Ape16z – The Forest of Monkeys NFT

• About ape16z
• ape16z vision and values
• About the ape16z platform
• Launchpad
• Adviser
• About ape16z NFT
• Define utility for NFT
• Apelist and Economics
• Project roadmap
• Development team
• summary

About ape16z

Ape16z is a web3 launcher & accelerator for Solana. The goal of the project is simple: catalyze quality growth of the ecosystem by merging venture capital values ​​with degraded ones to help founders bring the next billions of users to the network. this grid.

The growth of Solana NFT in 2021 and 2022 has created tremendous opportunities for founders, entrepreneurs and teams to build unique value for the community. The enjoyable user experience, low gas fees, and overall speed of the network have resulted in millions of crypto users and non-crypto native users interacting with the blockchain.

ape16z vision and values

The core vision of ape16z is to solve the difficult points that many investors, creators, founders face in Solana's ecosystem.

The project sees a future in web3 and has no plans to migrate to web2. The amazing progress made with web3 has limitless potential. The goal is to harness that potential and put it in the hands of the right founders, accelerate and launch outstanding projects.

This is meant to provide unique top opportunities that the community has early access to. ape16z is a place where everyone has a voice and gets to work making sure we're choosing the right projects to support the entire Solana community.

About the ape16z platform

Launchpad

Launchpad ape16z is built with the intent of improving user experience, safety/security, and composability. After consulting with the Metaplex team and the Solana community, the project decided it would be best to leverage the existing candy machine infrastructure as a foundation. They've designed and implemented a number of key enhancements, and worked with OtterSec to identify and remediate potential vulnerabilities.

One of the core UX services/benefits is a seamless and configurable payment infrastructure. Any SPL standard token can also be accepted for payment. In addition, Crossmint allows Solana users to participate in the ecosystem using a traditional form of payment (credit card/bank account), seamlessly interacting with key services.

adviser

Ape16z has world-class advisors. These are the individuals the project has recruited to help startups and projects. Ape16z learns from the best and thinks about product, marketing, operational and legal challenges.

Why are web2 founders mentors? Building a product-market fit (PMF) is tough. Several projects have achieved PMF in web3. But there is still much more in web2. As more web3 is introduced to web2 builders, they will get more adoption. This benefits everyone.

All of this is ultimately aimed at ensuring projects that go through ape16z succeed in their core mission.

Over the past few weeks, the development team has announced mentors for its project.

There are still many other functions of the ape16z platform, but they are still in beta. The development team will try to release to the Solana community as soon as possible.

About ape16z NFT

Define utility for NFT

• Access: ape16z NFT holders have the opportunity to participate in exclusive pre-sale opportunities, whitelist and have future special offers on projects and startups that ape16z quarterly acceleration.
• Participation: Through the DAO, holders can provide feedback on accelerated projects within the team, helping to shape the roadmap, milestones, and product vision. Extensive user feedback will help drive further progress and could open up opportunities at these startups for holders.
• Exposure: As part of the acceleration process, ape16z will retain a percentage of the supply and/or assets from projects launched on the platform. These will flow into the DAO treasury. As each ape16z NFT constitutes 1/6000th ownership of the DAO holding and administration procedures.

Apelist and Economics

Currently ape16z has launched its first NFT collection. And they can be traded on 2 NFT markets, Magic Eden and Hyperspace.

5,000 NFT will be mintable. It will be distributed as follows

• 4,000 will go through the scholarship.
• 920 has been allocated through a select number of DAO collaborations.
• 50 was given to the mentors.
• 30 will be distributed via Twitter.

Finally, the project will work with Phase Protocol to lock a portion of the coin proceeds into escrow based on the milestone.

Project roadmap

Development team 

The ape16z team comes from a variety of backgrounds and all carry unique skill sets. They all intersect in early-stage business ventures and have deep experience in building products, expanding growth channels, and finding strategic solutions to complex problems.

DK | Co-Founder & Co-CEO

DK has been in the early stage technology investment business for four years. He started his journey with a well-known company based in San Francisco, helping to manage US$150 million in AUM and leading their venture arm in SaaS for enterprise, financial technology consumer and web3. He has been fortunate to invest alongside major companies on Sand Hill, including a16z, Founders Fund, Accel and Greylock.

He's been in the Solana space since its inception, made difficult by the likes of SolBears and Neonexus. He's also fortunate to be a part of other incredible communities.

Harambo | Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Harambo has been involved in the crypto space for over nine years as both an investor and a builder. He has consolidated his investment experience, helping develop and execute investment strategies at a hedge fund and at an institutional asset manager with over $7 billion in assets under management.

He has experience consulting and raising capital for early-stage startups and is no stranger to the difficulties that builders face. He set out to create a platform that aligns excellent opportunities while increasing the success rate of developers, which in turn led to the birth of ape16z.

Paul | Chief Marketing Officer

Paul has extensive knowledge of film and television production as a director, screenwriter, producer and presenter, having worked in the entertainment industry for over 25 years. For the past 4 years, he's devoted that love to storytelling and understanding audiences to marketing.

Working for major brands, startups and on many web 3 projects spearhead their content and marketing efforts. 

Raff | Chief Creative Officer

Raff has led the marketing and growth for many Web2 B2B SaaS products, leading them from pre-seed to acquisition stage. With a focus on advertising and digital presence, Raff worked with founders to build transforming brands.

Passionate about art, Raff is currently transitioning the Web3 meta to a beautiful aesthetic and clear branding. Raff has worked as creative director and art consultant on a wide variety of NFT collections.

summary

The project is still in the development stage, it needs more time to spread out to the larger community. In the near future, the project will have an airdrop for their NFT holders until early 2023.

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