What will become of Chain Runners? Nobody knows, including the people who made it and own Runners.
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All the code is open source, and the developers offer Runners through a surprisingly permissive license.Evan Dennington, who goes by "mid" and started the project, compared it to buying a lightsaber at Disney World: "you're ultimately buying a piece of plastic," he said on Clubhouse, "but it's imbued with so much energy and emotion and you're creating this memorable experience around this asset." They were created by a few of the developers behind Blitmap, another super-ambitious NFT project that exists in an entire sci-fi universe.For one thing, they're actually on-chain and decentralized, unlike so many projects that seem Web3-ish but structurally still look like Web 2.0. This collection is pushing the whole idea of NFTs forward. It's all a little on the nose, sure, but it's fun nonetheless. The overall vibe is like "Blade Runner" meets the Sega Genesis, and the project includes a rich backstory that involves a home base called Mega City and a group of renegades called The Runners fighting back against authority. The going rate seems to be about 3 ETH, or about $12,500, though as with any NFT there's huge variance across the collection.
There are 10,000 32x32-pixel Chain Runners available, and their prices are currently going through the roof. Things are still volatile, though: Prices dropped in a big way on Monday, only to quickly recover as more people bought in.There's also some speculation that Coinbase's Brian Armstrong may have bought a Runner, which supporters are very excited about but is so far hard to know for sure.A few of the big tech names to buy Runners over the last few days: Josh Buckley, the investor and former Product Hunt CEO, who appears to own 135 Runners Away founder Jen Rubio Nothing's Carl Pei 20VC's Harry Stebbings Worklife's Bri Kimmel Figma's Dylan Field Gary Vaynerchuk and Alex Pall, of the Chainsmokers, who absolutely counts as a tech mogul.(Which will surely be created and sold as an NFT at some point.) It's a relatively new project, but it took off in a big way over the last few days, and looks headed to join Bored Ape Yacht Club and the CryptoPunks on NFT Mount Rushmore. If you didn't buy a Chain Runner over the weekend, it's like, are you even really in tech ? You couldn't be on Twitter over the last 72 hours without running into someone else tweeting excitedly about the pixelated art they'd just purchased.Ĭhain Runners seem to be the next big thing in NFTs.