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Introducing the Cross Bosses, Generation 0 NFT Mint Drop by Hot Cross

Mint NFTs. Collect NFTs. Stake NFTs. Flex NFTs.

Dec 10, 2021

Cross Bosses, Generation 0: 8,000 unique, 1/1 ERC-721 standard NFTs generated with various body types, backgrounds, glasses, eyes, mouths, hats, accessories, and more. Be bossy.

We’ve been teasing this out long enough that it’s safe to say most of you know what’s coming: an NFT mint drop by Hot Cross along with an NFT staking platform.

What you don’t know are the details. Or the fact that this is Act One. Usually, these posts are overly formal. Today’s a Friday so we’re doing it a little differently. Mostly details with not as much fat. Let’s get into it.

Act One, Scene One

Enter Cross Bosses—Generation 0—a collection of 8,000 unique, 1/1 ERC-721 standard NFTs generated with various body types, backgrounds, glasses, eyes, mouths, hats, accessories, and more.

Conceptually, they exist. But they also don’t exist until you mint them. Their base utility is the most precious utility of an NFT: happiness, verifiable ownership, provenance, flexing, community, and signaling.

How to get one: a new mint application will be live here.
- KYC’d community gets first shot. Whitelisted.
- Non-KYC’d community then goes next. Non-whitelisted.
- Payment method: HOTDOG.
  - Buy HOTDOG with HOTCROSS. Easy.
- Cost: 400 HOTDOG. (This is around ~$200.)
- Max mint cap per wallet: TBA, but no fewer than 4. This basically just means you can mint up to at least 4, but that number may go up. Yes, you can mint 1, 2, 3, etc.
When to get it: before Christmas (December 25th, 2021). Official timing TBA.
Where to get it: Binance Smart Chain
What to do with it: admire it. Flex it. Set it as your avatar. You know the drill.
Where to buy/sell it after minting: TBA

Hot Cross @hotcrosscom

Will it be fair? Yup (!). Provable randomness. More on that later. Not keeping any of the rare ones for the team. We already have all of the permutations anyway and only 2 people have ever seen them all.

Act One, Scene Two

Enter NFT staking, a multi-chain NFT staking platform that may be used for staking Cross Bosses—or any other NFT collection for that matter—for ERC-20 assets. In short, we’ve developed audited smart contracts that allow anyone to stake an ERC-721 or ERC-1155 and receive either one or multiple ERC20’s as an incentive.

There’s also a way to stake and get incentives based on any number of trait types or rarity types in Cross Bosses. If 8,000 NFTs are created, there may be a staking pool that’s only open to, for example, pouty mouth bosses. Or pink sunglasses bosses. Or any of the 40 super-rares that were created to stand out from the crowd.

There’s a catch: you are owed nothing. Buy the toy for joy. Or Scene Two in this Act may punish you. That is to say: Cross Bosses exist to delight. Do that first. Staking is a cherry on top of a three-month long design production.

Cross Boss attitude coming through? It should. 😤

Act One, Scene Three

Cross Bosses aren’t cute. They’re face-melting, attitude-packed, swagger-laced piggies that aren’t here to mess around. They’re on a mission to do something, anything but sit still. Enter humanity.

{ "trait_type": "Strength", "value": "" },
{ "trait_type": "[redacted]", "value": "" },
{ "trait_type": "[redacted]", "value": "" },
{ "trait_type": "Intelligence", "value": "" },
{ "trait_type": "Wisdom", "value": "" },
{ "trait_type": "Charisma", "value": "" },
{ "trait_type": "[redacted]", "value": "" },

You may not see it, but Cross Bosses are designed from Day 1 to be gamified. Or GameFi’d. How do you design a beautiful collection of NFTs but also give them the ability to be ported into games? We’ve done that.

Hot Cross @hotcrosscom

"They believe we're only making images." "Good. Let them believe it." In 24 hours from now, your questions will mostly be answered. Mostly. #CrossBosses #Metaverse #GameFi

Act One, Scene Four

Cross Bosses are tribal. They are generational. Boss Gen 0 from the West may or may not feel like it’s a good time to play with Boss Gen 0 from the East. Boss Gen 0 from the South may be besties with Boss Gen 0 from the North. Dunno—that depends on you, tbh—tribalism unfolds as users mint Cross Bosses, acquire and sell Cross Bosses, and form friendships based on their mutual love of Cross Bosses.

You are Cross Bosses. You make Scene Four.

{ "trait_type": "Crew", "value": "" },
{ "trait_type": "Generation", "value": "" },

Act One, Scene Five

AR. Metaverse.

Concepts of mixing reality with the online world.

Concepts of delight and being unsure if you’re interacting with a Cross Boss or its representation in the real world emerge.

Your Cross Boss appears in your room, on your head, on your computer screen, in a staking pool, on a watch face, in a merch shop, it’s yours. How will you use it?

Hot Cross @hotcrosscom

If you're using Instagram or Facebook then we'll start rolling out some of these during the week: 📸 instagram.com/ar/43992132777… 💬 facebook.com/fbcameraeffect… Ignore the pack name - that will change. Also... this may or may not be a way that run an event leading up to the drop. 🙃

Hot Cross @hotcrosscom

Seems most of you are shouting the following names for the upcoming NFT mint drop: - The Hotties - Hotties - Cross Hotties - Cross Bosses - Hottie Bosses The list is getting shorter. Which of these do you like the most? ("Pig" names don't work. Will explain later.) 🐷 ⏰ https://t.co/2chriwaX5v

Act Two, Scene One

Something else.

Cross-chain NFTs are broke. Multi-chain Bizzaro world bossed up NFTs are woke.

{ "trait_type": "Universe", "value": "A..." }

Tech. Only.

For nerds like us.

Cross Bosses Generation 0 will be immutable, on IPFS;
Provenance will be computed via hash determinism;
NFT IDs will range from 0 to 7,999;
Randomness is achieved via a random offset value we get from Chainlink’s VRF;
Point 4 is important. When we pre-mint 1% for marketing, there’s no way that we can gamify or rig the system to give Hot Cross the “best” NFTs of the lot. It’s technically impossible and we’d be just as happy with the most basic Bosses as rares. Our concept of rare is different than your concept of rare.
NFTs are revealed when either a) the NFTs have sold out or b) a reveal timestamp has been reached. We suspect that the former will happen first.

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Hot Cross is an extensive multi-chain and cross-chain tool and application suite that enables blockchain teams and their communities to thrive. At its core, Hot Cross aims to be the best toolbox for ETH and EVM networks. Their development philosophy is agile, and they are a cohort of builders who aggressively seek out opportunities to meet the demands of the now for both B2B and B2C. The core thesis that Hot Cross presents is that users and teams will migrate in part to new networks that feel familiar when presented with good tooling and freedom. Hot Cross is a company and an ecosystem in and of itself, and our goals are towards allowing communities to flourish using our technologies, whether or not they know we are the ones building them.