Some thoughts on making the best of an NFT Bear Market: With the recent slew of rugs, fake hype, WL olympics and tired derivatives there seems to be a collective fatigue in the space

It’s a great time to do a lot, but mindlessly minting new projects for a flip sadly isn’t one of them!

So what could we do?

🔥🚨EIP-1559 UPDATE🚨 🔥

Losing money in GAS WARS sucks.

Here's a tutorial on HOW TO STOP. Thread outline ⬇️
• Understand changes caused by EIP-1559
• Turn on Advanced Gas Controls in MM
• Gas war strategies
• Speeding up Txs

🚨DISCLAIMER🚨

This guide is aimed for advanced users partaking in GAS WARS. It is not necessary for day to day network usage.

🔥🥳GIVEAWAY TIME 🥳🔥

But this isn’t just your regular giveaway...

It’s also a giveaway 🧵 A META-giveaway so to speak 👀



What's that you ask? Read on to found out👇

Or to enter just:
• retweet 🔁
• follow this account ⬅️
• & tag two friends ☑️ I'm giving away 3 .@BoringBananasCo NFTs which:
• Give you access to all the BBCo community-resources in the Discord
• Let you mint a free .@NFHeroes NFT at launch 🔥👀

I'm also giving away my tips for how to run the best NFT giveaway that you can 👀😎

The CryptoPunks did $866K of total volume in their first 3 years.

They've done $105M in the last 7 days alone. 🤯

THREAD: Why BIG MONEY is flowing into Punks 👀 What are Punks? ⬇️

The first set of 10,000 unique collectible characters on the Ethereum blockchain.

Released for FREE by .@larvalabs back in June 2017 (i.e. ancient in crypto terms).

Project launches can FAIL in MANY WAYS. It helps to be prepared! 🦾

Thread: How to LEVEL UP your contract WRITE skills Reasons TO DO this:

1. Sometimes websites crash/ stall at launch - this lets you bypass them.

2. It's technically faster (takes 1 less step).

3. Feel like a boss (BAD REASON - would not advise!).

NOTE: 🚨This is an advanced skill, don't use unnecessarily 🚨

Leaving Twitter can be HARD! 😤

THREAD: Here's a QUICK rundown of our website and .@BoringBananasCo project 🍌⬇️ Since inception, our GOALS have been to:

1. Bring you the world's FINEST digital bananas ✅
2. Build in public ✅
3. Make a POSITIVE contribution to:
• The NFT space ✅
• Real world charities ✅ (>25% of primary sale revenue & 50% of 2ndary sales)

Here's a collection of USEFUL THREADS i've made ⬇️

You'll learn:

How to not lose at gas wars. 😤

https://twitter.com/thedigitalvee/status/1404485588699463686?s=20

You'll learn:

How to avoid popular NFT SCAMS.

https://twitter.com/thedigitalvee/status/1406766663949766662?s=20

10 000 unique artworks?! That must take FOREVER!

THREAD: Image generation for NFT collectible projects.

🚨 Disclaimer: Some technical jargon ahead 🚨 STEP #1: Decide on a concept and perform market validation ✅

STEP #2: Have an AMAZING team of artists bring the concept to life! 🙏 .@MadBoogieArt & .@mz09art

Scam artists are experiencing an economic boom thanks to the rise of NFTs.

THREAD: Popular scams and how to PROTECT YOURSELF Fake OS collections:

Following every successful project launch, a fake OS collection emerges.

😡

Scammers re-mint the images and change the collection name slightly.

To avoid: ⬇️

90% of Avatar projects will be forgotten.



THREAD: Some thoughts on spotting the ones that won't
⬇️ Human beings need to belong, now more than ever.



In 2021, internet communities are primed to fulfil this need.

With the recent success of #BAYC, the # of available options has skyrocketed.

Unless you have ETH to 🔥, consider these:

Lots of people got burned by the .@super_yeti reveal. 🔥

Thread: What happened, and how to LEVEL UP your contract READ skills. What happened:

At reveal, the team updates metadata and OS refreshes to load the images/attributes.

🚨 This process is SLOW, and is NOT the devs fault. 🚨

Some people accessed the contract directly to read the metadata and snipe valuable traits before they revealed on OS.

Losing money in GAS WARS sucks. 😤

Here's a tutorial on HOW TO STOP. ⬇️ Once you hit 'MINT' via the project website, Metamask pops up with the DEFAULT transaction settings loaded.

STEP #1: Immediately hit 'EDIT'.