Author of the original text: 0x21; Title of the original text:In order to buy an NFT, I learned English and drawing

At the beginning of the new year, the NFT market once again ushered in unprecedented prosperity. Just halfway through January, the transaction volume of the OpenSea market hit a record high. According to data from Dune Analytics, as of January 17, OpenSea's monthly turnover reached 3.4 billion US dollars, and the number of users exceeded 1 million.

Compared with the previous climax, the current NFT project has made a qualitative leap, and the project party has become more mature and professional. Well-made items will naturally attract the attention of many collectors, and as the popularity increases, most of the items can perform well in the secondary market. However, the super high handling fee during the public sale and the high price in the secondary market made the whitelist for ordinary players the only way out for ordinary players.

Take the two recently released projects Azuki and X Rabbits Club (冷兔) as examples, Azuki was sold out in 3 minutes at the Dutch Auction for 1ETH, while collectors with a whitelist can buy at 0.5ETH Participate directly in pre-sale purchases. The current price of Azuki in the secondary market is about 2.5ETH, that is to say, users who have obtained the whitelist can easily earn 2ETH. This is especially true for X Rabbits Club Lengtu. With a pre-sale price of 0.0502ETH, each pre-sale qualification can mint two NFTs. At the end of the X Rabbits Club pre-sale, the floor price has reached about 1.5ETH, and the holders of the whitelist can earn more than 3ETH. whitelist is very low throughout the process, and most of them are obtained because of community contributions such as artistic creation and active chat.

Some community members joked that "NFT has greatly improved personal self-cultivation. It not only improves English scores, but also learns music and painting. The most important thing is to know how to treat people politely."

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Bronze: Tug of War

The whitelist is the main way for the project to attract collectors. Community members can actively participate in publicity activities for the community through PoW (Proof of Work) to obtain rewards from the whitelist. The whitelist was originally to encourage projects Early supporters and special contributing members come along. With more and more community members, the project party began to increase the difficulty of obtaining the white list.

Take the release of 0N1 Force as an example. In mid-July 2021, 0N1 Force is one of the most potential projects of the month. More than 10,000 people have poured into the Discord community. The whitelist rules were announced for a while, and according to Discord's built-in Rank machine, players will be given a whitelist according to their ranking. This simple and direct way makes the whitelist start to become "liver". The success of 0N1 Force has allowed many NFT projects to imitate, but at the same time it has also given "scientists" an opportunity to take advantage of. Various "non-questionable" Discord bots began to flood the community, making it difficult for ordinary players to deal with. Therefore, many projects have begun to try new methods of issuing whitelists for fairness.

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Gold Level: From "mixing" to "licking"

If the two methods of "chat upgrade" and "address lottery" mentioned above are objective mechanisms set up by the project party, the "tug-of-war" between the two parties takes the mechanism as the center point. Then it can be said that the project party unilaterally let the players "fight each other".

In order to be able to get rid of the interference of robots on chat upgrades, and also get rid of players who only "draw" and do not contribute. Led by HAPEBEASTGANG, a series of NFT projects in the same period began manual selection based on creation and activity. This time, the seemingly fair method actually brought the "roll" to the extreme.

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(Sand drawing from the Voyagers: UnKnown community)

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The Strongest King: Raising Gu

Today, with the arrival of a new round of popularity, although several high-profile projects have not yet been released, they still raise the difficulty of whitelisting to a new level. In addition to agent chatting and agent creation, selling whitelists has become the norm.

Invisible Friend quickly attracted the attention of many players because of its excellent art production. An active community of tens of thousands of people has been formed. In addition to the above methods, the white list also adds new conditions. Holding 3 to 4 SlimHood NFT or MoodRoller NFT can get the white list of Invisible Friend. In order to get the white list, players The floor price of the NFT project SlimHood, whose original floor price was around 0.1, was instantly hyped to more than 1ETH, which made the cost of the Invisible Friend whitelist reach 3ETH, and some people even sold the whitelist off-site at a price of about 4ETH.

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(WGMI Interfaces fan art)

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(fan art from Starcatchers)

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(job resumes in the community)

The "war" of the whitelist is still intensifying. The original intention of this design is to express gratitude to the early supporters of NFT. As the NFT market grows hotter, it becomes a way to avoid Gas War. But now what is flooding everyone's eyes has changed from the initial artistic creation to real money. If the project party wants to gain popularity, it has to "volume".

In Nuoda’s NFT market, hundreds of NFT projects are released every day, but looking at this short history, only a handful of them can really survive. NFT starts from the community and relies on the community to grow. Players have been whitelisted because of their interests and have practiced 18 martial arts, but for the project side, how many players can really retain players?