FattyBagz here! - Apeliens on Polygon 4/20 - Special Guests, Good Vibes & Space Beer
Hey Reddit Fam!
We have successfully bridged Apeliens (my passion project) to Polygon! We're opening up the Larvae Hatchery tomorrow (4/20 kek) and resuming minting!👉 https://larvae.apeliens.xyz/ (The Larvae Hatchery will open at a random time Tomorrow - 4/20)
The move to Polygon was a no brainer for me & I believe that Arbitrum served its purpose very well. A lot of new people in web 3 / from Reddit were able to use Arbitrum as a training ground, learning how to bridge, swap on DEX/CEX's, how to navigate Web3 safely using best practices & of course that juicy airdrop a lot of us received. Now it's time to catch the Purple Wave & make this project as friendly as possible to the Polygon family.
For those of you who don't know, Apeliens is my personal art collection / community that I've been curating 7 days a week for the last year. It's in an incredible family comprised of some of the most friendly/knowledgeable individuals in Web 3. Shipfam is the best fam.
Genesis Apeliens Collection - https://opensea.io/collection/apeliensApeliens Discord - https://discord.gg/apeliens
Genesis Apelien #27 - Anabolic
The Apeliens Genesis collection was the first collection in the Apeliens project. 50 hand drawn 1 of 1 pieces of art by yours truly. Private DeFi collectors began to purchase them and people quickly became priced out. Although the high floor price for my art was awesome for keeping the lights on, it limited who was able to join the Apeliens community. (Fun Fact: This collection is also the collection that enabled me to become an artist for Reddit!)
Enter, Apeliens Larvae. A 3,333 Pixilated hand-drawn RNG combined-on-mint collection, again by yours truly. I wanted to create something cute, with a bunch of debaucherously crude lore attached that could also serve a future purpose for holders (Evolutions), but also had a far more accessible entry price.
Apeliens Larvae - https://opensea.io/collection/apeliens-larvae (now on Polygon)
Larvae are unique in that they are combined on mint based on an RNG script that we built in house. This means that we have no idea what Larvae you will get until you mint it. Many collections in Web 3 are pre-combined but being a fan of old-school RPGs and RNG, we had to add a little extra layer of gamification into the mix.
Larvae also Evolve. Once all Larvae have minted the art will Evolve from the cute pixilated Larvae into Bapeliens (Baby Apeliens \below*) which are a higher fidelity art, again hand drawn by me. Additionally, Certain traits will carry over upon Evolution from the Larvae to the Bapeliens.(If you are wondering if those are sharp nipples below, they are. We have a handful of nipple traits. For the culture.)*
We will also be airdropping a Exoskeleton of your original Larvae (separate collection) after they evolve. It was important to me to make sure that everyone was able to keep their cute little pixelated critter as I know many have become attached to them.
Hint: Contract sleuths, we will let you do a little digging to figure out some of the ideas we have in store for Bapeliens in the future 😉
We also have a couple 1 of 1 Evolution cameos from some of my friends.. (Thank you Artists.. seriously they turned out amazing.)
Could someone please tag the Artists below as I don't know the correct u/ names & don't want to go on a random tagging spree & be @ ing a ton of random people 🤣😭😭(tyyy!)
OniCowboy 1 of 1 Bapeliens Evolution
Nate Schmold 1 of 1 Bapeliens Evolution
Avire 1 of 1 Bapeliens Evolution
Rojom 1 of 1 Bapeliens Evolution
Dubbl3bee 1 of 1 Bapeliens Evolution
If you are new to Web 3 or just are looking for a community that is full of kind people who enjoy good vibes & trippy art, come & join us on the Mothership https://discord.gg/Apeliens
Love you ALL & thank you for the unwavering support you have shown me & all the artists at Reddit.
-FattyBagz
Side Note: TheMachinist & I are working on an artist incubator that will provide contracts, tooling, education & other processes for free to all of the Reddit Artists (at first) under our company Wraith Works. Our goal is to the enable (all) Artists in the Web 3 space by providing proper education & tooling, which ultimately will allow them to stand on their own two feet without relying on anyone, including us. There are too many bad actors in this space & by front running opportunistic individuals we can potentially save artists from a world of hurt/high costs to do sh\t that is only limiting because of their lack of Web 3 knowledge.*
What's in it for us? We want to catch the eye of the big names like Reddit / Polygon / etc. in hopes that they can assist in enabling us to do what we love full time, which is building heart-forward, beneficial projects that enable creators & progress the Web 3 space.