Chris: Hi there! Would you be so kind to introduce yourself and talk about your background a little bit?
Eugene: Hi! I am Eugene Baldovino, the creator and storyteller for Cute Poop NFT and I've been a creative professional in Hollywood for over a decade. I work on a talk show called Talking Dead, which goes behind the scenes of The Walking Dead television program! If you've ever seen the "In Memoriam" zombie montage videos, that is my handiwork!
Since the 2017 Crypto Winter, I learned how to trade Bitcoin, but became obsessed with NFTs in February. It started with WAX trading cards and VeVe digital collectibles, then NiftyGateway, and finally Ethereum PFP avatar projects! My profile pic on Twitter is a Forgotten Runes Wizard Cult character!
Chris: CutePoop is quite out of the ordinary. And you have 10000 unique ones of them. How does one get to know about the rare ones and their prices?
Eugene: Yes, we're different from most profile pic avatar projects since the Cute Poop NFTs are not animals, but 9,911 fun-loving beings that have been cursed with a coating of supernatural slime to make them look like poop emojis!
POOP stands for Positive Outlook Over Problems.
Some are rarer than others! Most of them come in six candy-colored flavors; blueberry, yellow lemon, purple grape, green apple, red cherry, and orange. There are gold characters and you'll be able to tell which ones are rare by their more detailed backgrounds! We have some surprises that are even harder to find than the gold Cute Poop NFTs.
Since the minting process is randomized, everyone has a fair shot of striking gold for the same price.
Chris: I can’t stop a laugh here but how did you come up with the idea of this NFT?
Eugene: The idea came in July where Ardie, our award-winning artist, and I were brainstorming ideas for an NFT collection. He really loved the look of the Cool Cats NFT. And on Twitter, I have a profile pic of a Forgotten Runes Wizard Cult character. So, we combined the two and came up with Cute Poop, which has the profile pic friendly artwork of Cool Cats with their fun facial expressions and included the various weapons and props similar to the Forgotten Runes Wizard Cult.
Chris: Ok, so you also have a team that worked towards the development of CutePoop? Please highlight the key members and what do they contribute to CutePoop?
Eugene: I did a collab with Ardie Aquino, an award-winning artist who recently illustrated the cover for Liwayway magazine, the oldest publication in the Philippines that gave birth to the comic book industry in their country. We did another project together for a time management game I invented called the FLOFIX planner. So, it was only natural that we would reunite once again.
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We also have the most creative smart contract developer in the business, Sara Robertson from the Bronx, NY who has been coding since she was 8 years old and is the new U.S. lead for the metaverse division in her company. We are very bullish on the metaverse and look forward to her future contributions to our project on that front.
Chris: Why do you think one should spend money on buying some poop artwork? In other words, what are the benefits of buying CutePoop NFTs?
Eugene: We believe 0.05 ETH per Cute Poop NFT is fair for the many valuable benefits that are included. Your Cute Poop NFT will allow you to:
- Possess a rare and unique character that makes a fun profile pic, which cannot be taken away from you.
- Co-ownership of unlimited worldwide commercial licensing rights to your character to create your own stories and sell merchandise.
- Secure lifetime access to an exclusive social network.
- Vote on Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) improvement proposals funded by a community wallet.
- Earn Poop Energy Points (PEP), which is not an investment but provides additional utility.
- Periodically claim free (+ gas fees) NFT comic books which will have special utilities (an additional retail value of $100+).
But the most compelling part of our roadmap is the metaverse liquidity mining feature!
Our goal is to acquire an estate with multiple parcels of land in The Sandbox Game virtual world to build the Cute Poop metaverse based on locations featured in the comic books. This allows us to immerse visitors with our unique and wild vision and increase exposure to the Cute Poop story and our community.
In the future, we'd like to offer Cute Poop NFT holders the opportunity to set up shops, host games, schedule workshops, and organize concerts on dedicated parcels of land just like being a vendor or performer at a music festival!
In order to realize this vision, at the start, we will leverage The Sandbox Game land ownership to liquidity mine SAND tokens on less than 10% of genesis drop funds. By owning multiple parcels of land, it will multiply our liquidity mining yield.
We want to split this yield back to the Cute Poop organization and NFT holders so that you have funds to design wearables and book guests on our land. Yield may first be distributed into the community wallet, but over time it could be claimable in the future by individuals.
Liquidity mining is not passive income! Simple work will need to be done to claim yield.
Chris: What is the price of CutePoop NFT now? Which platform is to be sued for the trading of CutePoop?
Eugene: The price per Cute Poop NFT is 0.05 ETH and they live on the Ethereum blockchain so you can easily trade them on OpenSea, which is the largest secondary market NFT platform.
Chris: I would love to get one complimentary. How do I keep myself updated on the competitions and giveaways?
Eugene: We do giveaways from time to time, so you would need to follow us on Twitter
And to really keep updated before anyone else, you would need to join our Discord
Chris: Finally, what is the plan for CutePoop in the future? Do you wish to expand into merchandising, games, or any other platform?
Eugene: Ever since I've been collecting NFTs at the start of the year, I found that many popular NFTs are based on wonderful art, a fun backstory, but are grappling with their collectors to invest their valuable time to create an ambitious narrative.
Unlike other projects that are struggling to create deep lore with their anxious communities, as a Hollywood professional, I have already structured out an exciting multi-year storyline in the form of NFT comic books!
Our main focus is to create a powerful emotional attachment to the Cute Poop characters through dramatic storytelling with NFTs — interactive art that can be designed to do things such as unlock hidden features at key narrative events or transform over time based on how long you have them stored in your wallet!
For example, we might make a Magic Mushroom that appears in a specific comic book be available to claim as an NFT.
Over time we can update the metadata to show the NFT Mushroom evolving!
Later, you’d have the options to:
A. Use it later to unlock a special upgrade for your character.
B. Burn it for PEP tokens.
C. Let it sit in your wallet, but it expires after a certain date and dies.
D. Revive a dying NFT Mushroom back with PEP tokens.
The Cute Poop story of magic, mayhem, tragedy, and triumph unfolds in 3 parts:
Part 1 Slime Slaughter
Part 2 Demon Destruction
Part 3 Tragic Times
Each NFT comic book will be roughly 25 pages.
Once we have released the first 5 issues of the mini-series for Part 1, we'll have 125 pages of content, which is equivalent to the length of a feature-length movie. We will then convert the comic book story into a screenplay and pursue an animated production.
Games are possible, and we are lucky to have Sara on our team who is an expert and the metaverse lead of her company, but please keep in mind that games can take several years to produce. We want our NFT collectors to be engaged with new content every month and NFT comic books are the quickest solution that has the most emotional impact.
Our NFT comic books will also be burnable for PEP tokens or allowed to be merged into s single NFT graphic novel to add another fun layer of gamification to our collection.
We have a long-term vision to make Cute Poop a worldwide brand that everyone will fall in love with.
More information can be found on our website.
