Today we are going to talk about a product that you have hardly ever heard of, but I think everyone should pay attention, because they are the true guardians of the blockchain - Clone Force.
First I want to tell you about the team, then let's move on to the history of the brand.
Each member of the team is a person with extensive experience in their field, learning the history of the creators, you can see that the project are working on real professionals.
Yobs [Co-Founder] - Yobs is a Multi disciplinary artist and visionary. Best known for his fine detailed custom paintwork on luxury leather goods. Since starting to customize sneakers and clothing for the streetwear scene in London from the age of 15, he has collaborated and worked with brands such as NIKE, Hummel and Footlocker, as well as creating customs for high profile clientele such as Ronaldinho & Travis Scott. Previously working as a lead airbrush artist for RTFKT was a major catalyst into entering the web3 space. Now a prominent and positive community member in the Clone X ecosystem, Yobs found his calling creating wearables for clones under his brand CLNWR.
Saffakanera [Co-Founder] - Saffakanera is highly awarded creative director specializing in branding, working at some of the worlds best creative agencies including M&C Saatchi, Frost, BBDO, and RGA. At present he’s Head of Brand Design at Proto, where he utilizes his skills in motion design, art direction, graphic design and branding to help shape brands at the forefront of technology and innovation. He’s helped clients big and small including the likes of Coca Cola, Pepsi Co, Google, Amazon, L’Oreal, Harvey Nichols, MTV, KFC, Centrepoint and Australian Cancer Research Foundation. Saffa accidentally fell into web3, when trying to support a friend’s “art project”. But it was only after joining the CloneX community that he truly fell in love with the space and began to see the real potential that this new world could unlock. Saff also has its own project to create limited edition clothing.
TOPRAK3D [Co-Founder] - Toprak is a 3D Generalist, mixing innovative technologies with his art. After receiving 3D education from Plato MYO, he spent the next 5 years working in the industry. During this time, he specialized as a lighting & shading artist at the top advertising and animation studio in Turkey, creating animations for clients such as Sony, Coca Cola, Sensodyne and many more. After discovering web3, Toprak decided to quit his job and give his full focus to creating animations and models for the Metaverse. One of his most notable creations being the 'Gothic Throne Room' submission for the RTFKT creators loot pod challenge, which landed him the number 1 spot in the challenge making him an official RTFKT.
LOKAGG [Chief Operating Officer] - LokaGG is a long time investor and collector in the web3 space with an economic and administration degree from Handelshoyskolen BI in Norway. A triumphant entrepreneur in web2 who fell down the rabithole back in 2016 with a lot of sucessful investments in numerous startups both in and outside of web3. Among his best early investments, you can find the likes of IOTA, OMG Network (OmiseGo), Tezos, EOS, NEO (Antshares) and CryptoKitties. And in recent years the likes of Beeple art, BAYC, FEWOCiOUS, Cool Cats NFT and last but not least RTFKT. Loka gained the title of “eligble for most mintvials” ١ 5452 leading up to the drop of Clone X by holding 47 eligible items, most of which were minted from the early days of RTFKT, meaning he was able to mint a whopping 141 mint vials. Loka is the epitomy of diamond hands, a certified degen who only invests in things that are dope and innovative with a solid team behind it.
EDDSKI [Head of Animation] - Eddie is the founder and primary educator at Griffin Animation Academy. He has a background in Media Arts from Curtin University and has been in the VFX / Animation industry for nearly 20 years. Eddie has worked on over 50 animated projects ranging from TV shows, Game Cinematics to Hollywood productions including Godzilla vs Kong, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and The Battle of the Five Armies, Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse, Diablo 2: Resurrection, Halo Infinite and most recently the upcoming Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Eddie founded Griffin Animation Academy with the hopes of helping aspiring animators reach the next level in their careers. Aligning with the core fundamentals of web3 drove Eddie to take his skills to the metaverse.
NOX [Developer] - Nox is an experienced software engineer who's been in the industry for over 10 years. He's an entrepreneur, a full-stack developer, and a passionate learner in every aspect of his life. Nox has experience working for the biggest companies in the world, including Google - LVMH - L'Oreal, building scalable, distributed systems. He quit his job a few years ago and started freelancing, where he met lots of amazing folks all over the world and built lots of interesting projects. He recently got into the web3 world and immediately fell in love with it. It's a whole new decentralized world, waiting to be built from the ground up, which makes it extra interesting to him.
The story of Clone Force begins on July 20. The team posted a short video on their social media, in which they demonstrated their professional skills. The tweet immediately received support from the RTFKT team and interest in the project was immediately high.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1549796022355910657?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
On August 5, the team opened a discord server for 5 days. Then it became closed. At that time, about 7 thousand people joined discord, among which there were about 700 bots who were banned.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1555541930578165760?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
Already the day after the closure of Discord, August 11, the first quest was announced. The whole point of the quest was to link your discord and wallet to the website. For the quest was allocated 5 days.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1557778966366273538?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
On August 16, Clone Force announced a free NFT The Calling - Clone Force MintStone (ATH 0.3 ETH). This NFT was a pass to the main NFT in the ecosystem, Echostone.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1559603523331190784?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
Another important event in August was the release of the roadmap. The project itself states that they have abandoned the roadmap concept with all future plans because they are subject to change.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1561760679589072896?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
Finally, the last announcement in August was a trailer showing a huge Demon EchoStone.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1565703605381890050?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
In early September, details of the EchoStone, the ecosystem's capstone mint, were announced. The stones were of varying rarity - Human(25%), Robot(20%), Demon(16%), Angel(16%), Reptile(11%), Undead(8%), Alien(5%).
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1567575327374823424?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
On September 12 mint EchoStone happened, for sending MintStone + 0.05 ETH you received depleted MintStone 2 and EchoStone of random rarity.
On the same day, the news came out that in addition to the usual stones, there was an opportunity to get a gold version.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1569342447221719047?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
Two days later, the roadmap changed slightly and an updated version was released.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1570095768995872775?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
As early as September 15, Clone Force will announce Airdrop, an act of unity. EchoStone owners commit to 8 types of quests on the site. When all signatures are achieved, the 1st airdrop for ALL Echostone owners is activated. Every EchoStone owner has received The Nexus Relic.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1570168992270290945?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
On September 16, users discovered eight EchoStone DNAs in the contract. It had the classified name XXXX in the contract. It was necessary to burn 7 known DNA to create the 8 type of DNA. The developers said that it was too early to call this feature and you won't get any benefits from it, but the user with the nickname Kami burned his 7 stones two hours after the announcement. Now there is an eighth DNA called Kami.
https://twitter.com/prollynuthin/status/1570614177424896001?s=20&t=vpwDki8d3d5XhknixywciA
https://twitter.com/yobsyobsyobs/status/1571818154715918336?s=20&t=xe0RgDj0mVdEn_g3iGSdDw
At the end of September, Clone Force announces Trials of the Seven. This is a quest consisting of 7 trials pertaining to different DNA. With each solved quest, the relic changes its appearance and one of the character bars begins to illuminate.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1575202546574315520?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
The team is showing another cinematic trailer, you just have to enjoy it.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1576979145573089287?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
On October 3, the Angel's quest ends.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1577021774461816833?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
On October 7, users solve the Robot's trial.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1578420479320129547?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
The Demon's task is solved on October 12.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1580251548055408640?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
On October 17, the Alien's trial is solved.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1582093678826622979?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
On October 21, the Reptilian trial ends.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1583442610869633024?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
October 26 The Trial of Undead is done. There is one last trial left, and the team decided not to rush into it.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1585356641658339329?s=20&t=DAUIOb5Iv8WQaGKzAZHWdw
In early November, the team shows off parts of the future NFT, most of all it looks like a weapon.
On November 14, what everyone had been waiting for over a month happened - the final trial of The Trials Of The Seven. After solving a simple quest, it was possible to burn a relic and get an guardian. The guardians has 5 types of rarity:
38% GUARDIAN - 40 points across 5 stats
28% PROTECTOR - 50 points across 5 stats
19% CHAMPION - 60 points across 5 stats
12.5% HERO - 70 points across 5 stats
2.5% LEGEND - 80 points across 5 stats
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1592252218450780161?s=20&t=pHAKflUa8AzY033CC2KeXA
At the end of the last challenge, the team once again showed their skills and showed a cinematic video of the destruction of a relic. I think everyone should see it.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1592226614162919424?s=20&t=pHAKflUa8AzY033CC2KeXA
On November 15, Clone Force explains the mechanics of EchoStone staking. Each stone will give a shard each week, a maximum of 3 stones can be placed in 1 armor. After the DNA shards, they will periodically release cosmetic traits to further customize the avatar, opening up the possibility to truly create a unique and personalized Guardian.
https://twitter.com/CloneForceTM/status/1592581482882945025?s=20&t=FwlB6WkccCNfZydYo48_oQ
Why does this project have potential?
It is enough that the team consists of professionals who show quality. When people get tired of 2D pictures made in Paint, Clone Force will already be a big project with a large audience.
Where are the volumes?
You can only answer this question with examples: Bored Ape Yacht Club couldn't sell their collection for 7 days, Bitcoin was once worth $1. I believe that the slower a project develops, the stronger it becomes.
Support from RTFKT?
Yes, this support is there. RTFKT helps the young collection on Twitter, gives the copyright to build a brand around Clone X. It's also no small factor that the collection creators communicate well and keep in touch.
What is Clone Force?
Clone Force is a story driven project delivered through multimedia content and powered by evolutive NFT's, a project that will utilise story telling to bridge the distance between NFT and utility.
Thank you for reading to the end. I hope this article has given you some new insights into this beautiful project.
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