After the lackluster performance of Chinese-led 10K Bitcoin NFT series such as Bitcoin Frogs and Goosinals, OMB (Ordinals Maxi Biz), a Bitcoin NFT project with low total supply and significant influence in the English-speaking community, has gained more attention. OMB's market started after the 10K craze and has risen steadily from around 0.2 BTC to 0.5+ BTC and remains stable.

This time we are going to introduce Pizza Ninjas, which is also a Bitcoin NFT project with a huge influence in the English-speaking world and a low total supply. Compared with OMB, Pizza Ninjas has a lower total supply and is also very popular in the Chinese-speaking world. Pizza Ninjas, which has gathered consensus from both China and abroad, is likely to become another new blue chip Bitcoin NFT project besides Taproot Wizards (not yet released) and OMB.

Pizza Ninjas

Project Overview

The total supply of Pizza Ninjas is 1,500, with a sale price of 0.02 Bitcoin. Among them, 300 Free Mint qualifications were distributed through the Free NFT platform of LimitBreak (a Web3 game company that issued the Digi Daigaku NFT series), and more than 700 people shared videos of themselves wearing ninja costumes and eating pizza on Twitter to compete for the Free Mint qualifications.

Team Background

The Pizza Ninja team currently consists of 6 members, which may not sound like a lot, but they are incredibly strong. Co-founder of the project, trevor.btc, is one of the top KOLs in the Bitcoin NFT ecosystem, and he hosts the most influential Twitter Space in the Bitcoin NFT community, "The Ordinal Show". Trevor is also a managing partner of the Bitcoin Frontier Fund, which has invested in the most influential NFT project, Taproot Wizards, with a funding of $7.5 million. He is also an investor in over 50 Bitcoin ecosystem startups.

Trevor shared his letter of intent to invest in Taproot Wizards on Twitter. He completed the basic letter of intent on a piece of toilet paper, which is very Bitcoin!

Other than Trevor, Pizza Ninjas also has two co-founders, Max Savin and Sihoon Kim.

Max Savin is a full-stack developer and designer with extensive entrepreneurial experience. Prior to joining Pizza Ninjas, he developed and launched multiple cross-platform apps with good revenue, including Color Schemer and IntroKit. As a software based on all known spectra and algorithms and creating colors in a mathematical way, Color Schemer played an important role in the color design of Pizza Ninjas.

Sihoon Kim graduated from KAIST, one of the top science and technology universities in South Korea. Prior to that, he served as the Chief Engineer at a VC-backed startup company.

Artist boozy.btc is a co-founder of the counterfeit culture platform that helps new artists enter the Ordinals ecosystem. He has been active in the Bitcoin ecosystem for a long time and has released multiple NFT series such as "Hooch Haus: Creature Feature" and "Hooch Haus: Booze Brains" on Stacks before the Ordinals ecosystem became popular.

Before the Pizza Ninjas PFP series, the team already had a mature NFT information tracking tool called Ninjalerts, which helps Ethereum NFT players track activities of specific addresses or NFT series and provides them with real-time push notifications. Strictly speaking, Pizza Ninjas is a product under Ninjalerts.

Project Highlights

Pizza Ninjas is considered a potential Bitcoin NFT new blue chip for the following reasons:

诚意满满的用心设计

translates to

Sincerely designed with full heart

Twitter is the most central hub for NFT community communication and the most frequent place for NFT players to communicate around the world. Therefore, it is very important design principle to make a PFP suitable as a Twitter avatar.

Pizza Ninjas is designed based on this principle. By using recursive inscriptions, Pizza Ninjas is able to engrave high-definition images with a resolution of 10000 x 10000 on the Bitcoin network, which allows holders to share the complete Pizza Ninjas image on Twitter. At the same time, Twitter avatar is one of the most important identity symbols for NFT players, and Pizza Ninjas ensures that it can "catch the eye" when viewed directly as an avatar.

Comparison between large image and small avatar

Another detail is that the head position of the Pizza Ninjas image is lower than the general PFP, and the head is slightly tilted to the left, so that Twitter users who use Pizza Ninjas as their avatar will not be too obstructed even when using bubble expressions during Twitter Space participation.

Pizza Ninjas' avatar uses the effect of the bubble emoji in Twitter Space.

In the above picture, it can also be noticed that the background color of all Pizza Ninjas is orange. Friends familiar with the Bitcoin NFT ecosystem will know that orange is an important feature of the Bitcoin NFT ecosystem, and many tweets related to Bitcoin NFT will use orange emoji (such as orange hearts). The once popular BRC-20 project $OXBT relied on the crazy release of orange square emoji as one of its operational strategies during the start-up phase. Using orange as the background is actually helping the holder declare "I am a Bitcoin NFT player", and it can also resonate with Bitcoin NFT players.

As for the specific design of each character, in order to strike a balance between simplicity and diversity, and to ensure that each character is unique enough, Pizza Ninjas follows 5 core principles:

1. Let each Pizza Ninjas look concise, aesthetically consistent, and unique.

2. Let each Pizza Ninja have a differentiated recognition through changes in eye and head features.

3. Add some more features if the caster likes :)

4. Carefully and intentionally match colors.

6. Pay tribute to Web3 culture, nostalgia culture, and Ordinals culture (you can see elements such as Kevin, TV head, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, wizard hat, and OMB in the picture).

These thoughtful designs are ultimately conveyed to the casters through a personalized image design process, allowing everyone to feel cared for. I filled out my Pizza Ninjas customization form very carefully, not only choosing the type of image subject, various features, overall style, etc., but also providing my own description for the artist's reference. Of course, the rare features were mostly chosen by the top-ranked people in the whitelist activity points at the beginning.

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