Week 224 - Celebrate a New Platform with Demographics and Voting for 2026 3l3ction
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The team has successfully transitioned from outdated, form-based systems to a dynamic, metadata-rich platform that fully supports NFT-based political participation. This new system replaces hundreds of legacy forms with an intuitive, interactive interface that automatically recognizes user collections, prevents impersonation, and guides users through candidate and demographic commitments. Users now select from real-time, wallet-backed assets, with automatic validation to ensure they only commit to pieces they own. The platform introduces a structured commitment phase followed by a confirmation window where users send or burn tokens without losing control of their assets—no approvals or locks are required. Demographics function as strategic votes, influencing candidate colors and outcomes, while voting mechanics offer compounding benefits (e.g., three votes per Molotov token), enabling tactical influence. Users are encouraged to think strategically about their selections, considering not only their own holdings but also broader community patterns, to maximize long-term impact. The system is designed to prevent errors, reduce confusion, and support thoughtful, informed participation. A trial event is upcoming to further test and refine the platform, and the team anticipates a significant increase in user engagement and strategic depth as the election phase unfolds. The experience is described as seamless, fun, and empowering—marking a pivotal evolution in how digital collectibles are used for civic participation.
Look at us back to back weeks. We're back. We're so back, baby. This is how we built.
Built through the bear.
We're recording this on the night that candidates are crowed, right? Like the big night.
There's six hours or so left in getting your candidates out there and I thought we talked
a little bit about that about what that experience has been like and get you ready for the next
two phases of the election, which I mean, first off, I'm just, I gotta say it. I'm really
tickled with the outcome of the new platform and the new site. I think it's pretty great.
I haven't, obviously, spent nearly as much time on it as you have, but I have poked around
a little bit and boys and intuitive, boys and easy makes forms of thing of the past and
in such a major way. You really don't have to be as intimately knowledgeable and aware
of what you've got. It helps you with all that. It tells you what you've got. It tells you
what you can use. There will be no confusion about, oh, I thought this was an origin. No,
it's not or, you know, it's pretty great. Yeah. No, it's, it, it, when I realize long
ago, obviously, and I've wanted to do this for a very long time. I mean, it's a long
time, but I want to do this. But none of the platforms were built for anything, but by
selling. And sure, a couple of them are going to pretend like they're a place to go view
your collection. Okay. Okay, fine. But they really were only built by itself, and maybe
they had a better UI that allowed you to look at your things. But that's it. There was,
they were not designed for any sort of interaction between those toes. Well, nothing that's
ever been created was designed to do any interacting. So in that sense, that was completely
unnecessary. Yeah, it's, since we moved over to Eve, um, and fully charged every piece
that I never had with the metadata that I was wanting to. Obviously, we'd look back
if you're listening to this and you don't really know the, the timeline, you know, the
first year and a half of the project, we were strictly minting on a mentor contract
out of the hands of the hand side, the tezoside, um, the did, there's only a lot, the only metadata
we are allowed to put in there were, um, descriptions. And then depending on this, you could put
in some like hash tags, basically. Remember the tags, you could put tags in there. I used
to leave little messages in the tags. Okay. What was that? Mint for mint or whatever bullshit
they used to do or they artists would put them all out for like one test and. Yeah, of
course. I mean, what was that, what was that call? There's like a name for that. There
was always in the hash tags. That you're saying that like, they do these events where
they do like everyone make a piece of art and put it up for one test. Well, that's okay.
Yeah. So the very first one was the Tesla 100. Yeah. There you go. Okay. So the idea being
that everybody would make these test pieces and put them for a dollar and they're everybody
would buy everybody else's and all of this. And it was a gigantic circle jerk. And so
I, that's where Asher Van Arson came in because Asher Van Arson, I did during that Tesla 100
event. And they all put them at one test, which was like three bucks and they're all very
excited to make their $300 on. Okay. And I put Asher Van Arson at 0.01. Right. Like
three cents. Yeah. And made those. So that was, that was my, and that's why he's wearing
the 100 cap is a reference to the test 100. But yeah, you would do it with the tags. And
then you could, you could search a tag, one tag. You couldn't search multiple tags. You
couldn't, why don't I do that? You just search a tag. That was the extent of, of metadata
that was allowable. Very barebone stuff. Then I came up with my own mentor and I could
do multiple tags. But even there, there was Tess and what it did. I built in traits beyond
the tags. Okay. But you weren't like, object was not good at searching for those through
those traits. I just put them on there. And I figured that at some point we'd have a platform
to the last. All of that said, three months into the project, I was like, I got to get
this off of Tess and, and on to it. If there you know, we know that. So we have the big
migration. Everything's come over and everything has been imbued with all of the metadata that
I want. Open C ideally, well, hey, you can sort by traits and you can do that. How, how
do you like that? The last couple of years that we've spent doing that, better than what
we had before. Certainly. But kind of cumbersome and not very trustworthy. It also. Not perfect,
but a huge step forward versus nothing. Right. It was a big, a big change. Absolutely. It
is powerful, but not always the, always the best. Yeah. In our case, it, it was limited
by the fact that my works on different contracts, different chains, because we have the bulk
on base. You couldn't look for one trait on both of those chains at all. And you couldn't
look across like, you could only look in the universe. You couldn't look in the universe
and threesies. It was sort of like contract by contract, because as far as open C was
concerned, well, that's a different metadata. So, and this is not just a problem with my
stuff. Like, this is, this is anybody's project that they put in the NFTs as an insured metadata.
It's not really searchable against anything else, but itself. So I needed to build a platform
with a lot of do that. Now, when I talk about building a platform, it's not that complex,
but it's built specifically to handle my work and to display it the ways that we want
to display it. Cohesively and interactively and putting it together. So for anybody who
hasn't spent those 30 minutes to go do it, go do it, man. It is, it's really fun. In
some ways, I mean, I remember saying it was fun on open C. It was, it was sort of like,
it was, it's 10 times more fun this way. Let me put it that way, like because it's built
for this. It's not cumbersome. And there are ways to do it that are sort of cool that I'll
let you guys explore after this event and the trial event that we have coming up next.
After this, we'll probably spend a day where we'll just kind of like play with how you interact
and what are things that maybe you haven't even realized that I've built into it, stuff
like that. But yeah, it's fucking great. Like last night, I was just telling Krypton that
when I went over to Victoria's for a bit, she was busy with something. And so I just
started looking through things on my phone, which again, trying to look at and sort stuff
on open C on your phone and tell me how it was. It's awful. I've tried. But the experience
is really fucking great. And so I'm happy about that. But I'm really happy that all of
those things, every bit of that design that I've come up with and how it's possible to
look across all my different contracts and figure out what the coinciding metadata traits
are and how it all plays out. But all of that was built so that we could replace the
forms. You know, blue, blue says this week, he's like, "Yeah, I'm ready for a form." And
I realized, like, it's all over, man. I didn't know we were going to pull this off and
I was going to have to keep them like, so I had like a failsafe that I would go to
forms for this week if we had to. But the God, like there's a replace, like it's the end
of a fucking era. I mean, hundreds and hundreds of forms that we've done. And they're all
gone now. All of the data that we got from all those forms is now built into the platform.
So it did its work and it actually made possible all of this in that, you know, when I'm building
all this stuff, we have the data points to reference and go find and pull it all together.
So, it was worthwhile. It was a fun run. But man, now, we've got a lot of things to do.
I mean you did it for your candidates you just connect the first time you
connected already knows if you're a long-time collector if you're an established
collector already knows from the wall that's connected who you are offers you so
what I did is I froze everybody's usernames that way nobody could impersonate
anybody else in that that's already in the project right last thing we need
somebody to come in with a wallet and claim to be retro and just squat on the
name first yeah that wouldn't be great so so I already know your wallets and so
when you connect you offer your profile you pick to start you got to pick a
piece from your collection so so in that sort of old school this is my
little tip of the cap to the PFP and the Twitter PFP's remember when you had
to prove that you owned your fucking apron whatever to do you cannot put a
PFP that you don't own so you're you are urged to pick one you pick
something that you own it'll actually check it'll check those from time to
time and if you don't have that anymore it'll say hey you got to pick a new
PFP but but it you do those and then all of a sudden you just like tasked with
here's your candidates where do you want to run them and you it's pretty neat
life life is easier it literally just drops down all of the states that have
the races and you play some and you can't fuck it up you can't go all I didn't
know I could only run one in one and I and send me a forum that's
bug like obviously if you don't understand that that's what that's what the pods
for that's what grotto's for and everything not not giving a shit there Jason
will be a question to don't want you hear that but in the past people would
have just run Bartholomew in every election and then I jacked up for them that
we'd have to send along correct it you could make mistakes and submit it not
knowing you made mistakes not not so anymore right exactly so now it's it's
there so when you guys get to the next phase and that's kind of what today's
gonna be talking about the next two phases and how that's gonna look and feel
or what's gonna what's gonna do for it but it's built to already recognize what
you have in your collection what you hold that's that play so everybody you
know I cruton when you did your candidates it showed you all the candidates
because you have all the candidates right but somebody found four of them that
only see four you'd only see the four exactly okay and so the same thing is
going to go now when you go to do your demographics it already knows every
single possible piece so that in that way we don't have this thing of hey
threes can I use my madness cat mom's sticker as a cat mom okay because it
doesn't it doesn't right I told you it won't populate for you to make that
mistake right now it's gonna recognize the base and so the whole thing so so it
will sort of guide you through that in a way it should even save us some of
those questions okay because you won't see it available to you and if you
don't see it in your confusing ask I mean that's the horse asked yeah sure but it
should save you some of that stress of like oh I only you know I only have a
10 minute window where I'm gonna be around where I can fill in a form and I
got to figure this stuff out and then I so like how am I gonna what if threes
doesn't answer what if somebody doesn't answer what if I'm sure it up Chris
Truman he doesn't answer well now you can trust because the entire event is
built off of the things that I'm saying are available to you yeah I mean it will
guide you in a sense so you know it will very much you know choose from these
that you have step two great choose from these so here basic and well done
Cruton hasn't seen this yet because I haven't you know we like it automatically
turns on at midnight on on Thursday night like 12 a.m. Friday morning right that's
when demographics kick on but when you go to demographics think about this if
you have a Cruton or a retro wallet like the amount of demographic pieces
that they have available to them they have every painting basically it would
just be this endless scroll of like figuring out what to select so it doesn't
work the way it does it's very simple with with candidates because there's
finite there's just a few of them okay so with demographics it's going to
open you you know instead of just being a screen that lists your 11 candidates
it's going to go back into your wallet but this wall the wallet that it's
taking you into is like an event specific wallet and but it runs the exact
same way you can sort you can search you can drop you can filter and drop down
to traits but it's only pulling up pieces that are available and so and when
you when you select them it puts them sort of like in a card almost okay it's
set some up into your commitment sheet and meanwhile you'll notice at the
bottom it actually has a running tally that tells you okay you've got three of
four selected for your demographics okay you've got you'll select your
demographic and you'll you'll select how many of them you want because you get
five for free right and then if you want more it'll tell you you know go ahead
and and add as many as you want and you'll accrue like an insert cost you get a
bill yeah well as you're as you're selecting them it'll keep track of the
bottom how many of your inserts you filled of that bill right it's really great
what you can't over commit it'll it'll stop you the moment you hit whatever your
commitment is you can't under commit I won't even give you a submit option and
it'll still tell you oh no you still you're 12 short okay it's beautiful very
elegant and so it it's set up where you should be able to get through your
own forms now granted if you've done the work over the years where you know
your collection you've got your spreadsheets no those are gonna help you as you
get guys because you get a small window this is why I told you guys like like
think about
so I mean long story short is you can you're gonna be protected from committing
things that you don't have and that's a that's a big thing right it should
allow you to get through these things at your leisure in the windows where
they're available and there you go so yeah there's two things that need to
happen though every every this is the structure for events going forward is
you're gonna have a commitment stage the real window where you can make the
commitments that is not being reflected on chain yet you're making the
commitment I know what the commitment is and then when you go back in during your
confirmation window that's like where you're gonna burn or transfer or do
whatever the things you committed to it'll call on what you committed to and
then you'll send those you'll it'll ask you to send those tokens all you're
doing is it's literally just triggering on my own contracts your ability to
send your piece you can burn it or send it I'm not having you burn ever you're
always sending to the burn right but I'll send it to the burner to the vault
depending on on what mechanic is in play and that's it so it's actually never
taking possession of your pieces and you're not setting an approval which is
really important to me the the contract here I'm not approving the use of your
collection to let you send one thing to the bird okay you don't ever have to
revoke you don't have to do any of these things it simply is triggering the
various it's I've written into all these contracts will either defted the idea
that you can transfer and you can burn them right they're not locked in your
wallet and so all we're doing is going connecting to that contract to say go
send it the same way you when you send a bit of ease somewhere okay you're
literally just here's the address it goes to and you send it that's that's
the extent of of web three interaction that we're having with the collection for
to do this it's really elegant really well thought out I know how much of an
undertaking I mean I don't but I can appreciate how difficult conceiving and
then executing something like this is so congrats I it's been a long time
conceiving the execution has been another story but hey here we are so you you're
gonna have you've already done your candidates probably if you listen to this
before you can it's good you candidates it's pretty easy you haven't you
how many you got you're burning them to commit them so have at it how many you
want to burn only one per one edition per a candidate
and you cannot run two candidates in the same race.
Right.
Demographics are a little more complex.
So let's rehash that again.
I know we talked about it last week,
but last week it's overload of information.
Demographics are, you know,
it's all of the different subgroups,
all of the different teams,
all of the different sort of,
you know, collectives that I've painted so far.
There are a couple of little wild cards in there,
and you'll see they're listed on the roles,
but you'll also see them when they're connected.
High-waisted brothers.
I just felt like that's demographic.
That's a demographic.
Absolutely.
I think it's a small demographic,
but it's a demographic.
I could just imagine them rallying support.
You can send out the high-waisted brothers of Kansas,
see if they can carry this candidate across that.
They'd play well in that, you know,
sort of the Kansas region.
They feel very good West, don't they?
I agree.
I think they do well in the, you know,
somewhere where they grow wheat and corn for living.
So you've got high-waisted brothers.
You've got daddies to be and dads to be different.
Very different.
Participants, all of the franchises.
Trash Bros.
Trash Bros.
That's demographic.
Love that.
So you'll see what they all are.
It'll pull them up.
You'll see them in your available burns.
And you go through.
And so you get to pick one free.
There's no burn.
It's simply a hold.
Okay, it has to stay in your wallet throughout.
And we will see it move.
At all times looking, we being me and the platform.
Right?
Are looking to see where things are going.
If it triggers, they chew,
stop holding a piece during an event.
It nullifies that.
So you would lose your free demographic.
But don't now, it would, it would recognize.
If you have five editions of something.
If you don't drop to zero, you're fine.
You can sell four.
Sure.
But you have to have the one that you commit to.
So this is an important thing to understand going forward.
During the commitment.
Before the, the confirmation before the burn.
If you're told you have to hold something.
It's watching you.
Okay.
Yeah, it's not a manual.
Yeah, it's not a three.
So keep his eye on it.
It's a.
Yeah, this is automation is.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Um, there's probably not going to be an issue.
No, no, no.
But it's, it isn't one of those things where I can.
You can shoot me a DM and say, hey, I made a mistake or something.
It.
It's going to clash.
You're going to have a problem.
Yeah.
So your first one.
Your first demographic is on the house.
So you're going to have a problem.
And then you're going to pick the races it goes into.
Now, if it'll ask you, do you want more?
And you get five automatically.
You can go up to 35.
You got to pay for those.
It'll also ask you if you want to straddle.
In other words, do you want both reds and blues?
And you can decide if you do 35 blues,
you can add 10 reds or you can add five reds.
You can sort of mix and match there.
But it'll prompt you to do that.
And depending on what you choose, you've got to pick them all.
It won't let you keep going.
So if you say, OK, I'm going to do 20 demographic placements.
You have to pick your 20 races before you move on to the next one.
So if you're doing it and you understand why it has moved,
even though at the bottom there's a little tally that says you've got 18 to 20 selected.
But that's why.
OK, so first one's free.
You spend some inserts if you want more than five.
The next one, you're burning the demographic.
OK, it gives you five when you do that, then you can buy extras.
OK, first one is free, pick your color, pick your number of placements.
Second one, cost you the burn.
So.
It's been a week since we talked about that.
Have you thought about that at all, Cruton?
Is there any way you would.
You would react to that?
Like, what are your thoughts about, you know, why you might want to burn?
Or what you wouldn't want to burn.
As far as for a demographic, an additional.
I haven't given it.
As much thought as I will before I make that decision.
But, yeah, I can certainly think of reasons why you would want to be intentional and thoughtful about what it is you are burning.
You have said that.
All of these decisions will leave a metadata trail.
Right.
That's worth considering.
Yeah, no, it definitely is.
And one thing that I'll just go ahead and say it here, like point blank.
So when you burn one, you get one for free, that metadata will be applied to it.
The minute you won't be able to tell the metadata difference between what was free and what was paid.
That doesn't, that doesn't.
But if you're sick and just your free one, that means you're walking around with just one piece.
That specifically has metadata tied to it that you had to hand it.
Okay.
Yeah.
But if you were to burn one, you're attaching the metadata to it.
But if you don't have any of that left, in other words, if you burn your only addition.
Correct.
To unlock metadata.
Okay.
So yes, you may not, you may not benefit in the future.
Rum said metadata.
Right.
Yes, you participated and we do love it.
Always good.
Yes, always good.
But I would say, okay, so maybe you're not going to benefit as well.
Maybe you want to be doing that that often.
Right.
Now, I think people will naturally choose things they have more of.
Just that's how this works.
I mean, that's how people tend to do this.
Absolutely.
I mean, I mean, they play this, play this three sums as you will.
Historically, that's how people have played it is they, they are very happy to burn the things.
Of which they have many and, you know, reticent to burn the things that they have one of.
So I can imagine people will.
Kind of run into that as much.
But, but yeah, I mean, the metadata trail is.
We're thinking about, I would say.
Well, so on that same level, let's just talk through this here.
I think you're right.
I think people that have a lot of something.
Are going to tend to burn it.
Okay.
And they're going to be like, well, this is great because, you know, I had five additions.
Now I still have four and they all have this additional metadata.
Okay.
I think.
The way you're saying a lot of people do that.
Well, there are, there are pieces where multiple of you.
Have the same piece and you all have a lot of them.
Correct.
And I can see an instance where, hey, look at that.
Five different people burned the same one.
Because they all have a lot of them.
Yeah, this is where you might be well served.
Again, understanding other people's collections.
And then also kind of thinking about what kinds of decisions they've made historically.
And draw what kind of decision you think they would make.
This particular event, that way you, in a sense, derive more of a benefit.
Well, here's where it gets really interesting.
Right.
Let's say five different people through it on there.
And not only they threw it on there, they went sort of hard because they.
Just more than the five that came free, right?
And they pat it up and we chop it all up and all.
Look at that.
72, you know, different metadata places between elections and colors and all the thing, right?
That's really hefty.
But a lot of people have that.
Now, you don't, we probably don't want to be somebody that doesn't have any of the thing that's a lot of them that everybody has.
No, but are you maybe something that you have a lot of someone has more of.
In which case, you know, I don't know, maybe am I am I giving you an all you.
Exactly.
No, there's that.
And then there's also this idea.
What won't anybody be using?
Right.
That only I have that puts me in a position and that's one where I do think some of you might want to strategize too.
I agree.
I mean, there should be a lot of strategy to it,
but I'll just say it.
You probably don't want to burn yourself out of something
that then you don't take any benefit.
You probably want to be aware of what everybody's got a lot
of what they might be doing.
You probably don't want to miss those,
but at the same time, you don't want to help out people
where you barely have any of something
and they've got a ton of them, okay?
Or, you know, but you know, at the same time,
what if maybe you do on some level,
because maybe those guys will never use such a piece?
Exactly. No, I mean, that's the thing.
There's very much this idea of like,
we know guys who don't use anything,
that don't burn it, that try to keep and try to hoard
and you want to be under the hoard.
If you're a guy who has retro valentine,
you did very well, didn't you?
Yeah, because he didn't use any of those.
He won't use it in, yeah, exactly.
So, yeah, always and never, right?
But, yeah, I mean, so while I haven't, you know,
formulated exactly what it is I do.
Yeah, I cheated up for you there with the metadata trail
and there's a lot of ways to think about that.
There's a lot of ways to approach that.
I would put considerable amounts of effort
and thought into that, for exactly the reasons
you were talking about, so.
So you're gonna, you're gonna, I think that pretty much
does, that's enough talk on the demographic side.
I mean, it's pretty cut and dry.
Difference being that all you're doing
with your demographic purchase, if you're burning
for anything, right?
There's nothing for sale, but if you're burning,
is setting yourself up for holding pieces
that have heavy duty metadata down the road, okay?
Now, you're also influencing, okay?
This is the important part.
Yes, you're building out, think of the metadata
that you're harvesting and, you know, for future use.
But you really are building support for candidates or races,
okay?
So now you gotta think of what candidates you're running
and how many pieces of demographic support
you wanna throw at them, 'cause you know their races.
Now, let's talk about the races first thing, okay?
I gave you guys carte blanche to talk amongst yourselves
and figure out the insider baseball is perfectly natural
and understandable for the election, okay?
The politics weren't.
- My God, go read the Times headline today
about the Alaskan thing, if you're in such things,
they got themselves into a fucking pickle, didn't they?
But, yeah, insider baseball, go play it
as far as the election goes, but you will not know
when you're placing your demographics, okay?
Where elections are happening?
Unless you have placed it yourself.
Unless you know where your candidates are.
Even though we're locking down,
you'll know how many candidates are out there,
but you, they will not populate on the map yet,
where they are, okay?
Until after the demographics commitment has closed.
Okay?
But every demographic placement counts as a vote
in that color, in that place, okay?
For determining color, right?
Yeah.
But it's a vote towards a candidate in essence, okay?
Because all of the color that goes on to a candidate
will come up, so it will count in addition.
You can only vote one vote per race,
but you can put more demographics.
So, you want races where you have candidates
to be heavily demographiced.
So, that's the other thing that you're thinking about
when you're placing your demographics.
Then, that's what we're thinking about.
Now, keep in mind, some of you are gonna have,
all of you, I don't know, all of you.
Some of you are gonna have more demographic placements
than you do races, 'cause you can only have,
you can only have 11.
That's the most anybody can have for placement candidates.
Some of you have more than 11 demographics to place.
You're still gonna place them,
and you cannot double them up.
Okay, you can double them up in the sense of
you can put three different demographics into one race.
You cannot put three of the same on one race.
So, if you had 15 demographics
and you have your 11 candidates,
you're gonna place four of them into races
where you don't know if there's a candidate
unless you've got insider information that told you so.
- Right.
- All right, well, if I'm doing that,
maybe I wanna track down some insider information.
So, I know that my demographic support
is going somewhere where there's a race that matters.
Okay?
- Or maybe you feel lucky.
- Or maybe.
- Or maybe you don't wanna say that's important.
- You wanna go to states that are not getting any response,
because then you have the only.
- Correct.
- Road, island, blue.
- That's right.
- So there's merit on either way.
- So, but you gotta, I want you to think about why
and how you're doing it, right?
Now, what's funny is you definitely have this new little tool
in that you can just click, click, click, click, click, click, click.
To place your demographics.
And you're like, "Oh, that's a nice little pattern I made."
And not even think about where they are, or what you're doing.
Feel free to do it that way too.
There's a little chaos wouldn't hurt anybody.
But, these are things you're gonna be thinking about
is when you're deciding how many demographics you're gonna go for,
why you would wanna go for more than you're just free five.
Okay?
And why you would wanna go for more than just the one demographic,
obviously.
- Sure.
- I really think you wanna better your wall
at every time you get a chance.
You wanna better your collection, okay?
And you guys have burned base cards for far less
than new metadata.
- Yeah, perhaps people don't appreciate, you know,
maybe how important that may or may not be.
But it's not something we've had the ability
to do very often, I'd say, historically.
So, you know, I would encourage participation.
- And then the final aspect is gonna be the voting, okay?
Voting is Sunday from Sunday midnight, okay?
Until 11.59.
It's also the day we set our clocks back.
So you get 25 hours of voting.
Don't say I never did nothing for you.
- Um, I actually should have put a ballot measure
on there about what we're gonna do
with this pesky, pesky daylight savings.
But you get 25 hours and then you'll have to burn
the following day.
We want everything done before the polls open
in the US elections.
Just wait 'til you see the graphics that we have put together
for representation of grotto votes versus US votes
and consensus and it's gonna feel like
fucking election night in America watching
the results pour in.
- I love it.
I'm excited.
- But there, think about what your voting tokens are, okay?
And which ones are in play?
And how that's played out.
They also have compounding nature to them.
So if you vote a, you know,
Gen 1 or a first cycle voter,
you're getting three votes for your one vote.
- Right.
- Two in the Gen 2's and three in the most recent.
So or one rather in the most recent.
This is huge.
There aren't many of them.
- Yes. - Okay.
But this is something where, okay,
let's talk it through.
You got mollotovs.
There are three's, right?
And everybody has them going to vote them one time
in one race, but that's a three pack.
Meanwhile, what do they do?
They take any blues, they get voted
if they win, if those reds win.
- That's appealing, right?
- Indeed they do.
- The little gaggle of vote.
red voters and you go in and just torch anybody voting blue, but you got to watch out for your
demographics because those demographics could flip that race in the in the blink of an eye.
So do you understand how this works? We've got candidates. We know how many candidates. If there's
no candidates, all votes are there's no there's no candidate. Okay, there's no voting. Okay,
there's there's it's not even going to be possible because there was no candidate run there.
There's the demographics stay and we say up that was that was a blue or a red or a purple state.
Okay, but there's no candidate. No good ones. If there's only one candidate or multiple of the same
candidate, which is possible, five guys could do Franklin, so do in Florida, right?
He's a great he's a great candidate.
But if there's only one, okay, you can vote for him.
Okay, because you're voting a color.
You can vote for if there's only one candidate, you can vote red, you can vote blue trying to
turn him that color, turn that state that color. Okay, now why would you want to do that? Why would
you want to turn a candidate a color? Because the winning candidate gets a new painting that represents
the election they won and their color. So you maybe you want to vote for Franklin in one state
and turn him red and maybe you want to vote for Franklin in another state and turn him blue.
Could be a strategy. You want him to be purple in another state.
Could be merit in thinking about that. Okay, so it's not it's not a it probably doesn't
behoove you to have all reds or all blues. Just like it didn't just like it didn't with voters.
Okay, so think that through when it comes time comes time to to make your votes. Okay,
they're gonna you're gonna have yes one it's not a vote. A demographic is one support for a color.
Okay, and then you've got votes which is one support. Okay, for a color and a candidate.
Okay, but if you had those those Molotops and you get your three red votes.
Okay, that means that you're taking out at least two or no more than two blues whether demographic
score votes. It's powerful. If there are any votes you get to keep them. If it does go red you get
to keep your Molotov or your Marlena. Okay, but you get to keep them. There's no burn if they
candidate wins red and you voted red. That's right. All it would take if there were no
demographics played and you vote that and there's fewer than two blues. It's a red state.
You keep your you keep your Molotov. Not a bad not a bad outcome there if you're a thing thing
there's red leathers and that gives you two. Right. Okay, you got your your three Z backgrounds.
They allow for this. And you're burning the not the three Z's you're burning your background.
And we haven't set up now where we take that in that scroll.
And so this allows you to to vote with your three Z's as well. Okay, but that idea of
why would I want to turn it? Okay, am I going to play the red game where I'm all about that,
but do we want everything to be red? Do we want blues? What's it going to take for blues to be the red?
How powerful will that be for somebody to take down some Molotovs? Molotovs get voted and then
you need four blues or two demographic blues and two blue votes. You and a buddy could know,
hey, we've got four. Right. Could be could be enough. You could you would know well, we could take
down one Molotov between us. Go look at who has Molotovs. Go look at how many are out there.
But it's possible that two individual Molotovs go absolutely. So that's yeah,
could take them could take out one of those guys, but do they have another who knows?
You could also over here we just play this little back and forth, but those two guys instead of
voting blue tokens could vote purple blues, which get burned regardless. So you don't get to keep
those. So they could keep you they could take a shot with their purple blues and without without
padding your blue wall down the road. It's true. It's true. They would be purple. The reason I'm
bringing all this up is because I want you to be not just out there picking your winners. Now granted,
you want to you want to be voting for Franklin's where you've got Franklin's. Absolutely.
Okay, you want you want to be voting in places where you got some skin in the game.
You want to maybe vote against somebody. Maybe you're sick and tired of Cruton and Retro
when everything maybe. Razor's got an axe to grind with old grandma in his.
It's possible. Right? Are we going to see the influencer rise up and take back what should rightfully
be theirs? Start influencing. I don't think we're going to see old grandma run. Wouldn't that be
something if Nez burned old grandma? That would be something. I mean, hey, do it and then
have the one of one old grandma with a win. Color, if you will. Yeah, color. One of one old grandma.
There you go. So, um, but the same thing is going to play out there. You're going to have 24-hour
commitment. Uh, and then you're going to come back in for your confirmation on Monday.
Okay. Uh, same thing. It will go and it'll tell you what you have available and how many
of them. So, you know how many reds and blues you can even go and vote with.
Good to know. All right. So, um, I think that's all you need to know. I think we talked a little
bit of strategy here. Kind of hypothetically put some situations out there. Um, it's really key. Every
single one of you at some point or another has come to me and said threes, I missed the form.
Now you fucked. There's no rewriting history here. We've had, uh, you know, four years, five years,
six years of practice. So, now, uh, you know, now's the time to bring all of that to the forefront and
not miss forms in the form of doing it on the site. Yeah. Exactly. So, uh, a lot of practice to
get to this point, but we trained for this. This is the big leagues now. Um, you got anything else
for us? No, I know. I think this is really exciting. I think it's, uh, it's going to be fun.
See what people do. It'll be fun to try and map out what you think other people will do.
Magnosticate, if you will, do some, uh, polling, call some poll poll, pollsters. Yeah.
Call some polls. Ask who the people are voting for. Canvas, uh, straw polls, uh, exit polls.
That's right. All the polls. Do do all these things, uh, and realize that I just gave
Kruton the opportunity. He's got a platform here. He could have said Franklin and Kentucky,
blue, go. I'm not taking it wrong. Wouldn't it get some rules? It wouldn't have been. But, uh,
it's just not how Franklin rolls. All right, everybody, uh, enjoy. I'm enjoying it. Um, it's, uh,
I think when you get through the whole, the whole week and you see how smooth it flows,
and we trusted it flow smoothly. Um, one thing I'll just say, I'm going to have to paint.
I have no idea what I'm painting the outcomes or anything. Um, of course. And so we're,
it's going to take me a little while. There could be as many as 35. I don't know, you know,
there could be as few fucking or who knows what you guys are committing. But, um, but I don't know,
it could be as many as 35 new paintings that I'm going to have to do out of this. So give me a
little time on them. Um, we also are keyed up. We're ready to go with, uh, with, uh, trial here
through the same platform. It made sense to wait and you'll understand why when we do it.
Plus, I gave you guys a little bit of homework on the trial and you never fucking did it any of you.
So.
it just goes to show you needed it to be on a platform.
But the trial will come to play next.
So that's what we got.
Thanks for being here.
Thanks, Kruton, and thanks for patience on for me
while I build out the platform.
- Thanks for making it so easy.
It's great.
- All right, see everybody later.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The platform has been fully rebuilt and upgraded, replacing legacy forms with an intuitive, interactive system that supports rich metadata and seamless cross-contract searching.
All previous form data is now integrated into the new platform, eliminating errors and enabling better organization, transparency, and user experience.
The system now automatically recognizes user collections, preventing impersonation and ensuring only owned assets can be used in candidate and demographic commitments.
Demographics are dynamically displayed based on available assets in a user’s wallet, with a guided selection process that prevents over- or under-commitment and tracks progress in real time.
Users must commit during a designated window, with confirmations occurring later—no manual approvals or asset locks required—ensuring security and ease of use.
Each demographic placement functions as a vote that influences candidate color representation, with strategic decisions shaping electoral outcomes.
Voting mechanics include compounding benefits (e.g., three votes per Molotov token), allowing for powerful tactical influence and support for specific candidates.
The platform enables strategic user behavior—considering metadata trails, community patterns, and demographic distribution—to build long-term influence and representation.
Summary:
The team has successfully transitioned from outdated, form-based systems to a dynamic, metadata-rich platform that fully supports NFT-based political participation. This new system replaces hundreds of legacy forms with an intuitive, interactive interface that automatically recognizes user collections, prevents impersonation, and guides users through candidate and demographic commitments. Users now select from real-time, wallet-backed assets, with automatic validation to ensure they only commit to pieces they own.
The platform introduces a structured commitment phase followed by a confirmation window where users send or burn tokens without losing control of their assets—no approvals or locks are required. , three votes per Molotov token), enabling tactical influence. Users are encouraged to think strategically about their selections, considering not only their own holdings but also broader community patterns, to maximize long-term impact.
The system is designed to prevent errors, reduce confusion, and support thoughtful, informed participation. A trial event is upcoming to further test and refine the platform, and the team anticipates a significant increase in user engagement and strategic depth as the election phase unfolds. The experience is described as seamless, fun, and empowering—marking a pivotal evolution in how digital collectibles are used for civic participation.
FAQs
The new platform is specifically built to handle and display NFT collections with rich, interactive metadata. It eliminates confusion by providing clear, searchable traits and allows users to explore across different contracts and chains in a cohesive way, unlike older platforms which only supported basic metadata and limited searches.
Yes, hundreds of old forms have been replaced by the new platform. All data collected from those forms is now integrated into the platform, making it easier to manage and access user data without relying on manual form submissions or spreadsheets.
Usernames are frozen upon connection to prevent impersonation. The platform also requires users to select a piece from their own collection as a profile picture, which verifies ownership and ensures only legitimate collectors can participate.
The platform automatically pulls available demographic pieces from the user’s wallet, guiding them through selection. Users can choose one free demographic and pay for additional ones, with a system that prevents over-commitment and ensures only available pieces are selected.
The platform only displays demographic and candidate options that the user actually owns. It dynamically checks wallet balances and metadata, so users cannot select a piece they don’t hold, preventing accidental or unauthorized commitments.
After the commitment phase, users confirm their selections by sending the pieces to a burn vault. The platform triggers the transfer automatically without requiring approval, and pieces are not locked in the user’s wallet, preserving ownership and control.
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