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Nakamigos, a much-discussed NFT project, is a crypto-punk clone with close ties to the mfers founder

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As a PFP NFT project, how can Nakamigos stand out in the highly competitive vertical market?

原文标题：《 Nakamigos 走红背后：翻版加密朋克，与 mfers 创始人关系匪浅》

Original source: PANews

Nakamigos recently surpassed Bored Ape Yacht Club, Azuki, CLONE X, Moonbirds and other blue chip projects, and even topped the list. As a PFP NFT project, how does Nakamigos stand out in the highly competitive vertical market?

Nakamigos takes its name from Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto, Migos means "friend" in Spanish, and Nakamigos means "friends of Satoshi". Nakamigos was born on October 31, 2022, the 14th anniversary of the Bitcoin White paper.

Nakamigos 走红背后：翻版加密朋克，与 mfers 创始人关系匪浅

According to the official introduction, Nakamigos is a total of 20,000 PFP projects composed of 2,424 pixels, mainly divided into human (6 types) and non-human types, the latter including rare species such as frog, crocodile, robot, ghost and crocodile. Of those, 17,000 were used for casting, and the team set aside 500. Well-known encryption artist Beeple also released support for Nakamigos-related works on April 3.

Nakamigos 走红背后：翻版加密朋克，与 mfers 创始人关系匪浅

Source: Beeple

Nakamigos is similar in style to the NFT blue chip project CryptoPunks, and Nakamigos holders have been granted the same commercial license that Yuga Labs offered after acquiring CryptoPunks in 2022.

During the NFT industry this year annual event NFT. NYC, Nakamigos holders for End of Sartoshi free casting and open casting, including open casting to take the Dutch auction, the price from 1 ETH to ETH, 0.01 the final price is 0.01 the ETH. According to the latest data from NFTSCAN, Nakamigos is currently trading at 0.63 ETH, with over 5700 addresses and over 13,000 ETH transactions.

As the founding team HiFo Lab chose to remain anonymous, only claiming "years of experience in NFT projects", the team behind the project had been suspected of CryptoPunks development company lavar labs, but was subsequently officially denied, "Not Larva,Not Yuga,Nakamigos". HiFo Lab, however, has a close relationship with mfers founder Sartoshi, who announced in a tweet in June 2022, after returning to NFT after six months of retirement, The Nakamigos foundry rights are free to End of Sartoshi holders, but there has been no official word on Sartoshi's exact role in the project. In addition, Nakamigos contracts and COINS development team WestCoastNFT also participated in famous Doodles, mfers NFT projects. Notably, HiFo Lab also revealed that Nakamigos' artists have crypto OG artists with years of artistic experience, and while they are anonymous, may choose to reveal their identities at some point.

Nakamigos 走红背后：翻版加密朋克，与 mfers 创始人关系匪浅

In addition, HiFo Lab launched a new series Honorary Nakamigos NFT as a tribute to 24 renowned encryption artists, They include Richerd Chan, co-founder of Manifold project Layer2, Erick Calderon, CEO of NFT project Art Blocks, US rap superstar Snoop Dogg (Cozomo de' Medici), NFT Collector GMoney, encryption artist XCOPY, well-known American DJ Steve Aoki and NFT collector Farokh.eth, etc.

Overall, Nakamigos' connection to bitcoin is well in line with the aesthetic of the owners of the old OG project CryptoPunks, and the team's relationship with Mfers makes it more imaginative.