8.4 Community Events

Many regular and ad-hoc events will occur. Up to 50% of the community development budget will be allocated to supporting influencers, clans and their related activities surrounding Kanon, SNS, and ontology mining. But a sharp focus will be placed on our overarching concept of Digital Wealth Creation. We want our community to be able to make a living as an ontology miner and/or Kanon collector/trader. Most of these events will be first announced and hosted online on Kanon Exchange, but eventually we want to support community-led offline events and meetups. The initial inspiration for successful NFT community involvement and events comes from BAYC (Bored Ape Yacht Club). BAYC uses a combination of online and offline community participation (i.e., members-only bathroom graffiti, offline meetups, online club in a metaverse, etc.) and collaboration with brands.[i]

Figure 26: Examples - BAYC community events in LA. [xiv]

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[i] Chayka, Kyle. “Why Bored Ape Avatars Are Taking over Twitter.” The New Yorker, July 30, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-bored-ape-avatars-are-taking-over-twitter.

[xiv] Morgan. Bored Apes Convene in LA. July 21, 2021. Nftinvesting.io. Https://www.nftinvesting.io/bored-apes-convened-in-la-last-night-and-it-looked-awesome/.