Meet some of the Team behind NFLottery and Crewtoons
I recently got to chat to two of the team behind NFLottery not knowing that the guys have a few other projects under the arms . Little did I know one of the guys is actually based in Ireland its great to see more Irish people being involved in the Blockchain world . So please welcome AgentK and A3Manolo.
AgentK Hi Guys
Hey
A3Manolo Hey Crackers! Nice to meet you!
AgentK Nice to meet you man
Nice to meet to Irish men in the wax blockchain how did you guys get involved in crypto?
AgentK Well a3manolo is Dutch born in Spain, I'm Irish born in South Africa ... I got involved by one day my friend David came to visit me while I was working on Discord making a community server for a FPS game. He asked me if I could do that for himself and his friend that are making a game with NFT's. I knew nothing about crypto before I began repairing and modifying Moon Mining He3's Discord server within days I was offered a position on the team managing the community and some social media aspects...It became so much more. I met @a3Manolo as he was invested in MMHe3 and is the founder of NFLottery and he was looking for partners, after about 4 or 5 months we were like 2 peas in a pod and here we are now
So its the two of you involved in NFLottery are you involved in many other projects?
AgentK Myself and a3manolo are the project owners of NFLottery, CrewToons, BigBang and more recently we took over DeHoot and I'm a team member in MMHe3 and Credit Metaverse
Oh wow that must be hard to divide your time?
AgentK Credit Metaverse aka cmw is a peer2peer and NFT as collateral, wax loaning system. I don't do much there at the moment and I'm on the marketing/streaming side, I expect Q3 things to pick up there time wise for me, the loan function is in full swing https://creditmetaverse.io/
NFLottery, CrewToons, BigBang & DeHoot, we have basically an online office, lets call @a3Manolo the Office Manager - he keeps the back office tidy and we have use different tools for priority flowcharts, boards and weekly delegations/responsibilities that need to happen in order for us to accomplish what we need done. It's possible to manage your time when you follow a list. It's also really important to know when not to take on more.
https://www.twitch.tv/nonfungiblelottery
DeHoot, is a project we were partners with and I knew the founder for about 1 year...basically he gave up and we said no. Once we have completed the take over with Atomic Hub I think we will be the first team to successfully do that We are busy on the game plan for DeHoot
Why did you decide to save DeHoot?
AgentK It should have been one of the best games on WAX a lot of people invested a lot of $ we have the capabilities to create the best game on WAX and save the communities investments think Sim City.
Oh really how far is DeHoot in to creation?
AgentK We have come up with some cool mechanics so far time wise but they had a staking site basically
AgentK Our Dev will start from scratch, new game
Oh wow that some amount stake so it will be built from scratch . How did NFLottery come about ?
AgentK A3manolo and the past designer founded NFLottery and CrewToons, the designer has since left and we now have Fayran the 3d graphic designer since the start of 2023. I joined the team as a 3rd in February 2022, it's been swell .
haha yeah.
A3Manolo So we started in the 2021 bull run. Me together with a friend that started as NFT-artist (he left at the end of last year). I came up with a fun Lottery idea that was quite innovative and made use of NFT technology in a very fun way and we began to develop it. Ideas like you always win a Token, you can reuse (blend) old tickets and having an art collection as prizes (CrewToons). We ran some Beta test and notice the people like it so we continued and even now we keep going and coming up with new ideas over time and implement them in the lottery back then we got into WAX all, me with cryptomoonies that went all over the place, and yeah I wanted to start something from myself and having this idea got me hyped and excited and here we are haha
And how does NFLottery work?
A3Manolo You buy Weekly Tickets, you get an Earth Chip for each Ticket you own and then on Sundays we do a Live Draw on Twitch where about 45% of the tickets win another prize
AgentK For the New Guys and Gals! We sell lottery tickets each week, 250 or 300 and give away 10. these are circa 1$ so 12 wax(we haven't put the price up yet, there will be a poll b4 we do) and there are no prizes less than the the ticket price, we have a roughly 46/48% win ratio which is like the best averages in the world !!
You may buy 4 tickets every 24 hours
The way it runs is we do 4 Weekly Lotteries(we sell the tickets) then 1 Bonus Lottery(players blend their 4 weeks tickets and an earth chip(crewtoons collection airdropped for every ticket you buy)) - This is the Bonus week, where you don't buy a ticket, instead you blend it, our way of saying thanks to the community! Those 5 weeks are called a cycle. This is the best way to explain it fast lol We do weekly -giveaways in the server for ticket holders too! This is where you get your tickets(this week is sold out, Ticket drops open on a Sunday at 8pm UTC) https://neftyblocks.com/collection/nflotterywax/drops
A3ManoloThen we have something we call a Lottery cycle that is a cycle of 5 weeks where the first 4 weeks people buy tickets and on the 5th week they can use their old tickets and blend them into a Bonus Ticket where they play "for free" . You can find our an example of our prizes on our website -->
https://crewtoons.com/nflottery-results/
AgentK And CrewToons is our side collection, the poster shows the utility. But the main focus is for collectors and that will always be the main focus CrewToons is a NFT Trading Card Collection that follow the adventures of Mr. Squid and his friends during his exploration of the metaverse kinda the same goal NFLottery has, to explore the metaverse with our players. And with the Earth Chips they earn, they can blend up NFT's or improve the rarity of the NFTs.
How many players do you get each week with NFLottery?
It fluctuates a bit but currently we have between 50-100 players each week and we see a lot of people joining the Live Draws.
Tell us about CrewToons when did you start working on this project?
A3Manolo The same time as NFLottery it was in the beginning the same collection, but AH didn't want to whitelist us because of being a gambling project it has been there since day 1 of the NFLottery saga so we decided to make CrewToons its own collection so it could get whitelisted and now we can use it as a separate collection with the same goals but used differently, basicly we have more options this way
Of course where did the idea for Mr Squid come from?
A3Manolo We were brainstorming about the art collection and came up with sea creatures, mainly because they play a role in crypto right like whales of shrimp or fish to show off ones bag and we came up with a squid as the mascot for the lottery then we decided to make a whole lore around him by him exploring the metaverse and originally he even was going to be the owner of the NFLottery but in the end we changed that a bit.
How many NFTs have been created in that collection?
A3Manolo 190 and the Earth Chip is cool, already more then 16K have been minted already
and over 13K burned even!
Oh wow how do you create the pieces?
A3Manolo My friend was the original artist, he made the Earth Chips. Recently he got replaced by our new Digital Artist that makes the new NFT's in his style, 3D, but still following the story of Mr. Squid
What programs does the artist use to create?
A3Manolo Not sure of all tbh, forgot the names but for sure Photoshop to make the finishing touches but also 3D modeling programs
What is your favorite of the collection?
A3Manolo From our new artist for sure this one Badass Mr. Squid
https://wax.atomichub.io/explorer/template/wax-mainnet/crewtoonswax/657356
AgentK Mine too Badass
A3Manolo Mr Squid and the Metaverse of Madness (Crossover from Marvel's Dr. Strange) From the old artist
https://wax.atomichub.io/explorer/template/wax-mainnet/crewtoonswax/513208
AgentK lol same
Has there been many collabs with projects?
A3Manolo Yeah quite some. But more with NFLottery
A3Manolo CrewToons is not there yet to make alot of colabs, someday we will
Who would be the dream collab with Crewtoons?
A3Manolo This is the plan of Mr. Squid, we are at step 2 right now
A3Manolo Would be cool to do one with Elon Musk or Funko lol
Any Wax projects you would like to work with?
AgentK This one lol
Taco love there project.
AgentK Yes, that would be one of the ones I would like to partner with.
A3Manolo All the good ones, we like to work together with every project that has the right intentions and that is good for the WAX space. In the end we are all together in the same boat and we like to promote all the good projects (even small tiny projects) that are just starting and have the right idea for the future . But would also be cool to do something with Taco indeed
Do you collect NFTs?
A3Manolo of course I have a big collection
AgentK His is bigger than mine
What is your favorite collection?
A3Manolo SkunkyChunks is very awesome!
AgentK SkunkyChunks as a collection also Tales of the Crypto have a fab collection, Lewdies too
Love black fang . Whats the long term plans for the project?
A3Manolo Well, a few are secret atm and we'll keep them secret haha but those are very long term but with NFlottery we try to come up with new partner colab ideas, improve our website and CrewToons we improve the utility time on tome. We will holds chip packs sales and get more fun with that and someday perhaps our own CrewToons game would be fun to have let me share our tokenomcis for this year this will be more or less how our CrewToons will work .
What has been the hardest part of the project?
A3Manolo Getting over not getting whitelisted by AH has been a bummer. Especially in the beginning. And also for sure time management. We have so many plans and ideas but we are a small team with limited time.
What has been the best part of doing the project?
A3Manolo Getting to know our community and seeing the same people hop in every week. Really love that!
AgentK Yes we have an amazing community, the wax community in general (as in the community members, not the scammers/bot wallets etc) are just amazing
What you guys like to do to unwind?
AgentK Play FPS games
A3Manolo I love to cook or do sports
What does your family think of your work?
A3Manolo They don't understand it haha lets keep it like that
AgentK LOL They don't understand it haha lets keep it like that
How often do you guess stream?
Every Sunday and when ever we want around that really but defo every Sunday
How often you dropping new NFTs?
A3Manolo Well we sell tickets each week and then every 5 week a new Crewtoon and sometimes with holidays we make special editions
Where can we buy your NFTs?
AgentK You can buy from any wax marketplace also our website. But mainly you can blend them up on Neftyblocks and also win them by playing the nflottery 1 common CrewToon begins with 2 Earth Chips for the blend
https://neftyblocks.com/collection/nflotterywax
https://wax.atomichub.io/market?collection_name=crewtoonswax
https://crewtoons.com/marketplace/
And the Lottery Tickets where you automatically get an earth chip right here --> https://crewtoons.com/ticket-sales/
Where the best place to keep up with the project?
A3Manolo Our discord for sure, we are 90% active on there
https://www.twitch.tv/nonfungiblelottery
Any chance of a competition for the reader
A3Manolo Yeah sure How about 4 Common NFTs and 1 Rare the Badass Mr. Squid ones
Oh nice is there anything else you guys want to cover?
A3Manolo I think most important are the 2 pictures that we sent, that should give the main idea! This will be more or less how our CrewToons will work
Its been a pleasure to find about your projects.
A3Manolo Great mate! It's been a pleasure doing this interview
https://twitter.com/Crackers832/status/1642646514164965378?s=20
That Squid is badass