The Whale Mail
INTRO
Hey, Whalefam! We’ve got something new here for y’all to read. Starting today, we’re going to be doing a weekly Whale blog! This blog will be a recap for those who were not able to make certain events, who do not know an event is currently running, or if you wanted to reflect on what has happened in the past week! With that out of the way, let’s get this started!
WHALE SONG
We’re up to the third installment of our Whale Song event, where poets and word enthusiasts battle it out for some hotly contested $Whale. This week, we had our first few winners for week one of the event announced. Congratulations Cryptodawg! Your piece blew us away more than once! Second and third place went to @LIONFISH and @achatainga.eth respectively. We have some talented writers in this space!
Here are each of the winning entries from week one:
Looking forward, the second edition of Whale song is starting to heat up! It was packed full of beautiful words, heart-tugging emotions and… farts? Who will be the winner? We aren’t sure, however we enjoyed reading each piece and wish good luck to all the entrants!
BERMUDA
From the ever popular discord bot game, Lootcord has arrived in the Bermuda channel!
Recently, the bermuda channel was opened up to the dolphins and it has been a bloodbath! Who knew that dolphins could be so dangerous! Watch your back, because not even Whaleshark himself is safe!
Here are some highlights:
As a reminder: distribution of 50 $WHALE/per month will be rewarded to active Sharks in #bermuda depending on your ability to kill, form clans and your level of participation.
Only Sharks will be eligible to be a clan leader. The rewards will be distributed as follows:
20 $WHALE reward for Sharks with the top 3 kills:
1st Place — 10 $WHALE
2nd Place — 6 $WHALE
3rd Place — 4 $WHALE
30 $WHALE reward for Top Clan(s) at the end of every month:
#1 Top Clan: 15 $WHALE
#2 Top Clan: 10 $WHALE
#3 Top Clan: 5 $WHALE
The winners for top clans will be selected at the end of each month @ 12:00 PM midnight HKT based on the total number of kills, loot coin and inventory value.
For Dolphins:
A reward of 10 $WHALE will be distributed to PURE Dolphins with the most kills at the end of October (10/31/2020 12:00 PM HKT).
POKER
Our twice-weekly poker games never cease to make me go all in…every hand. I should stop drinking so much Gfuel before each game. As well, this week and last week were a dual game with our partners over at RNG. On top of winning $WHALE, players were able to win some $RNG as well! Richard Kim also went ahead and tipped the top 20 with 100 RNG each. If you’re Dolphin or above and haven’t yet played, make sure you join in next time to compete for these amazing prizes!
Here are our winners from this week:
Tuesday’s winners in order:
@Lander | BLM — taking 1st for 40 $WHALE
@..loadmastersrock NFT Drops — in 2nd for 25 $WHALE
@Isildur — 3rd 15 $WHALE
@4rtPeGien — 4th 12.50 $WHALE
@Shalom — 5th 7.50 $WHALE
@AYTNZM3D — 6th 6.25 $WHALE
@Choyna — 7th 5 $WHALE
@dindirinda/ NFT Italia — 8th 3.75 $WHALE
Sunday’s Winners in order:
@Slayer — 1st 31.5 $WHALE and 1000 $RNG
@4rtpegian — 2nd 21 $WHALE and 750 $RNG
@ cow| — 3rd 12.6 $WHALE and 500 $RNG
@MisterGore — 4th 10.5 $WHALE and 250 $RNG
@Notepas — 5th 8.4 $WHALE and 250 $RNG
@revan — 6th 6.3 $WHALE and 250 $RNG
@Asura — 7th 5.25 $WHALE and 250 $RNG
@Yurame — 8th 4.2 $WHALE and 250 $RNG
@Bitcoindelight — 9th 3.15 $WHALE and 250 $RNG
@WUMZAYYY — 10th 2.1 $WHALE and 250 $RNG
Editor’s note: The prize structure was changed from Tuesday to Sunday by GGian. Sunday’s prize structure will be the one used from now on.
The bounties for Sunday were @WhaleShark @GGian both taken out by @MisterGore and @Lange respectively, each receiving 10 $WHALE each.
SPECIAL GUESTS
We have had some amazing guests this past week in the Whale discord. So much talent, so much spice, and everything nice! These are the ingredients for… Oh, Ahem sorry! Anyways…
Beginning our week, we had Terra Virtua show us their developments in Virtual Reality.
They introduced us to their newest creation, the Terradome! A digital garage used to show off your Terra Virtua characters, objects, and creatures! A recap of the interview can be found here.
Next, our week zoomed on by with Cryptomotors. They revealed their new STAT game and the limited edition founder’s cars that were going on auction. Check out the new game here.
GGian took the lead (literally!) and hosted some daily races for the Whale fam to participate in for this first week of release. We also got a sneak peak into what Leandro and the team are working on in the background. Click here for a recap of the Cryptomotors interview.
As a reminder: Sharks are eligible to loan cars from Whaleshark by writing “I want a cryptomotor” <Cryptomotor handle> in the #Shark channel. Effective for 30 days.
In a surprise, last minute interview, the Mythical team showed off the recent developments to their highly anticipated game, Blankos. In addition to this, founders packs were announced, with sales starting on October 22nd. Don’t miss your chance to grab one! Private Beta begins on November 17th. See you at the party!
In-house art guests: We had our very own Camo and emotionull take us on a journey through their art process. We have such talented people in this space, it’s scary!
“Camo describes herself as a Mid 90’s Brazilian, Character Designer, Cartoon Lover. She enjoys streaming art, doing Visual Development for an indie game called Mari Achi, working on commissions and portfolio pieces!” Camo interview can be found here.
Emotionull interview: emotionull is not your average artist! Self-taught, emotionull likes to make art with whatever he can find!
Find the video here
TRIVIA NIGHT
Trivia night is always a blast with Sho as our host. His cheating reigns supreme even when he’s not playing! Kiddings aside, Sho introduced jackbox 7 to the Whale community and every week has been a blast! If you have not had a chance to participate, come on through, have some fun and learn more about our Whale community!
HALLOWEEN EVENTS
In the spirit of all hallow’s eve, we’ve launched a series of events to get you into the trick or treating spirit. A treat can only go so far before it becomes a trick, so watch out!
https://discord.com/channels/704949262802485348/706141463192535102/766911303649460244
Prize structure and events:
- 100 $WHALE prize pool
- Pumpkin Art competition: A prize pool of 60 $WHALE will be rewarded to 8 members who submit any pumpkin related art in the #pumpkin-art channel. *Deadline for all submissions will be on the 31st October, 2020 @11:59 PM (HKT time). These include but are not limited to: pumpkin carving (jack-O- lanterns), pumpkin drawings, memes, videos and gifs — all of which have to be made by you. (1) Multiple submissions are allowed. (2) Submissions will be judged based on the artwork’s: Creativity/ Originality, Craftsmanship and Visual impact. — art is not required to have reference to $WHALE.
Prizes:
1st Place: 40 $WHALE
2nd Place: 10 $WHALE
3rd Place: 5 $WHALE
Gold Star/ Special mentions: 5 x 3 $WHALE each
- Spooky stories stream: Have you experienced anything… paranormal? Or perhaps you just have a wicked imagination! Either way, get your ghost stories ready for the Spooky Spooky stories stream on Oct 31st @12 PM EST( 4PM UTC)! The scariest ghost story (real or imagined) voted by the community will receive a 20 $WHALE prize.
- Full day of halloween themed streams on Oct 31st, 2020
- Win some $Whale in our Virtual trick-or-treat run on the 31st October! Visit #alegrias-house #gians-house #annissas-house and #whalesharks-house for a Halloween surprise! More details can be found here.
MARBLES
Our weekly marbles event rolled into action with our very own rudem00se hosting the event. Cryptokitty giveaways, screaming at marbles and calling each other cheaters; The marbles event is always a great time to be had.
WHALE KIDS:
We’ve launched 3 activities for kids to help them learn more about blockchain and NFTs, as well as an opportunity to be more involved in the crypto art space. We have:
1. Weekly educational live streams every Wednesday on topics that include, but are not limited to basic programming, Photoshop, Pixel Art, Voxel modelling and crash courses on NFTs, Blockchain, Physical art and music, all taught by members of the $WHALE community. All members of the community are eligible to participate and will be rewarded 5 $WHALE per stream. (If your children are interested in teaching ping/or DM @annissa)
More info here.
2. Free minting services for all #Whale-Kids members — All art minted by Whale Kids will be coined and promoted as Whale Kids Art to help artists with initial sales and future valuation (We will mint 4 editions of the artwork on OpenSea and the 1st edition will be kept in the Whale Kids vault for display and the remaining 3 will be transferred to your address) *Almost all art pieces minted by Whale Kids and have been listed by the parents have been sold out, thanks to the support from the Crypto Art community.
Click here for more info
3. Reward scheme of 0.1 $WHALE per drawing submitted in the #Whale-kids channel to help children build an asset portfolio that incentivises earning and hodling principles, all art will also be put on display in the Cryptovoxels $WHALE fridge. This week’s theme is “ Halloween Art ” (Oct 14, 2020 — Oct 31,2020)
More info here.
Sneak Peek into last week’s Whale Kids stream: (YT link will be provided soon)
https://twitter.com/annissa___/status/1318935733768343552
E1337
Gaming has never looked this good. E1337, the world’s first luxury E-sports apparel brand, was announced with great excitement by the creator, Whaleshark. Get hyped! In physical sports, many stars moonlight as models for some of the biggest fashion brands around, so it seems like a logical step for E-sports to dip its toes into the world of high fashion. Defuse bombs, destroy Nexuses, slay Roshan and look fabulous while you do it. It might even improve your gaming ability!*
And it’s not only connecting fashion and gaming, but also Web3. The brand will utilise the blockchain to distribute its loyalty token, rewarding customers and the community for their engagement with the brand. Though if you’re keen to get some gear, you may have trouble finding a physical store. That’s because it’s going to be virtual, inside the Cryptovoxels world. So get your magic, internet money ready and burn your old rags!^
- Not clinically proven.
^Not fashion advice
RNG COLLABORATION
Recently, the whale community entered into collaboration with RNG. Whaleshark and RNG founder, Richard Kim believe there are synergies between the two communities that will bring value to each other. RNG is a social club for founders, investors and enthusiasts in the gaming space. Richard Kim himself is a partner at a $300m venture capital fund with expertise in interactive content, social and technology. With so many overlapping interests, the collaboration may prove fruitful!
If you have yet to check out the RNG community, there is free RNG up for grabs for Whale members. Head on over the now, play a few games and look around!
DAO PROPOSALS
Four proposals went through the DAO-house this week, with varying levels of success, but all fostering positive discussions. Proposal #5, created by @dmonkey and sponsored by Whaleshark, outlined an offer to reward 30 $WHALE to the creator of a successful proposal. This was overwhelmingly supported and has since passed the Senate. Get your thinking caps on, your proposals locked and loaded and let’s build!
Proposal #7 created by @yuhlets and sponsored by Zorro, wants to create an Artist-Café channel for all members, to discuss anything and everything in relation to art, NFTs, artistic struggles and collector desires. You could think of it as your very own virtual hipster café, where the artsy types come to show off their macbooks, drink lattes and create some beautiful art! Since writing, this proposal has passed with flying colors!
VAULT ACQUISITIONS
It’s been another busy week:. Bids offered, Gavels hit, and sales were made. Makersplace was by far the most used platform, and the purchases consisted of both newly minted crypto artists and old favorites. The largest acquisition was BioNet Baby from Shu Lea Cheang, acquired for 50 Ether after a hard-fought bidding war. Shu Lea Cheang is a well-known artist in the analogue world and this piece represents her first foray into the world of NFTs. It depicts a sci-fi baby nestled in a throbbing womb. If it grows up to be anything close to the Master Chief, then 50 Ether is a veritable bargain.
Moving away from gloomy sci-fi to bright lights and abstract expressionism, two big pieces were purchased from Franky Aguilar: his neon and sometimes lewd art making its first appearance in the Vault. Check them out here and here.
Another piece from Vault favorite Reinhard Schmid was copped, in addition to several pieces with whales as the main theme from various artists. Such gentle creatures, such great art models. Check them out here and here.
Aside from the ongoing purchases, memes from the Whale Memes competition were minted, and the pieces in the NFT mining program from Legendary, Vansdesign and Skeenee were secured.
Outside of the art world, two conjoining Cryptovoxels parcels were added to the vault from Whaleshark himself, increasing the total plots to 182. The vault now has a sizable digital playground to show off our bling. With some of the best art in the game, who wouldn’t want to show it off?
The extremely rare CryptoMotors Gold Sports Coupé, a one-of-a-kind beast of pure speed, was won at auction for 5 Ether. You wouldn’t want to be racing it for pink slips, or in the new STAT game. These limited-edition gold and silver CryptoMotors are the very last founder cars, true collector pieces.
NFT MARKET
The wider NFT market had ground-breaking sales this week. Two 1/1 pieces depicting an anguished Batman were bought for a combined 452.50 Ether. The Trevor Jones and José Delbo collaboration now takes the title for the largest NFT art purchase to date. Trevor is one of the most famous digital artists in the space, known mostly for his art made from trash series depicting notable persons such as Donald Trump and Satoshi Nakamoto and his animated Picasso Bull. José is a living legend, an original artist for DC comics and recent convert to digital art. The pieces were won by Maxstealth, a relatively new collector in the space with Mariana Trench sized pockets.
Axie Infinity had whales of their own come through and max their credit cards. Six connected genesis plots, which were obtained at random during the land pre-sale, were sold to SmallBrownDoge for a grand total of 415 Ether! That’s enough for a sizable house deposit in the physical world! If that weren’t enough, two three-mystic-part Axies both sold for 200 Ether each. A fever has hit Lunacia, and spending ether seems to be the only cure.
On the social money side, Akon recently announced a new partnership with Roll to support African influencers in creating their own cryptocurrency and using Web3. Akon has long been a proponent of cryptocurrency and this is the next step in his vision to increased adoption in Africa.
IN THE NEWS
In this section we recap some major weekly blockchain news you may have missed.
In the recent Messari Report published on the 21st of October, Mason Nystrome talks NFTs, social currencies and the future of it all. With the ever rising popularity of NFTs, we’ve exceeded a cumulative $130 million in sales! All aboard the NFT moon rocket! As well, social currencies have taken on what was once thought to be impossible: A fully diluted market cap of $150 million!
Here are the top mentioned social currencies:
Special mentions: $MORK, $SKULL, $FIRST, $ALEX are holding in there. Remember, this is a marathon not a sprint. Anything and everything can happen so keep your eyes peeled for these currencies!
In other news, Leo Young from Chainnews talks everything $WHALE and the future of NFTS in an article called: Whale: Building the “Nakamoto Consensus in the NFT Industry. Showing everyone the basics of what it means to be a WHALE, how to be a WHALE and what we’ve got in store! The article can be found here.
NOTE: The article is in Chinese! Make sure to have google translate installed into your browser in order to read it fully.
Thank you all for reading and see you next time!
