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LootLARP Q&A
Banners Q&A
Around the Lootverse
Loot Retroactive Community Funding
Realms (for Adventurers)
HyperLoot (for Adventurers)
DivineDAO
Loot LA
LootLARP Q&A w/ ndimwit & alberto147
1) Describe your first experiences with Loot. How you heard about it. What the crazy first couple weeks were like.
ndimwit: I’m in a private chat group where people sniff out new hype projects and mints, trading tips and broadly discussing industry trends. Around the time Loot was launched, the chat typically had 30-100 messages a day. The night of Loot’s launch, there were >1000 messages in a few hours. It was madness. I unfortunately caught this all after the fact and there were way too many messages to sift through so I ignored it for a couple of days (huge regret).
Next thing I knew, Twitter was ablaze with Loot fever. Once I finally read dhof’s original tweets and dove in further to understand what Loot was, something immediately sparked. So many feelings from my childhood swelled up - my mind immediately jumped to memories of Lord of the Rings & “Forgotten Realms” novels, text-based RPGs like Zork, and weeks spent designing little pen and paper RPG systems... but this was furiously mixing with ideas from my adult life, with all of the hope and optimism that web3 gives me now. I was reading about how Loot could be the birth of the first bottom-up community-built AAA video game. I was watching the first derivatives launch - I really wanted an Abstract Loot and a Realms NFT. By this point, the price was through the roof. FOMO kicked in hard and I bought the early September top. The thing is, I don’t regret it one bit. I don’t intend to ever sell this “silly jpg”. Loot is a truly historic artifact - it re-imagines how we engage with history, collectively. I’m sure many actively engaged Loot owners feel the same way.
alberto147 & ndimwit: Perhaps all NFTs have that potential, but the way that Loot inspired so many to build new games and stories together makes us think that there is something special in its flavour of meme magic. In our minds, Loot is like a shelling point for the best geek-out cosplay sleepover ever. All of the drama and vampires in the world can’t prevent those who care from coordinating to create the greatest decentralized story of all time.
2) How did this project come about? Tell us how the team came together and what about Loot energized you all.
n&a: Our story is a story about friendship. For more than 15 years, both of us were deeply ingrained in art & music scenes, throwing raves and making music, together and apart. We started our careers making weird techno and touring together. Looking back, much of it was about elaborately convincing people to let their guard down and have fun together. We eventually moved to different cities, building careers of our own in and around the media & culture industries, but staying as close as siblings.
We had both been looking for years for an excuse to work together again, and there was something in Loot’s blank slate invitation to play that made it feel like it could be the right moment to reunite the band and co-author the next chapter in our book of adventures together. The WAGMI Loot spirit has been channeled into a siren call that we are using to onboard many of our super talented and crypto-curious friends to work on this with us, and to dive into web3. It’s been working pretty effectively thus far, so we’re saying this now: Loot is going to onboard the next billion LARPers into web3 😉. We’re hopeful that we can help make space for them to join in the lore.
3) After LootLarp is successful, what’s next? What’s the big vision?
n&a: If it goes well then we’ll throw the next LootLARP. We are thinking deeply about how to do this at scale, and how to enable people to organize their own LootLARPs in a permissionless and decentralized manner in meatspace. We want to engage and showcase all of the incredible Loot projects in the ecosystem. We’ve been rallying people to help us build a lot of pieces to help make that happen, some of which will debut soon for this first edition of LootLARP. Hopefully this will set us up to create more moments of collective joy and adventure in the world… be the LARP that you want to see!
Follow @lootlarp on Twitter & join their Discord to mint a digi-physical item & ticket to their IRL LARP event!
Banners Q&A - Pt. 1
1) Describe your first experiences with Loot. How you heard about it. What the crazy first couple weeks were like.
Our first experience with Loot was FOMO. We missed the mint, and didn't really get exposed to it for a couple of days. At that point, I think we were like most people. But in going back through the tweets and reading "intentionally omitted for others to interpret" we knew it was special. We weren't in the '10k fOr A LiSt of WOrds' camp at all. We got it. We knew something was building and we wanted to be a part of it. My partner and I literally bounced ideas back and forth for like 6 weeks before something clicked. It was FOMO because we missed the initial drop, but we knew it was the foundation of something much bigger, so we had this burning desire to be involved...but without an idea. It was a maddening state to be in! Eventually, a really bad idea thrown out in a brainstorm session, morphed into a great one, and Banners was born.
2) How did this project come about? Tell us how the team came together and what about Loot energized you all.
Over that initial 6 weeks Post-Loot, we kept reading and kept up on the community. It was the material that Timshel was putting out through Genesis Project that helped us arrive at Banners. The Meta Timeline discovery was made, and it clicked for us: Banners, society for Loot. Reading 'cracks in the 16 orders' was our lightbulb moment. Loot turned on the electricity to the house, but that line was what flipped the switch. We kept asking ourselves, who else is in the Lootverse...The existence of Adventurers must also mean the existence of less or non-adventurous people. If people are Adventuring, then there would surely have to be people not on Adventures that they could encounter. (Or if there are hunters, there must be farmers. If there are warriors, there must people & places to defend.) We couldn't get our minds off of the idea of everyone else. With the end of the Exodus period in mind, we roughed out the initial NFT society and have been working on it non-stop since. The pace of progress when everyone is on board is pretty crazy, and really fun to be involved in.
Part 2 of this Q&A will run next week…
Banners Mint Days — Loot & Realm Holders: Dec 19th. Public Sale: Dec. 21st. Actual time of day TBA.
For more information and to stay up-to-date, follow Banners on Twitter (@BannersNFT) and join the Discord.
Around the Lootverse
Loot Retroactive Community Funding
Voting for Round 1 of Loot Retroactive Community Funding is live on Snapshot until 12PM PST TODAY: https://snapshot.org/#/loot-dao.eth/proposal/0xaa8d5081c6a0fb19abf8868825d87aa5d914bcf1c5afda01d58a16a5c34a3463
Due to the gas challenges of allocating small grants with on-chain voting, the proposal outlines an initial 25 ETH block grant, allocated to retroactively fund great public goods projects using quadratic voting via Snapshot.
The proposal has three steps, of which the first has been completed:
Discussion and selection of included public goods projects for Round 1
Snapshot vote for fund allocation
On-chain treasury vote for execution
The following projects have been selected for Round 1:
LootWatcher (https://www.lootwatcher.com/)
The Herald (https://lootproject.substack.com/)
Loot Swag (https://lootswag.io/)
Loot Bibliotheca (https://bibliothecaforloot.com/loot)
Loot Exchange (https://www.loot.exchange/)
Dom (@dhof)
LootMart (https://www.lootmart.xyz/)
Loot Rarity (https://github.com/bpierre/loot-rarity)
George (Loot Discord)
These public goods projects have provided significant value to the Loot Ecosystem, often while collecting minimal fees. Retroactive funding allocates treasury funds to these projects for previous work, incentivizing them to continue to build the Loot ecosystem.
LEARN MORE & VOTE 👇👇👇
Realms (for Adventurers)
Stake your Realms, earn $LORDS.
HyperLoot (for Adventurers)
Reveal this week.
DivineDAO
Guilds coming soon.
Loot LA
I started a Telegram group to organize a January Loot meetup in Los Angeles.
Loot attracts some of the most talented builders and creators in this space. My hope is that we can bring these great minds together IRL regularly for dinners, events, co-working, side-project demo days.
The first meetup and any programming afterward are of course open to anyone and everyone. Loot fandom not required. We want to connect web3 talent, but also bring curious people into web3.
Join the Telegram here: https://t.co/jmvlov1ubT
Keep dreaming.
Keep building.
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