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Back in April 2022, we announced a new line of Loopring branded wearables that our community could take into the metaverse. In order to win the first of these wearables, a t-shirt, you needed to either have the highest trading volume or win the Lucky Draw. The 1,000 winners of the competition have been patiently waiting — we’re now ready to provide an update.
Since the announcement, we have taken a step back to think about not only what we want the wearable to represent but also about what our community deserves. Rather than distributing an NFT that only works with Decentraland, we wanted to provide a high-quality wearable along with a mechanism to access its files to take it anywhere and everywhere.
That process led to partnering with Protocol:Gemini / Cyber Crew and an amazing creator, Lukas Hahn (https://loopexchange.art/collection/loopring-x-lukas-hahn).
During the concept and design process, we decided to pivot from the t-shirt concept and shift to a jacket. Additionally, we wanted to make three versions:
LH Edition Cyberrunner SE L2–01
- 1,000 editions
- Signature Edition — reserved for the original wearable winners
LH Edition Cyberrunner L2–02
- 2,000 editions
- reward mechanics to be announced at a later date
LH Edition Cyberrunner L2–03
- 5,000 editions
- reward mechanics to be announced at a later date
The Signature Edition jackets should now be in the winners’ wallets already! If you haven’t received yours yet, it’s on the way.
It goes without saying the amount of time between the original announcement and now has been longer than originally anticipated. That’s why along with the Signature Edition Jacket, the 1,000 wearable winners will also receive a Loopring hoverboard created in collaboration with Tanashi from ZXT Labs (https://loopexchange.art/collection/loopring-x-zxt) and handcrafted by Tyrone.
There are 7 versions of the ZXT Loopring Surfer (L2–01 — L2–07); each version has 5,000 editions. Along with rewarding the wearable winners, we wanted to take a moment to thank the early supporters of Loopring who created a smart contract wallet and repped a Loopring subdomain (.loopring.eth).
At this time, just shy of 20,000 Loopring L2 members have a Loopring ENS — all of these addresses will be receiving a brand new hoverboard!
The distribution to the wearable winners + ENS holders will be randomized — meaning any recipient can receive any hoverboard. The remaining hoverboards (~14,000) will be distributed to the next Loopring ENS holders until we run out. In fact, our engineers are building a tool that will automatically transfer users a random hoverboard once they assign a Loopring ENS to their wallet!
The initial recipients (1,000 wearable winners + ENS holders) should receive theirs in the next few days!
After working with Lukas on the jacket, we got the ‘wearables itch’ and couldn’t just stop there. We felt that the best compliment to an amazing jacket would be an incredible pair of shoes. We are excited to announce another collaboration with Thed Holes (https://loopexchange.art/collection/loopring-x-thed-holes). We were blown away when looking at Thed’s concepts and final designs.
Similar to the jacket, we decided to make three versions of the shoes:
EXO-KIX LE L2–01
- 1,000 editions
- reward mechanics to be announced at a later date
EXO-KIX L2–02
- 2,000 editions
- reward mechanics to be announced at a later date
EXO-KIX L2–03
- 5,000 editions
- reward mechanics to be announced at a later date
While the NFTs themselves are amazing on their own, we wanted to ensure our community can take these items with them wherever they go.
Through our partnership with Protocol: Gemini (founder is also the co-founder of Cyber Crew), all wearable and hoverboard recipients will be able to go to the Cyber Crew website (https://cybercrewnft.io/) to download the items’ files. These files will allow for easy import into Unreal Engine and metaverses.
For the sake of transparency, the files will not be available at the time of the airdrop; they will be made available based on current production timelines and are subject to change. We would love to hear from the community what metaverses you want to show them off in!
Additionally, we wanted to ensure that those in the community that didn’t win could still get their hands on these items if the winners didn’t want them. Therefore, all items will be listed on LoopExchange (https://loopexchange.art/) within each artists’ collections.
If an original recipient doesn’t want theirs, they can easily list it for sale on LoopExchange and safely/securely sell it.
While it did take longer than expected, we really hope you’re as excited for these items as we are to airdrop them to you. We couldn’t be happier to provide high-quality wearables and utility to our community. We appreciate all of our supporters and can’t wait to share more of what we have been working on.