Friends, a good spring evening to all!
We close the day with a peculiar question from a subscriber:
"How did worms and snails end up in the red list?"
Let's figure it out together 🐌
The ARL International Red List includes all species of fauna - animals (read: living things) of the planet who are in distress. There is also a separate Red Book for flora, that is, for those very rare plants. There is no such book for bacteria and viruses yet 🙈
Why do we need to preserve and protect worms and snails? Would anything change without them?
There is nothing superfluous in nature. All of you have heard about the butterfly effect, right? 🦋 Applied to our conversation today it looks something like this: somewhere, worms die out, and after a while the planet is hit by a total crop failure. All crops, for example.
You can imagine the consequences of such a catastrophic development.
Every living creature is valuable, unique, and extremely important for our common ecosystem. With the NFT ARL project we try to "open the eyes" of people already living inside the digital reality.
We are trying to attract the attention of everyone to the problem of the extinction of animals. We are trying to find ways to save them. 🐛
If we speak directly about NFT with images of all sorts of snails, worms and other "small forms,” then, due to their uniqueness, rarity and good, such "crunchiness" they can compete competently, even with large mammals.
Can a worm be cooler than a panda or a lion? Our answer: Absolutely yes!🪱
That's the kind of worms and snails we are talking about folks!
NFT Ruatara koarana.
Tier 1 (first described in 1976; and found only in French Polynesia)
Friends, today it's time to tell you about our wonderful illustrators.
Currently working on the project are:
🐾 229 (!) professional artists,
🐾 11 leaders of Amphibians, Birds, Large Mammals, Insects, etc.
🐾 one formidable but fair art director. (We're a bit afraid of him ourselves, to be honest 😅)
In order to gather such a team we had to sweat a lot: we interviewed 1200 people and examined plenty of works (can't tell the exact figure - lost count on 4200). 💪
How do we know that our masters are genuine professionals?
Well, first of all, you can see it by their work.
Secondly, many of them have already participated in various projects.
Thirdly, most of the artists have specialized education, both Russian and foreign.
Incidentally, an interesting fact: our highly skilled professionals live in Canada, Ukraine, Germany, Russia, Singapore, China, Brazil and Spain. There is even one guy from New Zealand.
Working practically day and night, artists create an average of 400 artworks a day.
More than $50.000 has already been spent on salaries for specialists, the purchase of special software for graphic design, payment for reliable and secure cloud storage and so on. And some TONs, of course😉
You really inspire us and our brilliant artists to create with your activity, friends.
We love you! ❤️
NFT Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
Tier1 (the only member of the genus Eretmochelys; on the verge of extinction)
Why is the possession of the NFT already a value now and for a long time (if not forever) in the new world?
We all recall the pandemic. Everyone was limited in one way or another in their communication with the outside world: shopping, going to the movies with friends or family, any trips were out of our reach in the blink of an eye. We had to adjust to the situation and try to find ourselves in the digital world.
Reality has changed, and people have gone much deeper online.
Online activity, online games, streaming platforms, social networks, and the entire online infrastructure has increased manifold.
The pandemic is "no longer the same," but no one is in a hurry to go offline — the new order and the amenities it offers are too quickly and easily accepted, so the value of everything "online" is increasing.
It was growing before, but in the last couple of years that rate has increased a lot.
When people spend 80% of their time online, the perception of value changes as well.
You are traditionally greeted by your clothes; what you have and what you appear to be characterizes you in the eyes of others.
Hence the creation online by people of alternative "improved" images of themselves.
Possessing physical values online can sometimes be imitated. But, in any case, what we sometimes have the un-sounding name of "high-hat" and the desire to show off is an inherent part of human nature. Settling down in a new place (in this case, in a network) people quite naturally acquire property, including luxury goods.
And the desire to confirm the actual possession of value gets extremely relevant.
NFT as digital property serves both as a confirmation of the actual possession of this digital exclusive value and as a manifestation of self-expression, identification with this image.
And the distinction between "trashy" NFT and an ordinary pic, which can be used by anyone, becomes quite obvious to the public in these circumstances.
In the past, it was extremely difficult to understand and accept.
Now it's a bit easier.
And pretty soon it will be absolutely natural.
In the picture: sandıklı spring minnow (pseudophoxinus maeandricus)
Tier 1 (inhabits only one place on the globe, with a total area of just 50 square kilometers)
Hello, friends 🦚
We would like to deal with the most common questions you guys had yesterday:
🐾 If my bot's notification of the NFTs I purchased depicts a panda/cat, etc. opposite the quantity, does that mean those animals will be on my NFTs?
Nope, these emoji are added for clarity and do not indicate a specific species, family, class of animals.
🐾 I paid on time, before deadline, and the NFTs aren't reflected in my bot. What to do?
Bot has a Support button. 😉
🐾 Could you tell me if the NFT rendering is different between teer1 from teer 3? Are they done in the same quality? Any graphic or other distinctions?
No, nothing is different. Totally all the art is rendered in the highest quality.
🐾 Checked the top nft-holders in the bot, first place has 5,000. That's 5,000 of what?
That holder bought the NFT ARL for 5,000 TON.
🐾 No cashback / overpaid coins returned to me.
Support button in the bot 😉
Friends, we've completed the payment processing. 💪
Refunds to those
— who paid after the deadline,
— who transferred extra coins by mistake or intentionally
are implemented.
Please check your wallets! (Keep in mind that due to the load on the services involved, receipts may be reflected with a delay.)
If you didn't receive your TONs back, CONGRATS! You are now the owner of NFT ANIMALS RED LIST! Your NFTs are already assigned to you. 🥳🥳🥳
Confirmation of your assignment is reflected in the bot @RedList_nft_bot.
What's the deal with the NFT?
The younger generation nowadays spends lots of time online. Any gamer cherishes his "skins" and gaming items (that's the most obvious example). People create their online image without even noticing it, turning into avatars of themselves.
No one can say "good or bad" unequivocally, but it becomes a reality.
The fine line between reality and its online version is blurring, and we're moving toward the paradigm of "you are what you can show online. You have things you can display online."
So the major NFT holders aren't going to change them into physical pictures. So we keep witnessing a true increase in the value of digital assets, of any kind.
The value of NFTs is skyrocketing in cryptocurrency.
Concurrently, the value of cryptocurrency itself is going up.
And we're sticking with the HODL strategy, it's the best option in the crypto world, proven over the years.
Pictured: Taita thrush
Tier 2
Good evening, friends 🐾
The day before yesterday and last day, against all the odds, our pre-sale was held and all the NFTs listed were sold out.
Once again, thank you all for your trust, appreciation, patience and kind words ❤️
And congrats to the lucky owners of NFT Animals Red List 👏🥳
For those who have been with us since the beginning, no need to explain what NFTs are and what they are for. Yet there are more and more of us, which is nothing short of gratifying. Interest in the project and NFT in general keeps rising.
The questions, both in the channel chat and in the personal section are growing like an avalanche🌪
That's why we would like to tell you once again, what's the point of NFT.
All of you probably heard about CryptoPunk collection.
At first, the value of one NFT was a modest 1 ether (something like $400 at the time).
Now they sell for $10-20 million apiece.
Crypto itself grows and so does NFT.
Today they're already unspeakably valuable. Even the auction house Sotheby's (right, yeah, the one that trades great works of the Renaissance masters) conducts, and with great success, NFT auctions.
Needless to say, Sotheby's accepts crypto as payment?
BTW, on February 23, a private CryptoPunk collection was to have been traded there. However, the auction didn't take place, as the owner of NFT decided to hold it "until better times", when its value will increase even more (though, it would seem, how much more 😅).
Hodl, you can invest in NFT and take your time.
Technology is changing, and so is art. The world is evolving, moving more and more into digital. Money is turning into crypto.
The future is coming!
And it is you and I are among the first to enter it. That's our time to be the first. You've caught the first wave of TON ecosystem development, congrats to you.
Will the NFT Animals Red List collection be as resoundingly successful as Punk or Monkeys?
We believe so, otherwise we wouldn't have taken on this project!
What makes us unique is that we don't just want to ride out the rapid hype, but on the contrary, made a long-term social commitment.
And that can't and won't remain unnoticed. 💯
Welcome and let's make history together! 🤝
Dearest friends and NFT Animals Red List holders, we know you're eager to get at least one peek at the new NFTs from the collection. 😉
And here's the perfect moment! Take a glimpse at what a team of over 90 wonderful illustrators are working on these days.
Feel free to get them on your avatars 👌😅
Private channel followers have already seen parts of the art and sketches. From now on we'll share these updates here in the public channel more frequently as well.
Well, meanwhile, only 5 Tier-1s remain available for purchase! 😱
Those keen on buying NFT should hurry up :)
Okay, buddies, a bit more dry but such good stats? 😁
Quite naturally and expectedly we were placed in the first 3, in the middle (So far☝️)
TOP-2 project at https://getgems.io.
The most compelling NFTs — Tier-1, with the rarest and most needy animals — are still available at pre-sale.
5 of them left ⏱
The cost of these ARL NFTs will never be the case again.
Thanks to everyone for being active, for your patience, for your involvement ❤️
We've still got a long way to go, and with your enthusiastic support we are sure to overcome it with dignity 💪
❗️❗️❗️The NFT Tier 2 (100 TON each) and Tier 3 (10 TON each) are completely sold out.
All further 100 and 10 TON transactions will be returned.
As of now, 11 out of 86 NFT Tier 1 are available in pre-sale at a price of 1,000 TON.
🐼These are the rarest animal species on the verge of extinction and may soon completely disappear from our planet!
🦋 Your questions, gents:
1. Is it necessary to specify Tier in the transaction?
— No need to. We can recognize things on our own, by the amount of the transfer.
2. Where are my NFTs arriving?
— As of now, you get a reservation for an exclusive NFT of a specific Tier, available to you as soon as the NFT platform appears on TON, scheduled to launch by the TON team in March.
No additional details need to be provided, all NFTs will arrive in your TON wallet.
3. What about my discount? What am I in the private channel for anyway?
— We'll make a cashback to all private channel members within 72 hours of the pre-sale ending.
4. How could I be sure my money won't go nowhere?
— We are a public project, in partnership with multiple TON community channels, bloggers, entrepreneurs, and we guarantee the safety of your funds. All presale participants will receive their NFTs. If you have a problem with translation — write to @RedList_support.
5. How many NFTs are left?
So far, we've already closed just over half of all available NFTs and completely sold out the Tier 3s available for pre-sale.
Up-to-date news on available NFTs will appear live on this channel.
❗️We are thrilled with your activity and trust! Up to now we have sold $240,000 worth of NFTs, meaning that we're doing things the right way and our subscribers trust us.
No disturbances in Telegram / crashes / cataclysm cannot stop us and if you are with us — we love you❤️
Friends, our presale bot cannot be revived!
Causes, preventive measures and solutions we will deal with later. Nevertheless, we won't stop here.
Plan "B"! Take heed!
Do you have a username? That's your username in TG, starting with "@".
You'll need it, check or select it in your profile settings.
We're ready to run the pre-sale in a direct way.
TONSOIN (full amount for all desired NFTs, within your limit) send it to your Tonkeeper purse — EQANKN8ZnM0OzYOENTkOEg7VVVgFog5fBWdCtqQro1MRmU5_2
Put your @ username in the transaction comment, it's required. If you have a personal promo code from team, type it after the space from username.
Limits for one person (!):
tier-3 (10 toncoin) — NOT AVAILABLE
tier-2 (100 toncoin) — NOT AVAILABLE
tier-1 (1000 toncoin) — 11 units
Friends, surely our presale is on February 24th 🗓
As the first hours of demand may surprise both us and you, it would be heartbreaking for us to see messages along the lines of "wanted to, but forgot, missed it."
Get in, friends, stay tuned!
Turn on post notifications on the channel 🔔
IMPORTANT: you'll need a Tonkeeper, and only it, on the presale.
You won't be able to purchase NFT from other wallets, including telegram-bot wallets!❗️
b1lly/JcJQSUUD7wO">Instructions on how to use it here 💳
P.S. TONcoin has dropped in value again, allowing you to profitably draft crypto-capital now, or get into the Private channel cheaper.
That's just up to you to decide, though.
Have a great evening everyone! 🐾
Love is blind, friends!
We're deeply in love with our project, and exceptionally childishly excited about every new illustration and each new step.
Lots of them are still a mystery to you.
Meanwhile, we have not 4 but 65 illustrators (chosen from hundreds of candidates), several of their curators and an art-director at the helm of this, one of the major, direction.
Let's discuss our private channel and pre-sale,
there are plenty of questions about this in the PMs and comments.
After the official mint, our closed channel will remain active, being a real closed club.
Only NFT holders and those who subscribe these days may be there after the mint on the TON marketplace.
Now collection, work, and pre-sale info will pop up there not available on the main channel.
As an example, today we've posted there an insight into the most valuable Tier-1 NFTs (on the verge of extinction) and their value.
We'll be showing new illustrations of our NFTs there soon, as well as a couple of valuable surprises.
Currently, the subscription price is still the lowest possible and available to everyone - 1 TON.
That's an incoming control of your loyalty to our project (against "stray" comrades), and proof that you've mastered how to use TON and Tonkeeper cryptocurrency.
Now we return 1 TON in the form of discount on the first NFT, making a month of subscription for free 🐾
After pre-sale on February 24, the subscription price will likely go up.
So, it definitely makes sense to knock on the door for those seeing a great future for the project now 🚀
Read a quick 👉 b1lly/JcJQSUUD7wO">tutorial on the Tonkeeper wallet and acquiring TON.
And below, we'll attach a button to subscribe to this very "magic close".
The IUCN Red List was created over a long 14 years and began appearing in 1966.
The amount of work done is simply colossal. It is difficult to imagine how all this in handwritten and analogue processes took place at the international level, how much effort and resources were needed, the human resources required and the kilometers of photo and film which were spent.
In 1966, people literally accomplished such a feat that the very existence of the List was incredibly valuable.
However, in 2022, we have a different scenario and focusing the audience's attention on a single topic is no easy task: "clip thinking" prevents readers from concentrating on one thing, and people don't care about what they were experiencing five minutes ago.
We want to overcome this peculiarity by creating and actively promoting long-lived Telegram channels about endangered animal species.
The global problem, the unimaginable amount of work done over decades by thousands of people who sometimes put their lives at risk for it. is many times greater than our efforts.
Our job today is to perpetuate it in the new digital reality, not to let people pass it by as if it were just another useless piece of content. We wish to resurrect the Red Book in a new reality.
We are drawing attention to both the issue and the NFT collection. Bringing attention to the NFT collection in the vast and vibrant crypto community ensures, in turn, attention to this problem.
So our project is more than an NFT collection.
It is a win-win concept and idea that we broadcast to the masses. ☝️
NFT Táchira antpitta
Tier1 (from 1956 to 2016, the species was considered extinct. In June 2016, Táchira antpitta were seen again in small numbers in Venezuela).
The Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat (Australia, photo at the bottom of the post) hasn’t been seen since 2009.
It is the first mammal recognized as extinct due to human-caused climate change.
This mouse no longer exists.
Naturally, turning to specific examples, one can experience sincere and deep concern for the fate of endangered species.
Statistics are dry, numbers move few and get forgotten the next day. Dogs and kittens are always with us, elephants are in place (in the zoo), sparrows are chirping under the window like crazy.
It would seem everything is nice with the animals, nope?
Yet, to realize the magnitude of the problem, even when seeing the "dry and dull" statistics, isn’t so difficult.
For some members of our (huge) team, "wet eyes" are common, daily.
And we always sidestep these minor notes in our texts, as we consider squeezing tears out of an audience a marketing punch below the belt.
Still, at least once we guess it's crucial to discuss.
In the last 500 years, some 850 species have become completely extinct due to human error!
Annually, alas, the list grows longer.
The gorgeous dodo, the Tasmanian wolf, the Falkland fox, the smoky leopard, the river dolphin are all extinct.
Amphibians and insects are dying out even more rapidly, not being cute and fluffy, they don't interest people as much and don't tend to get human affection.
The trouble is that the speed at which humanity irrevocably destroys the living world is terribly fast.
And most crucially, it occurs almost imperceptibly.
Hello, friends!
The rarest Madagascar fish eagle (tier 1, only 240 in the world) wishes you a time off, distraction, relaxation to be strong and productive.
Well, we'll keep working, look forward to more news soon 😇
Congrats to all! We've sent payment to The International Union for Conservation of Nature!
We have sent $1582 recently, and $100 was sent during the night as part of the test payment.
*Further on we'll create a separate channel to post all confirmations, including these.
We're taking a big deal with you! That's a weighty and large payment, and it's just the beginning of our contributions to wildlife and animal welfare funds with you!
The payment has been sent to https://www.iucn.org/, the organization that founded the international Red List and currently develops and supports it.
Breaking, hot news! 🦥🦜🦧
We keep gifting our favorite subscribers with NFTs and as part of our second AirDrop
drawing for 100 NFTs:
20 NFT Tier 1 (value at Pre Sale 1000 TON)
32 NFT Tier 2 (value at the Pre Sale 100 TON)
48 NFT Tier 3 (value at the Pre Sale 10 TON)
🎁🎁🎁
Besides, on AirDrop you'll have the "Bring a Friend" feature available, greatly increasing your chances of winning🥳 The more friends, the higher the chance! 💯
To participate and win, you'll need to activate the bot @AirDrop_RedList_eng_bot and meet two simple conditions:
— Subscribe to @NFT_RedList channel
— Follow us in Twitter: NFT | Animals Red List Twitter
Drawing results will be announced on March 31 at 21:00
The mechanism of the "Bring a Friend" promotion is detailed in the bot.
🦅 And the most awaited!
We heartily congratulate the winners of the last drawing!!! 🤝 You can see their lists, as well as the results of all subsequent contests and promotions, here: NFT | Animals Red List Results
🥳🥳🥳
🐾 Over 100,000! 🐾
That's exactly how many members our community counts, including channels in Russian and Persian (@TON_ARL) 💪👏👏👏
Who would've thought we could accomplish so much in just one month? We all did!
Our team was sure of the idea, and you, our readers and good friends, felt, believed, that together we are launching THAT project.
So many of us are out there, and we're already in almost every part of the world 🌐
North and South America, Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East and Far East - that's the geography of the participants these days.
And that's highly symbolic, friends! After all, those animals on the verge of extinction also inhabit everywhere and next to each of us, although we do not know or do not notice it at times.
And this very thing - drawing attention to the problem of extinction, popularization of little-known animals through a huge community of crypto-enthusiasts and NFT-activists - is one of the main missions of the project.
A lot has been accomplished, but more is yet to come. Thanks for choosing to travel this path with us. ❤️
Together we can, together we will! ✊
Dear friends, our beloved subscribers!
Our pre-sale is officially over — all NFTs for sale have found their owners 🥳
Technical problems and general nervousness keep us fat from as easy and comfy sale for everyone as we’d planned. Still, we’ve worked on our mistakes :) Hope to handle without any further troubles.
Friends, stay with us and follow the publications on the channel.
It’s just the beginning... 😉
❗️❗️❗️Just a reminder that all the NFT Tier 2 (100 TON each) and Tier 3 (10 TON each) are completely sold out.
All further 100 and 10 TON transactions will be refunded.
Currently, 5 of the 86 Tier 1s are available for pre-sale at a price of 1,000 TON.
Payment wallet: EQANKN8ZnM0OzYOENTkOEg7VVgFog5fBWdCtqQro1MRmU5_2
🐼These are the rarest animal species on the verge of extinction and may soon completely disappear from our planet!
Heads up, friends❗️❗️❗️
We're not writing to anyone in the PM right now! These are scammers!
We don't send you transactions with commentary-instructions!
We don't ask you to transfer 0.1 TON to "confirm" something.
Scammers do not sleep, be vigilant, do not give in to impulses and emotions!
No one will be left in the hedgerow, only by following strictly the instructions on the channel.
⚡️The NFT Tier 3 pre-sale items (10 TON each) are completely sold out.
All further 10 TON transactions will be returned to shippers.
Available:
Tier 2 — 100 TON (0 left)
Tier 1 — 1000 TON (11 left)
Also, we prepared FAQ for you!
⚡️The NFT Tier 3 pre-sale items (10 TON each) are completely sold out.
All further 10 TON transactions will be returned to shippers.
Upd: Tier 2 is NOT available as well!
Available:
Tier 1 — 1000 TON (11 left)
It's high time! 🚀🐾
So, friends, not much time left until our long-awaited Pre-Sale, it's coming soon, watch for notification ⏰
(turn on the notification from the TG channel)
Yesterday we posted about the value of getting a good night's sleep and staying calm.
But we both missed sleep and worry a lot 😅
After all, it's extremely critical to our team for you to succeed, we hope you were able to connect your wallets in time and purchase TON.
Best wishes for a successful sale itself!
PRE-SALE BOT will appear on the channel, right here 🤗
There will be all the purchasing instructions in it.
If you have any technical glitches, you can email our support team: @RedList_support.
Check your functionality in advance if possible.
We remind you you can pay NFT only from Tonkeeper❗️
You can't buy NFT from other wallets 🤚
Is everyone all set? Are you all tuned in?) Good luck and fortune everyone! 🤲
What is NFT?
We realize that lots of subscribers still have a variety of questions about NFT, including those at the level of basic awareness: "What is it anyway? Why does it cost so much? How do people profit from it?"
You can explore the YouTube videos on your own; it will be beneficial and informative.
For many people that's more familiar than reading long texts.
Additionally, we can say that TON is aimed at simple and clear usage of NFT, so, in other words, any smartphone user could have an opportunity to buy, use and sell his NFT without complicated study of blockchain and program code threads. TON is the future.
And that's why we chose TON.
Also, we should mention non-environmentality and harm to nature, this applies primarily to NFT on the Ethereum blockchain (most of the popular NFTs are on this network).
"Production" of non-fungible tokens on TON is incommensurably less energy consuming, cheaper and faster than Ethereum and other networks.
The crypto market oftentimes surprises with its volatility, causing anxiety for newbies.
You'll get used to it, no worries and do not fall prey to FOMO 😉
Everyone involved in crypto for more than a year is perfectly normal to react to this.
And on such "drawdowns" it is best to step into a project you believe in.
You can consider such a possibility, keeping in mind the risks.
Still, we are not analysts, by no means take this as an investment advice, it's just our reasoning 🐾
Today TON is down to 2,4$ (at the peak in November it was more than 5$) and it's a great opportunity to buy some coins and wait their growth along with using them for their own purposes, surely.
We cannot give exact predictions, but it's very likely that this price to buy coins for the February 24 presale is the best time for those putting off "for later".
As a reminder, we have 👉b1lly/JcJQSUUD7wO">an instruction on how to start a Tonkeeper wallet and purchase TONCOIN.
Friends, by your requests we have prepared b1lly/JcJQSUUD7wO">a small instruction to help you start a Tonkeeper wallet and buy your TONCOIN for the first time.
After that subscribing to our private channel won't be a problem!