A community-driven PFP NFT project on Optimism
Voxel Apes on Optimism
Minting Cost0.014 - 0.015 ETH
Max Supply3,999
NetworkOptimism
Mint DateJun 4 at 04:00 (GMT)

Apetimism is a community-driven PFP NFT project on Optimism (Layer-2 Network of Ethereum) with the objective to find the answer to an important question in NFT world:

"Does NFT really has value? If yes, is it sustainable? If it still yes, which kind of sustainable value it could deliver?"

We have seen a lot of craziness happening in the NFT market recently. For instance, people trading an image of a rock for millions dollar or an image of the illustrated ape is worth more than a house.

Although it does not seem to make sense at all but that is exactly what is happening right now. Anyway we still can't find any economic theory to help explaining this behavior just yet.

That's why we decide to launch Apetimism project with the main focus to find the economic reason that support the real value of NFT in both short-term and in the sustainable way.

We have a very long list of experiments to be running with this collection. If you are interested to be finding the answer together, please feel free to join us. It gonna be fun!

Community-Driven

We position Apetimism project as a community-driven NFT project as we truly believe in power of community.

A NFT project in our vision is not just a piece of art being traded for profit. Treating it that way would not deliver anything but an economic bubble that gonna burst sooner or later.

From our vision, the real value of an NFT is not something coming from the NFT itself but it should be coming from the benefit gained to its holder.

The more benefits it could give to its holder, the more value it would be.

And what we found during the research phase is -- a strong and healthy community is the most important factor to make it happens since it will attract brands, partners, deals, benefits and much more to be flowing in. Therefore, we are taking it seriously on community building. A community that everyone move and do everything together. Once a healthy community has been successfully built, we would let the community drive and set the project's direction to find the path that everyone is satisfied.

A proper implementation of DAO would be the next step once everything is all set.

Bottom-Up Strategy

The assets in this collection have been designed with bottom-up strategic in mind.

NFT is just like a right to an asset which does not generate any value by itself at all. In fact, value should be coming from the way it has been used, not just by sitting still in the wallet.

Accordingly we have designed our assets in the way that people can easily build something on top of it. Not just a digital product but also a physical one. And of course, with an agreement to bring back benefits to the NFT holders in a fair manner.

So let's say Apetimism NFT is just a start. We expect to see things to be built around it in the near future. Possibility is infinite and only be limited by imagination!

We also plan to release all of the assets to public. But only after the agreements are all done and have been throughly reviewed from the expert.

FAQ
Q: Is Apetimism an investment?
No. Not at all. Please don't treat this collection as an investment. A collectible NFT seems to be the best fit actually. Please don't expect it to be something that gonna moon since it is not something we focus on for this collection.

It would be great if you can treat this as a support for the project or a piece of art that you like. Or in case you personally know the founder (nuuneoi) and you feel like you want to give some support on his work, this might be a good opportunity to do one. And thanks in advance for that!
Q: What is the main objective of Apetimism?
This NFT collection has been created to study around the topic: "what gives the NFT a sustainable value?". We plan to do a bunches of experiments through this NFT collection. The list of experiments will be briefly shown in the litepaper before the minting period start.
Q: What is the long term goal for Apetimism?
Short answer: Community.

Long Answer: We want this NFT collection to be a bottom-up project. The reason is we believe that the NFT collection itself would not give any true value, at least a sustain one. Instead, to build a collection that people could build things on top of it would create a strong ecosystem and bring the true value to every products associated.

To achieve this goal, there is nothing more important than to build it through the Community. That's why our long term goal is to build a strong and healthy community and let everyone help building things with Apetimism as a core.
Q: Why in 3D?
One of the experiment we plan to do is related to Metaverse and we found that 3D character could be easily utilized in many Metaverses out there. It is not so hard for us to decide to make this collection in 3D as you can see. In addition, 3D character would unlock also a ton of other possibilities since we don't plan to stop with just these pieces of NFT arts. There are a lot more we plan to do with them.
Q: Why in Voxel-based design?
Still around the Metaverse. We have found that The Sandbox, which is also a 3D Voxel Based engine, is one of the biggest opportunity for Metaverse. Therefore, we have designed every character using the same model which make it super easy to port to The Sandbox once ready.
Q: Why Optimism?
Even though there are a ton of smart contract blockchains out there. But at the end of the day, Ethereum is still be a chain with the highest potential to be last long. Anyway Layer 1 is too expensive and hard to scale. Layer 2 is the real future. That's why we pick Optimism, an Ethereum L2, to host our NFT collection. This would let us a green light to run a series of experiment without wasting the gas cost. As a plus, there are still very low amount of NFTs available there compared to the L1, which means that there are a higher room to grow compare if the chain booms.