Today, I freed up a few dollars, to try some things out on EVMOS. I have been keen to give some stuff a go on EVMOS, and was particularly interested in the Orbital Apes NFT mint. Here is some of the stuff I did today:
Used a bridge for the first time, to bridge funds from Polygon to Evmos.
Registered a .evmos domain name.
Minted some NFT's
Read on to see all the details, and how it all went.
So, the first thing I did was to move some funds into my EVMOS Metamask wallet. Do to complexities with the airdrop, I have had to make a new Brave profile with a separate Metamask wallet completely from my main wallet address. This was so I could import the remainder of my airdrop, which had mostly been claimed via Keplr. Anyway, it is what it is, so now I have multiple brave profiles for multiple Metamask instances.
The funds I wanted to shift were on Polygon. So first I moved a little MATIC, plus around $200 of USDC into my new Polygon address. Then I checked on Diffusion Finance to see the available bridges. I settled on Connext as it was the first one I came to that had Polygon to Evmos capabilities.
I found the process relatively straight forward. It took a little while, and I went to do some other things for a bit. When I came back, I had to perform another wallet function to claim the tokens I had bridged. Anyway, it worked, and was ok speed wise I guess. When you are used to Hive, and Cosmos chains were transactions take seconds, 15 minutes seems a while. But I guess for EVM to EVM bridge TX's it is not too bad.
The last step here, once the USDC was in my EVMOS wallet, was to trade it, using Diffusion, to EVMOS. Very straightforward process for anyone that has used an EVM Dex before.
Orbital Apes.
The main reason I wanted to shift some funds, was to mint a couple of Orbital Apes NFT's. The Orbital Apes project, which is built on EVMOS, has just opened its public mint for its flagship Apr's collection. You can find the mint page here with each mint costing 60 EVMOS (around $85 at the time of publication).
Owning an Orbital Ape comes with a range of perks, which make it more of an income producing asset than just a (hopefully) cool looking NFT. I say "hopefully" because once minted, you still can't see the Ape's yet. I believe they will be revealed at a future point in time. Anyway, there are 10K available, and it is currently just under 50% minted.
So already, after just a couple of hours at most, I can can 0.521 EVMOS. The Orbital Apes project has set up an Validator, and shares 50% of its validator rewards with Ape owners. In addition, 20% of the transaction fees from the Orbit Platform (the NFT marketplace) are redistributed to Orbital Apes owners. So owning one of these Apes is in effect owning a revenue share of the platform, and the validator, for as long as you own the Ape. That is what attracted me to want to be involved.
Anyway, you can stooge around the marketplace for yourself and see what it looks like in its very early days. The Orbital Apes website is where you can go to mint, and learn more about the overall project.
EVMOS Domain names.
Having finished playing around with Orbital Apes for now, I move on to take a look at the Evmos Domains service. This is a very simple service it seems, offering .EVMOS addresses (like you see the .ETH people all have).
So I connect my wallet here, and search for jk6276.evmos. Success, it is available. The site moves to a page that really really needs dark mode, but nonetheless I push on. After a false start where things didn't work, I went back to the start and tried again. This time I succeed in getting to the register page.
So, I decide to up the time period, and select 5 years registration. I progress through the 3 step process. Once all that completes, which only takes a few minutes, I then set the jk6276.evmos as my primary Evmos Domain Name. What that does, I am not too sure for now. I decide to leave it at that, and not mint any other domains for now.
I pop back to the Orbital Apes marketplace, and after a short time, the account shows as my jk6276.evmos instead of the plain old wallet address oxblahblahblah address. Nice.
You can see my Orbitmarket.io profile here, but here is what it looks like:
Like I said, the reveal for the two apes will be at some point in the future (not sure, but I've seen it discussed somewhere on Twitter).
Conclusion.
Overall, I have enjoyed playing around with some of these dApps today. I was keen to get a couple of Orbital Apes, and surprised a bit that they are not minting faster. Possibly launching while the important Osmosis dex is unavailable has slowed their mint rate. In any case, I'm happy to have two, can't wait to see how rare they are, and looking forward to seeing the rewards over time from owning them.
The EVMOS name service was ok. Cheap enough, and aside from a poor visual in my experience on the page, it worked fine.
EVMOS overall worked really nicely for me today, and I am looking forward to playing with some more stuff in the coming weeks.
Thanks for reading,
JK.
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