Preparing the final ingredients for the public sale.
We’re only a few days from the Public Sale of Pieland’s Octopie NFTs! Here are the baking instructions on how to get your Octopie NFTs. The public sale begins February 10th at 3:00 pm PST. You can add it to your Google calendar here. When the public sale stars, head to the Pieland website, connect your wallet, and get ready to bake some Pies! Each Octopie costs 0.088 ETH (Ethereum) to mint, you’ll be able to mint up to 10 in one transaction, and be sure to have extra ETH to cover gas fees. We recommend using a Metamask wallet for the most seamless integration. We cannot guaratee all other wallets will work.
A pre-sale will be open for several hours before the public sale begins. Only whitelisted Pieple who submit their wallet address through the pre-sale form in Discord are eligible. Minting during the pre-sale will be limited to 5 Octopies per whitelisted address. The price and mint page will be the same as the public sale. This early access ensures you can purchase an Octopie before they sell out and also avoid potentially higher gas prices during the public sale.
Once you mint an Octopie NFT, it will appear in your wallet in an “unrevealed” state. You can see this on your Opensea account (simply go to https://opensea.io/ and connect with your NFT wallet). All of the Octopies will be revealed after the public sale ends. There may be a slight delay between when all of them are sold and the reveal. We anticipate the delay to be no longer than 48 hours.
If you follow those steps, then congratulations! You will have baked up your Octopie NFT! This means you own the art. If you want to print it out and put it on a coffee mug, you can. If you want to make your own merch, cool designs, fun artwork, that’s cool, too! We love the creativity and imagination our community has already shown, and we are excited to support that even more in the future.
Bits And Bites
If you want to check out the Smart Contract that the Octopie NFTs will be minted on, you can do so here. Note, this is currently on the Rinkeby Test Network for final QA before we deploy it on to Mainnet. You can learn more about our upgradable Smart Contract, which can change based on community voting, something we will be exploring more after the Octopies sell out.
Let’s talk about some final details happening in the Pieland kitchen. There will be 10,314 NFTs in the Octopie collection — 10,000 available for anyone to mint, and 314 reserved for the Pieland team. This reserved set is not for sale. Among this 314 set, 100 will be given to our community through past Octopie giveaways, rewards for key community members, and also for any potential delivery issues with pre-orders. If we receive a rare 1 of 1 in this reserved bunch, we will set it aside and run a community vote on what we do with it. Otherwise, these 100 reserved NFTs will be distributed randomly. The remaining 214 NFTs from the 314 reserved will be revealed over time as part of future promotions, events, and rewards around creating special 1 of 1s. You can read more about our 1 of 1s here.
We also want to touch base on the Pieland staff’s involvement in the collection of Octopies. None of the Pieland team have taken part in the pre-order, nor will they be eligible to take part in the pre-sale, other than minimal interaction for testing of the process. The team will be able to mint during the public sale and can take part in the secondary market. If a team member mints a 1/1 or similarly rare Octopie during the public sale, we will run a community vote to decide on what course of action we take with it. The team will wait at least 60 minutes after the reveal of the Octopies before engaging in any purchases or sales. When collecting Octopies, the team can not take part in compietitions or make purchases based on insider information. Each team member will receive a special 1 of 1 Octopie that represents them, which can not be sold during their time working at the team unless voted on by the community. All team members have agreed that if they leave the team, they will withhold trading on the Secondary Marketplace for up to 30 days after their departure date.
That was a lot to digest! Here are the highlights:
- Public Minting starts February 10th at 3pm PST/6pm EST, costing 0.088 ETH.
- The Octopies you mint will be revealed after they sell out. But please allow up to 48 hours for this to be processed.
- Octopie NFT ownership includes rights to use the artwork of that NFT.
- You can find our Smart Contract here.
- Of the 10,314 Octopies, 314 are reserved by the team. One hundred will be set aside for community purposes and revealed when all 10,000 are sold. The remaining 214 will be set aside for future events.
- Pieland team members have guidelines on their minting and collecting activity.
