QUESTIONNAIRE ANSWERED BY VITEPUNKS
Brief conversation with Merl1n the administrator of the Vitepunk discord https://discord.gg/DwRmKAUr
As the VITE community well knows, in these last 2 months, we have witnessed an explosion of many projects in the VITE Blockchain, such as the well-known Vinu, Vitamin, Vicat and Vitoge, as a result of that in a surprising way it is that appears in the VitePunks field (https://vitepunks.com/) becoming the first platform to launch the first NTFs for sale using the VITE network, before this it also brought up some questions, about Who are they and what is it? What is the project looking for? Given this, I share a brief conversation I had with Merl1n who was ready to receive any questions.
Here the little conversation:
1.- One of the things that was asked at the beginning is where is it that we can see our NFTs on the de vite network, apparently it is not possible for now, but is it something that is being worked on or what will the process be?
Mer1in, December 28, 2021–15:13 (UTC-5)
Thank you, great questions!
First I think the Vite community has to agree on a commonly accepted standard. As far as I know it is currently being worked on as a bounty started by ViteLabs. You can find it here: https://gitcoin.co/issue/vitelabs/bounties/18/100027282 So in this sense we are truly similar to the original CryptoPunks project which pioneered the NFT space without having a standard at hand when released.
2.- In addition to the launch of the vitepunk nft, what other projects do you have planned for the future or will it be oriented only to the NFT world?
Our main vision is to develop the best possible marketplace for our punks and maybe open it to other artists at some point, depending on what other marketplaces will be released on Vite in the near future. There is still a lot of work to do that might not be noticed by the user at first glance. For example we plan to store our images on IPFS in addition to our own cloud storage. We hope this will ensure resiliency and establish more trust overall in terms of availability long-term.
3. — In the face of projects that came out to a certain point, endorsed by the vite team such as vinu, vitc, vicat and vitoge, I have seen that they have formed a collaboration with VITOGE, in what sense is this collaboration oriented, will there be other collaborations?
We are open to other collaborations and always looking for a good fit! VITOGE has been a great choice so far and we hope to continue our partnership next year. Our intention is to enlarge the Vite community in general and mutually benefit from synergies.
4.- I understand that the aforementioned projects are projects that have already been monitored by the Vite team, which has given them credibility, their project being something that appeared suddenly for many of us, they have had some rapprochement with the team of Visit to give more details about your project? I could read that at some point they were asked to see the source code, if I’m not wrong. Thank you for taking the time to answer any questions.
We offered ViteLabs to audit the smart contract in our private repo but we agree it would not be wise to take any responsibility from their side. Ultimately we understand that the situation is not satisfactory right now. Being pioneers in any space is always coupled with a lot of work, sometimes it gets rewarded, sometimes not. But what we can assure is that we will make our smart contract public as soon as another project delivers something similar to use. Maybe this is the wrong approach but believe me or not, this is actually a really hard decision to make.
Final conclusion:
The intention of this small post is to invite you to visit the Vitepunks website and to ask you any questions about the case, I am sure you will be able to find some answers to your questions, first of all it is always good to be well informed when you want to enter a project, and communication is the first step to build trust, we hope that later Vitepunk can participate in a Hackathon and thus can obtain the trust in general of the VITE community, meanwhile it is up to each of you to find out, consult and analyze if the project gives them the confidence of the case.
And you, what question would you like to ask them?
