Apish Punks is a new up and coming NFT collection styled around a limited 10,000 pixelated Apes, with proof of ownership stored on the Telos blockchain they have varied Rarities, based on 4 kinds of Ape Punks - Friendly, Zombie, Alien and Ghost Ape Punk from totally common friendly Apes to Ghost versions available on a 1/687 ratio (Table below for all rarity references. The style choice once shared to the community by the Dev comes from a surprise that no one is utilising the low gas fees and high speed transactions of Telos whilst realising that all of the Ape related NFTs are most common yet none are truly pixelated with rarities and a use-case so Apish Punks was born.

For the ones who may not know, Telos is a 3rd Generation blockchain platform which allows for building fast, scalable distributed applications with extremely low gas fees, another great attribute to the the Telos Network is the fact it is 24x faster than the Ethereum network with a 0.5 second Block time, if we look at it holistically it is not only faster than Ethereum but all other chains including Solana and Tron in the Deli Space.

Rarities are a key element to any NFT collection and the Apish punks do not let you down, below is a rarity table of key elements with a full rarity list being compiled for everyone to view online where their Apish Punk sits within rarity, below is an image of the key elements to look out for:

The price to mint an Apish punk initially was 10 Telos and at the time of writing this it has already raised to 15 Telos, however a floor is already setting on the marketplace of 25 Telos, therefore the Development team are closely managing the price to reflect and support the floor, my recommendation is to scoop up as many now, the reason, well within 12 hours of stealth launch they already have over 10% of the supply minted with no marketing, no push just a simple community giveaway for shilling the project. No passengers here ladies, gentleman and pronouns - so jump in quick before the supply Is gone.

What’s next for Apish punks I heard one community member ask - the Dev team are rather secretive over this so far, from what I can gather from their website and telegram channel the Apish Punks are going to enable whitelist spots on pre-order of their Apish Token and early access and use case within a Metaverse - Characters with different attributes? Who knows, for now it’s a solid yes from me. Reason, early entry to a token ran by a team who have wind in their sails and a clear understanding of taking opportunity where no one else has yet, a Metaverse being developed already with use case for the NFT’s and a limited supply, not to mention the first on our very own Telos EVM Network. Apish Punks team if you’re reading this, may I suggest Pixel Punk world for your Metaverse name?

For more information and to mint your own check out the links below, its great to see a real use of an untapped network, with Ethereum and Solana taking so much of the NFT Marketplace right now I believe Apish Punks is only at the beginning and are in fact the pioneers of the future, one member has quoted a sale price of 1,000 Telos already that is a 100x from Mint price, this in my opinion is only the beginning. I have compiled a list of key links below for you to access:

Minting Website

Twitter

Marketplace

Please note this is not Financial advice, always do your own research and is the opinion of one person from their experience.

Written by Eric Brown - @Eric_Crypt0 (telegram handle)