FAQ

Blocklapse is a generative art project made up of 3D, unique, progressively-generated trees on Ethereum. Each tree is expected to become fully grown over time, exhibiting a randomly generated set of traits. In collaboration with Toucan, a share of the sale’s proceeds will be diverted towards carbon offsets.

The visual representation of a Blocklapse NFT relies on a p5.js script stored on-chain. The script takes three arguments: (i) a randomly-generated seed associated with the NFT, (ii) a tier, and (iii) a list of block hashes associated with each growth stage from the time of minting, giving the Blocklapse unpredictable growth patterns.

The trees are grown using algorithms loosely derived from L-systems, where a small set of rules define how each section of the tree should be drawn and which subsequent rules should be followed to continue generating the tree. Randomness is added to these rules to make the trees grow in unique sizes, shapes, and colours.

We chose p5.js because our artists believe it is optimal for attributing randomness to art, and because it is a time-proof, open-source project stored in the Github Arctic Cold Vault, a snapshot of public repos archived beneath the permafrost of an Arctic mountain in Svalbard, Norway.

There are 5,000 NFTs in this collection, in tribute to the Great Basin Bristlecone pines that are known to live for up to 5,000 years.

To allow for better price discovery and avoid gas wars, the sale will be conducted via Dutch auction.

Further details on the pricing of the NFTs will be announced in due course.

Primary sales of Blocklapse NFTs will be on blocklapse.earth. Blocklapse NFTs will appear on marketplaces like OpenSea or Rarible for secondary purchase. Blocklapse NFTs follow the ERC-721 standard and are therefore compatible with a wide range of ecosystem wallets and applications.

Royalty fees of 8% will be charged for secondary sales. 50% of royalty fees (4%) will go back to the Blocklapse community while the rest (4%) will be distributed to the Blocklapse team.

What is done with Blocklapse treasury will be left up to the community to vote on, from a range of options:

1. BCT buy and raffle;
2. BCT buy and burn;
3. BCT buy and use (Klima bonding);
4. Blocklapse NFT floor buy and raffle;
5. Blocklapse NFT floor buy and burn;
6. Donate funds to climate related groups.

Proposals to add or remove options from the above list can be voted on by the Blocklapse community.

We do not plan on having a whitelist for the auction.

No one knows; the algorithm allows for billions of possible trait combinations. This is the beauty of progressive generative art. Rest assured, we have spent many hours tweaking the algorithm so your Blocklapse NFT turns out looking awesome and unique.

In contrast to other generative art collections, Blocklapse NFTs are generated organically at the time of minting and evolve in a completely unpredictable way. With more than one billion possible combinations, the probability of duplicate is incredibly small. Nevertheless, a Blocklapse clone could become the most sought-after NFT in the collection.

Blocklapse NFTs will have a range of traits – some common, and others very unique. The rarity of each trait will be revealed after the sale is over.

Mutation Packs are bundles, sold in tiers, that interact with the Blocklapse NFTs and achieve the following:

• Guarantee access to traits that are otherwise (probabilistically) very rare.
• Improve the owner's leaderboard score.
• Increase its owner's probability of being a winner of the post-sale climate-tech reward.

Mutation Packs are sold in tiers, namely as follows:

• Sprout 🌱 (Uncommon 😇)
• Sapling 🌲 (Rare 😲)
• Showoff 🎄 (Legendary 😈)

By purchasing Mutation Packs, the NFTs' rarity can be "boosted" by guaranteeing one trait from a certain tier. For example:

• Purchasing the Sprout Pack, the NFT is guaranteed to have at least one Uncommon trait.
• Purchasing the Sapling Pack, the NFT is guaranteed to have at least one Rare trait.
• Purchasing the Showoff Pack, your tree(s) can end up floating on top of another planet, surrounded by rocket ships and butterflies!

Note that even without purchasing any Mutation Packs, every Blocklapse NFT still has a chance to get any traits, with significantly reduced probability for traits belonging to higher tiers.

You can purchase Mutation Pack(s) at the time of minting your Blocklapse NFT(s).

No, they are not.

No, they cannot.

No, they cannot.

Mutation Packs will follow the same Dutch auction logic as the Blocklapse NFTs. At a minimum, 10% of the proceeds from the sale of Mutation Packs will be directed towards purchasing Toucan's Base Carbon Tonnes (as explained in the Collaboration section below).

Further details on the pricing of the respective Mutation Packs will be announced in due course.

No, only one Mutation Pack (at one of the tiers mentioned above) can be purchased per Blocklapse NFT.

No, you cannot.

Toucan (formerly CO2ken) is on a mission to kickstart the climate finance ecosystem on Web3. They are building a new money lego: programmable carbon index tokens backed by a basket of verifiable carbon offsets. Learn more on their website.

For each Blocklapse NFT, Toucan will facilitate the purchase of one tonne of carbon offsets associated with the Bull Run Forest Carbon Project. In addition, a portion of the proceeds from Mutation Packs purchases will be diverted towards purchasing Base Carbon Tonnes (BCTs) – tokens from the first carbon index pool deployed by Toucan.

Toucan currently works with Verra, the largest carbon registry. Other registries like Gold Standard, the Climate Action Reserve and Plan Vivo will soon follow.

Independent certification bodies (e.g. Verra Carbon Standard) verify that a given carbon offset project ticks defined boxes for the reduction of carbon emissions. The corresponding tokenized offset can be verified on-chain and on public off-chain registries.

The Toucan Carbon Bridge is open to different categories of carbon offsets proposed by the Toucan community. Once the community approves a methodology for bridging offsets from a particular source, like the Verra Registry, anyone can bridge tonnes from that source permissionlessly.

BCT stands for Base Carbon Tonne. BCTs are index tokens from the first carbon index pool deployed by Toucan. They are backed by offsets that meet minimum quality standards from a range of categories e.g. forestry carbon offsets, methane capture offsets, renewable energy offsets. The primary goal of BCTs is to bootstrap initial liquidity for on-chain carbon.

The Toucan community will set the initial price when the first BCT pool is launched on a decentralized exchange.

Demand comes from offsetters or protocols like KlimaDAO, whereas supply comes from actors bridging legacy offsets into the index pool.

• Hold the BCT and bet on a rising price.
• Retire the BCT, and claim the emissions reduction for yourself by removing those tonnes from the market.
• Bond BCT to the KlimaDAO treasury (Klima is a carbon-backed digital currency and algorithmic climate protocol).
• Provide liquidity to the BCT/DAI pool on a decentralized exchange and earn trading fees.

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Blocklapse is working closely with the Toucan team as they launch their protocol and bootstrap liquidity. Toucan team members are also present in the Blocklapse Discord. Reach out if you have any questions!

In order to purchase a Blocklapse NFT, you will need to conduct three steps:

• First, you will need to purchase ETH from a cryptocurrency exchange such as Coinbase, Kraken or Binance.
• Second, you will need to transfer your ETH into Metamask, a non-custodial digital wallet. This wallet connects to the Blocklapse website and allows you to purchase an NFT. For your reference, here is a video outlining in detail how to set up a Metamask wallet.
• Third, you will want to connect your Metamask wallet to the Blocklapse website and visit the mint page where you will find a "Mint" button. Note that you will be able to set the quantity of NFTs and what Mutation Pack that you wish to purchase. When you click the Mint button you will be presented with a Metamask window for confirming the transaction. It will show the price for the mint as well as the gas cost for executing the transaction. Click "Confirm" to initiate the purchase transaction. After the transaction is confirmed you will be presented with your Blocklapse NFT! The resulting work is represented on the Ethereum network by a token which is a standard ERC-721 compatible NFT token. This means you will instantly be able to see it in your account on various marketplace platforms like OpenSea.

Yes, you can but with a limit of 10 NFTs per transaction.

No, you cannot.

Your Ethereum public key owns a token ID in the Blocklapse ERC-721 contract. This token ID has three associated parameters: seed, tier and growth stage. These parameters are passed to the on-chain p5.js script to render a canonical visual representation of your NFT.

The frontend provided by Blocklapse (or secondary marketplaces) is merely a convenience layer – the NFT can be visually reconstructed without anyone's involvement.

Nothing – your NFTs are safe. With the algorithm to render Blocklapse NFTs stored on-chain, your NFT has zero-attachment to the Blocklapse team once minted.

Each Blocklapse is an NFT on the Ethereum blockchain. When you purchase an NFT, you own the underlying Blocklapse token, the art, completely. Ownership of the NFT is mediated entirely by smart contracts on the Ethereum network: at no point may we seize, freeze, or otherwise modify the ownership of any Blocklapse NFT.

Each Blocklapse NFT owner is granted a worldwide, exclusive license to use, copy, and display their purchased art, along with any extensions that you choose to create or use, solely for the following purposes: (i) for your own personal, non-commercial use; (ii) as part of a marketplace that permits the purchase and sale of your Blocklapse NFT, provided that the marketplace cryptographically verifies each Blocklapse owner’s rights to display the art for their Blocklapse NFT to ensure that only the actual owner can display the art; or (iii) as part of a third party website or application that permits the inclusion, involvement, or participation of your Blocklapse NFT, provided that the website/application cryptographically verifies each Blocklapse owner’s rights to display the art for their Blocklapse NFT to ensure that only the actual owner can display the art, and provided that the art is no longer visible once the owner of the Blocklapse NFT leaves the website/application.

Each Blocklapse NFT owner is granted an unlimited, worldwide license to use, copy, and display their purchased art for the purpose of commercial use. Examples of such commercial use would be the use of the art to produce and sell merchandise products displaying copies of the art. For the sake of clarity, nothing in this section will be deemed to restrict you from (i) owning or operating a marketplace that permits the use and sale of Blocklapse NFTs generally, provided that the marketplace cryptographically verifies each Blocklapse NFT owner’s rights to display the art for their Blocklapse NFT to ensure that only the actual owner can display the art; (ii) owning or operating a third party website or application that permits the inclusion, involvement, or participation of Blocklapse generally, provided that the third party website or application cryptographically verifies each Blocklapse NFT owner’s rights to display the art for their Blocklapse NFT to ensure that only the actual owner can display the art, and provided that the art is no longer visible once the owner of the purchased Blocklapse NFT leaves the website/application; or (iii) earning revenue from any of the foregoing.