Original text: " Azuki, who earned 20,000 ETH in blood, angered the entire community this time "
Author: Azuma
At 0:00 on June 28, the head NFT NFT NFT (NFT) is a cryptocurrency launched in 2020 and runs on the Ethereum platform. View more projects Azuki Azuki AZUKI is a secondary token designed for Doki Doki NFT products View more new series works Azuki Elemental Beans is officially on sale.
This sale has reserved a round of pre-sale windows for holders of Azuki and Beanz, followed by a public sale in the Netherlands for ordinary users, with a starting price of 2 ETH. The final price of the three rounds of sales is the same, and all depends on the final price of the public sale. If it is sold out before the public sale, the price will be 2 ETH.
It was supposed to be another hot night
However, although there are many ordinary users who are ready for ETH to "stand up for battle", just like the hot early morning of January 13 last year, despite the page lag and delay, Azuki Elemental Beans went through the pre-preparation for Azuki holders. Shortly after entering the pre-sale window for BEANZ holders, it was sold out, and the public sale window for ordinary users was closed before it arrived.
With the end of the sale, some users who failed to grab Azuki Elemental Beans tried to buy through the secondary market at a higher price. According to the author's observation, Blur has created the best NFT market for professional traders. View More The bid wall on the website is short Soon after, it was pushed up to around 2.4 ETH .
Originally, the story is still going well up to this point. With the hot community and huge financing (a total of 20,000 ETH), everything seems to be no different from that night last year. Although the floor prices of Azuki and Beanz have fluctuated to a certain extent, considering that some users buy Azuki and BEANZ in the short term to ensure their chances of snapping up Azuki Elemental Beans, there is a high probability that they will resell Azuki Elemental Beans after the sale. It did not exceed market expectations.
Open the picture, what is uncovered is Azuki's underpants?
However, with the official opening of Azuki Elemental Beans, the story began to develop in another direction.
Although before the release of Azuki Elemental Beans, the Azuki project party did not specifically disclose the effectiveness of the series of works, but only released a promotional video with a very explosive style, but it has been brewing as a head project for nearly a year. "Big action", this lack of disclosure has instead given Azuki Elemental Beans a greater imagination. Many community users firmly believe that Azuki will take this opportunity to "do something big".
Note from Odaily Planet Daily: The judgment of the well-known Azuki holder "Princess" before the release represents the views of many community users, that is, the new series "at least not too bad".
But with the revelation of Azuki Elemental Beans, looking at the pile of "small pictures" that are almost completely copied from Azuki's original work (there are actually some new pictures, but a smaller proportion), even the most loyal community Users also "broke their defenses."
The above two sets of pictures, one is Azuki, and the other is Azuki Elementals after opening. For users who are not particularly familiar with the characteristics of Azuki, what is the difference between these two sets of pictures...
Suddenly, disappointment, anger, and a sense of being cheated quickly flooded the entire community.
Some users criticized Azuki's "scythe" operation this time, until the project party didn't even think about making something new, just wanted to use it to reap another wave-shortly after the end of the sale, the Azuki team quickly transferred out this 20,000 ETH raised in this sale.
Even more loyal users shouted disappointment and started spraying directly, earning a lot of money but are unwilling to make market trays.
Some users turned up their old background, saying that the founder of Azuki, ZAGABOND. ETH , who had two rug histories, "returned to his old business."
There are also people who eat melons joked that Azuki can earn nearly 40 million US dollars just by controlling c+v. Who can beat this revenue capability in the entire industry.
There are also rational users trying to objectively analyze the reasons behind Azuki’s bizarre operation, guessing that the original Azuki series works (Azuki, Beanz) will no longer contribute income to the project party in terms of royalties due to the royalty war between trading platforms, because Users can completely bypass royalties through the trading platform, but Azuki Elementals, as a new contract, can lock royalties, and its transaction value is greater than that of Azuki and BEANZ before.
All in all, the Azuki franchise fell across the board as community sentiment crumbled. As of the publication, the floor price of Azuki was at 9.87 ETH, down 28.29% during the day; the floor price of Beanz was at 0.67 ETH, down 43.06% during the day ; The floor price of Azuki Elemental Beans that has not been released is slightly higher, tentatively reported at 1.81 ETH.
Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it
With the concentrated outbreak of community sentiment, the Azuki team finally responded.
Azuki co-founder location tba tweeted an apology saying that the casting process of Azuki Elementals was flawed and seriously underestimated the time required for Azuki and Beanz holders to pre-sell the first and second phases, which should have extended the duration to 10 Minutes or more to have ample buffer in case anything goes wrong (and it does).
However, this apology for mistaking the key points has not been generally understood by the community, and more users are still waiting for explanations from Azuki officials and ETH himself.
The NFT market is already in a deep bearish stage. This operation of Azuki not only took away the only Liquidity in the market again, but also caused a crisis of trust that directly hit the entire market head-on. As the narrative of small pictures comes to an end, the NFT industry is eager to find a new incremental direction. As a top project that has been placed on infinite expectations, Azuki should have set an example in this regard (the community is also looking forward to it), but about Azuki This operation by Elementals is really hurtful.
With its excellent style of painting, Azuki has attracted a group of loyal community users in the last era of NFT. It is these users who have pushed Azuki to its current height, but now, Azuki should think about how to appease these injured "Family".
Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. This is not just a question of good and bad development, but a question of life and death.
