over 50, I'll donate them all to a new OCM member who has joined in the last month. We can do this!
Bumped into a mate and fellow young dad while taking the kids for an arvo run around at the park.
Asked what I had been up to and I was wearing my OCM hat which led to some crypto talk.
He bought a bit during the peak run but hasn’t touched it since. He said it just hasn’t
Metablends is an exploration of Bézier curves on Bitcoin.
In collaboration with
@RabbiGains
, Metablends is a new generative art project that seeks to inspire and engage.
Coming soon to Magic Eden (
@MEonBTC
)
We like the curves. 🔈 Sound ON
Fair to say that at this point
@OnChainMonkey
has evolved from a project into the beginnings of a movement.
Movements define eras and watching
@huuep
and the team continue to pioneer digital artifacts is clearly the start of something special.
For those that prefer safe, slow, and steady,
@OnChainMonkey
is your top pick.
IMO there is no better team in the space positioning to build real value over the decade and beyond.
2023 will expose those projects and founders that are all talk. Ape with purpose anon.
Well, it was bound to happen eventually.
@OnChainMonkey
train is leaving the station. I don’t wanna be hungry on this trip so can I get a !RISE reply to fuel up on 🍌🍌🍌🍌 pls?
#monkeyfollowmonkey
🤩 Thanks
@huuep
-
@metablends
was only possible because of the innovation from the
@OnChainMonkey
team.
@RabbiGains
and I appreciate the support.
The vision for the future of digital artifacts on Bitcoin is inspiring and this is our way of sharing that and creating experiences
Bitcoin is rallying, Ordinals is gaining recognition. So many exciting things are happening in crypto, it's hard to keep up. I'd like to highlight two new art collections that launched on Bitcoin Ordinals today.
Each is on-chain generative art on Bitcoin using recursive
I wanted to do a long 🧵 on
@OnChainMonkey
and why it’s such an outstanding project and held up through this crazy market… but honestly, just jump on the website and into the discord and you’ll figure it our yourself. !RISE
Say hello to the
@OnChainMonkey
x Holy Wolf Custom Kiteboard.
Featuring OCM Karma
#8948
, this board is a one-of-kind masterpiece, crafted by hand with 100% Australian materials, including natural fabrics and water-based colors.
Auction soon, with proceeds going to
@Redkite
.
Had to snipe this epic
@OnChainMonkey
K1 matching green eyes Gigasaurus hat magic monk. The art on BTC is going to be insane. Now to find his Genesis and K2...
Shoutout to
@Goodthings
- This guy is out there all day grinding, being the evangelist for
@OnChainMonkey
. It would be a pretty thankless task at times and he does an incredible job balancing community feedback with steady and consistent comms from the team. Banana ser. 🍌 💪
@Chesschick01
@elonmusk
@KanekoaTheGreat
Worse, it give complete control of money to the Federal Reserves, IMF, World Bank and at the very top, the BIS which is the bank of reserve banks and oversees global liquidity.
These are all PRIVATE institutions not governed nor elected by anyone AND in the case of the BIS,
"...if we aren’t able (sic) to address exponential problems, we are hurtling towards catastrophe. We need fundamental change in the structure of incentives for social benefit and future generations, like my daughter." -
@huuep
The 'WHY' of
@OnChainMonkey
Full article below👇
The curves are coming.
We are inscribing Metablends as an official collection using Parent/Child provenance.
And of course we are using some of the oldest sats in circulation. Block 9s from the 450x neighborhood.
Made possible by the JS libraries inscribed by
@OnChainMonkey
The OG
@OnChainMonkey
cap survived 2022! I wore this cap almost everyday for over a year. Time to upgrade for ‘23 thanks to the banana 🍌 economy. !RISE
Well,
@OnChainMonkey
has been flying.
For those of you wondering what all the fuss is about, I wrote a thread on the founding team a while back and it seems like a timely refresher, given the current excitement about
#BTC
Ordinals in particular.
!RISE
NFT Founding teams don't get much more Crypto OG than
@OnChainMonkey
. A quick thread. 🧵
🐐 Bill Tai (
@KiteVC
)
🧠 Danny Yang (
@huuep
)
💎 Amanda Terry (
@amandaterry
)
Let's start with 🐐 Bill Tai... ⬇️
It's been all about Runes since the halving, but what has always excited me about ordinals and inscriptions is there is now a way to store other things of cultural value (besides memes of course) on the biggest, most secure blockchain.
@ZironiVioletta
has been a pioneer in the
You hear a lot about ‘doxxed teams’ in NFTs for gd reason.
You are backing in someone to return value by building a profitable business.
Do your teams have proven track record and successful exits, some > $1bn?
These do.
@shonenjunkNFT
@OnChainMonkey
@nftworldsNFT
🔥💎
@piperinvestment
@OnChainMonkey
a single transaction is simple, clean, efficient, like an atomic transaction in a database, indivisible, complete, the whole NFT collection is birthed, or nothing is. No other dependency from the outside.
Well, today is the day.
Before it all kicks off, I want to say a huge thank you to
@RabbiGains
for the incredible work you’ve put into the making of
@metablends
.
I’m really proud of what we created together and thanks for sharing the vision and my enthusiasm for the curves.
Wow!
@shonenjunkNFT
is absolutely flying. Well deserved from a really solid project. Even at .3 there is still 1000% upside on Azuki. This could run up really quickly…
Give
@RiseRadio_
a follow for all things OCM media related.
This cheeky little banana microphone needs to be a thing. I’m pretty stoked how it turned out!
@rodemics
wen BananaCaster Pro?
#spaces
@OnChainMonkey
The amended
@ocmdao
DAO Coordinator Proposal has been posted for review.
Join me for a rundown of the updates and an open discussion in the OCM Discord Thursday 14th Sept at 5pm PT / 8pm Eastern.
@OnChainMonkey
Which ever way you want to look at it, getting almost 80% of any community to move their tokens from Eth to Bitcoin is a huge achievement.
Congrats to the team and to the community.
Special shoutout to all those community members who stepped up to get people across the line
Congrats to all 7,836 OCM Genesis who upgraded to the new art on Bitcoin! 🟧
2,164 remain on Ethereum, and can upgrade in the portal next month.
Big thanks to our community for helping fellow monkeys on this exciting journey. Special shout-outs to 👏
🌟 The awesome Mods &
Shoutout to
@MissKeenEye
for being an amazing OCM ambassador, helping the community stay informed and on top of all the innovation that is happening in the space.
Want to know what’s next? Join
@OnChainMonkey
.
I'm embarking on a historic journey with
@OnChainMonkey
. I'm upgrading my OCM Genesis to Bitcoin to own the Collection of Firsts, the First 10K Ordinal Collection. I am a part of blockchain history. !RISE
A New Chapter on Bitcoin Begins ⚡️
OCM Genesis Owners can upgrade their Genesis to Bitcoin on the OCM website from the Profile page.
The first Portal will open today at 9AM PT and close at 9PM PT.
All OCM Genesis with a Bitcoin Badge will be able to upgrade during this time.