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Posted on May 27, 2022Read on Mirror.xyz

Introducing the Early WAGMAM Collection

A little over a month ago, on the 21st of April, we announced a collaboration agreement for the development and production of The Infinite Machine Movie with ScottFree, Ridley Scott’s production company. Such a relevant announcement rallied attention and new collectors, and besides welcoming everyone to this fantastic dream of a project, we came to the conclusion that early adopters had to be handsomely rewarded somehow.

At The Infinite Machine Movie & Collection we’re fully aware of the decentralised “Ethos”, the set of values that allow communities to prosper in a fair and healthy fashion, rewarding early adopters and contributors, and rallying individuals wanting to take part in long term processes ideal for building meaningful and long-lasting projects.

By early adopters we refer to all those that were holding a TIMMC NFT a couple of hours before the announcement of such an agreement with ScottFree.

Next Saturday, the 28th, we will be conducting an airdrop to reward all those early adopters.  This drop will be performed on Ethereum’s Mainnet and eligible users won’t have to do anything, they’ll just receive such NFTs. We’ve labeled the collection “Early WAGMAM”.

The collection is made up of a total of 1559 NFTS (please note reference to EIP1559), of which 1417 will be dropped (this is the number of wallets holding original NFTs a couple of hours before the announcement) plus 142 additional ones to be minted for Marketing purposes. The NFTs have been designed by the artist Sasha Katz, who has created 3 versions to differentiate between the three holder tiers (Ethereans, Interns and Maxis), and as usual has been curated and coordinated by Gladys Garrote.

This collection is special because, beyond carrying votes for the DAO once its activated, movie rarity traits will be included.

Movie Rarity trait distribution

All NFTs from this collection will carry the right to Movie Credits, to be highlighted and differentiated (by color, font, or any other means) from credits from the original collection.

Additionally, there’s a total of 15 Extra traits (7 to be dropped, 8 for marketing NFTs), 40 Premiere invitations (20 dropped, 20 for marketing), and 50 invitations to tour the Shooting (25 dropped and 25 for marketing). Please find below a table with this breakdown.

Early WAGMAM Collection Rarity Distribution

Rarity traits for NFTs destined for marketing have been assigned manually, whilst rarity traits for dropped NFTs have been assigned randomly through a system designed by Juanu Haedo, our lead engineers, which works as follows;

  • First the list of holders was generated. This list is generated using the snapshot which is ordered by Token Id (from token 1 to 4166).  Then, the list by Level was created (Etherean, Intern or Maxi) by counting how many tokens each account has. This list is called "Holders by level" and is built by order of appearance on the snapshot.
  • Second, we randomised the assignment of traits. For this, we generated the list of token IDs to drop (1 to 1417) and created a PRNG (pseudo-random number generator) with the seed "We're all gonna make a movie!". Such list was then randomised and assigned the 7 "Extra" traits to the first 7 randomised items of the list. With the remains of the original list (original list  minus the 7 NFTs holding Extra rarities), the list was randomised again and 20 token IDs were assigned the Premiere trait.
  • Last, the process was repeated to assign the "Shooting" trait to the first 25 tokens.

Since each randomisation makes a new call to the `randomize()` function, each randomisation iteration is different but, since we are using a seed, this randomisation can be replicated.

The code of the repo (as well as the original snapshot list) will be shared for anyone to validate.

This is a long term project, with a first ground breaking milestone such as The Infinite Movie is, its objective being to become a major decentralised media player in the web3 space for the years to come. As a general philosophical rule of conduct, we’d like to emphasise that this is a project that aims to provide value to all its holders and contributors beyond enjoying terrific art, and that anyone holding original NFTs should expect to be surprised over time, whether via drops like the WAGMAM collection (34 drops by 34 of our original artists), through this drop or via the many amazing surprises we’re working on and will be unveiled over time. Getting early matters, weathering the ups and downs over time matters, and helping shape up this wonderful project also matters.

We hope all eligible holders will be happy with this initiative and invite and welcome all new ones willing to explore the future with us!

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