First Crowdfunded $ASH Piece Funded in $ASH #WeAcceptAsh

Long-term is my mantra: long-term collecting that leads to long-term results that drive long-term value.

Presenting: Pak / ASH One Pager NFT that updates with new information

“The Image is The Utility” Collection

Minting is now LIVE (2.5 days for WL, please scroll down for listings/bundles)

Opensea: https://opensea.io/collection/theimageistheutility

Contract: https://etherscan.io/address/0xe5e09510e359fd0f50e3a7b7e9c8c0daba9c8f01#code

Remember: there are two drop times (8 AM and 8 PM EST Jan. 30)

The one pager is dynamic: you will be the first to receive updated one pagers

#WeAcceptAsh

Timing:

• Sales begins now. You may purchase a single NFT or a bundle of 1/5/10 NFTs (of course the more you buy the more you support this initiative).

• 2 weeks after 50% sold, a discord channel will open up (somewhere TBD) and initial drafts/topics will be shared for comment to all. High-tier access will occur shortly after.

There will be no other places for official information nor communication on this drop aside from Twitter.

Purpose

• Purpose: crowdfund public $ASH investment report in native currency (like ARK's Big Ideas). First written $ASH NFT and $ASH crowdfund

• Public good: anyone can use the report, funded by YOU, to discuss/communicate $ASH. To be used and shared with VCs/investors and will try my best to publish on major crypto news sites like Messari

• Access pass: A Discord channel (in a yet to be determined Discord) will be opened to drive $ASH adoption, writing and analysis

  o   Base tier will gain early access to analysis/substack while high tier (15 or more NFTs) will have 1:1 access to me and input on what I should research/write on across crypto/finance. Financial advice will be provided. This will only be for those who believe my input will be of value to you but no promises (though many directions things can go)

• Final piece minted as NFT and owned by all contributors

• Patronage: shows your contribution / benefactors who allowed this to happen which will be recognized. The more you buy, the more you support this project and the final piece

The NFT: image = utility. The one pager's NFT image is the utility. Why?

The “one-pager” is a beautiful concept from the finance world which I imported to the NFT world in May 2021, after The Fungible: it forces one to crystallize ideas in a simple deliverable, while remaining thorough. It forces you to decide what is important and what isn’t in a noisy world. Billion $ investment ideas are sometimes shared using one pagers, a forcing function to be succinct.

This Pak/$ASH one-pager NFT image matters:

• Function like a cheat sheet of information for you each time you access your wallet

• Its utility, too, is to remind you to think clearly and write down why you want to commit to buy and hold something at scale (thinking in one-pagers)

Background and Further Motivation

Communicating has always been essential to me in NFTs, and having a focused place where WE can help drive ASH communication, a place that focuses on knowledge/analysis, and is long term focused, is important.

NFTs so far have largely provided for visual content monetization, but I want to challenge NFT use cases to support writing: creating publicly accessible research/analysis on the most innovative and exciting a social token.

• I cannot create anything visual but love writing and creating many non-visual things of value (like a start-up/company, Twitter spaces, modelling/analysis, a community, or an art collection)

• While my weekly/monthly Subsbtack will always be free, some of the best writing and analyses are done one-off and outside the regular cadence of a newsletter. Substack/blogs also have inherent limitations

• Allows me to focus more on writing: the average Substack I write takes 30 min to an hour (I spend a lot less time than some think on $ASH/Pak) and have a lot more ideas I write down than I have time to write about, including on $ASH

• The $ASH piece, once finished and funded by YOU, can be a resource used by the community to discuss $ASH and I plan to also share it with several crypto funds and venture capitalists to further communicate $ASH’s value. I will also do my best to have it published in prominent cryptocurrency websites like Messari

• The $ASH piece will be minted as an NFT (likely on Mirror) and contributors will be recognized as patrons of a public good

There is precedence for all of the above. For example, $2 million was raised in 2 days to fund the first crypto-funded documentary titled “Ethereum: the Infinite Garden” that chronicles Ethereum’s history for the public.  

Matthew Bell’s well acclaimed article on the metaverse was sold for 100 ETH.

There are two tiers of patronage:

1.      One (1) One-Pager NFT (base-tier): supports this $ASH research crowdfund and my writing.

a.      Acess to an exclusive channel within a yet-to-be-specified Discord

b.      Early access to ALL future Substacks I write (which will still be free, just delayed for the public)

2.      15 One-Pager NFTs (high-tier): all of the above and 1:1 access to me and input on what I should research/write on across crypto/finance. Financial advice will be provided. This will only be for those who believe my input will be of value to you

Just to re-iterate, the focus of this is to serve as an access pass to crowdfunding the next $ASH research piece, which I believe will have many uses beyond the NFT itself. No other utility is promised beyond the crowdfund and access, but people should realize they are participating in a collective piece about a valuable currency they hold, there is more strength in numbers.

I plan to concentrate my in-depth discussions in the Discord channel on $ASH, including bonding curve mathematics, economic modelling, etc. This is not a promise to be constantly in Discord or a new Discord will be made as there are too many Discords.

Remember, ASH is about the long term and so am I.