Kolectiv Monthly Recap — July 2022

5 min readAug 5, 2022

Don’t have time to read every Kolectiv announcements and tweets recently? Here’s the monthly recap for July 2022 so you don’t miss anything.

Kolectiv Team Update

Previously the Community Coordinator for Kolex, Worth has transitioned into a new role as the Product Manager for Kolectiv, shifting his full attention to focus exclusively on the Kolectiv platform. This transition places Worth in a position to model & curate future drops on Kolectiv, manage artist & partner relations, and overall bring wonderful artwork to our lovely Kolectors.

The Burrow x Kolectiv Twitter Spaces & Allowlist Giveaway

In collaboration with The Burrow, we hosted a Twitter Spaces with their team to introduce collectors to their curated, themed NFT art collection with a similar blind-mint drop system as found on Kolectiv. The Burrow generously gave 10 allowlist spots to the Kolectiv community for their “pause” collection.

The Burrow is a South Asian artist collective, formed with a mission to help bring emerging artists into the spotlight and provide value to the community through theme-based curated drops like Pluralize, a 1/1 art collection, where art collectors can mint artwork across various genres of art, all conforming to a common theme during each drop.

Kolectiv Drop Themes & Collector Feedback Poll

As we’re focusing on ramping up the frequency of drops on the Kolectiv platform, we gathered opinions from the community on the themes that they’d like to see.

And the most popular voted theme?

Tarot cards!

This collection will feature 14–18 artists creating one of each of the “Major Arcana” cards found in a traditional deck of Tarot cards, with additional gamification elements including rare inserts, collection rewards, and a few new ideas we look forward to announcing soon! The Tarot collection is planned to drop in September, with the majority of artists selected & actively working on their contributions.

Lineup of Future Collections Announced

Our effort to push the frequency of Kolectiv drops continues with a public artist application for future drops. Here’s the current lineup of Kolectiv drops planned:

Tarot Cards: Artists design an assigned tarot card in their respective styles. Largely left to the artist to design based on a given card title, e.g. “The Empress” or “Death.”
Portraits: Each artist produces a self-portrait and/or a portrait of a notable person in the space. This can be a symbolic / figurative representation instead of a real-world identity.
Crypto 2022: This annual collection showcases many NFT artists and includes multiple subsets to highlight artists, projects, and general themes in the NFT & blockchain space.
Partner-curated collections: We continue to work with several partners to curate & release their own collections on the Kolectiv platform.
Artist Spotlights: An artist contributes multiple artworks and has a drop largely focused around their own art while featuring several of their peers in the space, making use of Kolectiv’s inherent added utility and its gamified environment to further incentivize collecting of their artwork.

Bicycle NFT Collector Updates

Bicycle has had a successful trial run with the physical cards and they look amazing! Production of the Main Collection physical decks is set to begin in September, with distribution beginning in October.

The first 4 1-of-1 collectibles (of the 32) have been selected from the existing pool of 8008 NFT purchasers and then offered to the 8008 collection buyers. We will be reaching out to those purchasers via the email address they provided in the Shopify account. These purchasers will then have the ability to burn their existing 8008 NFT in exchange for a Unique card NFT.

32 primary sale buyers will receive the opportunity to burn their existing 8008 NFT in exchange for a 1-of-1 Unique NFT with cards ranging from the 2 to 9 of each suit. Any primary market purchases of 8008 Main Collection decks from https://shop.kolex.gg/ as of July 18th, 2022 at 00:00 UTC were eligible for this first round of distribution of the 1-of-1 collectibles. Secondary market purchases of the Main Collection NFT do not qualify for the physical deck.

We’re additionally offering a physical Bicycle Signature Edition Box Set to ALL Unique Collection owners and select 8008 Main Collection NFT owners. The retail value of this exclusive 5-deck collection is $150. With 52 Box Sets in our possession, 22 will go to Unique Collection buyers and 30 have been distributed to Main Collection NFT owners.

Hro Digital Exclusive Drop ‘The Lantern Corps’ Allowlist Giveaway

‘The Lantern Corps’ is the latest Hro Digital Exclusive Drop in July, featuring the iconic lantern-bearing organization from DC Comics canon. Kolectiv gave away a total of 80 Allowlist spots with the allocation below:

10 spots for Top 10 Global Collectors
25 spots for Gold Founders
25 spots for Silver Founders
10 spots for Kolectors owning 5 or more Kolectiv NFTs
10 spots for Top 10 of the current Kolectiv Trivia Games standing

Ongoing Kolectiv Trivia Games Leaderboard

The Kolectiv Trivia Games is an ongoing, leaderboard-based community activity. Each quiz session is based on a different theme, and scores are given based on the time taken to pick the correct answer.

At the time of writing, the Kolectiv Trivia Games quiz 6 has ended and quiz 7 is on the horizon. Here’s a quick recap on the themes so far.

Quiz 1 — General Knowledge

Quiz 2 — Video Games

Quiz 3 — Geography

Quiz 4 — Space

Quiz 5 — Web3 & Cryptocurrencies

Quiz 6 — Pop culture

The ongoing leaderboard can be found here

22 ETH in Purchases on One Account

Kolectiv collector vfund has made a total of 21.95 ETH in purchases alone this month and moved them all out of the Kolectiv/IMX ecosystem. What is happening here?