The RTFKT team went silent during the initial confusion of the mint, which was precisely when damage control and communication were sorely needed. In other words, there was a minor time rug (I had personally woken up at 5.30am for the mint and was left waiting for some time). The mint also had to be delayed for an unspecified amount of time given that certain preparations could not be completed in time. Details about the mint prior to 21 July (the mint date), including the 0.2 eth mint price, were not forthcoming. Many members of the community had expected to be airdropped the hoodie, or to be able to mint for free, given that other collections like Azuki had recently provided merchandise to its holders for no cost.įourth, communication prior to, during and after the mint was lacking. #RTFKT CLONE X FREE#Third, the mint price for the hoodie, which was set at 0.2 eth (which included free worldwide shipping). There was much unhappiness over this, especially amongst Clone owners, who felt that the utility of their NFT was ‘reduced’ to being equal to Cryptokick owners. RTFKT decided to go with a FCFS (first come first serve) system to determine how the limited mint spots were allocated. Second, the manner in which mint spots were allocated. As each Clone X or Cryptokicks NFT guaranteed 1 mint spot, there were 10,000 NFTs that could not be ‘used’ to mint the hoodie. As well as this, providing financial support to them to develop their NFTs and the fashion NFT space in general.In the aftermath of the mint, the community’s complaints revolved around the following four points:įirst, the decision to cap the collection at a size of 20,000. This has been great for RTFKT as they have such a big company as Nike guiding them through. Since then, the companies have worked together on a few Nike x RTFKT Studios projects. They did this as they looked to get further into the expanding market of NFTs and web3. acquired RTFKT Studios, the company behind the highly successful CloneX NFT collection. I don’t really understand this limited supply.” Another, added: “Every single Genesis holder needs to get a mint 100%”. We are not only the holder, we are RTFKT supporter(s). “ I don’t understand why Nike cannot print 20000 hoodies…. And also the fact CloneX holders cannot get access to the hoodie NFT and physical product. They were frustrated over the lack of supply from this collaboration. Unfortunately, the comments from fans regarding the Nike x RTFKT hoodie were certainly not positive. These were commented on in the announcement Tweet. The only remarks on the upcoming collaboration from Nike were replies of the ‘fire emoji’ and ‘heart emoji’. As expected, access will be granted for a select amount of ‘CloneX and RTFKT x Nike Dunk Genesis CryptoKicks holders only. The company announced that the first RTFKT x Nike hoodie, which follows on from their sneakers and other work together, will include an NFT and forging of a physical product. It was announced on Friday via Twitter that the RTFKT x Nike ‘AR hoodie’ will launch in 4 days, Thursday, July 21st. A preview of the upcoming Nike x RTFKT Studios AR Hoodie. This came after it bought the company for an undisclosed fee. To clarify, Nike is the parent organisation of RTFKT. Particularly, as was later announced, the hoodie will drop as an NFT on July 21st as a private mint available to holders of previous collections only. On Friday, RTFKT Studios, the creators of CloneX, teased the RTFKT x Nike AR hoodie that is set to drop soon.
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