Chris Chris 23.02.2022

Elite Apes are 1/10,000 , All Hand Drawn and Connected to the $10k in ETH Prize β€” Creator's Interview

Chris: Hi there! How are you? What's your name? 

MJ: My name is MJ (Mary Jane) and I am the founder of an NFT project called STAC, a female founded project with the goal of breaking barriers in the Real Estate Investments and Syndicates space in efforts to drive inclusivity and equity. My background has been in real estate investing and participating in syndicates in the residential and commercial space, and more recently in commercial cannabis real estate investment and development space.

Chris: There is quite a few ape artwork NFTs in the Metaverse. How are Stoned Apes different and unique from the crowd?

MJ: There are three main differentiators in our artwork.

1. Our artwork differentiates the separation in the tokenized P2E game. We have federal apes artistically drawn to stand out amongst the stoned apes. These features and characteristics directly impact the staking game, their role, and how they earn $toke.

2. Our artwork is inclusive, if not one of the first projects with not only co-ed, (male and female characteristics), but also all gender identities and traits to reflect that our community is inclusive throughout, including the art.

3. Our artwork was handpicked and influenced by the founders. From hair, to lips, to attire, the founders had influence in the artwork and what characteristics were included in the hand drawn elements. This provided a very large scope and variety of uniquely generated ape artwork

Chris: So, the stoned Apes support cannabis real estate development through the NFTs. How do you aim to do that? Do you also have any collaborations to support you in the initiative?

MJ: With our background and current clients being large commercial cannabis developers, our process is already streamlined as we have been pivotal for driving the legalization of cannabis in now, 9 cities across southern California. We have worked with our clients through the end-to-end lifecycle from acquisition of property, to zoning, permitting, licensing, and entitlements, to build out and growing. Now, our clients are the holders of a STAC NFT (Stoned ape club NFT). We currently have 4 properties in our sights that we believe will be great cannabis properties that will be able to generate revenue for us. Mint funds will be used to acquire, zone, license the property. Once the property is ready, STAC holders will have the opportunitiy to vote whether they would like us to negotiate a sale of the property for a lump sum profit which a portion will be distributed to the holders through the liquidity pool (while another portion is reinvested) or, if we were to bring on a business partner and negotiate a % ownership for STAC to collect a % of gross revenue share towards our liquidity pool. In essence, the question is do you want a lot of a money at once, or do you want a lot of money spread over a longer period of time and earn it month over month. The properties are held in a corporation that is already in existence, and once our property is owned by this entity, the corporation docs will be publicized to our holders and a copy of the title to the property will be made available for our holders.

We currently have fantastic collaborations in place that we did not even anticipate on having. We are currently working with the company who manages the distribution for Tyson 2.0 and finalizing a custom strain and product line only available to our STAC fam, implementing the products similar to a “secret menu” at starbucks. We are also in collaboration with various cannabis companies and have been sponsored by Job Rolling Papers, Vela Extracts, and GamersGas. We also already have interest from commercial cannabis developers and dispensary owners who would like to franchise their own businesses on our properties. The possibilities are endless, really.

 

Chris: It is worth noting that you have picked the Solana blockchain over the commonly used Ethereum. What is the reason behind your choice? 

MJ: Our project is actually on Ethereum I think you have it confused with another project

Chris: I see. So, when does the token release for public minting? Do you also have any airdrops lined up for the interest of your prospective investors? 

MJ: The token is already generating per NFT once staked. We're about 15% through our mint and the community is already staking their NFT's generating these $TOKE tokens. Future plans are a liquidity staking portal in our web based game for them to be able to generate APY in the LP.

Chris: Similarly, you also have some attractive prizes to be won. How does one get listed to be one of the claimants for these prizes?

MJ: The prizes were an incentive to signify our commitment to providing benefits to our community from the beginning, we're randomly raffling these Elite Apes so that the NFT minters can get a chance to win either $10,000 USD in Ethereum ( 10 winners). And one grand prize winner will win $200k in ETH. Of course the caveat is that we need to hit our 100% Mint goal, or this is not feasible. And as the project pivots or may need a price adjustment in case the overall price of ethereum changes, we will get the approval of our community to adjust these prizes if needed. 

Chris: It is noteworthy that there is an Elite Ape in the collection. How rare are these tokens? How does the investor know about the rare NFTs?

MJ: Elite Apes are 1/10,000 , all hand drawn and have distinct features compared to the rest of the collection. These are connected to the $10k in ETH prize when they are properly minted and staked by the holder, we will do a live drawing of the number every 1,000 mints and airdrop the prizes to the eligible winner. The rules for the rare NFTs are already outlined in our Discord, Twitter and Website

Chris: Before we end, please share your roadmap for the future?

MJ: Our roadmap 1.0 is incredibly aggressive. I often feel that we chose the hard stuff to accomplish first! Our roadmap currently consists of 5 main pillars:

1. Real Estate ownership, specifically in cannabis real estate development

2. A creative P2E game with a sustainable ecosystem and tokenomics that include external revenue generation through real estate passive income and ability to mint new NFTs with $Toke. We have 9000 stoned apes, 1000 fed apes.

3. Social responsibility- donating towards cannabis related causes, for example creating grants that may be given to research towards CBD impacts for cancer patients.

4. Holder exclusive events- nursery and grow visits, harvest events, access to the property itself, as well as shelf space designated for brands within our community.

5. Crypto cash back, rebates via toke for legal cannabis purchases,

We have started to talk about roadmap 2.0 as we start to live within this ecosystem and the tokenomics we have created really establishes a sustainable infrastructure as we have planned for it to do so. Roadmap 2.0 includes some of the easy and fun stuff! Branded Merch and access to a secret menu of product/merch. We are already working with a scientist and creating our own strain of delta 8/9 products, and a secret menu of products available only to our members. We have taken some of the artwork created and are having it made into actual merch, such as the hat with the word “STAC” embroidered on the underside, or some of the t-shirts that the apes are wearing. We also have discussed how roadmap 2.0 can expand into additional investments as well including non-cannabis related acquisitions that will generate positive cash flow for the community. The possibilities are endless and I can’t wait to se what else we will accomplish together!