1/ A Re-Introduction to Loot (for Adventurers)

I've been seeing some excitement for @lootproject on the timeline here and on Twitter, so I figured I'd take a chance to introduce the project to a new audience that probably wasn't here during the last big NFT cycle of 2021, and maybe even reintroduce it to some who were.

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4/ All Loot NFTs (called bags) consisted of eight items: a piece for an adventurer's weapon, chest, head, waist, foot, hand, necklace, and ring. If you're familiar with RPGs (Runescape, EverQuest, Diablo, etc.), you'd probably immediately recognize this as a game character's equipped items. However, the Loot items appeared to be a set of equipment from a game that didn't exist... yet.

3/ The Loot project re-contextualized what NFTs were to a lot of people at the time. Perhaps the most popularized form factor for an NFT was the JPEG. NFTs were supposed to be about the art, right? But there was no "art" to be seen with Loot. Just eight lines of white text on a black background. But these inconspicuous "lists" were much more than one would assume at first glance.

2/ Loot was released by @dhof in August 2021 and gifted to the internet as a public domain (CC0) project. The mint was free (+ network fees) and sold out in just 4 hours.

There was no team, no roadmap, no plan for future development, no embedded images, stats, or lore. And all of this was done intentionally. 

From the onset, Loot was meant to be interpreted. It was a digital Rorschach test that beckoned the collective imagination of the internet.