Cool Cats
Cool Cats has partnered with Hologram Labs to provide 3D avatars to all Cool Cats and Cool Pets NFT holders, according to a tweet from the project.
❗Why It Matters
While flat, 2D images are suitable for profile pictures, users need interoperable, 3D avatars in a world that is becoming increasingly friendly to AR and metaverses. The partnership with Hologram Labs will allow committed Cool Cats community members to use show off their Cats in more settings than one.
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Cool Cats is offering 50 spots to community members during the beta period. Users are invited to apply in the "CC-x-Hologram" channel in the Cool Cats Discord.
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Cool Cats introduced a new scoring and rewards system called Cool Score today in a tweet announcement.
❗Why It Matters
Cool Score is a new system being implemented to reward loyal and active members of the Cool Cats community. The Cool Score system adds gamification mechanics that will govern access to future collection drops, IRL events, VIP opportunities, and other offerings.
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The score will be calculated based on factors such as:
- How long you've held your Cool Cats NFTs
- Whether your Cool Pets are fully evolved
- What items you've hoarded from your adventures in Cooltopia
- Community involvement
- and more...
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Cool Cats holders can access their Cool Score by connecting their wallet to coolcatsnft.com. After selecting a profile, a score will be displayed in the black box in the middle of the screen.
🔜 What’s Next?
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Part of the reason I chose Cool Cats as my forever identity is that Cool Cats is one of the few projects that has a real artist behind it, a real story, not just a brand created because NFTs were mooning. Might be dumb to others but to me it matters long term. Art/Story/CommunityMcGavin (@NFT_Shooter)
The Cool Cats will host a Town Hall to discuss the future of the brand, according to a tweet from the project.
❗Why It Matters
The official Cool Cats account tweeted a short teaser video, which included a graphic with the themes of the brand's move-forward plans including animated content, collectibles, events, comics, gaming, and brand partnerships. The Town Hall may provide more concrete details and next steps in one of these areas or more.
The Deets
The Town Hall will be streaming live on the Cool Cats NFT Youtube channel tomorrow, Feb. 1 at 3:00 p.m.ET.
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Cool Cats' infamous Blue Cat and his partner Lil Chugs are apparently traveling to a new dimension, as seen in a newly-released teaser from the project.
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The video starts with Lil Chugs napping in bed while Blue Cat attempts to draw a face. Frustrated, Blue Cat crumbles up the paper and throws it, inadvertently hitting his friend, Lil Chugs.
Blue Cat's pencil wiggles, and magically lifts itself off the desk. It seemingly rips a hole in the space-time continuum. Bursts of color fly through the air, before Blue Cat and Lil Chugs are sucked into the void.
As they're sucked into the void, Blue Cat and Lil Chugs lose their color and detail, turning into mere outlines of their bodies. The video ends zoomed in on a mysterious symbol.
What It Means
It's currently unclear.
The Cool Cats' founders - Clon, Elu, Tom, and Lynqoid - all changed their Twitter pfps to the outline of Blue Cat and updated their bios with #whereisbluecat.
Additional information is expected in the coming days or weeks.
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📊 By the Numbers
Cool Cats has seen a significant increase in the last day, rising nearly 23 percent on the day and 14 percent on the week. It has done over 80 ETH in volume in the last 24 hours.
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Cool Cats revealed a wealth of information about the NFT project's upcoming plans for 2023, including a renewed focus on Blue Cat and its gaming partnership with Animoca Brands, during a recent Town Hall event.
As the team continues to develop its IP, the main focus of the project will be on content and storytelling, particularly focused on Blue Cat, the collection's primary character. This move quells any expectation of the previously-announced Jo the Bird NFT drop happening soon. The Jo collection was supposed to release in Q4 2022, but that is no longer the case.
"We're going to start telling the story of Blue Cat. Blue Cat is super important," co-founder Lynqoid said. "We're going to have a massive focus on content and our storytelling next year."
"As one of the coolest brands in the web3 space, the content and stories are going to be good," he continued. "We want to put a heavy focus on everyone who holds a Cool Cat and anyone who is on this journey with us."
How exactly Cool Pets, the expansion collection for Cool Cats, works its way into 2023 plans is currently unknown.
"It all has to start with story," CEO Stephen Teglas said. "It all has to come back to what is the story and what is the context in which we're bringing [Jo and Paper Cats and Cool Pets] to life."
With the renewed focus on Blue Cat, content, and storytelling, the team plans to leverage its relationship with Animoca Brands to create a new game path focused on fun stories that avoid grinding for rewards.
CEO Stephen Teglas said the plan is to use "gaming as content distribution, not as a grind." He wants to see the gaming experience from "more of an enjoyment standpoint."
Gaming updates are expected in early 2023.
"We've been working on a couple of different game paths with [Animoca]," Teglas said. "We'll be announcing something after the first of the year. We have one project already up in the early development cycle. We have a longer-term one we're working on as well."
In 2023, Cool Cats also plans on having at least two IRL events at SXSW and NFT NYC. The primary focus will be on SXSW because the audience is less web3-oriented and prime for onboarding.
Additionally, the team will put out its second comic for all holders of the first comic. It has parted ways with Toikido for toy distribution, too.
These announcements come following Evan "Elu" Luza's stripped-back role change to project advisor. The team indicated during the Town Hall that it has established runway financially for the next two to three years.
The Cool Cats team announced they have completed a snapshot for all Cool Cats FC NFT holders this morning.
The snapshot captured holders of the two finals teams, France and Argentina, as well as all those still holding any Cool Cats FC NFT.
Rewards can be claimed on Tuesday, Dec. 20 at noon ET.
The World Cup will conclude today when France and Argentina play at 10:00 a.m. ET.
Evan Luza, co-founder of Cool Cats, announced he is stepping back into an advisory role on Monday in a Twitter thread.
This just in 📣 I’m happy to announce that I've decided to step into the role of advisor for @coolcats and step back from the day-to-day granularities of brand & biz dev.
— elu (@evanluza) December 12, 2022
It has been such a joy building the brand from the beginning with one of my best friends @cloncast
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"Through the journey with the cats I’ve also realized I miss the ability to incubate and start my own projects, and scaling is a much different beast than launching a project," Luza said in the thread.
The project brought on new CEO Stephen Teglas in September, focusing on accomplishing "Cool Cats' mission to become the largest global NFT brand and a robust media and content company."
The floor price currently sits at 1.99 ETH, up 5% over the last seven days.
With just under eight hours left to vote, Cool Cats is leading the official Macy's NFT balloon voting poll by more than 6,000 votes.
The voting leaderboard was last shared in Macy's Discord at 10:43 a.m. ET, showcasing a narrow lead for Cool Cats over SupDucks, followed by gmoney, VeeFriends, and Boss Beauties. More than 200,000 total votes have been cast for these five projects, with Cool Cats racking up more than 63,000.
The project with the most votes when voting closes will earn the right to design an NFT balloon in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2023.
Learn more and cast your vote for the Macy's NFT contest at macysparadevote.com.
Cool Cats is partnering with GAMEE for a holiday-themed version of its Cool Cats Combinations game, the project announced Tuesday.
Users can play the game from Dec. 8-12 for a shot at Cool Cats prizes such as Cool Pets eggs, holiday sweaters, Cool Cats FC jerseys, or Cool Cats G-Bot Starters. Users can also earn their share of GMEE, the native token of the the Arc8 platform, which is available as an iOS and Android app.
Clon, the founder and artist behind Cool Cats, announced a new ongoing 1/1 collection on Monday, with holders able to submit their Cats to be featured in the first piece, titled 'Cattern'.
'Cattern' is based on Clon's original piece from 2016, which was later the reference for his NFT project:
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— clon (@cloncast) November 28, 2022
On February 16, 2016 “CATTERN 3.0” was created under my previous name The Catoonist. This piece immediately became my most popular print and later became the reference that started the Cool Cats NFT project.
(2/5) pic.twitter.com/VMzpD4BBuA
99 Cool Cats will be featured in the 1/1 art, with holders able to enter by commenting on the Twitter post with an OpenSea link for proof. Priority will be given to Legendary and Minted Cat Holders, followed by the length of time held.
Submissions will end Friday, Dec. 2 at 11:59 p.m. EST, with only one cat allowed per holder.
No details were given regarding how or when the piece would be available.
Cool Cats currently hold a 1.975 floor, up 4% over the last seven days.
