Time Trotters: Tokenomics For Days

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Time Trotters
4 min readMay 13, 2021

An Amazing Race To The Genesis

Each Trotter has 6 elements — 4 gadgets, 1 platform and 1 background that were meticulously designed according to their persona. The fun begins in the search for missing elements to your favorite Trotter.

There are a total of 6 levels to reflect your Trotter’s evolution.
Level 1- Trotter + 1 era-specific element
Level 2- Trotter + 2 era-specific elements
… so on and so forth…
Level 6- Master Trotter (Trotter + all 6 era-specific elements)

Master Trotters must think fast on their feet, as there’s only one chance to be the genesis. How? Master Trotters must do a final merge to become the one and only. There can only be one Trotter Genesis for each character.

Each Trotter Genesis is attentively animated with custom music.

Trotter Merging Conditions

  • Levels can be skipped. Example: Level 1 Trotters can be merged with Level 4 Trotters
  • Era-specific elements guaranteed to remain during the merge
  • Non-era-specific elements will be randomly assigned during the merge
6 Elements: 1x pet, 1x character platform, 2x hand gadgets, 1x headpiece, and 1x background

Airdrop, Drop-top

In order to offset market inactivity and reward the Trotter holders, we will introduce NFT airdrops. There will be 200 NFT drops, all of which are randomly generated Level 1 Trotters.

  • Exclusively for collectors of Level 3 and Level 4 Trotters only
  • x1 Level 3/Level 4 Trotters = x1 entry into airdrop raffle
  • Trotters NFT must have resided in the wallet for at least 120 hours, or 5 days

The first mint of a Level 3 Trotter will trigger the airdrop phase. Every 7 days, 10x Level 1 Trotters will be randomly airdropped. It ends when all 200 NFTs are rehomed.

Supply Distribution

The total supply is capped at 7,800 Trotters NFT.
7,800NFTs = 100%

Official Sales
7,350NFTs = 94.2%
Others
4
50NFTs = 5.8%

Breakdown of Others:

  • 200 NFTs for Airdrop
  • 100 NFTs for EEAS — Exclusive Early Access Sale
  • 70 NFTs for Trotters Team
  • 50 NFTs for Marketing
  • 30 NFTs for Partners & Community Appreciation

Market Context

“Commons” are easily overlooked, often discarded to the bottom of the barrel. A reality that flippers — no matter their motivations — will use to their advantage. Therefore, price floor crashes become an unavoidable consequence.

Time Trotters uses the economic model of supply & demand:

  1. Less Competition For Sellers: Lowering number of Trotters NFT available across time
  2. Utility for “Commons”: Level 1 Trotters become desirable to meet the increased demand to merge
  3. Value Increase: As the quantity of NFTs decrease and the demand for them increases, the value of remaining Trotters increases
[LEFT] When the quantity demanded is high, the market price of Trotters increases. | [RIGHT] When the quantity supplied is low, the market price of Trotters increases.

A CryptoArt Adventure

Art is personal, art does not demand to be universally liked.

The Artist and the Buyer are two madmen. One doesn’t know why they create a painting, while the other acquires it, not knowing why.

Boris Borsch

The cryptoart experience is more than just posting Discord ads and negotiating trades. Time Trotters’ story arc, character personification, and tokenomics were created with a sense of adventure in mind. It is our hope for collectors to be personally involved with their Trotter’s evolution.

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