"Let your Plans Be Dark And Impenetrable as Night, and when you Move, Fall Like A Thunderbolt..."
"...except if you're in decentralized art DAO economies, then widening the market in mutual benefit game theory is probably the best path forward -- that and realizing that in order for other people to compete with you, they'll have to have invested the same amount of work or more as yourself, so you'll probably still have a competitive edge due to first mover advantage, even if your proposed system is compelling and functional enough to be replicated or even turned into a new market norm -- which let's face it, probably won't happen."
Sun Tzuish.
Background Analysis: [value propositions]
BAE
Upload Size is huge
Probably around 3rd in NFT Market in terms of native collector traffic
Target product is 1/1 rares.
10% Secondary Market Distributed through DAO
DAO
Around 20% fees to gallery and payments.
Sascha is active on Twitter, and offers some curation assistance.
Accepts NSFW artwork, thank you Sascha.
Makersplace
Ghost bans NSFW art. I have an account, but as far as I'm aware my shop is buried and entirely dependent on personal traffic, and my fees are the same as everyone else, who enjoys native collector traffic on the platform.
20% fees
Second Largest in NFT Market in terms of native collector traffic
Target product is 1/1 rares
Significant upload size allows for mp4 NFTs with video / audio components, these command higher prices and straight visual high rez.
Created really cool thematic art challenges, similar to #inktober -- these were called Series 7, and were basically 7 paintings in a row within a certain theme, which were all sold on makersplace as a set / collection. Strong move.
Unsure about secondary market royalties.
Superrare
Top dog in terms of native collector traffic.
Unsure about secondary market royalties.
Around 100 MB upload size limit -- which is causing people to migrate to Makersplace for more high quality NFT creation with more audio / video options. -- This is because audio / video 1/1s can go for minimum of .5 ETH, compared to an average of .1 to .2 eth for 1/1 high rez images.
Unknown about NSFW art - they have not accepted me.
KnownOrigin.io
I'd guess around 4th place in terms of native collector traffic
10% secondary market royalties for artists.
Unknown about NSFW art - they have not accepted me.
Memefactory
Token curated registry is a unique democratic / decentralized approach, and ideologically the strengths and focuses on DAOs are top job.
0% fees at the moment.
Can Create high # of web rez NFTs at the same time.
Accepts NSFW.
Tentative unique advantages would be a link to ETHLance, also a lot of time invested with Aragon DAOs
Mintable
Can create high # of NFTs at same time.
Opensea
Can sell bundles
Can sell individuals
Can set price or auction
Can self-determine secondary market royalties
Shadowbans NSFW artwork, requiring you to drive all of your own traffic
Fees for platform are only 2.5%
Does not display mp4 / audio-visual NFTs [that I'm aware]
Not sure what total upload size capacities are
You can set your prices for shops in ERC 20s -- Pretty sure, because Skeenee's work is in $SKULL. It would be awesome if you could set your prices in $HIVE as well.
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Colony.io
No code needed for DAO structures
Can handle multiple sub-domains for partitioned guild banks.
Super easy Multi-sig Solution for art collaboration.
Can hook up: [Cryptovoxels]->[Opensea Shop]->[Colony.io] and have individual control on the Opensea shop level, which allows for multiple shops / multiple users to all be channeled into the same DAO fund.
Awesome Challenge based Level quests.
Coinbase Commerce / Shopify
90 day free shopify during covid
Coinbase Commerce plugin allows sales of digital or physical goods for common cryptocurrencies.
Greater possibility for use of NSFW goods-- even though shopify is still iffy in some areas with that. Shopify doesn't allow pornography -- but pornography is often interpreted as photo / video -- and not artistic representation / comics.
Cryptovoxels:
Basically a gallery collective platform
expensive to join, but seems high potential once you are operating.
Co-op + Art Network Friendly.
Can use as gallery / streaming platform / party space / theatre, etc.
Links to gallery platforms for sales.
TECHNICALLY only allows Non-Pornographic Nudity on Origin City. Seems likely that violating these rules in a brazen manner may result in hosted files being blocked from appearing in gallery. Conversations are being had with @devil about where NSFW artwork might be allowed without restriction on CV, or what workarounds might be possible. No firm answers yet.
Bonus:
Rarible:
Apparently you can link external files to NFTs?
Async:
PSD Layers Based Collab NFT Platform.
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HIVE:
Staked HIVE increases Curation Rewards, and allows you to attract audience members onto HIVE and reward their comments with upvote rewards, which increases engagement in comparison to all major platforms.
HIVE rewards for posts, incentivize development blogs and sharing of artwork, but does not sufficiently monetize art in and of itself -- therefore must be efficiently stacked as one income stream along with NFT Galleries or Self Publishing or Kickstarter / Patreon / Onlyfans.
Communities are active as fuck, and down to collaborate.
NSFW content is considered a valid form of artistic expression. No weird glances from anyone.
Also a blogging platform, with multitude of different communities / interests.
Fundamentally strong Developer community with DPOS Governance and Platform wide developer fund.
Actively supportive community in the face of adversity.
3 speak online video hosting platform.
Front End PEAKD is pretty and functional.
PAL communities have MSPWaves which is a great radio show.
Communities are all discord fluent and actively involved in creating projects and art and radio shows and music videos and blogs, and such.
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So, the plan:
I bought a collection of CV land parcels, and set up a Colony DAO.
Then I spread out ownership of those Parcels amongst a small collaborative group of moderators. Since then, the parcels have been in development and preparation for a premiere show.
The pink areas are places that we own. The blue areas are places that we ought to own, if the project is viable. No other spots in that immediate area are for sale right now, but there are some more open spots in the proximity.
Idea is to make the properties we have a fluid large scale gallery space, that is coordinated for project based shows.
For example, my graphic novel, which is going to be around 107 pages of unique 1/1 NFTs will be able to be displayed in some format -- as a collection for auction, throughout those properties.
In addition to this, we have two active art communities here on HIVE that are involved in the project:
Onchainart
Both have strong curation backing for reward pool distribution, and both have talented, regularly producing artists.
Some of the artists are already involved in NFT work, and some are not.
I see these artists as a pool of potential candidates for participation within the gallery schedule, as a reward for executing project challenges.
The function of this will be as follows:
divert 5%-10% of sales funds to alienhoney.org -- the Colony DAO.
Help those people raise funds to purchase their own gallery spaces
Train them on how to organize their own project based shows, and drive traffic to them.
Allow another avenue of monetization in ETH in addition to the monetization they receive by posting to HIVE
To increase the skill sets and fortitude of artists within those HIVE communities - which in turn, increases the resilience of the HIVE platform.
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Each artist who organizes a show there will be able to decide where they want to upload and sell their artwork, and it will change depending on what can be accessed by each artist on whatever platforms are listed at the top of the article.
I personally plan on a two pronged approach:
I'd like to create a single 1/1 for each platform above, and give them each an opportunity to demonstrate to me the unique value of their native collector traffic.
If this works, and they manage to produce sales, then wonderful.
If it doesn't work, and they do not produce sales, then that's fine too.
This will be taking place during the time when I am auctioning off the 100+ page 1/1 collection for my graphic novel using a bundle / 3-7 day auction on Opensea.
The collector income flows for galleries go [BAE / Superrare / Makersplace / KnownOrigin -- This would be the bait collections and rare fliers] -> [Cryptovoxels -- This would be the primary collections] -> [Opensea -- This would be the lowest rate platform with Bundled Auctions] -> [Colony.io - This would be the Multi-sig address and transparent guild bank, which funds the purchase of more properties for alienhoney.art]
I'm aware that sharing my desire to buy that land from Whaleshark Pro is a bad business move, as well as sharing my intentions to use the native collector traffic from [BAE / Superrare / Makersplace / Knownorigin] as bait to direct traffic to an area of greater economic value to myself is something that I shouldn't be broadcasting publicly -- but how will we grow unless we talk about these things?
The difference in question is basically:
Is the 20% taken by [BAE / Superrare / Makersplace] worth the amount of native traffic that is gained from posting on their platforms?
OR
Can traffic be directed to a cryptovoxels gallery while using opensea, and derive a similar or superior outcome with 17.5% less of a cut taken out of the entire collection.
Let's get romantic and dreamy for a moment, and imagine the value of a 100 page graphic novel art collection sold at .1 per page to be 10 ETH. It's a bit underpriced, but the question is basically, is it worth 1.75 ETH to move those collections on BAE?
And can BAE even handle 100 1/1 NFT pages in one auction collection at the moment?
I would argue, not as easily as I can do it myself on Opensea -- with the exception of the unknown amount of native traffic on BAE / Superrare / Makersplace.
And that being said, Makersplace ghostbans me and charges 15% for using the platform -- transaction fees are currently waived. Which means I would need to direct all of my own traffic to the platform AND give them 15%.
So the next natural question is -- WHAT IF I was able to make each page of my comic high resolution GIFs with limited animation.
I could do that on Opensea as well, though I'm not sure what the upper limits are for the size.
[Note To Self -- Ask Dan what upper limits on size are for Opensea]
I might be able to pull .2 ETH per page for the whole collection. Which would be enough to recover the 18 ETH seed investment for the AlienHoney.art parcels.
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The ultimate would be designing a graphic novel on HIVE from the ground up that is released in chapters as sequences of limited animated scenes with audio components which are then ported into graphic novel format on Kickstarter after release is completed.
Non Crypto -> [Cryptovoxels]:
[Patreon]
[Kickstarter]
[Online Art Galleries]
[NonCrypto Reddit]
[Online Social Media Art Platforms]
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Other useful Notes:
Would be useful to have giveaway NFT.
Would be useful to have conciliatory NFT for people who don't win auctions as thank you for participating.
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Here's what I think would be cool:
I think it would be cool to train and recruit people to join HIVE and train them to make project based gallery collections, and promote them.
I think it would be cool to be able to mint 250MB Mp4 NFTs and sell them on Opensea. Specifically
[Cryptovoxels Gallery] -> [Opensea]
Once this base layer of financial fluency is attained by artists, it would be cool to move into greater experimental work with interconnected galleries, or anthology projects with multiple artists etc.
@devil about where NSFW artwork might be allowed without restriction on CV, or what workarounds might be possible. No firm answers yet.