Barbarians steal our resources. The king has the power to burn our city. We’re dependent on ships from a faraway continent.

All of the above is the case:

Marketplaces can rug our creator royalties. Jalil could burn down the entire collection if he wanted to. PunkScapes are dependent on web2 infrastructure.

We’ve learned a better way to build from the ground up.

That’s why we’re leaving our shores and are pioneering a new world, where we’ll be set up for a prosperous future. We’ll take our belongings and history with us.

We’ve talked about it for a while, but now we’re finally setting sail. On December 20th we’ll move from PunkScapes to Scapes.

Our dear PunkScapes will burn for eternity. We must not look back. A new Scapes contract will emerge and form the basis of our new world.

What will await us there?

• A new website

• Trading on the Scapes marketplace

• New collection name: Scapes

• Incentive-aligned and enforced royalties

• “Scape-Bound” Tokens

• Merging and Fading Scapes

• On-chain Scapes

Let’s dive deeper into why and how we will introduce a new Scapes contract.

The last piece of our rebrand puzzle is the smart contract.Long-term we want to build the “Scapes” brand so renaming the NFT collection makes sense and simplifies. More on the idea behind the rebrand here:

https://mirror.xyz/scapes.eth/ijC9vfEWbku06rR4jFGYP24V5_HabXhxgXpxVqBna1E

Scapes have an Integrated marketplace within the smart contract.Trade without external dependencies and no approvals – just like the CryptoPunks. The new website also brings a user-friendly frontend to this integrated marketplace. Further, all this allows us to build custom features that wouldn’t be possible otherwise, like a new concept called Only-on-Gains-Royalties.

For continued brand and product development, we depend on royalties.Recent events have shown marketplaces hold the power to omit royalties. The new contract makes sure we get our monetary share of brand growth to reinvest and keep building. Our Only-on-Gains-Royalties within the integrated marketplace will make sure you won’t have to pay royalties if you sell at a loss. This will incentivize us to focus on growth rather than volatility.

What does that mean? Scape-bound means we can issue tokens connected to your Scape. Imagine a child NFT that automatically travels along with your parent Scape.We will immediately make use of that technology and you’ll soon receive one.

That’s a big one. Scapes should have been on-chain from the very get-go. At the time, it wasn’t feasible so the PunkScapes were launched as an IPFS-hosted collection.By bringing them on-chain, we remove all external dependencies and make sure Scapes exist as long as Ethereum. No “collection went down because Jalil was hit by a bus and doesn’t pay for the domain/servers” anymore. The piece of mind a forever NFT gives you is huge. It aligns perfectly with our values. We want to be a fully on-chain NFT (For the Moonbirds among us - yes Scapes are “in-chain”).We want Scapes to be the way they are forever. In the beginning, we’ll keep the ability to make changes to the smart contracts as a team, but over time we will move the ownership towards a DAO held by all Scape owners, or even entirely burn ownership, which will give the project a feeling of finality similar to the CryptoPunks.

All this bears the opportunity to showcase the power of on-chain-programmability: You can now merge the new Scape tokens on-chain.A Scape Merge will show up in the main collection and hold all the Scapes that are part of it. This means you can collect, build and trade Merges as individual tokens.You can always disassemble Merges to get back the original Scapes. Judge by yourself how cool this is because we’re too **** excited.

All the above upgrades set us up for the future. It’s the foundation of everything we do. That’s why it’s so important to us.

Now on to how all this will play out.

Step-by-step execution:

1. Turn all PunkScapes into “PunkScape Relics” (We plan to make our old token feel more like a Relic/POAP.)

2. Airdrop new Scapes + Child Token (New Scapes are the SCAPES from now on.)

3. Launch marketplace on scapes.xyz (Integrated marketplace + the combined Scapes provenance history.)

4. Launch on-chain Merges.

We can’t upgrade the PunkScapes contract that’s why we’ll issue a new token. The way you’ll receive your new Scape is via an airdrop.We thought hard about all the different migration possibilities and concluded this is the way.

For each PunkScape you will receive a Scape.

What happens to my old PunkScape? We will turn the PunkScapes (old tokens) into relics. We’re consciously devaluing the PunkScape Relics and regard them as historical artifacts. A PunkScape Relic will be a glitched, black-and-white version of its former self and won’t hold any utility.

Will the new Scapes have a new look? No. No pixel will be moved, Scapes stay Scapes. Although we have a new place for Chapter 2 and Scape Radio to live.

What about provenance and history? Our new integrated Marketplace will provide a seamless history and experience for holders and new buyers. The trading history on the Scape detail pages will show all activity before and after the new Scapes contract.

Do I need to do anything?Make sure to stop offers on PunkScapes before the 20th. Otherwise enjoy the ride - you don’t need to take any action.

Infographic:

Current Timeline

December 13, 2022 → New website December 20, 2022 → New token & contract (Airdrop) December 22, 2022 → Activation of merges & Fades

We can’t wait to enter the new era of Scapes and hope you’re as excited as we are.

Onto the new world! Peace, Love and Scapes forever.

Barbarians steal our resources. The king has the power to burn our city. We’re dependent on ships from a faraway continent.

All of the above is the case:

Marketplaces can rug our creator royalties. Jalil could burn down the entire collection if he wanted to. PunkScapes are dependent on web2 infrastructure.

We’ve learned a better way to build from the ground up.

That’s why we’re leaving our shores and are pioneering a new world, where we’ll be set up for a prosperous future. We’ll take our belongings and history with us.

We’ve talked about it for a while, but now we’re finally setting sail. On December 20th we’ll move from PunkScapes to Scapes.

Our dear PunkScapes will burn for eternity. We must not look back. A new Scapes contract will emerge and form the basis of our new world.

What will await us there?

• A new website

• Trading on the Scapes marketplace

• New collection name: Scapes

• Incentive-aligned and enforced royalties

• “Scape-Bound” Tokens

• Merging and Fading Scapes

• On-chain Scapes

Let’s dive deeper into why and how we will introduce a new Scapes contract.

The last piece of our rebrand puzzle is the smart contract.Long-term we want to build the “Scapes” brand so renaming the NFT collection makes sense and simplifies. More on the idea behind the rebrand here:

https://mirror.xyz/scapes.eth/ijC9vfEWbku06rR4jFGYP24V5_HabXhxgXpxVqBna1E

Scapes have an Integrated marketplace within the smart contract.Trade without external dependencies and no approvals – just like the CryptoPunks. The new website also brings a user-friendly frontend to this integrated marketplace. Further, all this allows us to build custom features that wouldn’t be possible otherwise, like a new concept called Only-on-Gains-Royalties.

For continued brand and product development, we depend on royalties.Recent events have shown marketplaces hold the power to omit royalties. The new contract makes sure we get our monetary share of brand growth to reinvest and keep building. Our Only-on-Gains-Royalties within the integrated marketplace will make sure you won’t have to pay royalties if you sell at a loss. This will incentivize us to focus on growth rather than volatility.

What does that mean? Scape-bound means we can issue tokens connected to your Scape. Imagine a child NFT that automatically travels along with your parent Scape.We will immediately make use of that technology and you’ll soon receive one.

That’s a big one. Scapes should have been on-chain from the very get-go. At the time, it wasn’t feasible so the PunkScapes were launched as an IPFS-hosted collection.By bringing them on-chain, we remove all external dependencies and make sure Scapes exist as long as Ethereum. No “collection went down because Jalil was hit by a bus and doesn’t pay for the domain/servers” anymore. The piece of mind a forever NFT gives you is huge. It aligns perfectly with our values. We want to be a fully on-chain NFT (For the Moonbirds among us - yes Scapes are “in-chain”).We want Scapes to be the way they are forever. In the beginning, we’ll keep the ability to make changes to the smart contracts as a team, but over time we will move the ownership towards a DAO held by all Scape owners, or even entirely burn ownership, which will give the project a feeling of finality similar to the CryptoPunks.

All this bears the opportunity to showcase the power of on-chain-programmability: You can now merge the new Scape tokens on-chain.A Scape Merge will show up in the main collection and hold all the Scapes that are part of it. This means you can collect, build and trade Merges as individual tokens.You can always disassemble Merges to get back the original Scapes. Judge by yourself how cool this is because we’re too **** excited.

All the above upgrades set us up for the future. It’s the foundation of everything we do. That’s why it’s so important to us.

Now on to how all this will play out.

Step-by-step execution:

1. Turn all PunkScapes into “PunkScape Relics” (We plan to make our old token feel more like a Relic/POAP.)

2. Airdrop new Scapes + Child Token (New Scapes are the SCAPES from now on.)

3. Launch marketplace on scapes.xyz (Integrated marketplace + the combined Scapes provenance history.)

4. Launch on-chain Merges.

We can’t upgrade the PunkScapes contract that’s why we’ll issue a new token. The way you’ll receive your new Scape is via an airdrop.We thought hard about all the different migration possibilities and concluded this is the way.

For each PunkScape you will receive a Scape.

What happens to my old PunkScape? We will turn the PunkScapes (old tokens) into relics. We’re consciously devaluing the PunkScape Relics and regard them as historical artifacts. A PunkScape Relic will be a glitched, black-and-white version of its former self and won’t hold any utility.

Will the new Scapes have a new look? No. No pixel will be moved, Scapes stay Scapes. Although we have a new place for Chapter 2 and Scape Radio to live.

What about provenance and history? Our new integrated Marketplace will provide a seamless history and experience for holders and new buyers. The trading history on the Scape detail pages will show all activity before and after the new Scapes contract.

Do I need to do anything?Make sure to stop offers on PunkScapes before the 20th. Otherwise enjoy the ride - you don’t need to take any action.

Infographic:

Current Timeline

December 13, 2022 → New website December 20, 2022 → New token & contract (Airdrop) December 22, 2022 → Activation of merges & Fades

We can’t wait to enter the new era of Scapes and hope you’re as excited as we are.

Onto the new world! Peace, Love and Scapes forever.