CryptoFrens is a collection of 10,000 Apu NFTs on the Avalanche Network. The collection has been built from the ground up. Everything from the backend to generative code is written from scratch to create a collection with great variety. Each of the NFTs are guaranteed to be unique, and the each pixel of each trait is crafted with passion. The NFT contract and all of its contents are provably immutable. With this collection, we aim to make NFTs great again. Like our artistic and technical dedication? Come on then, make some new frens!
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Art
CryptoFrens is the most varied algorithmic NFT character collection ever. Frens are drawn onto 96x96 canvases. This allows frens to portray a greater range of emotions and variety than smaller pixel arts, and have more “soul” (i.e., artistic character) than high-definition NFTs, most of which look as if they are mass-produced in a factory. All of the frens, that is, the traits that compose them, have been drawn by us, the team, from scratch, for the sole purpose of this project. There are well over 350 traits and ten trillion possible combinations of frens. All 10,000 frens are guaranteed to be unique. Most frens are cute, some are goofy, and some are grotesque. Nonetheless, each fren is lovable in its own unique way.
Rarity
All 10,000 frens are equally rare, because there is only one of each. Therefore, people who want to put rarity labels to the NFTs must look at the rarity of the each trait composing a single NFT. However, even if we consider that all traits are equal except their occurence count, defining how a certain combination of traits make the NFT rarer is subjective. Is an NFT that only has common traits except a rarest hat more rare than an NFT with all slightly rare traits? The CryptoFrens generative code makes this all more complex. Our generative code is more sophisticated than other NFT projects, and it has rules for handling overlaps, increasing the chance of related traits occuring together, multi-slot traits, etc. For example, if a fren has Chef's Uniform, it is more likely to also have Chef's Hat. Or, if a fren has glasses, it cannot have most of the hats that covers brow. On top of that, some traits, such as Business Suits, are part of collection of traits that have slight variations (e.g., colour). So even if one of the traits might be rare, the collection is not. Do we consider that trait as rare or not? The answer is, of course, that it is subjective. For all these reasons, as the developers, we do not want to dictate what is rare and what is not. We want to let the community assign value to each NFT, based not only on the rarity of its traits, but also based on the artistic appeal of the NFTs. With all that being said, after the NFT distribution is complete, we will publish the trait and pair counts for statistical purposes.