This time around we are talking to Dani, Chief Technology Officer of Rock Paper Scissor.
Professional Background: +30 years in IT industry - 20 leading software development teams - React and Solidity developer.
Chris: The Rock Paper Scissors NFT is a phenomenal collection of 10000 tokens of each type namely, rock, paper, and scissors. What do these tokens essentially represent?
Dani: Thousands of decisions are made everyday by people and applications and, in the metaverse, it will just be the same. The future is on the web3 and metaverse but smart contracts can't get data today directly from the real world and they need oracle services in the chain to work.
RPS mission is to bring unbiased decision power to the web3 community, specifically by providing web3 distributed oracle service to the society. We want to do this in the easiest way possible using as an example the popular game Rock Paper Scissors.
Therefore, we did not want to create yet another useless NFT but on the contrary, each token will allow Web3 DApps to take unbiased decisions in the metaverse thanks to our NFTs.
Chris: We also noticed that the DAO for Rock Paper Scissors NFT works through RPS distributed oracle services, DApps. What are the benefits of using their services?
Dani: Actually we are not just going to use our services to help our DAO to make decisions but rather we will expose and help any DAO, DApp and smart contract in essence to take advantage of our services so they can make unbiased decisions. Talking about benefits, most of us are aware of the RPS as a funny game but it is more than that.
RPS is a mathematical model that has to do with "game theory" and there are many use cases where RPS models can help smart contracts and DApps to make unbiased decisions in an unfair and better way than just using a random as ChainLink Oracle or with a deterministic algorithm. We have some examples showing in our medium account.
Chris: It is noteworthy that you want to create an unbiased dispute management system for the convenience of the investors. However, what else can the NFT do apart from being a pure artwork collectible?
Dani: RPS NFTs Art has invested a lot of time to generate high quality collectibles but as you say this is not just the benefits that owners of our NFTs will have. By holding one of our NFTs they will get a passive income from the benefits generated by our service. We will distribute it proportionally among our collections giving more weight to the early adopters as we want to reward the trust and loyalty as much as possible. The services will be paid using a new token that will be created after our third collection and when the Oracle Service will be able to start functioning. There will be benefits for the NFT owners as we will airdrop some of those tokens among our existing community.
We also wanted to contribute with the 5% of the sales of the Scissors collection to one NGO. The initial idea was to contribute via TheGivingBlock, we talked to them and everything was arranged so our smart contract would directly send that amount to one Technical cause to help on the Web3 investigation. However, Ukraine was invaded in the interim so we decided that it was a good opportunity for our community to help that country in these tough times and - as we were on time - we changed the contract to contribute rather to UkraineDAO. You can witness the address for the UkraineDAO in our contract and the logic for the contribution in our currently verified and published code at Etherscan.io (visit our website for the links)
Additionally, and worth mentioning, the Scissor owners of our 1st collection that hold some of the 20 unique VIP collectibles will have similar benefits as ones of the co-founders.
Chris: We also read that there were a few contests open only to owners of Rock Paper Scissors NFT. Please elaborate on those and the ways in which one can participate in the contests.
Dani: At our discord we are generating a very nice community thanks to the RPS games and other contests. Also community members that help the community to grow will be compensated with our 1st prize (to be released after 50% of the minting) which will be 4 ETH distributed among the top three contributors. We also have a second prize that will air drop 5 ETH among 10 NFT owners after 75% of the minting and "the star" of the prizes : 50 ETH in a first in class treasure hunt on chain where we will allow NFT owners to create groups of maximum 10 members on chain to resolve a puzzle (similar to ETH miners). The first team that resolves the puzzle will trigger the smart contract (source code already available) to equally distribute the total prize amount among the team.
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Chris: Moreover, the first drop looks dope! What are the traits and characteristics that set them apart?
Dani: The benefits explained so far are for the community members (prizes, passive income) or for the industry (distributed oracle service using RPS to help DApps to take decisions). However, we have also designed our NFTs (starting by 1st drop, Scissors) not only excelling at the high quality of their 3D graphs (taking extreme care about light directions, positioning of objects to ensure unique 1:1 generative NFTs are created) but also excelling at some of the technical decisions that makes our collection one of a kind.
At RPS NFT Art we are purists when it comes to Web3,DApps, Blockchain and in the decentralized concept and what it means in terms of freedom. When we saw that many of the collections were hosting their images and metadata in private central webservers defeating the whole concept of an NFT we decided that we wanted our community to own a real ERC-721 NFT and not a simple record in the blockchain pointing to a webserver image. So all our metadata and media are hosted in a P2P system, the interplanetary filesystem (IPFS) so community owners can be sure that their minted collectible will never disappear.
Following that rationale, we did not want to have the typical reveal process after minting because (although we accept it can create some hype and excitement among the community) we did not want the smart contract to allow anyone to change the media and metadata of the minted collectibles from our community. We believe this is not fair and defeats the whole concept of an NFT as explained by Pinata.cloud in the article link you can find at our website.
Our future drops will also include other innovations by allowing owners some personalization before they mint, but always respecting the main concepts of decentralization and web3. Stay tuned...
Chris: Do you also have some rare tokens? How can one pick the rare ones, if any?
Dani: Before the pre-sales our community will be able to bid on one super-rare collectible at OpenSea (btw, top 250 bidders will enter in the whitelist for the presales). Moreover we have 20 unique VIP collectibles that are unique not only on what it means from the benefits they will provide their owners (similar to the ones from co-founders) but also because we wanted to design them to claim for the Peace in Ukraine and in the World.
As for the rest of the Scissors collection, it has more than 200 traits but our generation algorithm takes care on the rarity so be ready for pretty cool combinations but I cannot explain to you how they will be as they will be generated randomly...
Chris: More importantly, what would be the price of each Rock Paper Scissors NFT? How much will be the gas?
Dani: The price during pre-sales (March 18th) will be 0.05 ETH each and during public sales (March 25th) it will be 0.07 ETH. We have tested and validated the smart contract in order to reduce as much as possible the minting gas which is 173.000 gas units per mint which means around 0,007 ETH per mint if gas is around 45 GWEIs during minting.
Chris: Before we end, we would like you to share the minting process for the first drop of Rock Paper Scissors NFT.
Dani: No matter if you are part of the pre-sales because you wanted to bid on our super-rare card at OpenSea or if you decide to wait for the public sales you will need to
1) visit our website
2) connect your wallet
3) select the amount (maximum 2 for pre-sales per account or 25 per transaction during public sales)
4) press the MINT button
You will get access to your unique Scissors collectibles immediately in your wallet and immediately revealed at OpenSea, Rarible and Foundation.app
