MACO | ⭐️さんのイラストまとめ

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Selling out at the start of the bear market gave the team even more confidence on our idea. I'm still happy and grateful it happened. However, the bear was strong and many people left the NFT space - dark times approached - many uncertainty in NFT collections too.

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My collection has my artist persona signature on it, and I could never -ever- do shady stuff. It would demonstrate that I was never here trying to do something for the space and just cash grabbing. However, playing fair is always a hard in the wild wild NFT west.

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Well, you know -for the sake of drama I guess LOL- people started to compare & take sides. That gives pressure too, cause suddenly the public makes it personal when there was actually no intention to compete. And I still feel that was unfair and toxic coming from many people.

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More pressure appeared along the way. @galverseNFT was starting to gain attention... which I gotta admit, made the team surprised because the artstyle was heavily influenced by the 80s 90s era too. You know what happened since then?

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You see, we created a separate GENESIS collection called "Aurora Capsules" to bring benefits to people that believed in us from the start. The main intention for that collection was to give us a good window to finish the traits & build contacts/supporters at a slow pace.

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Our Team got bigger... @AzdRTapas @AlchemistXIX & @Memethologist got in as mods because I had a really good hunch about their loyalty and what they could provide to the project. Thankfully, they remain to be good friends & are now part of the team and always give us feedback.

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We had a basic marketing idea, following what was trending on the NFT community: Provide WL through Discord Invites (I guess the Doodles WL META? HAHA). However, we had a better idea... why not show our unique-value? : The nostalgic art + the lore.

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We started with a super small team. Me as the founder, @Vanglog_eth as the Community/Collab Manager, NFT Forge as devs and Knox as the Writer of the Lore. Because that was it... a small team dreaming big - trying to build from scratch- trying to make history in the NFT space.

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Believe me, changing from 1/1 artist to become a project founder requires GUTS. However, I was willing to take the leap because I was confident in the uniqueness of the art & value I could bring to a project - in terms of drops, games & a community that loves mecha animes.

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By the way, this is not a repetition of my last long thread. On this one, what I want to address are the main concerns of launching a 8,888 collection on the current market conditions & state of our project. And for that... I need to tell you my story since I became a founder.