Community Update #2 | MINT Date & Schedule, Community & NEW Public Whitelisting Update
The Galactic Punk MINT date is scheduled for Saturday, October 2nd. It will take place over 3 rounds: 1) First Settlers Community Whitelist: 9:00–11:30 EDT , 2) Public Anti-Bot Whitelist: 11:30–12:00 EDT & 3) Public Mint 12:00 EDT — sold out. *EDT = UTC -4*
Before we jump into it, let’s recap some Galactic events:
- The Galactic Discord is now home to over 5k LUNAtics & our Twitter has surpassed 6.5k followers.
- Master of Stablecoin & protector of the Terraverse, Do Kwon, changed his pfp to an ultra-rare Galactic Terrarian on a Col-5 spaceship. Special agent, SJ Park, also changed his.
- Galactic Punks joined the Terra Charity Alliance, made up of 35 protocols, validators & NFT projects pledging to support charitable endowments.
- @LunaLootUst is currently running a Galactic Punk charity auction and the current bid amounts to OVER $9,000!
- @LunaPeruggia raised $2,200 in donations for Angel protocol via a Galactic Punk charity giveaway.
- Thanks to our awesome Galactic Moderators, our Discord server has expanded to include #mandarin, #polish, #korean & #thai chat channels, with more on the way!
- 0xAmaterasu won the community trait contest with their Terrarian designs. @pj0na’s protocol suits also deserved a win. Congrats to both of you for leaving your mark on Galactic history.
- @demaropz won the ‘Puzzels in the Terraverse’ Chapter #1 competition. We’ll be sharing Chapter #2 shortly.
Trait Preview & Rarity
The 10,921 randomly generated Galactic Punks will range in rarity based on their traits. Traits cannot be pre-selected & all of the metadata will be uploaded on-chain before the mint. You can learn more about our randomization process from our last community update. We also plan to share a complete technical breakdown after the mint.
Rarity rankings:
Each trait is given a rarity ranking and the sum of all traits will equal the rarity of the Galactic Punk. From (1) less rare to (10) rarest, the trait rarity rankings are as follows:
1. Common, 2. Uncommon, 3. Rare, 4. Super Rare, 5. Epic, 6. Legendary, 7. Godly, 8. Galactic, 9. Super Galactic and 10. Intergalactic.
Trait Categories:
There are 7 categories of traits. Without giving too much away at once, we prepared an overview of what’s in store. The numbers are subject to slight change as we make final adjustments to the designs!
- 20 Suits — OG, protocol suits, glowing suits, battle suits, robot suits
- 12 Species — humans, terrarians, skeletons, aliens.
- 10 Backgrounds — different planets in the Terraverse or spaceships.
- 20 Head Gear — space helmets, punk ball caps, bandanas, halos
- 20 Hair — mohawks, clean-cut, messy cut, long hairs, The Do Cut
- 15 Glasses — cyborg glasses, futuristic monocles, eyepatches, and laser eyes.
- 10 Features & Accessories — battle scars, tattoos, vapes, cigars, pipes.
MINT Date & schedule, Community & NEW Public Whitelisting Update
We are excited to announce that Saturday, October 2nd is the planned date for minting Galactic Punks. Col-5 & #TerraAutumn 🚀
Galactic Punks stand out among many NFT projects due to the commitment and passion of the community. The level of interest and engagement has exceeded our expectations and has led us to review our Minting Process and Launch.
To make this process as fair as possible, we will be structuring the launch in 3 rounds: the community whitelist, the public whitelist & the public mint (supply dependant) — in that order.
The durations & times of each round will be announced in the following week. We aim to make them accessible across all time zones.
1. Community Whitelist & First Settlers Snapshot
Time: 9:00–11:30 EDT
This round will give guaranteed access to 1000 active community members to mint (1) Galactic Punk NFT each.
Those 1,000 members have been chosen based on a recent snapshot of our Discord leaderboard and are now known as Galactic First Settlers on Discord. Congratulations GP OGs! Wear your new, shiny blue Nametags with pride and await the form for whitelisting, which we will share with you soon.
2. Public Anti-Bot Whitelist (NEW)
Time: 11:30–12:00 EDT
Building from the experiences of other NFT launches, we have decided to implement a Public Anti-Bot Whitelisting round during the sale.
Getting onto the whitelist DOES NOT guarantee minting a Galactic Punk. Instead, whitelisted wallets will be given a chance to mint a maximum of 5 Galactic Punk NFTs during this round. The minting will be done on a first come first serve basis.
To be eligible for the whitelisted round, you must complete an anti-bot form (details below). This will help us minimize bot presence and duplicate accounts, as the software are able to detect these in a number of ways. We highly discourage people from trying to gain an unfair advantage and will ban accounts if we detect suspicious behavior.
The form will open on September 23rd at 3:00 pm EST and close on September 29th at 11:59 pm EST.
UPDATED: The form closed early to an unexpected amount of bots & airdrop hunters. We opened up a google form on Discord and closed it after giving the community enough time to react.
It does NOT MATTER when you complete the form, as long as it’s before the end date indicated above. Again, all whitelisted wallets will have a chance to mint during the anti-bot whitelist round on a first come first serve basis
To enter, visit: https://sweepwidget.com/view/33932-76j3umik, then 👇
Connect to Twitter & follow @galactic_punks
Enter this code: GP
If the whitelist becomes very oversubscribed, we will decrease that amount to ensure wider distribution.
Eliminating all bots would likely require some sort of KYC procedure and we didn’t want to go down this route. At the present moment, we feel our plan is well equipped to exceed minting standards and get Galactic Punks into the hands of our community members.
NOTE: First Settlers will be able to join the public whitelist.
3. Public Mint
12:00 EDT — sold out
This is the last & final round of the Galactic Punks mint and depends on the supply.
If there are remaining NFTs after the previous two whitelisting periods, then these will be made available for the public (anyone, no whitelisting) to mint. Each wallet will be able to mint 5 per transaction and up to 25 total.
If there are no Galactic Punks left after the community & public whitelisting periods, this round will not take place.
Pylon Gateway Lottery — Post Mint
A while ago, we tweeted a poll asking the community if we should run a Pylon pool where depositors can have a chance of winning NFTs in a lossless way. It was a clear yes. We’re big fans of Pylon and appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with them on this!
The Galactic Punk’s pylon pool will open within a couple of days after the mint. Why after? Because the Pylon team is busy preparing for Col-5 (as they should be) and it gives anyone who might have missed the mint another chance.
The pool will run for 4 weeks and can be split into 4 lock-up raffle periods made up of 1-week intervals. At the end of each week, 25 depositors will win (airdropped) a free Galactic Punk using a randomly weighted snapshot method.
You can enter the raffle by depositing the minimum amount of $UST AND $MINE into the pool. ALL deposits must be made during the first day of the week and no later than 11:59 PM EST. Assets can be withdrawn at the end of each interval week OR remain deposited to stay eligible for the next raffle.
The yield accrued on deposits will be donated to Angel Protocol and used for Galactic community initiatives.
- Minimum deposit: $100 worth of $UST AND $MINE (at the time).
- Randomly weighted snapshot: A minimum deposit grants (1) entry into the raffle. Every additional $100 worth of $UST AND $MINE equals an additional entry. The snapshot is taken and winners are randomly chosen from all the entries.
Person 1 deposits a total of $200; $100 UST & $100 MINE
Person 2 deposits a total of $600; $300 UST & $300 MINE
Person 1 has (1) entry, whereas person 2 has (3) entries.
If there was a total of 100 entries, then person 1 has a 1/100 and person 2 has a 3/100 chance of winning.
Our aim here isn’t to raise funds. Instead, we want to incentivise people to get familiar with Pylon, one of the many awesome projects on Terra, by giving them a chance of winning an NFT in a lossless raffle. This will additionally help us gauge interest for future projects with longer time horizons, where Pylon could potentially function as a minting partner at the distribution stage.
Message to the Galactic Community:
There seems to be some confusion concerning the custom Galactic Punk designs for a number of community/TFL members. We want to clarify that these designs are not part of the randomly generated Galactic Punk Mint Genesis of 10921 NFTs.
These custom profile pictures are purely an artistic representation, gifted to contributors and leaders in the Terra ecosystem, our team members, and/or to increase the visibility of the project. They aren’t NFTs yet, and if we mint them they will be part of a custom collection.
All 10,921 Genesis Galactic Punks will be generative artworks unveiled only upon mint and no one is being offered the chance to preselect attributes and have custom designs.
Galactic Punks is a project by Lunatics, for Lunatics and we are doing our best to ensure a community-driven launch with good distribution and many unique holders!
