2021–2022 can be called the "first year" of NFT. Driven by the opening of CryptoPunks in August last year and Bored Ape Yacht Club, various NFT projects in the encryption circle have emerged one after another. This year, with the entry of Jay Chou, Wilber Pan and other stars , The NFT market is also rapidly heating up in January, and the blue-chip NFT in 2022 deserves to be invisible friends. Since the end of Mint, it has ranked first in the opensea transaction list, and the current transaction volume is as high as 24,524ETH.
What kind of charm does Invisible Friends have? Why can achieve today's success? Follow me as I introduce you.
official information
Official website: https://t.co/wbqmHNIvMQ
Twitter: https://twitter.com/InvsbleFriends
Discord：https://discord.gg/rndm
Opensea：https://opensea.io/collection/invisiblefriends
What are Invisible Friends ?
Invisible Friends is an NFT project jointly developed by Swedish illustrator Markus Magnusson and Random Character Collective. It is built on the Ethereum blockchain, and a total of 5,000 were issued. Invisible figures in animation art, walking cycle in different costumes. The animation is very clean and interesting. Compared with avatar NFTs such as CryptoPunks or mfer, it is more eye-catching. Each series of clothing decorations is very popular among young people. It can be seen that the author's intention and professionalism in creation.
After opening Mint at 6:00 on February 23, the trading volume of Invisible Friends common version NFT has exceeded 7,000 ETH, ranking first in the 24-hour trading volume list. Based on the current floor price of 9.25 ETH on OpenSea, it is a full increase from the casting price 36 times, the highest turnover is 18.88 ETH.
A charity special edition NFT "Golden Friends" in the NFT series was sold at the auction at a price of 496.69 ETH, or approximately US$1.28 million, setting the highest transaction record for the series. It is reported that all proceeds from this auction will be donated to the Random Character Collective Charity Fund.
Not only that, but according to official Twitter, they will launch a 3D version of invisible friends in mid-2022.
As we all know, invisible friends has exquisite painting style. Compared with stereotyped avatar NFTs such as CryptoPunks or mfer, it has more innovation and attractiveness. Each NFT has different series of clothing with different decorations. This idea of "paying the bill" is very in line with the aesthetics of young people. It can be seen that the writer's professionalism and dedication to creation, so I have to introduce the writer and the team behind invisible frend.
team introduction
Writer Markus is a well-known illustrator and animator from Sweden, and Markus is not new to the digital arts world. He has been presenting his work on Behance since 2013 and sharing his expertise to his subscribers through tutorials on Patreon.
Markus is also a social media expert and currently has over 200,000 followers on his personal Instagram page, has worked with Google, YouTube, etc., and has 52,000 followers on Twitter. This huge number of fans and popularity is also one of the reasons why NFT is so popular.
Random Character Collective
Random Character Collective is the team behind Invisible Friends, and this is the third project of the team, the first two projects are SlimHoods and Mood Rollers.
SlimHoods is a collection of 5,000 animation NFTs of characters wearing hoodies, headscarves or hats on Ethereum, and the current floor price is 0.58ETH.
MoodRollers are 5000 characters rolling on rollers made of different pieces of metal. The current floor price is 0.41ETH.
The popularity of these two projects is good, and the trading volume on OpenSea exceeds 8,500 ETH. And the most obvious thing these three NFTs have in common is that they are all GIF NFTs. This is also the unique feature of this series of NFTs. Before that, most blue-chip NFTs were in jpeg form.
With the support of an author with such a huge number of fans and an experienced background team, it seems that it is not difficult to see the success of invisible. And its success is not only behind this, but also has an inseparable relationship with their active community.
How does the Invisible Friends community work?
With 77k followers on Instagram, 514k followers on Twitter, and 178k members on Discord, Invisible Friends is one of the largest communities ever in the NFT space.
Adopting the whitelist casting method, 2,500 Slim Hoods and Mood Rollers holders are initially reserved for whitelist positions. You need to own 4 NFTs in these two series to get the whitelist, and the rest will be through community competitions The white list can be obtained through lottery and other methods. It is very difficult to obtain the whitelist, and the participation in each activity is very hot, but this also reflects the high enthusiasm of the community members. This is all thanks to the rich community operations with the background team.
Now everyone has a general understanding of invisible friends. It has been several days since the end of Mint, let us roughly analyze the current data on the chain of invisible friends?
Data analysis on the current project chain
Total: 5000
Mint Price：0.25 ETH
Mint Date：02/23/22
On February 23, the price of Mint was about 10ETH, and today the price was about 8.5ETH on the 28th, and the total average price was also 9.16ETH.
It can be seen from this that the price does not fluctuate greatly and there is no obvious downward trend, which fully demonstrates that you can earn when you buy.
Next, I would like to summarize for you what is the reason behind a successful NFT, and why invisible friend can become a hit and attract everyone's attention?
Reasons for the success of Invisible Friends
1. Markus Magnusson is well-known. The popularity of this NFT writer has also become an important factor for the success of this NFT. The writer's own traffic can bring a huge number of fans to the project.
2. The scarcity of the total amount. The total release of the series is 5000, which is less than other hot projects, and the huge number of fans and the scarcity of the total amount seem to be doomed to the success of the project.
3. Unique GIF NFT. Most of the blue-chip NFTs before this were popular in the form of jpeg, and this innovative GIF mode gives people a sense of freshness. In addition, the animation is mostly based on the matching of clothing accessories, and the cute and simple style of painting is also attractive. With the attention of many young people and nft newcomers, it has more visual enjoyment.
4. Good operation of the community. After the Random Character Collective community has experience in the operation of the first two projects, it is more comfortable in the operation of invisible friends. The community operators have rich experience and diverse activities, which drives the enthusiasm of fans, which is also one of the main reasons for its success.
Now is the nft bull market, there are many nft projects emerging one after another, all kinds of fish and dragons are mixed, and most of them will dissipate after a period of time, and the price will fall to the bottom, but I think invisible friend is an NFT project worth holding for a long time.
Its success lies in the perfect combination of artistic innovation and a strong community. Compared with the generation of jpeg-style NFT avatars, the NFT market needs more innovative and artistic aesthetic works and writers like invisible friends. Its success is inevitable. replica. Today's NFT not only needs art and teams, but also innovation. There is more content to look forward to in the future.