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It is the dead of night~🌙

The leaves rustle~ 🍃

Woooo

Is it the wind or something ghostly?👻

Join @jamie247 as he interviews @gldnXross about @aavegotchi, our cute pixelated ghost friends on the blockchain!

@jamie247 @gldnXross @aavegotchi 1/ Jesse's background

👻 Participated in Hack Money Hackathon with co-founder @coderdannn
👻 Got to know @AaveAave
👻 Founded @Bullionix_io, a NFT gold-coin project backed by physical gold🪙
👻 Subsequently founded @aavegotchi with @coderdannn

@jamie247 @gldnXross @aavegotchi @coderdannn @AaveAave @Bullionix_io 2/ Aavegotchi

👻 Cute pixelated ghost; also an on-chain piggy bank🐖🏦
👻 Trait values are randomly generated
👻 Summon an aavegotchi from a portal
👻 Pet your gotchi every 12 hours to improve kinship
👻 Compete to win $GHST in rarity farming

@jamie247 @gldnXross @aavegotchi @coderdannn @AaveAave @Bullionix_io 3/ Their starting point

👻 Take on-chain value and encapsulate it in a NFT⛓
👻 Inspired by @nft42_ that everything should be on-chain⛓
👻 Made the design decision early on for a lightweight, pixelated design that could actually be held on-chain

@jamie247 @gldnXross @aavegotchi @coderdannn @AaveAave @Bullionix_io @nft42_ 4/ High level Stats

👻 Well-received since their launch in March on @0xPolygon
👻 10,000 portals launched. Sold out within 60 secs
👻 Their secondary market, the Baazaar, is the most popular secondary market on Polygon for NFTs

@jamie247 @gldnXross @aavegotchi @coderdannn @AaveAave @Bullionix_io @nft42_ @0xPolygon 5/ Growth & Innovation

👻 Grown to ~20 full-time staff now
👻 Most active DAO on Polygon
👻 Innovative. FRENS points are not implemented in any other projects elsewhere
👻 FRENS are not tokens; they are a balance on the smart contract
👻 FRENS can be cashed in to win other NFTs

@jamie247 @gldnXross @aavegotchi @coderdannn @AaveAave @Bullionix_io @nft42_ @0xPolygon 6/ Extension of the Aavegotchi Franchise/IP

👻 They will build the core game described in the Whitepaper
👻 Have an awesome and talented community
👻 Aarchitects, their community developers, surprised them by building mini-games and statistical analyses websites @GotchiStats

@jamie247 @gldnXross @aavegotchi @coderdannn @AaveAave @Bullionix_io @nft42_ @0xPolygon @GotchiStats 7/ "What we have is a really awesome community that is extremely talented, and oftentimes surprises us and are, you know, going beyond even our wildest imaginations." - Jesse Johnson

@jamie247 @gldnXross @aavegotchi @coderdannn @AaveAave @Bullionix_io @nft42_ @0xPolygon @GotchiStats 8/ Bid2Earn Auction

👻 Auction format created by @GBMauction
👻 In a GBM auction, people bid on items as per normal
👻 Once outbidded, they earn a % of the difference between themselves and the next bidder
👻 Will be using it for their NFT drop

@jamie247 @gldnXross @aavegotchi @coderdannn @AaveAave @Bullionix_io @nft42_ @0xPolygon @GotchiStats @GBMauction 9/ Bid2Earn Auction (continued)

👻 2 months ago, they collaborated with @lilpump on some Lil Pump wearables
👻 Bot outsmarted the team and swooped up all the wearables
👻 Did some soul-searching and identified the GBM auction format as a better NFT drop model

@jamie247 @gldnXross @aavegotchi @coderdannn @AaveAave @Bullionix_io @nft42_ @0xPolygon @GotchiStats @GBMauction @lilpump 10/ Metaverse

👻 Will be a topdown Legend of Zelda mid-1990s-style game with Vaporwave
👻 Introduced the Lickquidator, who is the arch nemesis of Aavegotchis, that is a free-to-play NFT
👻 REALM parcels come with 4 different resources called Alchemica that has to be farmed

@jamie247 @gldnXross @aavegotchi @coderdannn @AaveAave @Bullionix_io @nft42_ @0xPolygon @GotchiStats @GBMauction @lilpump Links:

Podcast: outlierventures.podbean.com/e/gamifying-de…
Substack article: thereadingape.substack.com/p/the-metavers…

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