January 22, 2022
The First Thousand Mutants
7 Minute Read
What started as an innovative movement to enrich the MAYC and lift the value of Mutants within it, has crystallized into something ten times more ambitious.
If we’re shooting figures, the last month has seen:
A lot has happened over the last month, so this is a chance to pause, reflect, and refocus our path forward.
We have a great steering committee within the Cartel, but the exponential growth has largely been organic.
Props to every Mutant that’s taken up the mantle of conceiving, creating, and then mobilizing the community. We’ll be carving out a corner of the website to spotlight you very soon. A massive nod to the artist(s), designers, and developers toiling away on this project behind the lines, the Cartel will remember your efforts and look to support you with many more hands!
This is a community maturing and maneuvering for its transition to a DAO. A Tasmanian Devil moving with a good GPS and we’re enjoying the productivity emerging from the chaos. That said, we’re keen to lay the track in the right way and avoid simply finding the fastest way, which we appreciate requires a degree of patience and trust from the community. We know that visibility is integral to continued engagement, so will be anchoring a roadmap to the site for you all very soon.
As we started scaling north of 1,000 members, we questioned how we would maintain a sense of community and avoid sacrificing the intimacy of the community.
We drafted the idea of Chapters.
By empowering localized or interest-specific groups to form, we hope that more Mutants can mine personal value from The Cartel. The inaugural West Coast chapter has already become a real hive of innovation and production with several parts moving within it.
Any Mutant can start a Chapter by applying through Officer vngrd or Officer Jailbird. All you need are three Mutants by your side and a focus.
If you haven’t seen Sam yet, then here he is:
The Darley Arabian of Mutant Hounds that almost all of our hellish beasts can trace their lineage from. He signals a preview of the Cartel’s exclusive NFTs.
We’ll be releasing more information on this over the next month, but the fact Sam has been spotted wandering in many forms, and rarely alone, will hopefully get you thinking.
Join The Cartel and get verified so that you’re ready at the gates when we release the Hounds.
[A lot of Clan applications are sitting in the wings waiting for their Mutants to verify. Hit !join in the bot-commands channel]
Hats off to Officer Jailbird for the heavy lifting in organizing our first meetup for thirty Mutants (and a handful of BAYC royalty) at Cipriani’s on Wall St.
We’re working on several upcoming events, but realize that this is a global community and want to empower Chapters to host their own localized and more frequent meetings.
We’re working on a meet-up in Miami and another one in London in the close future.
Forget about Facebook and Microsoft’s centralized battle over a decentralized world — we’re making strides into building our own HQ in Decentraland.
We’ve enlisted an architect and have been playing around with a prototype in Blender. More on this soon.
We’ll be selling our art, merch, incorporating games, hosting events, and there might even be secret missions sourced from within the world.
The first cross-Clan mission has been in motion for the last two weeks and will become very clear, very soon. Keep your ears close to the ground on this one.
There’s even talks of a ten-foot bronze statue…
We’re not losing sight of the vision or the course we take to get there. We’re here to enrich the universe of MAYC and our Mutants, as assets, within that.
I’ve worked for unicorns that didn’t move at a fraction of the speed and quality of output as this Cartel. It’s a testament to the passion, ambition, and imagination that’s contained in the MAYC and the power we have in harnessing it.
I look forward to welcoming the next thousand Mutants.
