Space Summary
The Twitter Space Ordinals Ordinals Ordinals – AMA w/@andreoshea @rarible @trygamma hosted by rarible. Ordinals Ordinals Ordinals AMA session delved into the NFT space, focusing on the impact of Rarible Marketplace, Vertical Marketplaces, and essential infrastructure for NFT creators. The conversation highlighted the significance of community engagement through AMAs for knowledge sharing and growth within the NFT ecosystem.
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Questions
Q: What role does Rarible Marketplace play in the NFT ecosystem?
A: Rarible is a significant platform for NFT transactions and creations.
Q: Why are Vertical Marketplaces important for NFTs?
A: Vertical Marketplaces cater to specific niches, enhancing user experiences.
Q: How does NFT infrastructure support creators?
A: Infrastructure tools enable creators to develop and showcase their NFTs effectively.
Q: What are the benefits of engaging in AMAs in the NFT space?
A: AMAs provide a platform for industry experts to share knowledge, insights, and interact with the community.
Highlights
Time: 00:15:45
Rarible Marketplace Impact Exploring Rarible's influence on NFT transactions and community.
Time: 00:25:12
Vertical Marketplaces Diversity Understanding the role of specialized NFT marketplaces in the industry.
Time: 00:35:30
NFT Infrastructure Importance Highlighting the significance of robust infrastructure for NFT creators and builders.
Key Takeaways
- Rarible Marketplace is a key player in the NFT ecosystem.
- Vertical Marketplaces offer specialized NFT experiences.
- Infrastructure is crucial for NFT creators and builders.
- Engagement in AMAs fosters community growth and knowledge sharing.
Behind the Mic
Introduction and Initial Greetings
GMGM. Andre, I'm going to be bringing you up here in a moment. Hey, Andre, can you request to speak? Actually, I think it's not letting me bring you up here. Awesome. There we go. I think we have everyone. Andre, Sarah from the gamma account. How are you guys doing today? Good morning. I'm doing well. How are you guys? Not too bad. GM, GM, everybody. I hope everybody's having a fantastic day today. Yes, yes. Even better. Now. Now we get to chat a little bit about what you've been up to and how we're diving into ordinals a little bit. Absolutely, absolutely. There is a. There's a new era among us. Exactly. Love to see it. Yeah, we got quite a few folks here, so I think we can get started.
Introducing Participants
I will introduce myself quickly and then pop it over to you, gamma sarah. And then Andre would love to give you the floor. Can ask you a few questions towards the end of this. Would love to see if anyone wants to jump up, you know, ask some questions to the group here, Andre specifically, and we can kind of take it from there. So I'm Jonathan, I'm our ecosystem lead at Rarible. Work with a lot of our artists and projects partners and collaborative opportunities. As you can see here, we have one that we've been cooking up for a while and now coming to the end of it later this evening, so I will pass it off to Sarah and the team at Gamma quickly. We'll love to hear a quick intro from Gamma as well, what Gamma does in the ordinal space, and then we can jump over to Andre.
Gamma's Introduction
Thank you, Jonathan. It's been so much fun working with Rarible and the team there. I obviously very honored to be helping facilitate Rarible's first ever bitcoin debut. So that's been a lot of fun. So for anyone who's unfamiliar, Gamma is an ordinals marketplace and creator platform, and we really emphasize just supporting the artist and making sure that they can find a good home for their art on the number one base chain in the ecosystem, in our opinion. So, you know, very excited to bring art back to bitcoin and obviously just stoked to be working with Andre, who has done some really cool things in his artistic career. But I'm glad that we could help facilitate his bitcoin debut as well, especially working with really fun, you know, generative artwork, which bitcoin is kind of uniquely suited for because of the limitations that come with, you know, inscribing on such a high fee chain, let's call it so very excited for you, Audrey, to kind of dive into the inspiration behind the artwork and how you're able to create it and just.
Artist-Centric Philosophy
Just chat. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Sarah. I think, you know, one thing I just want to point out is, you know, being very artist centric and artist first, and that's something that we strive to be at rarible. So, you know, when we started talking about this collaboration together, and then obviously with. With Andre being the focal point with his type of art, and it seemed like a really great match for all of us. So appreciate your support as we have been taking this dive into the ordinals world for the first time. But we wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for Andre also giving us an opportunity to share his work on the ordinals side of things and for him taking a chance jumping onto the bitcoin blockchain with his art for the first time as well. So Andre would love to give you the floor and pass it on.
Andre's Gratitude
Yeah. Well, I just want to start by saying thank you, John, for even reaching out to me in the first place. We've had the opportunity to work with each other on a few different projects now. Even dating must have been, like, what, a year and a half, two years ago when. Index grids. Yeah, index grid. Index grids. There we go. Sorry, I'm blanking on my own grids. When we did index grids, that was actually my first grids project. And then, obviously, I've had the chance to work with rarible on two other drops this year. One at the beginning of the year for Rari chain and then one for on chain. Summer, having my first opportunity to work with the gamma team, who have been amazing and fantastic. I really couldn't ask for anything more. Sarah, you've been a great ambassador. A great help for me.
Acknowledging Team Support
Also, I want to give a shout out to Jack, who has really kind of, like, helped usher me in as, like, helping me understand more of the technology behind ordinals and how to get my code to work properly and even just sort of, like, opening my eyes to different types of possibilities of things that we can do on chain. And so I just. Before we get into the nitty gritt of the project, I just want to extend, like, I just want to say thank you and really just sort of say that I'm really grateful and appreciative for this opportunity, and it's been a very impactful and meaningful project for me, and I'm glad to have two amazing partners to work on it. With. But then. Okay, so now that was my intro. Now I have to think about what I'm going to say about Nexus grids.
Nexus Grids: Generative Art Project
Okay. Yeah, I think. Well, I'll start by saying Nexus grids is my first full generative project where the art is holistically generated by the code. When it came to index grids, like, that was a project where it was generative in the sense that it is code driven. However, all of the inputs were artworks that I had made, and then the code itself was sort of deciphering those artworks in a different way. But I wanted to use the opportunity to sort of against, kind of highlight the, I don't know, the experience of an artist where index grids was a commentary on the artist's relationship with the art and the collector and the art market. This is a far more internal deep dive about the artist's relationship with their own mind. Essentially.
Exploring Mental Mapping
I'll say, just to start, the general premise of it was sort of trying to replicate the mental map, the mental compartmentalization that artists kind of go through and kind of like jamming their own ideas and thoughts into overlapping patterns and kind of sparse. Kind of sparse, like, ideas and thought patterns and even kind of like, commenting on how disconnected those can even feel and be at times, you know, and almost kind of triggering a little bit because, I don't know, that just sort of is what I'm kind of going through right now, personally. But I wanted the pieces to sort of reflect that, and aesthetically, I wanted them to look like the program Winderstadt that sort of visualizes your own computer's memory. And, I don't know. Now I'm kind of rambling, but that was my initial.
Initial Inspiration for Nexus Grids
My initial inspo and initial thoughts for the project. But of course, you know, as you work on a project, things grow legs of their own and they develop new meaning. Yeah, I love, you know, as you said, like, over time, as you're kind of working on it could potentially change. I know were chatting about, you know, in the beginning of what this could look like, and I actually enjoyed seeing the process and watching you kind of bring these new ideas to the table. I remember, like, you're like, I have the idea and I need to share it with everyone. And, like, were all excited to listen in and hear what it was all about for this project. I guess, you know, obviously, the opportunity to jump into ordinals and use the blockchain and this pure, generative art is a little bit new for you, but you're not unfamiliar with generative art, obviously.
Creative Freedom through Code
How has that changed the process when you were creating and understanding, okay, this code is actually going to be on chain. Did you have any differences in the way you're going about creating the code when you knew this? I think for me, it was a lot more freeing creatively from the standpoint of, like, you don't know what you don't know. And, like, I'm. I think most people probably know my work or know me for being a 3d artist, and I've been a 3d artist for about a decade now. And sometimes when you are so familiar with your own work or your own process or your own medium, you kind of, like, are constrained to the medium, if that makes sense, or constrained to, like, your own vision of what this is supposed to be or how it's supposed to function.
Fostering Creativity
And for me, when I work on, like, code driven pieces, I don't have ten years experience here. I've been working on coded artwork for maybe about a year at this point. And so I don't have. I don't know what I don't know. So sometimes I'm just doing stuff because I'm like, oh, this seems cool. Like, why not? Let's just try this out.
Creative Freedom and Inspiration
And there's nothing in the back of my mind that says, oh, well, typically, you're not supposed to do this way, and you got to do it like this. And there's just less steps that I. That I feel like I had to follow mentally. And I felt like that was honestly a bit freeing, whereas, like, I was trying two different concepts, essentially, where I just. One of them. One of them was sort of like this pixelated landscape kind of. Look, if you scroll through my media, you probably have to scroll pretty far back now to see it, but you'll see it, and then you'll see these other concepts where they're. It's kind of, like, inspired by, like, bento box design. And then I was just. I was just looking at the two of them, and I just said, dude, screw it. Like, let's just mash these together and see what it. And see what we can come up with and see what we can do. And that's sort of like, how we came to the general look of Nexus grids.
Creating Dynamic Works
And then, I don't know. I really just kind of like random numbers. So I put random numbers in there, and then I thought to myself, well, let's just put some words in here to make it feel a bit more dynamic. And I must have tested, like, ten words to start. And then I feel like it really started to take shape from there. Nice. No, I think, yeah, it's when you're kind of messing around in a new medium, I feel like you said, it can be freeing and allows you to try a lot of new things that you maybe haven't and also with a fresh perspective. If people have been diving in for 1015 years on the generative side, maybe it's hard to learn new things. And I think it's fun when you're jumping into a new medium and trying new things out for the first time. I can't believe I totally forgot this. I wish we started the space off with first saying, happy birthday, Andre. I know we actually picked this date and timeframe because it coincided perfectly with your birthday today. So if we can all throw some hearts up for Andre to show our appreciation and support, please go ahead and do so.
The Vibe Behind Creation
Another question I had for you is, when it comes to your work, and obviously, like, we've seen how, like, fun your work has been and is, and along with, like, the colors that kind of bring out and an excitement in your work, you know, what? What's kind of the inspiration behind that? Like, how do you kind of decide that feel and vibe when it comes to creating? I don't know. I feel like the vibe kind of creates and chooses me. You know, I wonder and think about this all the time when I look at other people's work and I'm inspired by other people's work, and I think to myself, oh, man, I wish I could do something that looks like that. And then when I try to create something kind of similar, it kind of, like, inevitably still has my touch or tone to it. Honestly, I haven't. I don't. I don't know. I haven't pinned down what that is or, like, you know, there's, like, there's a lot of solid through lines in a lot of my work, and I feel like even if you look at something like Nexus grids, like, it still has a very similar vibe of index grids, and index grids has a very similar vibe to a lot of my 3d work.
Understanding Personal Style
I honestly don't know exactly what it is. If it's, you know, the colors that I choose or the bloom or. Or, like, the lighting or, like, the noise or whatever, but I think that. I don't know. I just. Artists just have their own touch, I guess, you know, their own energy signature. And, like, I wish I could explain it a little bit more than that, but it's something that, like, I honestly think about it all the time because sometimes, and this is like a, probably an unhealthy thought, but sometimes I'm like, I wish I could break out of my own looks sometimes and try other stuff, you know, because I feel so inspired by tons of works that I see, you know? But when I find out, I'll be the first to let you know. Love that. I'll be here. Looking forward to that. No, that's great.
Breaking into Web Three
I think you mentioned something that I kind of found interesting, was, like, building and creating over time, and that style kind of takes time to be yours. And I think, like, web three being so new and people creating on chain as such a recent thing was curious, just like, you know, the general, how did you break into web three and start creating? And, like, I always love to hear, you know, advice for artists that have been in this space to artists that are trying to break into web three because we're in the, you know, we're in that time period where it's. We want to bring in more and more artists, collectors, you know, people that can enjoy web three, but sometimes it's difficult and it can feel daunting when people want to jump in for the first time. So curious, you know, how you did it and the advice you give to others. Yeah, well, it's definitely, it was definitely daunting when I got into it, too.
Navigating the Challenges
I first started hearing about the web three space. It must have been in 2020, you know, maybe summer 2020. And I'm kind of. I kind of beat myself up because, like, I never, I didn't get into it at that point. It was a bunch of people sort of, like, dming me, telling me that my art would be perfect for web three, and you could buy it with Ethereum and all this stuff. But honestly, at this point in time, the only crypto that I'd really heard of was bitcoin. And it was just like, a bunch of people telling me that they wanted to buy my art with cryptocurrency. And I just. I was a little. I was a little sus about it, you know? But honestly, at this time, 3d art was super popular in web three.
Connecting with Community
So I started seeing a lot of my peers get, like, really popular and really well known, you know, like, fuck render or Blake Catherine. Like, those were my friends, and I started seeing them do well, and I really wanted to get into it, but honestly, I didn't see a lot of black people in it. And I've noticed that a lot of artists sort of, like, were moving as a unit and then one of my buddies, his name is Nikki Chulo, he reached out to me and he was. I had posted some art piece, I think, with a giant ps five in it or something like that. And Nikki Chulo had reached out to me and he said, oh, man, this would be a perfect NFT. And I told him, I said, well, you know, I want to get into it, but I don't see anybody who looks like me in it, you know? And he goes, well, I got the perfect group chat for you.
Finding the Right Support
And that's where I met. That's where I met Izzy. Love faith. That's where I met Yasnir. That's where I meth Sir Sue Latasha ja shae the surrealist. I met so many people in that chat, probably so many more that I'm even blanking on. Oh, black sneakers. Yeah, there are so many people in there. And that was February 2021. And then I think Zora had reached out to me and they said that they would pay for my mint. And that was basically all she wrote. I minted my first piece. It probably took me, I'd say, ten days to two weeks to sell it. But what I had done at that point, in that interim time between minting and selling my first piece is I had sort of said, I'm going to dive.
Embracing New Experiences
I'm going to dive head first. And I just started making content about web three and the importance of digital ownership and the importance of artists, you know, kind of expanding to this new frontier. And, yeah, like I said, it was kind of all she wrote from there. And then I kind of. I kind of snowballed pretty quickly. And I've been. I've been obviously here ever since. I've had the opportunity to work on tons of great projects, tons of really cool projects as tokens, you know, with people like Netflix and Vogue and out of time, I've had the chance to auction with Christie's, just so many really cool opportunities.
Celebrating the Journey
Meta, I don't like, it was. It's been, it's been an amazing ride. It's amazing to hear. Like, I think there's so many corners of web three and, you know, like you said, it takes time to, like, find those right groups, like the groups that, you know, you can grow with together. And I know, like, there's. There's a lot of corners, right, from the PFP culture to the fine art side to generative. Right? And it's not always easy to find those. Those rooms where, you know, it's a solid group that you can build together and kind of learn from each other. But once you find it's. It's a rabbit hole effect and, you know, you want to just keep diving in and learning as much as possible. And then, you know, here we are online, you know, 24/7 just being as connected as it can be.
The Importance of Taking a Step Back
But it's also important to step away. That's my, that's my other note. Just take a breather from when you're chronically online, like myself, and I'm sure a lot of us here. Yeah, I guess the second part was just, like, the advice side of, like, you know, if you can give, like, one, a one liner or, you know, to someone that's trying to break into the space, like, what would be your biggest thing for them?
Key Advice for Success
Yeah. So if you've ever been in a space with me, you're probably sick of. Sick of this response, but I have three, and the first one is to be accountable. I think that no matter what, this is your life, this is your artwork, this is your situation. And no matter what anybody else does, it's your bill to pay, so to speak. And you just want to always remain accountable, you know, because, for instance, your car can get hit and you cannot come into work. But guess what? Like, your job still needs you know what I mean? And it doesn't matter that Joe blow hit your car, you know, like, you need to, like, your bills still need to be paid, you know, like, your landlord's not going to say, oh, well, tough shit, you know, no rent this month.
Consistency and Authenticity
The second one is remain consistent. I think that consistency. People respond to consistency far more than they do quality, frankly. And you know, what I always like to say is McDonald's isn't the most famous burger joint because they make the best burgers in the world, but you know exactly what burger you're getting from McDonald's every time you go. And I think that's important. And I think the other thing that's important to know about remaining consistent is a lot of times when I say that people think that, I mean, oh, post to TikTok every day, post new artwork every day. What I'm really, what I'm really saying is you need to be consistent with, like, with who you are. But also, like, if you're not built to post a reel every day, don't. Like if you're built to post a reel every two weeks, post the reel every two weeks, because people want to know what they can expect and get out of you.
Character and Reputation Matter
And I don't mean get out of you in a negative way, you know? And then the third thing is, don't be an asshole. Like, I feel like. I don't even feel like this, but this is just the truth is, there are so many decisions made about your life in rooms that you're not actually in. You know? For instance, I got the chance to work with the Grammys on a token, and I didn't say I didn't reach out to the recording academy and say, hey, I have this amazing idea. Let's turn this into a token. That was a friend of mine who was, like, working on that project, and they said, hey, I know the perfect person for this. Let's pull in Andre O'Shea.
Maintaining Relationships and Integrity
And like I said, I just think that there's decisions made about your life in rooms that you're not in. And you just need to make sure that your character can speak for you while those conversations are happening, whether or not you know, they're happening or not, you know? So those are my. Those are my three quick. My three quick points of feedback or advice. Yeah. Just be consistent, be authentic, be accountable, and don't be an asshole.
Human Connections and Shared Goals
Love that. I mean, it's. I think, you know, that those are. Those are things that people should be able to take. Whatever industry they're in, whatever role they're in. It's just very humanizing. Right. So just, we're all here together trying to build towards common goals, and, you know, it's important to have those. Those three pieces of advice, I would say that you just gave the crowd, so appreciate you sharing that.
Engaging with the Audience
I'd like to open up the room here. We can have a couple people up if they want to ask some questions or comments about the collection. Unless, Andre, you'd like to chime in with anything else? We'd love to see if anyone would like to jump up. No, I'm definitely open to questions. Yeah, for sure. Let's get into it. I think that'd be really fun.
Open Forum and Interaction
Nice. Yeah. If anyone wants to just raise their hand, we can pull you up on stage. Feel free to ask a question, comment, maybe, what you love the most about the project, and we can go from there. I'll see if anyone will want to jump up. Also accepting anybody who wants to deliver some scat poetry, I'd be. I'd be down to hear some of that right now as well. Get your.
Welcoming Participants
Get your finger snaps ready. Well, all right. We have Tuan Jones. Here we go. Hey, Tuan. Can you hear us? Yes, I can. Hey, thanks for jumping up. What's good, Tuan? What's good, sir? Haven't seen you since Miami, man. I love this new collection, bro. I love it. I appreciate you.
Building Community Connections
How you been? Really good. Really blessed. Really blessed. I'm in Atlanta right now. I'll be moving here, but decided to come back to the web three space, and I'm glad one of the first places I come back to is yours, so I appreciate it, man. I get to my question, though. I won't take up too much time. I've obviously been aware of your work for a minute, I guess.
Exploration of Artistic Directions
What's subjects do you want to start touching on with your artwork? If there's any, like any research or anything, like, what subjects push you the most and what are you most interested in stepping into going forward with your career? I think the things that sort of, like, peak my interest right now are sort of like the things that kind of feel emotionally ambiguous, kind of the.
Inspiration from Ambiguity
The things that don't have real answers but still need people to think about a lot, you know? I think that's why I sort of have been kind of tackling these, like, concepts of what it means to be an artist. I think moving forward, though, some of the things that, like, inspire me, some of the things that I really want touch on more is one. I don't know.
Personal Interests in Art
I haven't figured out how to weave this into my work yet, but I'm a massive, like, just. I'm just a massive basketball fan, and I just wish that reflected a little bit more in my work. Like, honestly, like, I get really, like, internally competitive and start treating things, like, as game seven in my own head.
Game Development and Future Directions
But the other thing that I'm really starting to deep dive into, and I'm honestly going to start, the reason why I haven't been sharing it as much is because I have been working on this project and really kind of been putting that focus forefront. But I'm going to start sharing probably in the next few days, is I've been really doing a deep dive into game development and making video games.
Connecting Interests Through Creation
I'm working on a solo dev project right now. I don't know the name, but I'm working on a game. It's like a top down cosmic horror shooter. And, yeah, that's what I've actually been really into because I feel like it is such a. It's like a ten way intersection of. Of all. Of all of my interests, you know, and just of all arts, you know, whether it be storytelling, visuals, music, you know, interactions, all of these things.
Exploration of Game Development
I feel like game development is really, like, a really interesting intersection to explore all of those things. That's beautiful, man. Have you.
Introduction to Round 21
Quick question. Have you heard of round 21? No. What's that? So, round 21 is a sports company, but they've mainly worked in, like, a lot of, like, nfTs, a lot of sports. NFPs is founded by this woman named Jasmine. I hope I'm not butchering this last name. I think it's Mietta, but she used to be a WNBA player. I met her in Miami, as well. I crashed one of the parties, and then I ended up doing an NFL. Like, I designed some NFL form, but I think that what could be something great, especially, like, the sports face. Like, I would love to see some of your designs on, like, garments or, like, your own basketball jersey or something like that, like, the pack.
Discussing Designs and Personal Style
Because, like, I look at your work, and I see patterns. I like. I like fashion. So, like, I see the consistency in the patterns, the colors. Like, I can see you really starting to branch out and, like, just have your own, like, I don't know, your own wallpapers, your own fabrics and stuff, so. I love hearing that, bro. Yeah. I'm gonna pass along with contact in a second, too. Yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you for the heads up, and also, thank you for seeing that, because I feel like. I feel like. I think in patterns, and I feel like I see the patterns of, like, the world sometimes kind of unraveling around me, kind of, like the. I don't know, like, visualizing the matrix falling or whatever.
Networking and Opportunities
but, yeah, thank. Thank you for that. And, yeah, I'll be. I'll be on the lookout for their info, because, I don't know. I'll be looking around like, man, I got. I got a homie, Mike Fogg. He. He just did that night. Night shirt for Steph, and I'm just like, dang all my homies working on these cool sports projects. I want to get in on this, too, but, yeah, I don't know. Sorry, that's all I was thinking about. I got you, man. I got you. And blessings to you. I'm done now. What was the name? Address? They say, what was the name of the round 21?
Information Resource on Round 21
So if you look on. I know their instagram is we areround 21. Yeah, if you just look around 21, it should be like a basketball. Like a 21 in the middle of it. Sometimes that's their logo and stuff, but they do some really great work. You know, anybody in this place that wants to just stalk them, you know. Thanks for sharing. Yeah, I think like, from my perspective too, like you said, andre Antoine, like, I love sports. I love the gaming side of things and like, I think there's a way, like a way to connect the dots and a lot of, you know, when it comes to game development, games as art, like, you'll see.
Exploring Game Development and Sports
My PFP now is by Mitchell Chan and he created a, a baseball game that, you know, is like a, you go, you work through the life of this player that's trying to make it to the MLB and it's like you can save it on chain, right? And there's an art aesthetic to it as well. So there's so many like, interesting, you know, connections between what a game, you know, a piece of art that's a game could be the sports world into the NFT side of things too. So personally, I'm excited to see what you're working on. Andrea, for your next one there. Yeah, gonna start sharing more on that soon. I've like, I've been like screen recording everything.
Future Trailers and Upcoming Projects
Well, I screen record like everything that I do, but I've cut some stuff up into clips to share. But now I kind of, next I want to put together a little trailer that's boom, boom. And then, you know, hopefully people will be into it. But yeah, actually really looking forward to that era. It's awesome to hear. Does anyone else want to step up to the stage here? Ask Andre a question or just comment on ordinals? See, we have quite a few folks who are in the ordinals ecosystem. Be great to hear. Ask a question about that. What you're most excited about in the ordinals landscape.
Closing Remarks and Community Reflections
If not, we could have some closing remarks and I, and, you know, call it a day. I think we spent some nice time here together. Well, I'll just start by saying what I am excited about as far as the ordinals community is, honestly, everybody that I've met, everybody that I've talked to since my initial announcement has been like very warm and very like, gracious. Everybody has been very supportive. And honestly, I feel like that's something that I've been missing from the ETh side of web three lately. I feel like I've been experiencing a lot of survival mindset from people.
Experiencing Community Support
And I feel like there, I don't know, like there is just a point in time where every, it just, it felt like everybody was trying to get you know what I mean? And I'm sure that there's still that feeling in the ordinals community to a certain degree, but I felt like I was a new kid in class, and everybody threw me a party on my first day. And, like, I just think that was really cool. I think the other thing that's really cool is, like you said, and I think Sarah said this as well, is that generative projects just seem to sort of make sense in bitcoin on ordinals.
Deep Dive into Generative Projects
And honestly, it's something that I want to continue to deep dive into is just like, even honing more of my generative skills. Yeah, it's. Personally, as a collector, too, you know, ordinals has been fun for me. The community has been super engaging, and, you know, I started collecting ordinals in January, and I was saying this internally to the team, but as soon as I joined the rarible team, and in January, I was like, when ordinals. And, you know, finally we're here.
Exploring the Future of Ordinals
We're closing up our first collection, but we're excited to continue to explore what the ordinal space will be like as it continues to grow. Obviously, as more people decide to take the deep dive into bitcoin and ordinals. I think one thing that just stuck with me, Andre, that you said earlier was, feels like a full circle moment where you said, the only thing I knew about back then was bitcoin. And now here you are back on bitcoin, creating your first ordinals collection, which is going to start, you know, maybe this new journey that you said you're excited about, but we're going to be here to support, you know, what you guys are doing.
Collaboration Encouragement
Gamma, you got, well, you're doing Andre. Gamma, you guys are doing as well. We're super excited to see how the ordinals ecosystem will continue to grow and we'll continue to explore, you know, raribles, how rarible will interact with the ordinals communities, too. But I just want to say, you know, again, Gamma, thanks for making this possible. You know, with the tech support, being able to pull in the ordinals community and kind of share Andre's vision, our vision at rarible, and what were looking to create with the inaugural collection.
Gratitude and Support
And Andre, again, thanks for taking this ride with us and putting out your first ordinals collection and partnership with both of us. We appreciate your support and obviously letting us help tell your story. It's been. It's been an amazing ride. Thank you again for even just providing me the opportunity. I'm endlessly grateful. Appreciate it, guys. And, yeah, it's still minting. We'll be minting on Gamma until midnight tonight, eastern time. So if you haven't scooped one yet, go ahead and check it out.
Closing Ceremony
See all the different outputs that have been, you know, obviously created already, but excited to see, you know, the closing day and see how many more would be out there today. So, everyone, appreciate you guys stopping by. Appreciate you.
