Overview of the NFT lottery tool track: challengers emerge, how does Premint "anti-reverse"?

Original Author: Cookie, Rhythm BlockBeats

Original Author: Cookie, Rhythm BlockBeats

As long as you stand on the top, it is inevitable to be "sieged to Guangming Summit". Just as OpenSea faces various challengers such as Magic Eden, X2Y2, and LooksRare, more and more "NFT lottery tools" are emerging, challenging Premint in different ways. So, what exciting challengers have emerged?

"Brilliant Challengers": HeyMint, MintParty and Alphabot

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To use Premint to complete the "NFT Lucky Draw", you need to pay 1 ETH to purchase a Creator Pass. Some people think that this is a bit of a big mouth. After all, for some small projects that lack start-up funds, it is not a small burden to spend 1 ETH to manage whitelist addresses.

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"Is there a free Premint available?" There are not many such voices

HeyMint was launched in mid-June, and the team behind it comes from the NFT project Curious Addys' Trading Club, which is dedicated to providing educational resources and practical tools for Web3 novices, and currently has more than 20,000 community members. The HeyMint team says it has written code for the NFT projects World of Women Galaxy and ZenAcademy."Right now there is no difference, but we're free!"

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"The best part about HeyMint? We're 100% free!"

Another point worth mentioning is that HeyMint has now provided support for NFT projects on Arbitrum and Optimism, which is rare in the "NFT lottery tool". Currently, more than 1,000 NFT creators and 20,000 NFT players have used HeyMint.

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MintParty: Community data tracking, building a "cooperation network"

MintParty is also free to use like HeyMint, and its launch time was in early April, slightly earlier than HeyMint. The specifics of its team are unknown, only that the founder @hungrydumpling_ is a member of PitchDAO.

Even more attractive is the "cooperative network" they are building. NFT projects that pass the review can enter the "cooperation network", where they can find their favorite partners and send cooperation invitations, reducing the time spent by NFT projects on finding suitable partners. The idea of ​​"cooperative network" has something to do with the founder @hungrydumpling_ being a member of PitchDAO - PitchDAO was born precisely because a group of NFT builders felt that there were still too few people talking about NFT on ETH Denver this year, and wanted to bring more NFT builders gather to communicate and cooperate with each other.

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MintParty also supports NFT projects on Polygon and Solana.

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Alphabot: "Premint" in Discord

Compared with the previous HeyMint and MintParty, Alphabot is still a pure "NFT lottery tool" in terms of product positioning, choosing to focus on "optimizing user experience". Its most attractive place is to move "Premint" into Discord.

Holders in Discord have completed asset verification and are assigned exclusive roles. According to this, the project party often no longer requires its holders to perform another signature verification, which makes the operation of NFT players more convenient, especially when they go out with only mobile devices without wallets.

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The team behind Alphabot is Ape List, an Alpha community for BAYC, CryptoPunks, MAYC, BACK and Meebits holders. Project parties are currently free to use Alphabot, but need to submit an application, and it will no longer be free at a certain stage in the future.

"Defensive counterattack": Premint's "next step"

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Enter Discord

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Multi-chain support

Support for Solana and Tezos NFT projects will be implemented in the fall.

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Support setting the following new lottery participation conditions: following multiple Twitter accounts, liking/retweeting a specified tweet, and whether you have the required POAP.

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It supports re-detection of the ETH balance of the wallet address participating in the lottery, and supports detection of whether multiple wallets use NFT with the same ID to participate in the lottery.

"Conclusion": New challenges under the trend of "merger"

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Will Premint always be the king of "NFT lottery tools"?

It depends on whether the "NFT lottery tool" will always be an independent track. Premint may always be the king, but it will no longer be the king of "NFT lottery tools"-because in the long run, this track will eventually be "merged".

Premint created the "NFT lottery tool" track, and has accumulated a huge platform volume and extensive user trust-this is also Premint's biggest advantage. For the project side, there are the most NFT players "trying their luck" here, and choosing to use Premint can increase the exposure of the project to a certain extent. NFT players also often do not take the time to study the background of a new lottery tool. Faced with the signature requirements of a new lottery tool, it is not uncommon for them to have doubts or even directly refuse to use it. This created a difficult problem for Premint's "challengers" - without size, there is a lack of trust. There is a lack of trust and it is difficult to increase the size.

However, what the "NFT lottery tool" solves is only one of the pain points in the start-up phase of the NFT project. User trust can be accumulated by solving more pain points in this phase. Although the project introduced above is still only an "NFT lottery tool" at the current stage, the ultimate goal is to turn the "NFT lottery" into one of the functions of the product, to break through with a larger product positioning, and to build a large scale In the future, let users "smoothly" use the "NFT lottery draw" function, and finally share the cake of Premint.

Premint, which has acquired Vulcan, can no longer be simply defined as an "NFT lottery tool". It has become a lot like Whop, which can be used for both capital verification and lottery. And Whop defines itself as an "NFT community management tool".