I don’t know if anything is already planned but as the Mythos Chain gears up, I think it would be a good move to discuss how the OG community from Blankos Block Party is encouraged and incentivized. Of course, Blankos Mobile is on the roadmap and all existing NFTs will be migrated to Mythos. But given the role of Blankos as Mythical’s original blockchain game, and the energy of that community, which has since been highly diluted for various reasons since, I think there should be a formal program of recognition.
Of course, this could just be an airdrop but equally something like a burn process in which people can burn their existing NFTs for the original USD sale price and get MYTH in return (maybe 100%, maybe 50%!?) would both reduce the supply of those original NFTs as well as seed that community with MYTH tokens.
(And, yes, if you’re asking, I do have a lot of Blankos NFTs, but I wouldn’t plan on burning any myself.)
An airdrop program would be a great way to introduce the Blankos community to Mythos. Currently, the Blankos community feels entirely detached from Mythos and left behind. If the airdrop equalled 100% of the primary sale purchases in Blankos history (2 MYTH per $1), I believe it could be paid out with about the same amount of MYTH as in the recent MYTH-DOT token swap proposal.
However, I know some people would like to be involved but would prefer not to have to burn their collection to do so.
If there is a MYTH airdrop to reward Blankos holders, it would be nice to see this get weighted in certain areas to promote active collecting and engaging in the game/marketplace.
I have spoken with several players/builders/collectors to gather some ideas of what people would want:
Mint #: Those who played the game for a long time know just how difficult it was to acquire low mint # blankos. Top 10 and 2-digit mint #'s are sought after and seen as collector’s items. This meant racing to compete for challenges in the party pass, being the first to buy it from the shop, fusing blankos together to make a Mint/Gem Mint, or simply buying them from the secondary market.
Rarity: Probably the most obvious factor for collector’s value is Rarity. This should keep in mind some cases where some of the listed blanko supplies are inaccurate. For example, SXSW and I Like You, You’re Weird blankos were pre-minted and many went unclaimed. So they are much more rare than the supply indicates.
Vintage Blankos: OG Blankos should be categorized and have a bonus weighting toward to the older seasons:
SXSW 2019
Pre-Alpha
Alpha
Private Beta
Open Beta
Season 0 2021
Season 0 2022
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Blanko Grade/Level: Levelling up Blankos took a lot of playtime and completing challenges. Grading up blankos to the highest tiers required a lot of collecting and match wins. The Blanko grades are Fair, Good, Excellent, Mint and Gem Mint. Reaching the highest tiers (Mint/Gem Mint) required fusing 2 blankos of the previous tier to create 1 blanko of the next tier.
The King Karat drop was exploited: It’s well known in the community that people were exploiting the Prime drop to receive multiple claims of the King Karat loot bundles (these bundles had enough resources to level each King Karat all the way to Excellent grade, Level 4) using a single Prime account. People could be frustrated to see King Karat get equal weighting and rewarded all over again. The King Karat supply by itself makes up for around 14% of the total blanko supply.
Collecting > Burning: I’m sure at this point most people would appreciate either. But I know a lot would rather see a reward for collecting (especially for rare blankos) instead of having to burn them to take part in the airdrop. However, this could make for a good option for some blankos that have really high supply counts like King Karat, Klown, etc.
Accessories: It’s easy to forget about accessories but I feel like they should be included in some way. Some are very rare and expensive like the Burberry accessories.
Community contributor NFTs: There are a few NFTs that were granted to select players for various reasons and these could be used to reward dedicated players:
BOLD Gold blanko
Each builder with at least 1 map featured in Blanko Brawl received a BOLD Gold blanko at the end of Blankos Block Party.
The rest of the 100 supply was gifted out to a list of people selected by Josh Foreman (Builder Foreman and designer of BOLD Gold)
Community Chrome chain
Builders received a chrome chain on approval of their first map in the Blankos Brawl featured rotation.
Given to winners of events like the Blankos design contest, map building competitions, etc.
Given out to content creators
Builder Of The Month chain
Given out to 10 builders, selected by Josh Foreman.
Blanko Bucks: In the announcement blog for the final store drop for Blankos, there was mention of a future use case for those with leftover Blanko Bucks unspent. Since this post there has been no further mention of plans regarding leftover Blanko Bucks:
It is important to note that Blanko Bucks will not be directly transferable to the new Blankos Mobile game. We understand that some of you may still have Blanko Bucks leftover on your account post December 6, 2023, and for those, we are working on a plan to provide benefits in the new game. We will provide an update on this post December 6th.