OCM Genesis
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OnChainMonkey is the Genesis collection. OCM Genesis is a piece of history. It is the first on-chain PFP collection created in a single transaction.
OCM Genesis is an on-chain NFT collection. This means, Genesis was "drawn" by code, and all the images and meta-data are on-chain and generated by the smart contract on the fly. OCM Genesis is the first on-chain 10K profile pic (PFP) NFT collection completely created in a single Ethereum transaction.
OCM Genesis continued to set precedents on the Bitcoin blockchain as the first 10K images of a collection inscribed on Bitcoin, the first 10K collection on Block 9 sequential 450x sats, the first 10K collection to use Parent-Child Provenance, the first 10K reinscribed collection, and the first migration of a 10K collection to Bitcoin.
Read the details of what makes OCM Genesis unique as an NFT:
Genesis and Katoshi asset ownership will open access to many opportunities:
exclusive access to drops from our team & partners
Virtual and IRL community events - like private events with our notable community. Past events included those with Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson, Charlie Lee, Deepak Chopra & more
OCM is unique in the way it was launched. OCM Genesis was available as a free mint on Ethereum on mint night, Sep. 11, 2021. There was absolutely no marketing for it. OCM Genesis was deployed by the single Ethereum transaction without any fanfare and was spread simply by word of mouth. There was no Twitter account or Discord for OCM.
From word of mouth, OCM Genesis was completely minted in the first few hours, and a Discord server was created in response to user requests. Since then, the OCM community formed organically over the next few days and weeks. A community that believes in our values of RISE - respect, integrity, sustainability, and experimentation because these were the values we were born into.
To be able to fit all the images into one transaction, the images could not be hand drawn as typically done, but had to be programmed and generated dynamically completely with code.
Find the OCM Genesis collection on secondary marketplaces:
Origin, Mintable and many others.
“Completely on chain” means everything is written on the mainnet blockchain. This is the most secure way to create an NFT, and few NFTs have achieved this. Almost all NFTs store their image and metadata off-chain in some other data store (ie, Google Cloud, IPFS), and the blockchain is only used to point to their off-chain storage location. Those NFTs are not as secure as OCM where everything is completely stored on the native blockchain. The entire OCM Genesis 10K collection is on-chain on the Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains.
First, there is historic importance to being the first to achieve something. Second, there is value in creating NFT collections both on chain and in one transaction. The tradeoff for the security that comes from hosting the images on-chain is that anything on chain is extremely expensive. OCM was able to keep the cost down by compressing everything into a single contract that was only ~10kb. To put this in perspective, the typical PFP collection takes over 100 megabytes of storage space. The cost of storing those images on-chain would likely be astronomical, over 5,000 ETH at today’s gas prices. OCM was able to compress the data by over 4 orders of magnitude because the smart contract on-chain actually generates the image from its components parts each time it is queried. OCM only used 0.798 ETH to deploy everything on-chain. By showing that this is possible, we believe more projects will launch on-chain.
SVG image files are very small and vector based, so they look good zoomed in or zoomed out. SVG are viewable in any browser.
A detailed write-up on why OCM Genesis images are SVG:
In a NFT collection, each NFT token/asset is identified by a unique rank from 1 to the size of the collection. Rarity ranking algorithms take into account how often certain traits and attributes appear individually or in combination (meta-trait) within the entire collection based on collection data. OCM has seven individual traits: Background, Fur, Mouth, Eyes, Clothes, Hat and Earring. Frequency of these traits are used to calculate rarity scores and ranking.
Each monkey is cool. Some are rare. Some are super rare. But all are special. Rarity is subjective and each OCM is unique. Choose the one that speaks to you. Find your favorite.
Keep in mind that the OCM Genesis token/asset ID should not be confused by the ranking number. Token number/ID refers to when the token/asset was minted in the OCM Genesis collection of 10k. This is the unique number you see identifying an OCM Genesis on secondary marketplaces.
OCM Genesis #3 (ID #3) was the 3rd token to be minted in the entire 10k OCM Genesis collection at the time of the mint. rarity.tools scores OCM Genesis #0003 with a rarity score of 145.21 and a rarity ranking of 1152 (out of 9500).
However, OCM Genesis ranked #3 in rarity is OCM Genesis #9990 (ID = 9990).
Overall value of rarity is subjective and there are potential discrepancies in ratings between different rarity ranking tools since each tool places slightly more or less weight on certain collection trait-attribute distributions in their proprietary rarity tool algorithms.
earning our token
participation in the
Osura:
Magic Eden:
OpenSea Pro: (consolidated listings across various ETH marketplaces for OCM Genesis on ETH assets)
Nifty Gateway:
Refer to official project and collection marketplace links. Find our official OCM links posted on , and in OCM Discord.
See the and sections to learn more about the rarities for different OCMs.
Ex. lookup for OCM Genesis ID #3:
details a useful post to understanding rarity and interpreting their ranking values, .
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