What are the highlights of Pizza Ninjas?

Question

After the market of 10 K Bitcoin NFT series dominated by Chinese people such as Bitcoin Frogs and Goosinals has cooled down, OMB (Ordinals Maxi Biz), a Bitcoin NFT project with a huge influence in the English-speaking circle and a low total supply, has received more attention. OMB's market started after the 10 K boom, rising all the way from around 0.2 BTC to 0.5+ BTC and still holding it steady.

The Pizza Ninjas we are going to introduce this time is also a Bitcoin NFT project with a huge influence in the English-speaking world and a low total supply. Compared to OMB, Pizza Ninjas has a lower total supply and is also very popular in the Chinese community. Pizza Ninjas, which has gathered consensus between China and foreign countries, is very likely to become another new blue chip of Bitcoin NFT in addition to Taproot Wizards (not yet on sale) and OMB.

Pizza Ninjas Project Overview

Pizza Ninjas has a total supply of 1, 500 and is offered at a price of 0.02 BTC. Among them, 300 Free Mint entries were distributed through the Free NFT platform of LimitBreak, the Web3 gaming company that released the Digi Daigaku NFT collection, and more than 700 people took to Twitter to share videos of themselves eating pizza in ninja costumes in a bid to win Free Mint qualification.

Team Background

Pizza Ninja's team currently consists of 6 members, which doesn't sound big, but it's very tough. The co-founder of the project, trevor.btc @TO, is one of the top KOLs in the Bitcoin NFT ecosystem, and the most influential Twitter space in the Bitcoin NFT circle, "The Ordinal Show", is hosted by Trevor. Trevor is also the managing partner of the Bitcoin Frontier Fund, which has participated in a $7.5 million funding round for Taproot Wizards, the most influential NFT project to date. He is also an investor in more than 50 start-ups in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Trevor took to Twitter to share his previous letter of intent to invest in Taproot Wizards. Completed a basic letter of intent on a piece of toilet paper, which is very Bitcoin!

In addition to Trevor, Pizza Ninjas has two co-founders, Max Savin and Sihoon Kim.

Max Savin is a full-stack developer and designer with extensive entrepreneurial experience. Prior to joining Pizza Ninjas, he developed and launched several profitable cross-platform apps, including Color Schemer and IntroKit. As a software that creates colors mathematically based on all known spectra and algorithms, Color Schemer plays an important role in the color design of Pizza Ninjas.

Sihoon Kim is a graduate of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), a top polytechnic university in South Korea, and previously worked as a principal engineer at a VC-backed startup.

Artist boozy.btc is the co-founder of the counterfeit culture platform that helps new artists enter the Ordinals ecosystem. He has been active in the Bitcoin ecosystem for a long time, and released a number of NFT collections such as "Hooch Haus: Creature Feature" and "Hooch Haus: Booze Brains" on Stacks before the Ordinals ecosystem exploded.

Prior to the Pizza Ninjas PFP series, the team already had a full-fledged NFT information tracking tool, Ninjs, which helps Ethereum NFT players track the activity of specific addresses or NFT collections and provide them with real-time push notifications. Strictly speaking, Pizza Ninjas is a product of Ninjs.

Project Highlights

Pizza Ninjas is seen as a potential new blue chip for Bitcoin NFTs for a number of reasons:

Sincere and attentive design

Twitter is the core hub for the NFT community to communicate, and it is the place where NFT players around the world communicate most frequently. Therefore, it is very important design principle to make a PFP suitable as a Twitter avatar.

Pizza Ninjas was designed with this principle in mind. Thanks to the use of recursive inscriptions, Pizza Ninjas was able to burn a 10,000 x 10,000 resolution HD image on the Bitcoin network, allowing holders to share the full image of Pizza Ninjas on Twitter. At the same time, Twitter avatars are one of the most important identity symbols for NFT players, and Pizza Ninjas is also designed to ensure that the avatar can be "eye-catching" when seen directly.

Comparison of the big picture and the small image of the avatar

Another detail is that the head of the Pizza Ninjas image is positioned lower than the normal PFP, and the head is slightly tilted to the left, so that holders of Pizza Ninjas as their Twitter avatar will not be obscured too much when participating in Twitter Spaces, even if they use bubbling emotes.

Pizza Ninjas avatar effects using bubbling emoticons in Twitter Space

It can also be noted in the image above that all Pizza Ninjas have an orange background color. Friends who are familiar with the Bitcoin NFT ecosystem will know that orange is an important feature of the Bitcoin NFT ecosystem, and many Bitcoin NFT-related tweets will use orange emojis (such as orange hearts), and the once popular BRC-20 project $OXBT relied on the crazy orange square emoji as one of the operational methods in the startup stage. Using orange as a background is actually helping holders declare "I'm a Bitcoin NFT player", and it also resonates with Bitcoin NFT players.

When it comes to the design of each image, Pizza Ninjas follows 5 core principles in order to strike a balance between simplicity and variety, and to make each image unique enough:

Make each Pizza Ninjas look clean, aesthetically consistent, and unique enough
Each Pizza Ninjas is distinctly recognizable through the changes in the features of the eyes and head
Add a few more traits if the caster likes :)
Carefully and intentionally color matching
Paying homage to Web3 culture, nostalgia, and Ordinals (you can see Kevin, TV heads, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, wizard hats, OMBs, etc.)

These thoughtful designs ultimately provide a personalized image design process for founders to make everyone feel intimate. I carefully filled out my Pizza Ninjas custom form, not only to choose the type of subject I wanted, the various characteristics, the overall style, etc., but also to provide my own description for the artist's reference. Of course, the rare traits were basically selected by the top players in the whitelist event points at the beginning.

Finally, it's worth mentioning that all Pizza Ninjas are burned on Rare Satoshi.

Trevor's personal influence and excellent marketing skills

Trevor's influence in the Bitcoin NFT community has already been introduced to you in terms of the background of the previous team, so I won't go into detail here. Here I would like to focus on the biggest impression that Trevor himself gave me -

Trevor is an energy freak!

I'm not a big influencer, but I drew trevor into the comments section with a long tweet about Pizza Ninjas some time ago, and I tweeted that he had played a meme and he bubbled up again. To be honest, it's really hard for me to imagine that a big V like Trevor with a big V with Twitter notifications and private messages exploding would notice me. My friends joke that I'm a Twitter person, and I'm ashamed to know trevor ...

Interspersed here is a process by which Trevor and the team carefully screen whitelisted people. I don't dare to say about other projects, Trevor has definitely checked them one by one, and the diamond degree of the initial holder group should be very good. Trevor, energy monster.

Trevor himself has lived in China, so he can understand many tweets in Chinese. The important thing is that he personally attaches great importance to developing the Chinese-speaking market, such as:

Trevor also gave all minters a "Twitter Badge Pack". Anyone who has chosen their own Pizza Ninjas image will be invited to become an affiliate account of Ninjs, which is equivalent to giving everyone a free Twitter Premium+ service, a blue label + a Pizza Ninjas badge on Twitter.

It's a tangible benefit that helps people use more of Twitter's features, and it's a great way to build community identity. Not only do you see your Pizza Ninja Twitter badge every day, but others are likely to be interested in seeing it – what company are you?

That's great, Trevor.

So far, it is best to have a Bitcoin NFT project that embodies the consensus of China and foreign countries

Pizza Ninjas' Chinese Discord community is the most active Bitcoin NFT project I've observed. There are also several aspects in which the popularity of Pizza Ninjas in the Chinese community can be observed:

Bitcoin NFT KOL/Builder in the Chinese circle changed Pizza Ninjas as a Twitter avatar, such as z 3 th.eth, the founder of OrdzGame, shep.eth, who had in-depth communication with domo in the early days of BRC-20, and so on
Many friends in the Chinese circle in my attention have changed Pizza Ninjas as their avatar (the last time I saw Bitcoin Frogs, but the influence of Bitcoin Frogs in the English circle is not as great as Pizza NInjas in my opinion)
Seen someone whitelist Pizza Ninjas at 500 U outside the venue

In the English-speaking world, you can now see a lot of people wearing Pizza Ninjas avatars on the basic Twitter Spaces related to Ordinals. To be more specific about Pizza Ninjas' influence in the English-speaking world, the top Bitcoin NFT circles like @LeonidasNFT and @billyrestey have joined the Pizza Ninja camp, and one of my favorite Bitcoin NFT artists@ccovvrr has also changed his Twitter profile picture to Pizza Ninjas. Even, Ethereum's NFT big V @nftboi_ also tweeted and pulled people's heads to make a difference...

Conclusion

There is still a chance to get a whitelist for Pizza Ninjas by going to Connect your Xverse wallet and Twitter account and completing a given task to earn points, and the top 1,000 users will get the whitelist.

According to the current intensity of competition, everyone needs to mobilize the friends around them to give themselves a head.

Finally, I really like Bitcoin's Pizza meme, and it is because of this love that I made Bitcoin Pizzas, and even though I was very resistant to WL, I still joined the army of pulling heads, and I was honest and honest.

The quality of Pizza Ninjas' images is very good in itself, coupled with the influence of Trevor and the cohesion of Chinese and foreign consensus, I have great expectations that this project will come out of the circle with the joint efforts of China and foreign countries.

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