Introducing Early Access Drops on KnownOrigin
Provable, wide reaching, bot proof early access drops on KnownOrigin— reward your collectors and experiment with new drop mechanics
Many KO artists have requested features which can enable them to reward collectors for their support and help foster engagement on social media and within the wider CryptoArt space.
Today we are announcing the first set of initiatives to help fulfil this need by allowing our community of artists to directly reward their communities.
Early Access Drops
Early access, or gated sales as I often call it, has been built from the ground up to help the community access more reward mechanics on the platform.
We have also worked closely with the Proof Of Attendance protocol (POAP), often referred to as POAP’s, in order to build in direct integration to allow KO artists to offer early access to holders of given POAPs.
When listing new works on KO you can now select the “Early access” sale type.
This allows creators to set-up unique access controls and drop mechanics. They can select all their KO collectors, specific collectors of individual artworks, link to multiple POAPs or just upload a CSV list captured on sites like premint.
They can also define different prices or even give them away for free at different phases of the drop by defining the start and end date/times for when each phase kicks in.
We have built in some bot protection which allows the creator to define a maximum number of mints within each phase as well as a maximum number of mints per wallet at each part of the phase.
Once the early access phases end, the artwork automatically rolls over into the public phase and can be collected by all. Rewarding those collectors for their support has been a big ask from the community for a while now.
We are really looking forward to offering this feature set to KO creators and allowing them to be as experimental as they can.
Onchain and provable!
As with most of the things we do, we see the benefits of playing in the open and using public infrastructure to our advantage.
Early access sales are built on top of merkle proofs and we store and push the full data set to IPFS so that others can also inspect and confirm that we are not hiding back doors, as well as allowing them to build on the same feature set if possible.
Building generalised solutions such as this is always tricky and takes time; we want thousands of artists to build specialised collector drops and weave them into the fabric of what they can offer.
Use-cases
After gathering opinions and running workshops with the wider community, some of the common use-cases for this feature are summarised below:
- Reward existing collectors with free or reduced price artwork as a reward
- Running premint.xyz competitions and gating access behind activation campaigns
- Running POAP specific events which you can then reward those attendees
- Using more famous POAPs event to target those who collect them to take a look at your own work
- Building directly from previous specific drops and giving access to those collectors who currently own a piece from given KO editions
We’ve launched this latest feature using seven flagship artists. These artists are: Foodmasku, Goldie, SketchPoetic, Jimena Buena Vida, Booyasan, Benji Connell and ET.
In reality, the options are pretty endless due to the flexibility that we have built in, but the above are some of the common use-cases that we know will be used on day one.
One final point is that with this new feature you will be able to mint editions of up to 250. The smart contract audit is now complete and nearly published, we are ready to launch! 🚀
We really hope that everyone likes what we have built and that collectors are nicely rewarded and artists further empowered.
Love, James & the KO Team
