Sailing the OpenSea: Heart Project, Letters, Smilesssvrs & More
Ahoy and GM, weary traveler.
Traversing the vast expanse of the world’s largest NFT marketplace has become a bit daunting, hasn’t it?
Well fret not. I’ve been venturing far and wide with the simple goal of unearthing the most innovative and awe-inspiring NFT projects out there!
In this weekly column, I’ll share all sorts of discoveries with you — big, small, new and old. So all aboard the S.S. WAGMI to marvel at what I’ve found whilst Sailing the OpenSea …
The Heart Project
The Heart Project is both an NFT avatar project and a community-run creative studio. Comprised of 10,000 unique heart NFTs, the collection gives its owners access to a collaborative portal in the project’s Discord.
Each Heart NFT is a combination of 235 unique 2D attributes randomized via AI, and gives its collector the ability to have a say in future project endeavors. The project has a music video, clothing capsule, game and album on the horizon; the floor has settled at 0.1 ETH.
Letters by Vinnie Hager
Letters is a collection of 1/1 hand-drawn illustrations from artist and NFT collector Vinnie Hager. Letters, his genesis NFT collection, consists of 1,000 NFTs of varying rarities.
The project minted on Oct. 29, and sold out in less than 24 hours. Letters already feels like an NFT community favorite, with numerous influencers featuring Hager’s art as their PFPs and some pieces even being displayed on billboards in Times Square during NFT.NYC. The current floor price of Letters is 0.479 ETH.
Smilesssvrs
Smilesssvrs is a new NFT avatar project from quickly rising 3D artist Waheed Zai. Featuring 8,888 generative full-body 3D characters hand designed by Zai, the collection sold out on Nov. 3, with the full extent of the collection yet to be revealed.
Zai rose to prominence in the last year — due in part to the virality of his take on an iconic meme of Young Thug and Lil Durk and album cover created for Pooh Shiesty — he now ventures into the large-scale avatar collectibles market with his Smilesssvrs’ NFT project. The current floor for Smilesssvrs is 0.178 ETH.
AIFA Genesis
AIFA Genesis is a collection of unique 3D animated characters from Altered State Machine. The collection currently totals 10,000 NFT boxes, with each box containing four configurable avatars yet to be revealed.
ASM’s AIFA Genesis (Artificial Intelligence Football Association) is the first step toward a forthcoming NFT soccer game in which the currently concealed avatars will compete. The cheapest AIFA Genesis box currently available to purchase costs 0.43 ETH.
Brotchain
Brotchain is a generative NFT art project with bitmaps generated and rendered entirely “in-chain” by a blockchain contract. The Brotchain, launched in August 2021, collection consists of 506 NFTs.
Unlike other generative NFT projects, Brotchain has no inputs, no externalities and no rendering dependencies — meaning each NFT is a direct reflection of the Solidity that makes up the project’s contract. The current Brotchain floor sits at 2.25 ETH.
Thedudes
Thedudes is a collection of fully code-generated interactive PFP NFTs. The 512 NFT dudes — which each can be directly interacted with via OpenSea — have gained significant popularity within the non-fungible community since the late July launch.
Similar to Brotchain, thedudes is a reflection of the coding that makes up its contract. As stated by the developers of thedudes, “No designer worked on this. No one actually drew these. It’s just some code that generates random ugly dudes.” The current dudes floor is 3.7 ETH.
10KTF
Created by enigmatic digital craftsman Wagmi San, 10KTF is a project that designs unique metaverse wearables for holders of specific NFT projects. The collection, which launched without warning toward the end of September, consists of nearly 15,000 NFTs and is continuously growing.
Currently, only owners of Bored Apes, Mutant Apes, Bored Ape Kennel Club dogs, Cool Cats, Pudgy Penguins, World of Women, Forgotten Runes Wizard’s and 0N1 Force NFTs have the ability to mint custom wearables that depict the color palette and imagery of their tokens. But according to cryptic tweets and announcements made regularly, it seems the 10KTF ecosystem may soon be expanding. The current floor for already minted 10KTF NFTs is 0.175 ETH.