The 2021 Update
Hello, Tulip Farmers!
It’s been a wild three years. Be it the advent of DeFi, the mania for NFTs, or dog coins, the crypto landscape has changed wildly.
To help you and your tulips navigate this new era of crypto, we’re launching a new EtherTulips contract that will seamlessly integrate with the modern NFT ecosystem. Gen 0 and Gen 1 tulips minted in 2018 can be bridged bi-directionally between the new contract and the legacy contract (henceforth referred to as EtherTulips Legacy), and EtherValentines roses (commonly referred to by others online as Gens 2–4) cannot be bridged.
And, to keep your Gen 0 and Gen 1 tulips company, we’re also dropping a new generation of tulips for purchase: Gen 2021. Gen 2021 will be the final generation of EtherTulips, and have a capped supply of 5094 initially sold at .075 ETH each. Each of these tulips will feature a unique design. Between Gen 0, Gen 1, and Gen 2021, the total supply of EtherTulips will be fixed at 12,345.
We’re releasing a revamped website for the new EtherTulips contract in the coming days, and starting Gen 2021 sales shortly after. To stay on top of the latest happenings with EtherTulips, join our Discord and follow us on Twitter. We will be announcing giveaways shortly to give you a chance to score free tulips! For more details about our new contract and Gen 2021, read on.
EtherTulips Legacy
The original EtherTulips contract was written in December of 2017 and deployed on January 22nd, 2018. The world of NFTs was much different back then: the ERC721 standard, which dictates the way that ethereum NFT contracts should behave, was still an unfinalized work-in-progress. Instead, we based our contract on a draft version of ERC721 that had a slightly different interface: technical readers may note that it’s missing safeTransferFrom and setApprovalForAll, for instance. The optional system for attaching attributes and designs to virtual tokens has also become quite important for NFT marketplaces and collection managers. The fact that our contract does not follow all these standards has made EtherTulips overdue for a revamp.
In the past few years, certain unwritten norms have also been established by the NFT community, one of which is the importance of a capped supply for NFT collectability.
There has also been some confusion the past few weeks surrounding new tulips being minted by the legacy contract for .01 ETH each: these tokens are from the EtherValentines promotion of February 2018, originally purchasable on EtherValentines.com, and are actually roses, not tulips!
They are referred to in the EtherTulips Legacy contract as Generations 2, 3, or 4, and are often missing images/traits or display as a placeholder EtherTulips logo when viewed on external third-party NFT websites. EtherValentines are not part of the canonical EtherTulips collection: they are roses (not tulips!) and were a themed easter egg with an infinite supply and constant price; they shouldn’t interfere with the collectability of the rest of the collection. Referring to them as Generations 2, 3, and 4 in the legacy contract was simply an easy internal technical hack for interoperability and compatibility with the EtherTulips website. They were never available for sale officially as Generations 2, 3, and 4; those generation numbers are nothing more than an internal identifier in the contract code. Furthermore, most EtherValentines were minted recently by people directly through the contract trying to flip them at a significantly higher price than the contract sale price. 99% of Gens 2/3/4 were minted in 2021.
Our Solution
Our solution to these problems is launching a new contract that is fully ERC721 compliant. All Gen 0 and Gen 1 tulips minted in 2018 can be bridged to the new EtherTulips contract via the EtherTulips Bridge. To preserve lineage and history, the bridge is two-way: Gen 0 and Gen 1 tulips can be sent back and forth between the contracts at will. Each Gen 0 or Gen 1 tulip wrapped on the 2021 EtherTulips contract can be used as a full, standard ERC721 token alongside Gen 2021 tulips, enabling them to be used in a wide array of Dapps in the greater NFT ecosystem. We will be launching a web interface to bridge eligible tulips between the contracts shortly.
There have been no Gen 0 or Gen 1 tulips minted since 2018, but a hypothetical Gen 0 or Gen 1 tulip minted in the future is not eligible for bridging. EtherValentines roses, internally referred to as Gen 2, 3, or 4, are also not eligible, for the reasons given above — but this doesn’t mean that EtherValentines roses will cease to exist! They will continue to exist on the legacy contract and thus will thrive for the lifetime of the Ethereum blockchain.
Therefore, there are 7251 tulips eligible for bridging, with token ID numbers from 0 to 7250. Once these changes are released, the ethertulips.com website will be updated to use the new EtherTulips contract with a bridging interface, and ineligible tulips will continue to be able to be viewed, managed, and battled at legacy.ethertulips.com.
Gen 2021
Gen 2021 is the latest generation of EtherTulips, and it will feature brand new designs. Check some of them out!
Unlike Gen 0 and Gen 1, the supply of Gen 2021 tulips will be capped at 5094, and each tulip will have a unique design. When combined with the Gen 0 and Gen 1 tulips eligible for bridging, EtherTulips has a capped maximum supply of 12345. When the sale starts, tulips can be minted for .075 ETH each, with up to 30 tulips purchased per transaction. After 3 days the price will double to 0.15 ETH, so make sure you don’t wait too long! More details about this tulip drop will be announced shortly, so make sure to join our Discord and follow us on Twitter.
As always, Happy Farming!
- The EtherTulips Team 🌷
One more thing
What if you could plant your tulips in a public, decentralized garden? 🤔 An interesting idea…
