An upcoming snapshot, on Mar. 31, will enable Writer's Room NFT and licensed Bored Ape holders to claim funds later in April, the Jenkins The Valet team announced on Twitter.

Hey @everyone,

Just a reminder there’s only ONE DAY left to license your characters on https://jenkinspodcast.com

Remember, owning a Writer’s Room NFT allows you to license your own character or partner with someone else’s.

The window will close tomorrow, March 24. 🫡

Gm Writer’s Room,

@everyone - we’re in the final week of podcast licensing!

If you haven’t licensed your characters yet, now is the time! Head to jenkinspodcast.com to check out your eligible characters or browse for others (reminder: if you own a Writer’s Room NFT, you have the power to license either your own characters or those belonging to someone else).

Let’s make a great podcast 🤝

• Jenkins

Happy Saturday!

Quick reminder that the licensing window will remain open through Friday, March 24. If you haven't licensed yet, now is a great time.

We encourage everyone to share their licensed characters with us on Twitter and Discord. We love seeing the creativity from you all 🫡

Jenkins The Valet's podcast licensing period for Writer's Room NFTs has been extended by one week, now ending on Friday, March 24.

Jenkins The Valet's podcast licensing period for Writer's Room NFTs has been extended by one week, now ending on Friday, March 24.

Hey @everyone

We are extending the licensing window 1 week to March 24 to license characters to our fiction podcast at https://www.jenkinspodcast.com

If you own a Writer’s Room NFT, this means you can license your own characters or extend an offer to someone else’s character(s). Head to the website and check out your eligible characters in your profile, or search the roster for a character you really like.

Hearing your feedback, we are doing this to ensure everyone who wants to license a character has the ability and time to do so. Also, please let your fellow Writer's Room community members know that licensing is open until 3/24!

We will continue to do so leading into the deadline next week. It’d be amazing if we together we can make sure that the whole community is aware of Podcast Licensing and the deadline of March 24!

• Jenkins

Jenkins The Valet announced that a 'license checker' is now live on jenkinspodcast.com.

Hi @everyone - we are very excited to provide our community with 150 Allowlist spots for GQ3, GQ Magazine’s first entry into web3 and NFTs!

Every holder who mints the artwork from the inaugural drop will claim a wide range of utility, including a GQ magazine subscription, the GQ box, exclusive GQ merch, a ticket to the first-ever GQ3 party in NYC, and much more to come. Holders will also be ushered into the GQ3 community as a founder with ongoing access to future live events, a special section of the GQ Discord, and first-in-line status for future GQ3 drops.

To create the collection of original pieces, GQ curated a group of four forward-thinking artists whose work covers a particularly trippy and enthralling band of the visual spectrum: graphics guru Chuck Anderson, AI futurist REO, seasoned illustrator Kelsey Niziolek, and rising star Serwah Attafuah. They were asked to explore the GQ motto Change Is Good through their work, using it as a theme to guide the creation of generative digital art. Each of them created more than 100 unique traits that could be combined in infinite ways. Those traits were algorithmically brought together and turned into stand-alone works. The drop includes 1,661 distinct tokens–a nod to GQ’s 66th anniversary.

Please see Premint Link here: https://www.premint.xyz/GQxJenkins/ - this page will no longer be accepting submissions after 12pm EST tomorrow (March 7). Important note: These are first-come-first-serve Allowlist spots and not all 150 are guaranteed. They are slightly over allocating their AL so please make sure to mint close to launch (if you’re interested).

Mint opens up at 12pm EST on Wednesday March 8th.

• Jenkins

Hey @everyone!

We’ve updated most of your Frequently Asked Questions about Licensing to the Jenkins Podcast in #❓│faqs !

This list has been built by logging the questions we are seeing the most frequently in discord and on Twitter related specifically to Licensing your characters and Writer’s Room NFTs to the upcoming Jenkins Podcast. The list will be updated periodically as more questions come in. Please keep them coming!

As a reminder, the Licensing window closes on March 17th!

Holders of Writers Room NFTs can now license their characters, or extend an offer to others, according to a tweet from Jenkins the Valet.

Attention @everyone! Licensing for Jenkins Podcast is live!

As a Writer's Room NFT holder, you can now use your NFT to license either your own character(s) to my upcoming podcast, or extend an offer to someone else's character. I'll ned all the help I can get to find Good Boy…

Every licensing deal between you, other parties, and us can be made on-platform in just a few clicks.

The tier of your Writer's Room NFT determines the level of exposure your licensed character will receive. To recap:

• WAGMI Yacht: Featured as a character in the podcast, mentioned by name


• Valet Stand: Depicted in the cover art of 1 of the 8 episodes


• Yacht Key: Depicted in a ‘Where’s Good Boy’ map of all of the communities visited


• Valet Ticket: logged in the acknowledgments on the unique site for the podcast

The licensing window will be officially open for approximately three and a half weeks, with the window set to close on March 17th.

Head over to https://www.jenkinspodcast.com/ to get started!

Attention @everyone!

Licensing for our upcoming podcast will be going live very soon. In contrast to last time (Bored & Dangerous), all deals between you, other parties, and Tally Labs will be made on-platform with just a few clicks. No emails, no frantically looking for partners in Discord.

As a Writer’s Room NFT holder, you will be able to browse over 7,700 characters on jenkinspodcast.com and either extend licensing offers to them or license your own characters. Your WR NFT tier determines the exposure of the licensed characters in the podcast.

To help you understand the process, we will share tutorials this week that showcase everything, from licensing your own characters to sending and accepting offers.

For a comprehensive look at the current licensing system and the process behind it, check out this article: https://jenkinsthevalet.medium.com/an-update-on-bored-dangerous-royalties-podcast-licensing-and-more-8a0b4943a5ec.

We’ve heard a few folks share their feelings about KYC. While we aren’t legally able to pay out royalty funds to those who don’t KYC, we are working through some alternatives to share with you soon.

https://twitter.com/jenkinsthevalet/status/1625259551237844995?s=46&;t=MvIw1fuj84a71cyKjlueAA

Get ready to license!

• Jenkins

Hi @everyone - we wanted to thank you for your patience as we’ve worked through the Bored & Dangerous royalty process. It’s been a cumbersome endeavor and we greatly underestimated the impact an ever-evolving regulatory environment would have on it.

After working with our various legal counsels, we’re finally able to share more about the process for claiming royalties, the date they’ll be available for claim, and estimated payouts. There’s a lot of information here (likely too much for a Discord announcement) so we’ve put together the below Medium post that explains everything in great detail.

We want to call your attention to one major point. Given changes in the regulatory environment and other active cases, we are required to KYC those who will collect payment from us. To put it simply, we understand this point may be unpopular but it’s what we (and any other legally compliant company) must do to be here it all over the course of the next decade. It’s worth noting that much of the time spent working with our counsel the last few months to actively find a way to avoid this. Unfortunately, it’s not possible. The Medium post explains this further and we hope you will give it a read. There can be grave consequences for us and payment recipients by not abiding by this.

If folks have any questions, we’re happy to answer them here or on Twitter, and we may even do a Spaces next week if you guys would like that.

And lastly, some exciting news:

Licensing for Jenkins Podcast is opening up in the next few weeks. As Writer’s Room holders, you’ll have the opportunity to browse the 7700 characters created to help find Good Boy and send them a partnership request in just a few clicks. You can also create your own character and use your Writer’s Room NFT to license it! As always, the only way to license a character to the podcast will be by partnering with a Writer’s Room member or owning a Writer’s Room NFT yourself.

https://jenkinsthevalet.medium.com/an-update-on-bored-dangerous-royalties-podcast-licensing-and-more-8a0b4943a5ec

• Jenkins

Hi @everyone! With your help and participation, Tally Labs and Fragment Studios (Applied Primate) have collaborated on a puzzle-based event that will launch today, January 11, 2023, and will be open to not only Applied Primate Keycard holders but also to the Writers’ Room!

Following an entertaining and informative two week puzzle workshop with members of the WR, the puzzles are completed and the stage is set for an engagement that was directly influenced by the feedback and prompts supplied by WR holders.

The event will begin today 1/11/23 at NOON ET () in the Applied Primate discord (discord.gg/appliedprimate) when an announcement will be dropped in their #lab-updates channel.

Writers Room holders can collab-land in the Applied Primate server to receive the “Friend of Jenkins” role, but the role is not necessary to participate.

When the event goes live, Writers Room holders can participate in the event, which will take place on Applied Primate’s Intranet. To verify eligibility, a gasless signature is required on the intranet site to connect a wallet that contains a Writers Room token. Once verified, you will be able to connect your discord and then access and participate in the puzzles, recording your progress along the way.

If you have any questions, the community is usually happy to help in the #employees-only channel of the Applied Primate Discord, and any technical issues may be reported by opening a support ticket.

Happy Puzzling!

-Tally Labs team

Hey @everyone,

We’ve just posted our final questions for the A.P.E. Puzzle Making collaboration!

We’ve got 6 really fun questions for you to vote on at https://members.jenkinsthevalet.com and many of them were sourced by community members during our live improv session yesterday!

You’ve got 3 more days to make your voice heard to contribute to the puzzle making experience and beyond.

Remember, we’re going to be working with the A.P.E. team to make a really novel piece of content that follows the puzzle project, so the creative direction you help set today will be the foundation of a lot more to come!

👉 Vote now at https://members.jenkinsthevalet.com 👈

Hey @everyone!

We are LIVE in The Puzzle Making Stream where @​Dr. Zaius X. Machina and @​Daedalus will lead us through a fun improvisational activity for puzzle making!

Come hang out and help craft creative direction for the A.P.E. puzzle — all of Apekind depends on it!

Hey @everyone,

I hope you all are having a happy holiday season and are able to get a little time away to recharge ✨

I wanted to quickly share a couple updates with you regarding our puzzle making collaboration with A.P.E.

1. Today is the last day to vote on the second round of questions for the A.P.E puzzle. Head to https://members.jenkinsthevalet.com to vote on the latest question as well as to submit ideas for datasets that the puzzle makers should consider!




2. Tomorrow, 12/28, from 1-4pm ET, we’ll be doing a live session in Discord to generate more ideas for the puzzles. Pop into #🧩│puzzle-making-chat at 1pm ET tomorrow to be led through some text-based improv where we create new ideas to be voted on for the creative direction of the puzzle. We hope to see you all there!!

Please go make your voice heard in the members portal, and we look forward to seeing you tomorrow in Discord. And of course, happy almost New Year!!

Hi @everyone - it is time to make your voice heard and kick off the puzzle creation process for the A.P.E Community as part of our partnership! As you may have remembered, professional puzzle maker Greg Pliska and acclaimed writer Adam Felber spoke to our community about various types of puzzles and what goes into each of them. Thank you for joining us, @​gregpliska and @​Dr. Zaius X. Machina !

Their presentation is attached here as a PDF, and can also be accessed at this link if you prefer not to download files: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vBIu202a3EOKYNq_XaKBpVWKoS65jihrAc4TNM-C1iU/edit?usp=sharing

Please check it out if you haven’t yet. Then, we need you to head to https://members.jenkinsthevalet.com/login and let us know which type of puzzle you’d like to see created! Every vote counts.

We’re super excited about this initiative and looking forward to the chance to create something novel with you all. Have an amazing holiday season!

Hi @everyone - we’re doing a fun Holiday Giveaway to celebrate a new feature release on https://www.jenkinspodcast.com/ !

As you all know, there have been over 7,500 characters created! Character creation was the first step towards licensing for the Jenkins Podcast. As Writer’s Room members, you all will be able to browse all of the characters who have been created and decide which ones you’d like to enter into a licensing partnership with (or you can just license your own)!

In order to help you find and support the best characters, we’ve added a favorite/like button to the site! You can browse your favorite characters and add a ❤️ to them!

We’re going to be giving out 3 total Bored & Dangerous NFTs to the 3 characters with the most favorites on the website between now and Christmas. Feel free to share your character pages far and wide to get as many favorites as you can!

Together, we’re assembling the largest database of characters in web3. We’re going to keep building this out with more and more functionality to enable you to keep telling stories together. This is just the beginning.

Go hit that favorite button!! Giveaway details in the Tweet below!

https://twitter.com/jenkinsthevalet/status/1605649381532700672?s=20&;t=8ZTa62SWHOkQyspg7tvieA

Hi @everyone - we are getting ready to begin our exclusive Intro to Puzzle Making workshop with our esteemed Professional @Puzzle Makers! This is the first step of our partnership with A.P.E to help track down the other Mutants infected with the Mega Serum and save all of Apekind.

This is gated to @Writer's Room Members only so please verify if you have not yet. We'll see you in the Discord Stages titled "Puzzle Making Stream"

Hi @everyone - we have two exciting activations to share with you in regards to our partnership with Applied Primate!!

1: Twitter Spaces tomorrow at 1pm EST: Myself and @​seeapefollowape will be chatting with the Applied Primate team.

We’ll talk all about the partnership and why this is such an exciting opportunity for both of our communities. You can find the link here: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OyKAVnbYDWGb?s=20

We hope to see you there!

2: An inside look into puzzle making (a live Discord chat HERE), Monday 12/19 at 2pm EST: We’re bringing in Greg Pliska (the mastermind behind the OG BAYC scavenger hunt puzzle) and Adam Felber (an incredibly acclaimed comedic writer, comic book writer, author, and satirist) to give you a deep dive into the art of puzzle making.

They’ll teach us all what goes into making a great puzzle, and they'll help prepare us for the next steps.

We’re really excited for both of these and it will be great to all have some fun before the holidays. We hope to see you at both, and we look forward to rolling out more information about this opportunity as well as others to come!

Hi @everyone - While I'm still trying to track down Good Boy and am thrilled about the opportunity to visit so many other communities throughout the Metaverse, I am also excited to announce our partnership with Applied Primate, another amazing storytelling initiative emerging from the BAYC.

They own Doc Gibbons (the radioactive mega), as well as a number of others. Now they're looking towards the Writer’s Room to help us track down these other Mutants that have been infected by the Ape Serum. All of ape kind depends on us.

We’ll be bringing in a professional puzzle maker (who created the original BAYC puzzle) to the Writer’s Room for an exclusive session on how to make a good puzzle. From there, we’ll work together to create a puzzle to be playable in the A.P.E Discord.

The partnership will culminate in a new piece of media that will come out of the Writer’s Room and build on the lore created. We’ve heard that folks joined the Writer’s Room because of the opportunity to come together and tell amazing stories. We have the chance to help craft the lore for who the Megas are, how they became infected, and so much more.

As always, Writer’s Room NFTs will be required to vote, license, and more. This one will be fun. You can read more in the tweet/medium post linked below:

https://twitter.com/jenkinsthevalet/status/1603127119441121281?s=20&;t=cCFhPOsCse_h2ODeEXlo8w

• Jenkins

GM GM @everyone - we wanted to let everyone know that only 2 hours remain to cast your votes in the Writer's Room for where we will set the Jenkins Podcast.

As a reminder, there are 8 episodes!
-1 episode will feature Apes/Mutants
-5 episodes will feature the communities you all vote on
-1 episode will feature the community with the most characters created (if that community is voted in via Writer's Room vote, we'll move to 2nd place for character creation and set an episode there)
-1 episode will feature a hodgepodge of characters from all communities

You can cast your votes at https://members.jenkinsthevalet.com/login ! Thanks to all who have participated. This is going to be a fun journey.

PS: Fun announcement later today, unrelated to the podcast 🙂

Hey @everyone - it’s time for the First Inaugural Blockchain Character Spaces!

We’re joined on stage by some incredible Founders, Thought Leaders, and Innovators. We’ll be chatting about IP, Character Creation, Storytelling, and Blockchain Entering Mainstream Media.

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone there. Many of these Project Founders are excited to tell you more about their community in hopes that the Writer’s Room will be excited and cast a vote for the podcast. LFG!

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1jMJgLDXqDkxL?s=20

• Jenkins

Hey @everyone - hope you are having an amazing week. What a fun time it’s been seeing all of the excitement around the podcast. We have 12 amazing communities all looking for your vote. We also have 125+ who are creating characters on the site and looking to win an episode that way!

I wanted to send a few reminders your way!

1. Giveaway for 12 NFTs from each partner community!

We’ll be announcing the winners tomorrow. To enter, all you have to do is create a character on https://www.jenkinspodcast.com and then tweet it out tagging me and using #JenkinsPodcast (you can see the NFTs that are being given away in my most recent tweet)

2. Voting for your preferred communities

https://members.jenkinsthevalet.com/login is LIVE with the 12 potential communities that I will visit during the podcast! From this vote, we’ll be going with the top 5 communities. This is your chance to make your voice heard and let me know where you think I should go search for Good Boy! Please go cast your vote!

• Jenkins

Hi, Writer’s Room! It’s an exciting day.

We need @everyone’s help.

As you know, I will be embarking on a journey to search for my beloved Good Boy, and YOU will be telling me where to look. There are 12 incredible communities who have all signed agreements allowing us to set an episode in their world. Each of them have been a true pleasure to work with and offer amazing lore.

The communities are as follows (and in no particular order): Goblintown, Creepz, Pudgy Penguins, Sappy Seals, Rumble Kong League, Inhabitants (FKA Metahero), The Littles, GOATz, The Plague, BYOPills, Bubblegum Kids, and Purrnelope’s Country Club

The Writer’s Room can vote on which communities they’d like to see an episode hosted in. From this vote, 5 will be selected. It is an 8 episode series. The remaining 3 episodes are BAYC/MAYC, The community that creates the most characters, and then a ‘hodgepodge’ episode where any character can be featured.

Please head over to https://members.jenkinsthevalet.com/login and cast your vote. You can apply your voting power across as many communities as you like. Voting closes 12/12.

As a reminder, the only way to license a character to appear in the Podcast will be to own a Writer’s Room NFT or to partner with a Writer’s Room NFT owner. Writer’s Room members will be able to “shop” the ~2375 (and GROWING) characters created and enter into a licensing partnership with a few clicks.

This is just the beginning of the Writer’s Room telling unifying stories across the entire NFT space and bringing other communities along for the ride. LFG!

• Jenkins

Jenkins The Valet is giving away 12 NFTs, one from each of its new partner communities which includes; Pudgy Penguins, Purrnelopes Country Club, Bubblegum Kids, MaisonDeGoat, Metahero, goblintown, Overlord, The Plague, Rumble Kongz, The Littles, BYOPills, and Sappy Seals, according to a recent tweet.

Jenkins the Valet announced the 12 NFT communities that have signed on as partners for the project's eight-episode fiction podcast on Wednesday.

Hey @everyone - without further ado, we are excited to share https://www.jenkinspodcast.com with you. This is the next instance of the Writer’s Room coming together to create content together!

This time, instead of Apes/Mutants, we’re offering support for 100+ different NFT communities to create characters and license them to the podcast. The catch? Owning a Writer’s Room NFT is a requirement to license. As a holder, you all will have the opportunity to browse characters and “shop” for a partnership. Or, you can license your own!

We also have 12 preferred communities that you all will be voting on. We have signed agreements with them and all are excited to be part of this. It’s up to the Writer’s Room to vote on their favorites. Voting will begin next week. You can see the 12 preferred communities in one of the images attached to this announcement, and the full set of all communities in the other.

It’s simple. Head to https://www.jenkinspodcast.com and use your preferred method of connecting your wallet. The site will recognize all of your eligible NFTs and you’ll have the opportunity to turn them into characters by adding name, backstory, job, etc. More questions will be added frequently. Our hope is that this creative inspiration can help you all invest deeper into your characters and open up a world of opportunity, just like me. We believe a web3 space full of vibrant and passionate characters is a more immersive one where storytelling can prevail.

Let’s go save Good Boy.

• Jenkins

Jenkins The Valet is introducing gamified, dynamic NFTs ahead of its upcoming podcast release, according to an announcement from the project.

@everyone I've decided to venture across the Metaverse to find my beloved GoodBoy. I'm traveling to 8 different NFT communities in a first-of-its-kind, gamified NFT podcast series. I plan to find clues on each stop as to where he is and who took him.

The podcast will be produced by SALT Audio who are leaders in the space. They've brought an incredible team to this project spanning Producers, Screenwriters, Audio Engineers, SFX Artists, and more. This series marks their first foray into web3 content.

95% of the Podcast will be available on all major platforms (Apple, Spotify, Stitcher etc). There is no need for an NFT to listen to it and enjoy the content. The more people we have consuming it, the better for everyone involved.

However… a gamified Podcast NFT will allow listeners to engage with the podcast on a deeper level and climb the leaderboard through token-gated audio puzzles that will be embedded into each episode. You can read more about how this works in the Medium article linked in the Tweet below.

The podcast will consist of 8 episodes, ~20 minutes each. They'll be set inside different web3 communities with one episode rolling out at a time. You'll find the breakdown of each episode in the Medium post as well as in the graphic below. This is a true cross-community production.

There’s no podcast without characters, and there are no characters without you!

Next week, we're launching a new platform that will allow you to develop characters based on your NFT avatars. We'll also share the 100+ different communities that are eligible for character creation.

When a character is "created" on the platform, they become eligible for licensing. Owning a Writer's Room NFT or partnering with a Writer's Room NFT holder is still a requirement to be licensed.

Writer's Room holders can either license their own characters or choose from a list of created characters to enter into a partnership with. The process occurs in just a few clicks and users never have to leave the platform.

In the coming weeks, we'll announce the full list of communities that can create characters, open up the platform to all these communities, and introduce the 12 communities who are vying for the votes of the Writer's Room to have an episode set in their universe.

It's time to find Good Boy and I need your help.

https://twitter.com/jenkinsthevalet/status/1595499982236405760?s=20&;t=hRpxnDkoE1Sev7oOiBgYFQ

• Jenkins

Hey @everyone!

We want to let you know that this is your last chance to head over to https://members.azurbala.com/ in order to give Ty Carter (Creative Director) your feedback on the direction that you prefer PFPs to face and what the Azurian archetype(s) should be like!

We'll be closing this survey on the Azurbala Members Site tomorrow, Wednesday 11/23 at 12pm EST.

Hey @everyone!

In case you missed our tweet last week, we need your help to make some crucial decisions around the Azurian PFPs! Together, we’re excited to show the space what can happen when you pair an engaged community with a world-class Creative Director and team of Artists.

These questions come directly from Ty Carter, our new Creative Director overseeing the collection. You have the opportunity to tell us which angle you prefer the PFPs to face, as well as the breakdown of species and whether there are one or multiple.

Head to http://members.azurbala.com, connect your wallet, and click 'Give Feedback on PFPs.'

!Bala

Hi @everyone - it’s with great fear and sorrow that I share some shocking news. My beloved doggo, Good Boy, has been taken. His whereabouts are unknown and so is the identity of his dognapper, though I do have a theory…

I have shared all of the information I currently have in the below Twitter thread. I have a feeling I am going to need your help, and help from other communities to get him back. I will not rest until Good Boy is back safe and sound in my arms, even if I have to travel the entire Metaverse to find him.

More from me soon.

https://twitter.com/jenkinsthevalet/status/1593334502163636225?s=20&;t=XlcArzEzr9Cfz3zNA990Aw

• Jenkins

Hey @everyone!

We are excited to announce that we've teamed up with creative director, Ty Carter (@​tycarterart) to develop the Azurian PFPs. We interviewed many Creative Directors and Artists with experience ranging from NFTs to large Web2 entertainment properties, but nobody blew us away like Ty.

Ty brings a wealth of experience and fresh perspectives. He’s worked on highly successful generative projects as well as some of the biggest blockbuster animated films of all time with studios like Disney, Pixar, Blue Sky and Netflix. Ty’s work includes: the Ice Age Franchise, Epic, The Peanuts Movie, Spies In Disguise, Toy Story 3, Cars 2, Bolt, Nimona (2023) where he served as a Visual Development Artist, as well as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (unreleased) and Tiana (2025) in the role of Art Director.

He first entered the NFT space as a curator for galleries at Art Basel, ComplexCon, and EDC. Since then, he’s contributed to many different successful generative PFP projects but is bound by confidentiality for what can be shared publicly with the community.

The team of artists that Ty has assembled to create the Azurbala PFPs consists of top talent from Gaming and Film (Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard, Epic, Warner Brothers, DreamWorks, Sony, Epic Games to name a few). We are excited to share more as we continue developing the Azurians.

Throughout his career, Ty has been trusted at the highest levels of entertainment to oversee large-scale visual development of characters and worlds to form a cohesive universe. He is thought to be one of the top and most sought after Visual Development Artists in the Animation space. Ty has been spending time diving into all things Azurbala and could not be more excited to captain this ship.

In a Medium post later this week, we’ll be sharing more info about Ty’s process, how you can expect to interact with him, and what our next milestones will be in the PFP process!

Let's give Ty a warm welcome!

https://twitter.com/azurbala/status/1592613415754899457?s=20&;t=wrrSntUlvkt-Tc36cK0OnA

The Twitter account for Azurbala — home for the Jenkins the Valet and Bored & Dangerous PFP project — announced the members of the Azurian Art Council, the group that will serve as an advisory board for the redesign of the Azurian PFPs.

Hey @everyone - we are very excited to announce our Azurian Artist Council, another key group of people who will ensure that our Azurian PFPs come out at the level that everyone expects of them.

In addition to the Community Council we’ve already announced, this group of industry-leading artists will serve as an advisory board for the Creative Director/PFP Artists that we’ll announce soon. The Artist Council will leverage their knowledge and experience to serve as a critical sounding board to ensure that Azurian PFPs thrive.

It’s very important that we note that this group is NOT going to be creating the art directly. Instead they will offer their advisory and guidance to the Creative Director and PFP Artists that we’ll announce soon. This group of artists will interface directly with our Creative Director and will serve as thought-partners. They will make sure the art is technically sound, cohesive, and something the community can be proud of.

We have sought to create a council that has diverse artistic styles so that their range can ensure that we cover the different styles and phases of the art creation process.

Without further ado - we’d like to introduce you to the Artist Council members:

Waheed (@ all_smilesss on Twitter) is a 22-year-old artist from Afghanistan. His work tells the journey of an immigrant coming to America and the merging of the two cultures. He launched his own project, @ smilesss, to help expand on that story and his growth as a human & artist.

Mando & OSF (@ greatmandonft & @ osfnft on Twitter, respectively) are former traders who entered the web3 world in February 2021, collecting art on SuperRare. After minting a bunch of apes, they've gone on to create NFT projects (Degenz NFT, rektguy). OSF is also a notable artist on various platforms.

Bryan Brinkman (@ bryanbrinkman on Twitter) is an award-winning multi-media artist who, with animation and motion graphics, creates fun and inventive ways to convey his ideas about creative processes and the NFT space. His art has been seen on SuperRare, NiftyGateway, Async, ArtBlocks, and more.

We are very excited to form and announce this council, and we’ll continue to keep everyone updated throughout this PFP process!

Let’s give a warm welcome to these four amazing artists. We are building Azurbala together, and we’re thrilled to include them in this journey. More to come soon…

• Team Tally

https://twitter.com/azurbala/status/1592256385689194496?s=20&;t=M35QONpZ0EOGR73QRZubCw

Hi @everyone!

We hope that you all are doing ok in light of the crazy week we’ve all experienced together. Please know that us and your fellow community members are here for you if this has affected you negatively. We’re all in this together.

We’ve received a few questions from community members about whether or not Tally Labs has been affected by the FTX debacle. We wanted to let you know that we have no exposure to FTX/FTT/SOL or any other assets implicated. We were not holding funds on FTX. Our current treasury consists of ~90% USD and ~10% ETH (in a Gnosis multisig) and we’re sitting on close to 3 years runway.

We’re fortunate to be in a position to weather this storm. Solvency is not and will not be an issue for us. We will grow through this and use it as an opportunity to keep pushing.

Separately, many of you have asked about Bored & Dangerous royalties so we wanted to provide an update there as well. In short, we are working hard across Legal, Product, Engineering, and Tax/Accounting to get you an update on royalties.

We’re frustrated by how long this is taking so we can only imagine how you all feel. The regulatory framework around NFTs as well as FDAP Income (Fixed, Determinable, Annual, or Periodical) has changed quite a bit. Royalties fall under FDAP categorization. The assumptions we were operating under 6 months ago have changed and we need to dot all of our i’s and cross all of our t’s. We’re working across Securities, Tax, and AML law to ensure we can pay thousands of people all over the world compliantly. We’re working as quick as we can here to get royalties out the door for you all. The funds to be paid out to our licensors have been earmarked and are not going anywhere. Thank you for your patience.

Best,
Tally Labs

Hi @everyone - I am so excited to introduce you to the Azurian Community Council!

This group was nominated by the community and then appointed by Tally Labs. We reviewed every nomination and assembled an awesome group of individuals with diverse backgrounds, locations, perspectives, and more. These folks are all united by a desire to help ensure that the next round of Azurbala PFPs are built with YOU (the community in mind).

They’ll work closely with Tally Labs, our Creative Director and team of artists, and a few other folks you’ll be learning more about soon.

Without further ado, a major congratulations to our Council members:

@​Zoetic
@​!Bala🌀 CANNACITY®
@​Snazzy
@​capetaintrippy
@​LolaG
@​OttothePoolboy
@​SpaceWalk🌀
@​Uncle*B

https://twitter.com/azurbala/status/1589692138371002368?s=20&;t=WrmYInECfnbbOaYLlRxdrA

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