Zero G Labs: The Solanauts Project

 

Zero G Labs: The Solanauts Project – Whitepaper 2.0 – September 13, 2021

The Nauts journey began years ago during one memorable summer night. Ever since that day, we’ve been trying to find a purpose in an ecosystem where we belong, but, recently, the Solanaverse has been calling our name. The color palette, the community, the positive energy, the speed, the uniqueness is what made us confident that Solana would be our home.

The Solanauts represent every human on this timeless journey through space. We are born as explorers and this collection aims to revitalize that star dust that still lives inside us. The part about you that still has doubts about how things work, or why things are the way that they are. We are curious creatures by nature and exploring the unknown is how we obtain information and nurture the wonder junkie inside each one of us.

Our thesis has been to crack the code on what it means to deliver long term value to an NFT project. We will call our 2 principles “Launch Rewards” and “Revolution Rewards” to be defined below. When a project shares with the contributors, it strengthens that community and generates extreme attention and popularity during the milestones that define the project’s reputation.

We truly believe this type of shared system will become the minimum standard for NFT collectibles in the future.

Project Data & Launch Sequence

Number of Solanauts: 500
Number of Attributes: 8 (43 different rarities within these 8 attributes)

  • Suit Color, Visor Color, Secondary Color, Environment, Orientation, Patch Rank, Special Patch, & Match Type

Launch Sequence will consist of 1 Liftoff, all 500 Solanauts at 7 $SOL per mint

  • 0 Solanauts will be held back or offered to influencers or saved for preferential treatment

  • All 500 Solanauts are sold on a first come first serve basis

  • Date and Time will be finalized and announced only in our Discord channel for the Nautified Recruits

Minting (Launching) will generate 1 random Solanaut from the collection to your wallet

Re-sale royalties will be 10% of all secondary sales (funds the Revolution Rewards)

Launch Rewards

Launch Rewards will commence when all 500 Solanauts have been purchased
1 Day after minting is complete, we will snapshot wallets and give 3 Solanauts a $SOL launch reward

  • 3 different Solanauts will be selected for a 3x Launch Reward which will be 21 $SOL each

  • If an owner has more than one of the Solanauts selected, then that person can win multiple times

  • Every Solanaut has an equal chance to share a Launch Reward, 1 Solanaut = 1 share of 500

Every Solanaut is eligible for the launch rewards, the more you own, the better your chances

Long term viability in the NFT collector space should be tied to shareholder value and opportunity

That is what we will accomplish during the launch and for the duration of the program

Attribute and Rarity Trait Probability Model

We ran simulations to achieve the following criteria:

  • Exactly 2,000 ping pong balls from the Patch Ranks (described below)

  • Exactly 50 Solana Special Patches (10% of collection, described below)

  • Exactly 3 Solanauts with Double Solana Patches

  • Exactly 1 Solanaut that is Trips Purple, a Trips Pink and a Trips Teal (only 3 Trips in the entire space crew)

    • Suit / Visor / Secondary Colors are the exact same color

  • Exactly 1 Solanaut that is The Solana Maxi (The #1 Most Rare Solanaut)

  • All other combinations were a result of the random probability sample we developed

All 500 Solanauts will be minted with a unique rank of 1 to 500 based on their attributes and rarity traits

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There are (8) attributes and (43) total rarity traits associated with this project

  • Each of the 500 Solanauts has a Patch Rank which determines your weight for the Revolution Rewards

  • Ranks are defined by the Bottom Patch attribute and represent the number of ‘ping pong balls’ you have

  • Suit Colors (9 Rarities)

    • 101 White Suits (20.2%)

    • 81 Purple Suits (16.2%)

    • 60 Pink Suits (12.0%)

    • 54 Teal Suits (10.8%)

    • 50 Bronze Suits (10.0%)

    • 47 Silver Suits (9.4%)

    • 45 Gold Suits (9.0%)

    • 42 Black Suits (8.4%)

    • 20 Solana Suits (4.0%)

  • Visor Colors (10 Rarities)

    • 88 White Visors (17.6%)

    • 68 Purple Visors (13.6%)

    • 59 Pink Visors (11.8%)

    • 55 Teal Visors (11.0%)

    • 52 Bronze Visors (10.4%)

    • 48 Silver Visors (9.6%)

    • 46 Gold Visors (9.2%)

    • 44 Black Visors (8.8%)

    • 25 Solana Visors (5.0%)

    • 15 Cosmic Visors (3.0%)

  • Secondary Colors (4 Rarities)

    • 335 Stock Secondary (67.0%)

    • 63 Purple Secondary (12.6%)

    • 54 Pink Secondary (10.8%)

    • 48 Teal Secondary (9.6%)

  • Bottom Patch / Rank Patch (6 Rarities)

    • 134 Scouts (I) (25.8%) – These Solanauts have 1 ‘ping pong ball’ for the Rewards

    • 113 Explorers (II). (22.6%) – These Solanauts have 2 ‘ping pong balls’ for the Rewards

    • 101 SOLdiers (III). (20.2%) – These Solanauts have 3 ‘ping pong balls’ for the Rewards

    • 68 Captains (IV). (13.6%) – These Solanauts have 4 ‘ping pong balls’ for the Rewards

    • 55 Commanders (V). (11.0%) – These Solanauts have 5 ‘ping pong balls’ for the Rewards

    • 29 Solana Patches (S) (5.8%) – These Solanauts have 10 ‘ping pong balls’ for the Rewards

  • Top Patch aka Special Patch (2 Rarities)

    • 450 No Patchers (90.0%)

    • 50 Solana Patches (S) (10.0%) – These 2nd Solana Patches are +10 ‘ping pong balls’ for Rewards

      • +10 for a Scout Rank Patch is 11x improvement in chances (1 to 11)

      • +10 for a Solana Rank Patch is 2x improvement in chances (10 to 20)

      • This 2nd Solana Patch makes the Solanaut more valuable than any single Patcher

  • Orientations (3 Rarities)

    • 292 Right Facing (58.4%)

    • 159 Left Facing (31.8%)

    • 49 Inverted (9.8%)

  • Environments (5 Rarities)

    • 263 Solana (52.6%)

    • 101 Galactic (20.2%)

    • 71 Celestial (14.2%)

    • 42 Unknown (8.4%)

    • 23 Heavenly (4.6%)

  • Match Type (3 Rarities) – Number of Solanauts with matching Suit or Visor or Secondary Color

    • 411 None (82.2%)

    • 86 Dubs (17.2%) – (ie. Teal Suit & Teal Visor or Teal Suit & Teal Secondary Color)

    • 3 Trips (0.6%) – (ie.PinkSuit/PinkVisor/PinkSecondaryColor)

Example: If you own 1 Double Solana Patch Solanaut you have a 1% chance to win the Reward

  • This Solanaut comes with 20 ping pong balls, as mentioned earlier

  • There are 2,000 total ping pong balls, as mentioned earlier

  • (20/2,000 = 1%) The highest probability for any single Solanaut

Revolution Rewards

Once all 500 Solanauts have been minted, the first day of the next month begins the clock for rewards

  • During the ‘clocked’ time period, all secondary sales royalties will be tracked & calculated (Bot anyone?)

    • The ‘clocked’ period will be the beginning of calendar year to end of calendar year (UTC-5)

    • This means that Year 0 royalties will only a be few months of accumulation

    • Clock is reset every year end at Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5)

  • On the first day of every calendar year (January 1st) those royalties will be allocated to 4 partners

    • 3 Solanaut creators and 1 Community Pool partner – 25% each in Year 0

    • The Community Pool will consist of 7 wallet addresses every single revolution

  • In Year 1, the community cut grows by 5%

  • After that, the community cut grows by 10% until it reaches 70% in Year 5

    • In Year 1, the Community Pool will receive the largest percentage of the 4 partners

  • From Year 5 on, the Community Pool will take home 70% of all royalties transacted

    • The 3 Solanaut creators will then only take 10% each (30% total) in perpetuity

    • 3 Solanaut creators + 7 Community members = 10% each in perpetuity after Year 5

We will hold a random drawing on January 1st to determine the *7* community partners for the prior year

After a Solanaut is selected, the balance of their PPBs are removed from the pool (cannot be selected twice)

We will make the Revolution Reward available to all partners on the same day they are selected

Bonding curves in the NFT space typically reward creators, but we are increasing the rewards for partners

Calendar & Structure of Revolution Rewards

Year 0: 1/1/2022 – Community 25% cut – 7 members split (Approx. 3 months of accumulation)

Year 1: 1/1/2023 – Community 30% cut – 7 members split (1 calendar year of accumulation)

Year 2: 1/1/2024 – Community 40% cut – 7 members split (1 calendar year of accumulation)

Year 3: 1/1/2025 – Community 50% cut – 7 members split (1 calendar year of accumulation)

Year 4: 1/1/2026 – Community 60% cut – 7 members split (1 calendar year of accumulation)

Year 5: 1/1/2027 – Community 70% cut – 7 members split (1 calendar year of accumulation)

The Year 5 percentages will remain in perpetuity

Mission Statement & Conclusion

To create an NFT collection that rewards all types of players;

  • Flippers

  • Speculators

  • Investors

  • HODLers

That solves the ‘problem’ of speculative assets in NFTs and building in LTV (long term value) for partners

More transactions = the community receives more rewards

Incentives exist for this collection to change hands often AND being held at the end of the year

If everyone is HODLing, we expect low rewards, which then triggers sell-offs

  • Which then results in higher rewards the following year, a nice bull/bear cycle

We believe this is a beautifully designed system, that can potentially benefit all participants

Solana Summer? Nope. Solana Forever!