Ten thousand anime-styled characters that sold out in minutes in January 2022 and for a season the most traded collection on Ethereum. In May 2022 the founder known as Zagabond blogged about three earlier projects he had built and abandoned, and the floor fell by around half in a day. The June 2023 Elementals mint raised a reported $38 million in fifteen minutes and was criticised for looking like the original set.
A Decrypt report on the Elementals reveal: holders comparing the new art side by side with their originals and asking, in the politest available terms, what exactly they had paid for.
The record should note that the collection did not die of either episode; it fell, recovered somewhat, and carried on with an anime series and a token. 'Dying' is the honest label, but it has been dying with unusual stamina.
Azuki is the collection that shows what a founder's blog post can do. The record's copy of 'A Builder's Journey' is filed next to a chart, and the chart does most of the talking.
The Zagabond post went round my chat at lunchtime. By dinner people who had never heard of the earlier projects had strong views on all three. That is the speed the record wants to preserve.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
