The Fellowship Whitepaper
By: Creator Machine
Tags: Nft Collectibles, Solana Network, Nft

What is the Fellowship?

Our goal is to create a community of the best builders, artists, community builders, defi-degens, and more in the Solana ecosystem.

This is not just a PFP project, and we do not aim to compete with other projects. The Fellowship’s logo consists of three interlocking rings known as Borromean rings. The three rings are strong together, yet fall apart if one is removed and signifies strength in unity. WAGAMI is our vibe, WAGAMI is our ethos. We will build together with all other Solana communities.

The Fellowship logo — Borromean Rings a symbol of strength in unity.

We aim to use the collective power of the Fellowship community, along with funds from the NFT sale, the Warchest, to build Web3 tooling that will accelerate the growth of the Solana NFT ecosystem.

The Fellowship community’s feedback will influence the Creator Machine roadmap and help our team decide which new platform features, partnerships and marketing we perform.

NFT Holders in addition to gaining access to the Fellowship community will receive a Launch Pass NFT with 1,000 Creator Machine credit. Creator Machine credits are used to pay for the usage of certain Creator Machine tools.

What is Creator Machine?

The Creator Machine team’s mission is to empower creators and community builders to achieve financial independence via the power of NFTs, DAOs, and other Web3 technologies.

We believe these new technologies enable creators and community builders the opportunity to organize groups of people and capital in an innovative manner, and that we’ve only just breached the surface of what’s possible.

The first version of Creator Machine is a software platform that allows anyone to launch a Solana NFT project without a single line of code.

The Creator Machine team aims to continue developing no-code software that enables anyone regardless of their technical ability the opportunity to both launch their own Solana NFT project and manage an NFT-gated community.

Creator Machine aims to open-source portions of our software to the Solana community to ensure we provide a maximum positive impact to Solana.

Ideas for future Creator Machine features

The targeted functionalities of Creator Machine at launch will allow all users to generate NFT art, Solana metadata, launch a Candy Machine mint process, and create a mint web page, all without a line of code.

However, this is just the beginning. We plan to gather feedback from the Fellowship community to help guide our roadmap. We are not sure which direction the community and the market will take us, but some ideas we’ve already received include:

Airdrops — send an NFT airdrop to one or 10,000 community members in just a few clicks. Discord & Twitter Salesbot — set up a bot to record the sales of your NFT on Discord and Twitter. Whitelisting for NFT drops — create a presale that is only available to a list of wallets that you’ve defined Credit Card purchase of NFTs — allow buyers to purchase your NFT using a credit card Social Token creation and distribution — launch your own social/meme token for your project. NFT Gated Community Forums & Websites — create a website that only your token holders can access. Discord is great, but there exists an opportunity for new ways of communication and organization. Project treasury management & multi-signature wallets — projects are run by multiple team members, and you want to ensure that funds earned from your NFT project are properly managed with multiple team members. Our goal is to reduce the risk of rugs.

To be clear, these are ideas, not a promise. We are not sure what direction the community and the market will take us. As we onboard this community to Creator Machine, it is very likely we may discover new ideas that have not even been thought of yet.

Who is the Creator Machine / Fellowship team?

We’re a doxxed team with 20+ years of experience developing software at companies like Microsoft, Boeing, Bridg, and ProducePay.

We’re members of the Monkedao, Thugdao, Pesky Penguins, Shadowy Super Coder DAO, Catalina Whales, and more. We’ve contributed code to the Metaplex codebase and intend to continue to contribute to the Solana ecosystem.

We’re a battle-tested team, and our NFT launch skills have already been tested on many projects such as Joylina’s Cantina, Skollz, Graceful and more. We’re also partnering up with Solana influencer Rick Bakas on his upcoming Pin Club launch.

Stanley Yang / @stanleycyang

Shadowy Super Coder

Matt Landau / @dausays

Product & Marketing

What utility will Fellowship OG NFT holders get?

Access to the Fellowship community Discord.

Early access to the Creator Machine platform ahead of the general public. Fellowship NFT holders will get platform access before we open the platform up to the tool to non- Fellowship NFT holders.

For each Fellowship OG NFT that you purchase, you will receive two Fellowship Launch Pass NFTs which carry with them 1,000 Creator Machine platform credits. The first Launch Pass NFT will be airdropped to Fellowship OG NFT holders about three to four weeks post the initial Fellowship NFT sale, around Feb 28th-Mar 5th. The second Launch Pass will be airdropped to those who hole the Fellowship OG NFT between Aug 7th–13th, 2022. If you need platform access ahead of the airdrop, we can open it up to project teams upon request.

One Creator Machine platform credit = 1 free NFT created via the Creator Machine platform. Launching a project with 10,000 NFTs will cost 10,000 Creator Machine credits. Users will only pay rent fees that are required to interact with the Solana protocol.

NFT holders get unlimited use of the Creator Machine generative art and metadata generation tool. Our tool allows you to take art layers and create thousands of unique NFTs. You’ll also get metadata files that enable you to seamlessly set up your NFT launch with the Candy Machine and in the Creator Machine platform.

The Warchest: How will the primary sale and royalty funds be used?

The proceeds, net of taxes, will be used to build the Creator Machine team and fund the development of new platform features, platform marketing, and more. This will enable the founding team to quit their day jobs and be able to focus 100% of their time on Creator Machine and the Fellowship.

Fellowship Launch Passes

Fellowship Launch Pass NFTs which carry with them 1,000 Creator Machine platform credits.

One Creator Machine platform credit = 1 free NFT created via the Creator Machine platform. Launching a project with 10,000 NFTs will cost 10,000 Creator Machine credits. Users will only pay rent fees that are required to interact with the Solana protocol.

A project launching a 6,000 NFT project will only need to purchase three Fellowship OG NFTs. That’s just 6 SOL to launch your collection. And Creator Machine credits enable you to launch without giving any cut of your primary sales or royalties to the Creator Machine platform.

If you compare that cost to the 20–50% of primary sales and royalties that other launchpads charge, you’re getting a serious deal by purchasing the Fellowship OG NFT.

The first Launch Pass NFT will be airdropped to Fellowship OG NFT holders about three to four weeks post the initial Fellowship NFT sale, around Feb 28th-Mar 5th. The second Launch Pass will be airdropped to those who hole the Fellowship OG NFT between Aug 7th–13th, 2022. If you need platform access ahead of the date Launch Passes are distributed, we are happy to grant you access upon request.

You will then be able to log in to your Creator Machine account, attach the Launch Pass NFT to your account, and redeem your 1,000 Creator Machine platform credits. You can use one credit or 1,000 at once, that is up to you. Once applied and added to your Creator Machine account you own the credits for life.

If you are a Creator with a project that needs to launch ahead of the Launch Pass NFT drop date, please complete our Creator Whitelist Application. We already have some exciting launches planned in the weeks after the Fellowship NFT drop.

Fellowship Key Milestones

Oct/Nov 2021

Build a bullet-proof NFT mint process and V1 of Creator Machine. Our previous projects such as Joylina’s Cantina, Hellcats, Skollz have proven our process is ready for primetime.

Dec 2021

Finish v2 of the Creator Machine Platform. This version will be capable of generating art, setting up a Candy Machine mint, launching a website. All without a single line of code.

Establish the Fellowship community and start building an ecosystem full of enthusiasts, developers, artists, and other people with a passion for Solana and NFTs.

Feb 1st & 2nd, 2022

Release the Fellowship NFTs to the community via an NFT sale.

~Three to four weeks after launch

First Airdrop of Fellowship Launch Pass to Fellowship OG NFT holders

Provide Creator Machine access to NFT holders.

Post-launch future

Continue to build and launch Solana tooling for the community based on the feedback from the Fellowship community.