Modal Series Auction Details
TLDR: You will recieve a percentage of pieces equal to the percentage of total bids for which your funds account. Anyone can bid, but server roles have advantage.
24hrs Starting Today (6pm ET Tues - 6pm ET Wed)
Takes place fully on Modal site (link in bio)
No collabs, whitelist, or mint phases
Funds weighted by Discord roles, so join and don't be a bot
Payable in ETH, SOL, USDC [on either] and BTC
Requires recieiving taproot wallet (they are ordinals inscriptions)
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There are 511 pieces in total across the nine subseries in this collection, w/460 being auctioned. 51 will be withheld to populate a treasury for marketing, placements and [mostly] treasury swaps. More on treasury swaps later.
All funds logged in BTC terms as they roll in so that the auction can be properly denominated in BTC.
Funds can have weight multipliers added based on Discord roles, but you have to connect Discord for this feature to work. It's up to 25% or 1.25x. We will not show your Discord name in the leaderboard or bid reel, just the first and last of your incomplete taproot address so you can see where you stand.
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This batch auction works as follows- If the ending total bids recieved equal $4,600 and there are 460 pieces, the closing price is $10. In this case:
If you've sent $105 without weight, you'll recieve 10 pieces and $5 back (potentially minus chain fees).
If you've sent $100 25% weight, you have an effective bid of $125. You'll recieve 12 pieces, but no refund, as the final $5 in this case is weight and not funds.
If you bid $6, you'll be given a refund (potentially minus chain fees) for being under the closing price.
You'll be able to view your projected allocation live as the bids progress and see a leaderboard during the live auction.
Pieces will be airdropped randomly to the winning taproot addresses within 24-48hrs of auction close.
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Thanks in advance to anyone participating or even just spectating. I'm really excited to share this, and excited to test this new mechanism of distribution. I think it solves a lot of common problems we have in this space. Let's see how it works.
TLDR: I make stuff and want to show you.
1. New wesbite in my bio. Go snoop around & join the Discord if you like the work.
2. I made this pfp, and it's part of a larger series.
3. 24hr batch auction starts tomorrow for the [Modal] series. Full details tomorrow on this.
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I'd consider it my first release around here (kinda), and we've built a batch auction platform to distribute it in a way that addresses boring pain points noticed in our eco such as whitelisting, collabs, mint phases and price-setting.
I've been diving deeply into pixel art the last several years, but for the most part it's been off-the-radar. It's not my first foray into the art world - far from it. But this is my first time in a while talking about my own work publicly here.
The Modal series (if I had to label it) is a minimalist abstract color study that focuses on our path from atoms to sentience to singularity. I guess it's commentary on (and my way of digesting) how we might've happened to end up where we are.
This is a deeply personal work to me, so I hope that anyone who heads to the site feels even a fraction as excited as I am about it.
It's a strange execution, as it includes nine distinct subseries, and even a draft parent with 100 drafts reinscribed along the way to detail the process further.
There are tons of easter eggs such as 255 cross-series duos with related palettes and on-chain trait sorting (notably in Identity and Gradient series) straight from any non-marketplace explorer.
There's so much to explore about parent-child relationships, the ordinals protocol and the nature of existence in general and this is a direct product of that overlap.
Feel free to DM with any questions about the work or better yet post them below- as others might be wondering the same thing.
Thanks for the eyes <3