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Opepen: changes, proposals and interface sketches
Dated statements distinguish an announced opt-in change from later proposals about releases and the token’s interface.
Jack Butcher · 21 March 2024 – 2 November 2025 · 3 selected posts
21:43:36 UTC · Original post on X · Link to this transcript
after careful consideration we're going to adjust the mechanism to only allow for one opepen to be opted-in to a single set at a time currently there's a "waterfall" type logic where you can opt into multiple, but it's distorting signal numbers will go down by ~54% 🤝
21:10:15 UTC · Original post on X · Link to this transcript
listened to opepen space thanks all for the candid thoughts agreed that consensus on the full sets is very difficult to get through at the moment, partly attention elsewhere, partly complexity, partly marketing, etc some view the difficulty as a feature, others as a bug I am somewhat neutral because I don't think a set going through every 72 hours is the point but, if I were to respond with a proposal that increases the velocity of opt-ins and artwork release while respecting the rarity brackets already assigned, here is what I would suggest: from this point forward any single opepen can be released in any edition size (1, 4, 5, 10, 20, 40) the first edition size to opt in completely (for example, a single 1/1) claims the artwork instantly nothing would change supply wise, just (in theory) much higher velocity of releases, and potentially 6x more surface area for contribution (135 sets * 6 edition sizes = 810 more "releases") set verbiage would be "legacy", applicable to the first 65 releases, L1 opepen if you will thought experiment etc, lmk what you reckon
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18:49:52 UTC · Original post on X · Link to this transcript
quick, incomplete sketch capturing some ideas from friday's opepen space again challenging the idea that token ≠ image and treating the protocol itself as artwork (proposing this as what you would see on opensea or similar) at first glance complex, but a first pass at the bigger goal of collapsing the complexity that lives between the marketplace view of the image that the token points to and the opepen specific web interface an approach like this would aspire to contain the entire interface/game in the "token" view where 99% of people discover it (at least today) instead of leaning out of the granularity and nuance of the protocol, lean all the way in
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