NFT lottery tool track observation: Premint challengers emerge, and the trend of "merger" is beginning to appear

Written by: Cookie, Rhythm BlockBeats

In less than 2 months, Premint will celebrate its first anniversary. In less than a year, more than 2.5 million wallet addresses have been active on Premint, and the total number of lucky draw participants has exceeded 20 million. The success of Premint doesn't even need data to reflect it. Many Discord Alpha groups have set up special channels for Premint, sorting out and posting "worthy" items on Premint every day. Despite the deserted NFT market, players are still clicking one link after another from Premint’s sweepstakes. These are all strong and direct proofs of Premint’s status as the king in the NFT lottery field.

As long as you stand at the top, It is inevitable to be "besieged Guangmingding". Just as OpenSea faces various challengers such as Magic Eden, X2Y2, and LooksRare, more and more "NFT lottery tools" are emerging, challenging Premint in different ways. So, what exciting challengers have emerged?

"Brilliant Challengers": HeyMint, MintParty and Alphabot

HeyMint: Holding high the banner of "free" righteousness, a "toolkit" that breaks creators' technical barriers

Using Premint to complete the "NFT lottery" requires paying 1 ETH to purchase a Creator Pass. Some people think that this is a bit of a big mouth, after all, for some small projects that lack start-up funds, it is not a small burden to spend 1 ETH to manage whitelist addresses.

"Is there a free Premint available", there are not many such voices

HeyMint was launched in mid-June. The team behind it comes from the NFT project Curious Addys' Trading Club. The project is dedicated to providing educational resources and practical tools for Web3 novices. There are currently more than 20,000 community members. The HeyMint team says it has written code for NFT projects World of Women Galaxy and ZenAcademy.

< p>When talking about the difference between HeyMint and Premint, the HeyMint team said frankly, "There is no difference at present, but we are free!"

"The best part about HeyMint? We 100% Free!"

HeyMint Yes "Free" is quite proud, but I also know that "free" does not equate to a successful product. Therefore, they do not position themselves as a pure "NFT lottery tool", but a "toolkit" that breaks the technical barriers of creators, broadens product positioning and does not compete with Premint homogenization. In the future, they will launch a smart contract generator that will allow creators to launch their own NFT projects without the need for a developer. In addition, there are snapshot and airdrop distribution tools to help creators complete these two tasks more conveniently.

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Another point worth mentioning is that HeyMint has now provided support for NFT projects on Arbitrum and Optimism. Rare to see. Currently, more than 1,000 NFT creators and 20,000 NFT players have used HeyMint.

MintParty: Community data tracking, building a "cooperation network"

< p>MintParty is also free to use like HeyMint, and its online time is in early April, slightly earlier than HeyMint. The specifics of its team are unknown, only that the founder @hungrydumpling_ is a member of PitchDAO.

MintParty, like HeyMint, does not position itself as a pure "NFT lottery tool", but an "NFT community management tool" . In the future, they will provide "data tracking" on Twitter and Discord to assist in the construction of the NFT community.

< p>What is even more attractive is the "cooperative network" they are building. NFT projects that pass the review can enter the "cooperation network", where they can find their favorite partners and send cooperation invitations, reducing the time spent by NFT projects on finding suitable partners. The idea of "cooperative network" has something to do with the founder @hungrydumpling_ being a member of PitchDAO - PitchDAO was born precisely because a group of NFT builders felt that there were still too few people talking about NFT on ETH Denver this year, and wanted to bring more NFT builders gather to communicate and cooperate with each other.

"Data Tracking" and "Cooperation Network"

MintParty also supports NFT projects on Polygon and Solana.

Alphabot: "Premint" in Discord

with Compared with the previous HeyMint and MintParty, Alphabot is still a pure "NFT lottery tool" in terms of product positioning, choosing to focus on "optimizing user experience". Its most attractive place is to move "Premint" into Discord.

For NFT players, it is not convenient enough to open the web page to connect to the wallet and then participate in the lottery. Alphabot has optimized this process again. You only need to complete the associated account settings on its homepage, and after reaching the Twitter-related participation requirements (such as follow/retweet), click the button in the Discord channel to participate in the lucky draw.

Hold in Discord Those who have completed asset verification have been assigned exclusive roles. According to this, the project party often no longer requires its holders to perform another signature verification, which makes the operation of NFT players more convenient, especially when they go out with only mobile devices without wallets.

The lottery participation conditions, end time, number of places, casting price and other information are all available, and reminders can also be set

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The team behind Alphabot is Ape List, a list for BAYC, CryptoPunks, MAYC, BACK and Meebits holders Alpha community. Project parties are currently free to use Alphabot, but need to submit an application, and it will no longer be free at a certain stage in the future.

"Defensive Counterattack": Premint's "Next Step"

March into Discord

Premint announced on July 21 that it has acquired the Discord capital verification robot Vulcan. Vulcan is adopted by blue-chip NFT projects such as XCOPY, Doodles, Moonbirds, and RTFKT. The biggest feature is that community members do not need to click on a third-party link and use the wallet to sign to complete capital verification. They only need to modify the OpenSea account profile to the given text That's it.

Premint said that in the fall A Vulcan Discord lottery robot with "Premint power" will be launched, which may be a counterattack against Alphabot. In addition, Premint will combine its own platform data to further optimize Vulcan’s capital verification experience, and will provide a set of migration tools to help Discord servers who want to use Vulcan instead of existing capital verification robots to complete the replacement with minimal impact.

Multi-chain support

Support for Solana and Tezos NFT projects will be implemented in the fall.

Renewal of lottery participation conditions

Support setting the following new lottery participation conditions: following multiple Twitter accounts, liking/retweeting a specified tweet and whether you have the required POAP.

Robot Detection

Support re-detection of the ETH balance of the wallet address participating in the lottery, and support detection of whether multiple wallets use the NFT with the same ID to participate in the lottery.

"Conclusion": New challenges under the trend of "merger"

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Will Premint always be the king of "NFT lottery tools"?

It depends on "NFT Will the lottery tool” always be an independent track. Premint may always be the king, but it will no longer be the king of "NFT lottery tools"-because in the long run, this track will eventually be "merged".

Premint created the "NFT lottery tool" track, and has accumulated a huge platform volume and extensive user trust— — This is also the biggest advantage of Premint. For the project side, there are the most NFT players here to "try their luck", and choosing to use Premint can increase the exposure of the project to a certain extent. NFT players also often do not take the time to study the background of a new lottery tool. Faced with the signature requirements of a new lottery tool, it is not uncommon for them to have doubts or even directly refuse to use it. This created a difficult problem for Premint's "challengers"-no size, no trust. There is a lack of trust and it is difficult to increase the size.

However, what the "NFT lottery tool" solves is only one of the pain points in the start-up phase of the NFT project. User trust can be solved by Accumulate more pain points at this stage. Although the project introduced above is still only an "NFT lottery tool" at the current stage, the ultimate goal is to turn the "NFT lottery" into one of the functions of the product, to break through with a larger product positioning, and to build a large scale In the future, let users "smoothly" use the "NFT lottery draw" function, and finally share the cake of Premint.

Premint, which has acquired Vulcan, can no longer be simply defined by "NFT lottery tool", it has become a lot like Whop , it can be used for both capital verification and lottery drawing. And Whop defines itself as an "NFT community management tool".

Solving "NFT Sweepstakes" There are more pain points besides the new challenges that Premint has to face under the trend of "track merger". For this reason, Premint has taken the first step to acquire Vulcan and enter Discord. This kind of "track merger" trend is what we hope to see-the pain points of NFT projects from the start to the operation stage have better and more convenient tools to solve them, and more and more creators can continue to reduce The threshold is pouring into the world of NFT.

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