Come to meet us at @nft_paris where we present an amazing installation of Plantoids! “Plantoid Gr(o)ove”, by Primavera De Filippi @yaoeo - 𝑯𝑶𝑾 𝑫𝑶𝑬𝑺 𝑷𝑳𝑨𝑵𝑻𝑶𝑰𝑫 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑲? Just as real plants need insects like butterflies and bees to help them reproduce, Plantoids need humans to assist them in their reproduction. Plantoid reproduction involves three steps: 𝟏) 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Plants use colors and scent to attract their pollinators. Plantoids use blockchain and NFT to seduce humans, based on: - Aesthetic appreciation: Humans enjoy beauty and novelty, they are eager to support the reproduction of Plantoids in order to experience them and their digital seeds. - Economic greed: Humans also enjoy money, and espceially magic Internet money. The digital seeds of Plantoids are the perfect speculative assets for humans to play with. To collect a digital seed (NFT) from the Plantoid one must feed it with cryptocurrency. The more crypto, the more sophisticated the NFT is, thus the greater its market value. Once the Plantoid has collected enough funds to ensure its reproduction, it is ready to mate. 𝟐) 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: When the time is ripe to make new Plantoids, the smart contract opens a call for proposals. Artits, designers, and engineers can submit propositions for how they envision to create the next Plantoid. Proposals must comply with the Plantoid’s DNA, which stipulates the rules for growth and reproduction. These might include physical characteristics (e.g. must be made of chains) or smart contract logic (e.g. must include a particular governance structure). Plantoids cannot decide on the merit of these proposals, they rely on the advice of all current holders of their digital seeds to decide on what’s the best proposal. Voting is done through a seedocracy (one seed, one vote). The proposal with the most support wins. 𝟑) 𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠: The Plantoid automatically transfer the funds it has collected to the author of the selected proposal, who is thus “hired” by the Plantoid to create a new copy of itself. The new artist has to create a new Plantoid, in line with the scope of the submitted proposal.