When is the mint? 02/22/2022 at 22:22 UTC

Where will the mint occur? https://ever.xyz

Who can mint? Early fans.

Why would one mint? Early access to future games and future mints.

Why Soulbound? Read this.

What blockchain? Ethereum.

This is a novel approach to community building.

No one has walked here before.

Thank you for joining us.

Earlier in the week, we announced our decision to award a Soulbound NFT to each of our earliest community members. Namely, this includes anyone who beat/heavily interacted with the riddle challenge, OR reaching a certain point of progress in the carrot game.

This post elaborates on why we believe this is the best choice for rewarding early community members, and the benefits of being in the Soulbound Club.

What is Soulbound?

NFT stands for Non-Fungible-Token, or a unique piece of software you own.

Soulbound is a Non-Transferable NFT, or a unique piece of software that will always belong to you. You cannot transfer Soulbound to anyone else, nor can someone take your Soulbound from you (i.e. malicious sites, contracts, etc.)

Why Soulbound?

Right now, the NFT space is ruled by ‘hype’.

Short term, the hype mints are very exciting stuff and I’m sure the emotions evoked by the hype mints are thrilling (probably traumatic as well). Most of the short term mindset is also coupled with short term challenges. For example, being super fast in minting (buying) an NFT listed on the site.

Right now the NFT space is “short time investment, short term hype”. Then the bubble pops, and most of the enthusiasm is gone.

Awarding Soulbound is a novel approach to rewarding a loyal internet community. By awarding Soulbound to you all for interacting with our challenges thus far (riddle challenge + carrot game), you are given a lifelong badge for your efforts.

When discussing crypto projects in particular, whether blockchain substrate, DeFi, or Gaming, you always have to take the maximalist perspective.

Because blockchain assets are going to last for the rest of human civilization, you have put yourself as far into the future as possible and ask the simple question: what is the purpose of the token in your hands?

From the above perspective, the decision to award Soulbound made sense from the perspective of giving you a lifetime badge for being first to the Ever ecosystem.

What is a DAO?

A DAO is basically any group of people on the internet. Now that tokens exist, you can see who else has tokens. Make the tokens have voting rights, and boom, you can now have a club of people on the internet. DAO = club. Cool kids type beat.

What is a Soulbound DAO?

Remember, DAO means club. Because you’re receiving a Soulbound, anyone else on the internet can see who owns a Soulbound. That means you and your fellow Soulbound mates will find one another, and automatically have your own club.

Since the tokens are Soulbound, you will all have lifelong membership and connection to your peers. The difference between traditional DAO’s and the Soulbound DAO is that every member of the Soulbound has earned their way in through a combination of two factors:

a) being First

b) being Loyal

We believe this will lead to a healthier community long term.

What do I get for being in the Carrot DAO?

Beta access to Ever, early sneak peaks for art, early access to sales, and in game power ups. You will also be given a role on Discord and added to a Soulbound chat. We will clean up our Discord after Soulbound (bit too many roles atm), so thanks for your patience on that front.

Of course, you will get early access to whitepapers. Including our upcoming surprise white paper for ████████████████

We will be posting the allow list for claiming Soulbound shortly before the claim date.

CLAIM YOUR SOULBOUND 02/22/2022

You will be able to:

• Join a community of gaming enthusiasts and creators

• Build your farm, trade goods, and earn $EVER tokens in a global marketplace

You will be able create, share and earn assets that have tangible monetary value. You can opt to play the game alone, or with friends. Items and resources in the game are digital assets.

Transparency From Day 1

Ever will be built in public: we will release an early version of the game, and develop based on your feedback. The community will play a large role in shaping the world, direction, and overall experience of Ever. You will be rewarded with in game assets for your contributions

Initial Character Sale

We have been whitelisting early community members through challenges hosted on Twitter and Discord. Being on the whitelist provides access to Genesis, an NFT sale of our in game characters. These NFTs are unique character portraits, load a unique character model into the game, and have special properties that impact gameplay. You can play the game without one of these NFTs, as there is a default character model.

Wen?

We will be publishing a series of content pieces to our community elaborating on the technology and mechanics behind Ever.

Content Schedule:

• zkSNARKs/anti-cheat

• NFTs in Ever (items, crops, pets, characters & more)

• DeFi (including finance and payments) in the Ever ecosystem

• The Ever social feed

• Governance model of the Ever ecosystem

• The tokenomics of $EVER

By the end of 2022, we are aiming for a main-net launch of Ever and $EVER. In the meantime, we will launch the game on test-net and, as previously mentioned, build in the open. Whilst doing so, we will listen to your voice, aiming to build Ever with and for you.

Our mission is to build a decentralized ecosystem for you and your community members to create, share, trade, and importantly - have fun doing so. We invite you to join us on building Ever.

Follow our twitter handle (https://twitter.com/everdotxyz) and join our discord (https://discord.gg/everdotxyz) for more updates :)