Newsletter #13
Welcome to the thirteenth Megapont newsletter. This newsletter comes at a time of NFT doom and gloom. Driven by the broader crypto macro events such as the collapse of FTX and the choppy trading of ETH and BTC.
As we move into the winter season, the Megapont team wishes the entire community well and hope that you find some solace within Megapont if you are otherwise having a hard time.
Additionally, we sympathise with anyone recently laid off as part of the tech layoff season.
Kong Fu Marketing
Oh boy. Danny and his team were brought on to handle Kong Fu marketing under the direction of myself(Mrk). They would manage social media engagement and outreach to partners and influencers.
As the community knows, we decided to launch Kong Fu with an on-chain affiliate program. You send someone to Kong Fu to mint, they mint and post mint, and you can withdraw your share of your income.
Problem.
Influencers do not like this. This is a public display of their actual worth and would inevitably oust most of the NFT cartel for the useless grifters they are.
We are throwing out the entire outreach and referral program. What the team have built for Kong Fu is truly incredible; it’s the culmination of some incredibly creative individuals coming together to create something fun at a time when we all need something to smile about.
We will let the content do the talking.
To those influencers and partners that responded favourably to our outreach. We will do good for you and your community, and you can expect us to reach out with some Kong Fu goodness you can either keep or give away to your community.
We are going to be here for some time. I have no interest in burning the reputation of myself or anyone related to Megapont to secure a sellout mint. We will not sell our souls to the dark cartel behaviour that dominates this space.
Kong Fu Supply
25,000 is far too high. $25 is important to us. Why? $25 is a price point that, as a team, we believe that should the market dictate there is no secondary demand or liquidity for Kong Fu, the spend will have been worth it.
No one will walk away from Kong Fu with a sour taste, thinking, “That was a waste of money”. Over the next few weeks, you will be introduced to more story elements and some incredible animation, music and voice work that we believe will start to flesh out the characters central to Kong Fu.
The supply will now be 10,000, with an additional 6,000 free to MegaKong holders.
Kong Fu Experience
What the fuck is it? Is it a game? Do I get an NFT?
Kong Fu is an interactive story-driven application that you navigate through to unlock traits used to build your final NFT. The decisions you make and the actions you take will influence the pool of traits available to you at the end of scene 14.
Kong Fu will release the first seven scenes on December 15th, with the remaining seven and NFT builder in January/February.
You will start to see more and more elements of the experience on social media over the coming weeks. There is animation, music, voice-overs, storytelling, secrets, puzzles and much more to showcase.
Partner Traits
Calling these partner traits is a stretch. These are NFT collections that the Megapont community are either a member of or respects greatly. When you mint a Kong Fu NFT, our centralised Metadata API will scan the contents of the wallet that minted the NFT for ownership of any supported partner projects.
This will include delegations for folks minting with a hot wallet and vaulted high-value NFTs.
The metadata of your NFT will then reflect that the trait pool at the end of the experience will feature support for those project traits. We will ensure a comprehensive list of all partner traits closer to the mint.
We are willing to showcase two traits that will be included in the final trait pool and the unlock criteria for those.
First up and inspired by RedAyeJedii love for Genuine Undead.
When you mint a Kong Fu NFT, if you own a Genuine Undead, you will have the Jungle Paint unlocked when you come to build your NFT at the end of scene 14.
If you sell your NFT, the trait will carry over to the new owner.
This is one of my favourites and is inspired by Orlando and his love for Nouns.
Minting with a Lil Noun in your wallet or an active delegation will unlock the red Nouns glasses. We don’t expect anyone with a Noun to mint Kong Fu, but we might work in a gold pair of glasses if it looks like someone there is interested in minting.
We will be asking for suggestions to go along with some banger traits we already have in mind. Expect Danny and the team to be engagement farming the shit out of these suggestions in the coming days.
Kong Fu is simply epic. Everything about the project is fun, exciting and worthy of telling your friends and family about. It’s a $25 NFT that demonstrates what is possible if you get smart people together and focus on building something fun first.
Fun first.
Not a bad slogan.
