less than 1,500 mints remaining. i must farm your engagement.
- follow
@1337skulls
- follow
@0xDith
- like this dumb engagement farm post
- drop your ens
will select someone to make the final mint window. don't be a n00b that never minted a skull! 🫡
been working on something the last few weeks.
it's good and you are going to like it.
yes - ordinals, & something on ETH.
no - not a deriv.
for those paying attention: follow
@0xDith
& drop your ETH wallet / ens in comments here. will choose some names for our list.
notables is an art x social signalling collection, inspired by the social meta-layer and underlying status game of web3.
the genesis collection is 83 pieces of art on BTC (ordinals). something on ETH will follow.
launching THIS WEEK.
follow
@0xDith
& drop your wallet below.
We've created a new approach to assigning WL.
We call it: programmatic WL. And it means no more cabals. 🚫
Meet our custom bot, Adjutant. Here's how it works & why we're using Adjutant for the upcoming
@GLHFers
mint. 🧵
gm giving away one of my 1337 skulls, follow
@0xDith
and
@1337skulls
, like, RT and drop your ens below.
will select a winner in 24hrs. 💀 🕛 🔥
#1337skulls
notables mint is this week.
first batch of 83 BTC (Ordinals) 1/1's are already inscribed.
some of the sats (fraction of BTC) they're inscribed on are from a heritage of 2010.
going to select a mint winner from people who follow
@0xDith
& drop their wallet in comments.
reminders re
@PirateNation
:
- Founder's Pirates were a free mint
- No raises (aka "pre-sales") or other similarly extractive stuff thats common in the space
- The only ppl claiming $PIRATE at TGE are our collectors & our players
- $PIRATE will have immediate utility in the
I'm going to DM out more dozens more
@PirateNation
mint codes this weekend, so you can get in to the game and earn them BOOTY points.
Who still needs a code?
Comment: PIRATES LOVE BOOTY
gm I've been working on a web3 gaming side proj.
You're going to like it. Mint process will be even more fun than 1337 was.
I'm starting to add gamers to the WL.
➜ Post your ETH minting wallet below
➜ Follow
@0xDith
Bonus if you name some of your fav games.
We just ran the first programmatically selected WL in web3, for
@GLHFers
.
Here's how we did it, plus the criteria and 120+ data points used to identify real, long time gamers, who play games for fun. 🧵
I'm almost ready to launch my web3 gaming project.
& I'm doing some new things before, during, and after mint. I've started adding gamers to the WL.
➜ Post your ETH minting wallet below
➜ Follow
@0xDith
Bonus if you name some of your fav games. 🎮
gm onchain gamers. I have 20
@PirateNation
mint codes that I HAVE TO DM out to ppl in the next 24hrs.
Who needs one?
Reply with a: I WANT SOME BOOTY
and I'll send DMs in the morning. 🫡
The key to forecasting a project's growth is assessing its ability to earn and retain attention.
Most traders, collectors, and founders don't understand the forces that attract attention, and why it drives growth.
🧵 on attention: the scarcest resource in the NFT ecosystem.
yo you can build "your own business" in
@PirateNation
by crafting settlement buildings like the Shipwright.
Once you build a Shipwright, you can charge other players who wanna use it to upgrade their ships.
Neat eh?
Giving more codes out today. Comment: SHIPWRIGHT
To celebrate our Multichain announcement, I'm giving out some mint codes to get a FREE Pirate and start playing
@PirateNation
. 🆓
- Follow
@0xDith
& Pirate Nation.
- Comment something a Pirate would say. 🏴☠️
I'll DM winners their free mint codes in 48hrs. 🎟️
Listen carefully, here’s what’s going to happen.
Next week we will launch the
@ProofOfPlay
multichain: an important new piece of technology that proves a fully onchain game can be invisibly sharded and then scaled to mass-consumer levels.
Our first chain, Apex, has been live
We're growing our community & playerbase every hour, every day. I'm sending out a fresh batch of 20 codes in the next 24hrs.
Who still needs a
@PirateNation
mint code?
Reply with a: GIMME THE BOOTY
and I'll send out DMs in the morning 🤝
gm gamers.
I'm gonna go through my last few tweets later today to select some wallets from the comments for the
@GLHFers
mint.
What're you playing this weekend?
One of the things that makes
@PirateNation
special is that it's FULLY onchain, yet its frictionless, and fun.
Let's kick this week off with SOME MORE MINT CODES.
Who still needs a code to play?
Comment ➜ BOOTY IS THE WAY.
Will DM codes out tomorrow.
Heads up gamers: our programmatic WL will END IN 12 HOURS FROM NOW.
That means you have 12 hrs from the time of this tweet to connect to our bot & submit your minting wallet.
Then we'll close the WL and reveal our methodology.
GLHF
WILD.
I was at the grocery store just now, wearing my
@PirateNation
tshirt and was approached by a pretty lady carrying a young child.
"excuse me" she said politely, looking like she didn't want to interrupt my focused fruit-gathering efforts.
"Yes?" I replied with a smile.
.
@VitalikButerin
I cordially invite you to try
@PirateNation
, a fully onchain game on EVM (Arb Orbit). We’ve scaled past the capacity of a single chain so we’re about to take the game multichain (akin to server sharding). I think you’d make an excellent onchain Pirate.
Initially created the
@GLHFers
chime for a bit of fun and then everyone loved it, so now its an official thing!? 😂
Big week ahead, v excited indeed. GLHF 🔊
I hosted
@Cbb0fe
for an AMA in my
@friendtech
room. ✊
CBB revealed his background, how the cartel formed, why he's so bullish on FT, and other new details about his strategy and execution.
🧵 highlights you don't want to miss from this epic builder & farmer. 1/n
Will be sharing our art v soon, I'm aiming for tomorrow.
Also, we'll be doing an instant reveal for
@GLHFers
when it mints, so the collection can be enjoyed right away. (... this is the way).
GLHF
Yesterday
@PirateNation
players processed 650,000+ transactions in the game.
They signed 0 tx popups and paid $0 in gas.
For context 650,000 transactions per day is more than
@Blast_L2
's average daily tx count. 😉
Study fully onchain gaming tbh.
Since launching
@GLHFers
my DMs have been slammed with collab requests from top communities.
Respectfully I've had to decline bc we're doing something new: running our WL process programmatically.
This may mean we miss some extra visibility but I'd rather do new things than
Such a weird and yet wtf-best-problem-to-have spot to be in.
@PirateNation
is constantly pushing 40+ MGas/s and has scaled to the maximum capacity of a single chain. Even though we've closed new signups, the wait list is ranging 30 - 90 mins long to get into the game.
Now we
Super excited to reveal the
@GLHFers
art next week.
a LOT of time, talent, thought, and love has gone in to what I consider to be the very best gaming pixel collection there is. 👾
gm. going to be another fun week at
@PirateNation
. We just can't stop SHIPPING. 🫡
In the meantime here's another round of codes.
Who still needs a free Pirate to get into the game? Will send out via DMs tomorrow.
COMMENT ➜ say something about BOOTY
We heard some
@PirateNation
Founder's Pirates holders are waiting in queue to get into the game. This is unacceptable. Skip-the-queue system for Founder's Pirates holders is going live ASAP. 🤝
Introducing
@GLHFers
new PvP game on
@Blast_L2
: Dungetron PvP!
Matchmake & play against opponents directly in our Discord server. Wage ETH on Blast and win the pot. Participate in leaderboards & upcoming competitions.
Here's how it works. 🧵
gm, yesterday
@PirateNation
players did almost TWICE the amount of transactions as..
*checks notes*
all dapps on
@Blast_L2
combined.
Interesting interesting.
gm gamers.
One of the most fun things about creating
@GLHFers
has been enriching the collection with subtle homages to game stages, maps and events.
🧵 with some backgrounds & their source inspiration.
Pretty insane levels of activity in
@PirateNation
rn. Our chain is doing more MGas/s than base + arb + blast + optimism + ethereum L1 combined.
The next few months are going to be absolutely wild. Maximum piracy incoming.
Pixels never die.
Very excited by the response to our reveal. 🙏
I'm still looking out for gamers in the comments, so let me know what your fav games are on the thread and I'll DM a few people.
gm.
Today is an inflection point.
@PirateNation
will be the first fully onchain game running seamlessly on two blockchains. Next it'll be three, then four, & so on.
The multichain will be invisible to our players. It allows us to continue scaling, to 100 Mgas/s+ and beyond.
Season 2 of
@PirateNation
will be steeped in lore. Closed signups, long ass queue times, launch of the
@ProofOfPlay
multichain (it’s coming in weeks, not months), new features we have coming, builders creating stuff on top of the game..
Pirate stories are being written.
I've noticed that
@ParallelTCG
,
@mypethooligan
, and
@PirateNation
never botted any social engagement, and have modest, or tbh - realistic, follower counts.
Playing a good clean game.
Interesting interesting.
Listen up gamers.
Some of you (~ 5% of ppl) haven't submitted your wallet for
@GLHFers
. If we don't get your wallet, we can't WL you even if you are eligible.
Make sure you hit the SUBMIT WALLET button to confirm your mint wallet.
No signature or tx is needed for this.
We haven't said much about
@ProofOfPlay
's tech, yet. But to summarize how important it is: a large, frictionless, real-time, onchain application like
@PirateNation
couldn't run without it.
As an infrastructure guy I'm gonna enjoy this arc v much.
The main
@GLHFers
mint is now complete, at 3540 NFTs. gg, and welcome to everyone who has minted or joined us via secondary.
For the final remaining 150 tokens, we're doing something new. It's good and you're going to like it.
GLHF
FarmVille went to 100m monthly players and the guy who co-created it is now leading a fully onchain game that you can play today, for free, and get BOOTY Points while doing so.
Never been a better time to study
@PirateNation
.
Who still needs a mint code?
gm. Staked $PIRATE up to 75% from 71% when I last posted a few days ago.
@PirateNation
players are at ATH, as are
@ProofOfPlay
Apex chain transactions (2.45M/day), & the vast majority of other metrics we track.
This is before we ship any of the cool things we have coming. 🫡
I hope these cabal-filled private sales & pre sale rounds, which sell out their entire collection to insiders, don’t become a thing in 2024.
Where’s the fun in that?
Bring back oldschool mints. Launch something timeless and there will be demand in a live setting.
GLHF
Daily transactions in
@PirateNation
are up to 2.5m.
But the amount of tx's our players have to sign? Zero.
One of the first pieces of tech we built at
@ProofOfPlay
is our game wallet which safely completes tx's for our players with no popups, and no gas fees. 🤝
This is a video of people playing
@PirateNation
. Almost 3m transactions per day. 30-40Mgas/s. This is why we have a waiting queue right now. This is why we're building the
@ProofOfPlay
Multichain. This is why, ultimately, there's never been a better time to be a Pirate.
TLDR on
@PirateNation
-
- Game is completely onchain (300+ smart contracts)
- Game is actually LIVE & you can play now for free
- Our CEO
@amittm
is the co-creator of FarmVille
- Our team is former: Riot, EA, Scopely, Epic, etc
- We've shipped 70+ game updates
- Backed by
@a16z
We just started Season 2 of
@PirateNation
. Lots of cool new things are coming that will be FUN to participate in.
I'm setting up custom referral codes (will get BOOTY Points), for anyone who wants to invite in new players.
If you want in, lmk / DMs open!
We're looking for a godtier partnerships manager for
@GLHFers
. Paid position. You're ideally an experienced and well networked BD person who loves gaming, has strong people skills, and a great sense of humor.
DMs open.
notables is an art x social signalling collection, inspired by the social meta-layer and underlying status game of web3.
the genesis collection is 83 pieces of art on BTC (ordinals). something on ETH will follow.
launching THIS WEEK.
follow
@0xDith
& drop your wallet below.
People think we're building just one chain. The reality? We're building many: an infinitely scalable, constellation of chains.
As
@PirateNation
continues to scale, it'll eventually run seamlessly across multiple blockchains at the same time.
It's going to be beautiful.
gm. We just passed 1million transactions in
@PirateNation
PER DAY. Really cool. I believe this is almost the same volume of ..
*checks notes*
.. the daily number of transactions on the whole of Ethereum L1.
And we're just getting started. MUCH MORE SOON.
If you are paying attention to, playing, or collecting
@PirateNation
then congratulations, you are officially early to the fully onchain gaming thesis. You are here before the KOLs, the VCs, and mainstream consensus.
You've chosen to believe in something.
Like a chad. 🏴☠️
Study the antifragility of gamers.
Crypto prices down? we game.
Politics / world events? we game.
AI taking everyone's jobs? we game.
Some new shiny object thing? we game.
Whether the future is crystal clear or uncertain af, building a fun game appears to be a gud strat.
Ppl who played
@PirateNation
when it first launched in Dec 2022 will tell u how far it’s come — the game is 20x better today.
And ppl who are playing now, will tell new players the same thing in another 6, 12 & 18months from today.
If we do one thing well, it’s improve. 🫡
There are many gaming chains.
But there will only be one that comes with an onchain game engine built by engineering leaders from Zynga, Epic Games, Riot, Rockstar, & more.
Already 500+ smart contracts, onchain VRF, game wallet, custom forwarder, token mirroring, ECS / no code
We’re going to have to bring the
@ProofOfPlay
Multichain (infinitely scalable network of chains) to life sooner than we expected.
On the list of great problems to have, this is one of the best.
May mean we have to close new signups for
@PirateNation
pretty soon.
Have grabbed ~30 wallets or so from people who are clearly gamers. 🫡
& I'm still going. This is a manual process so hit me again if you think I may have missed.
gm gamers.
I'm gonna go through my last few tweets later today to select some wallets from the comments for the
@GLHFers
mint.
What're you playing this weekend?
So
@PirateNation
players have uncovered the BOOTY Points alpha that its good to upgrade ships, and now every shipwright in the game is FULLY BOOKED 24/7.
Imagine when we launch ship repairs.
Our first
@GLHFers
auction just closed for 3.63 ETH.
For future auction pieces I'd love to work with great artists in web3. I'm preparing a folder / some docs with everything you'll need for us to collaborate. 🤝
My DMs are always open to artists! 🫡
Thrilled to see the response to
@GLHFers
mint going live. So many dope pulls coming through already.
Who got the super saiyan?? 🔥
And if you guys thought the adjutant programmatic WL was cool, wait till you see the next thing :)
"It would be cool if an early engineer at Epic Games who worked on Unreal Engine and who went on to make FarmVille (300m players, 1bn+ revenue) was working in crypto on a fun fully onchain game that runs on its own game engine"
It's
@amittm
at
@ProofOfPlay
gm. Soon
@PirateNation
will run seamlessly across two chains (Apex & Boss) at the same time. This is just the start of the multichain - we’ll add many more as we scale the game up.
This hasn’t been done before because no other application processes as much compute onchain. ⛓️⛓️
We just snapshotted a bunch of top tier or otherwise meaningful gaming, pixel, or culturally relevant collections & communities.
If you hold any of these in your wallet, you can now mint
@GLHFers
. We look forward to meeting you. 🫡
Imagine a fully onchain application running seamlessly across multiple chains at the same time, allowing for all new levels of scale.
Now imagine you're not imagining.
This is one of the things we're building
@ProofOfPlay
with our Multichain.
@PirateNation
is already
Not all transactions are equal.
Best measure of chain scaling performance is MGas/s. Simple tx's use minimal gas. But tx's in a fully onchain game like
@PirateNation
contain game logic, using more.
At 45 MGas/s
@ProofOfPlay
is doing more than.. every other chain COMBINED. 🏴☠️
This is pretty much what my bedroom looked like growing up - this image went in my inspiration folder when I started creating
@GLHFers
.
What a vibe.
I've lived a thousand lives thanks to gaming. 🫡
Someone asked me if the last 150 tokens are "going for sale on another chain" or "will it be a gas war".
Both no. Those things have been done. Not interesting.
As with our programmatic WL, we like trying new things. New things are gud.
GLHF
At the last team offsite $PIRATE was conceived and plans began re how it fits into
@PirateNation
's game economy & ecosystem.
All I'll say is, this morning
@ProofOfPlay
just kicked off another team offsite.
gm multichainers. Big week.
@PirateNation
will be the first chain-sharded, onchain game with a single shared world. Cannot understate the size of the technical crotchal bulge going on here.
We do new things. We unlock infinite scaling. Soon, we turn signups back on.
gm. looks like we'll have around 10,000 submissions to the Adjutant within its first 24hrs. 🫡
At a glance looks like 750 or so people meet the criteria to get WL, so plenty more room to go. GLHF
We've created a new approach to assigning WL.
We call it: programmatic WL. And it means no more cabals. 🚫
Meet our custom bot, Adjutant. Here's how it works & why we're using Adjutant for the upcoming
@GLHFers
mint. 🧵
$PIRATE launched with immediate staking (for
@ProofOfPlay
Points) and immediate in-game utility (can be used to get gems, purchase exclusive cosmetics, & more uses coming).
We have many new community members & players in the last 72 hrs who will now find out how we build. 🏴☠️
Huge uptick in activity.
gm to all the new
@PirateNation
players coming in for Season 2. You've picked an excellent time to become a fully onchain Pirate.
Much fun & shenanigans ahead. 🏴☠️
About half the team at
@ProofOfPlay
are former founders / people who've owned & run their own business.
So if something is ever wrong or suboptimal, there's extreme agency in fixing it hard & fast. 🫡
We're at all time high
@PirateNation
players & transactions on
@ProofOfPlay
's Apex chain.
At this volume of daily tx's we're doing TWICE the # of tx's of every dapp on Blast combined.
We're also clocking the most Mgas/s of all EVM chains by alot.
We do a lil scaling.
Soon we’ll be announcing when
@PirateNation
’s Season 1 will end.
If you’re curious to try the game / want to collect BOOTY Points, there’s no better time to start than now tbh.