@sayangel

Something for FC devs to consider: Gate your mints by minimum $$ held in wallet. Everyone wins. Merkle wants more funded wallets. Devs benefit from more dry powder (not concentrated). I've seen a lot of people commenting on how I should've charged more for mints instead of routing all that money to Merkle via Pro subs. Coulda, shoulda, woulda but I also don't think Warplets go as wide as they did with a higher mint price. So no point in speculating that. The Pro req was a decision I had to make to try and slow down the massive spike in traffic that brought the mint site down (and Farcaster on Sun night). I didn't think the conversion rate would be that high. And after reflecting on it a bit I think it's a net positive for that money to flow into the ecosystem. How it's dispersed isn't up to me but hopefully it goes into wallets that then spend it on another dev projects. But I wish it hit the wallets in the ecosystem faster. That got me thinking. How could I have achieved a similar effect without locking the money up in Merkle rewards? And maybe requiring the wallet to hold a certain amount of eth might've been a better stopgap + the money would've been more instantly spendable on other apps in the ecosystem. I wouldn't have charged more because the low mint fee was key to the virality methinks but I would've had a signal that this person is ready and willing to spend before I use my own money to generate them image. That's all the Pro sub requirement was really. And if more wallets keep a constant balance of even something as small as $10 we can have more viral moments like this.

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