Straight from the SolPunks community — the OGs, creators and collectors who've shaped the Solana NFT landscape, in their own words.
Hedbens
Feb 2022
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Gm Fam. I'm 32 and I'm a doctor (clinical pathology) in France but honestly, I find it quite boring. I lost the passion for my job, that's why I don't work a lot: around 10 days per month. I'm really grateful I can make enough for a living by doing this. But my goal is to retire early and I hope crypto will help me to achieve this. I've been in crypto and NFTs for one year and honestly, it has already been a hell of ride. I met a lot of amazing people among fantastic communities and a lot of big brains as well. It has been very inspiring so far. I wake up everyday, eager to learn something new. This crypto/NFT world is moving so fast, so glad to be part of it. After being eaten alive by ETH gas fees, I switched to Solana and told myself to never look back. My vampire Solpunk was my first Solana NFT and I will always remember the moment I sniped it at 4 am. I was so proud I tweeted it right away and went to bed, happy and excited like a child on Christmas Day. Since then I have never regretted that choice and I'm really proud to be part of this community. Thanks to you all, I'm growing every day.
PV21DESIGN
Mar 2022
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Hi team! Just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Pedro, I'm 34 years old and I'm from Portugal. My background is in Marketing and Design. On my day-to-day, I run my small Digital Marketing Agency with my girlfriend. We are the team working on the new website and social media designs for the Solpunks DAO. The website design is almost done, we are having a lot of fun building it and we have some exciting things to show. I'm new to the NFT space, but I've already consumed loads of content on this topic in the past weeks and I'm eager to learn more. I'm completely in love with Solpunks and this whole community and want to thank you all for inviting me to be a part of the DAO. You guys have been doing great work so far, and I'm happy to help any way I can in my new Zombie role. A special thanks to @Renato (Consigliere) for showing me the light on NFTs and Solpunks.
akv
Feb 2022
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Hey everyone, I'm super excited to be a part of this community! I'm a full time engineer, day/ swing trader, and a freelance CAD designer. I got into crypto in 2017 and dogecoin was my first purchase. In 2021, I fully dove into crypto to learn the ecosystem on a technical level and wanted to be a user of the blockchain than only being an investor. After being on OpenSea for a few months and getting rug pulled twice, I realized that the ETH NFT market has exploded and therefore become challenging to find a legitimate project that doesn't require immense amount of capital (and gas is crazy as we all know). Then I started researching about emerging NFT marketplaces in other protocols and ultimately came across Solana. What sold me on SolPunks is that it's the first NFT collection on SOL and the developers of the solanart marketplace are the creators of SolPunk. So I figured this project/ team is serious about achieving their goal. And I am so glad it is!!! I'm so hyped that I was able to find this project and be apart of this active building community/ DAO by getting SolPunk #8378
ABB247
Apr 2022
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Hi everybody! Figured it's time I introduce myself since SolPunks has definitely become my discord home base the past couple of months. I currently work in Technical Project Management in the Healthcare field. I am a collector at heart as I started young by collecting sports cards, comic books, and then moved into collectible trading cards. Then, I got into Crypto in late 2017 and then eventually dove into NFTs last year. The SolPunk that you see as my pfp was actually the very first NFT I ever purchased back in August 2021 and I have held ever since! As far as the SolPunks community goes--I love it here! Everyone here is super nice and always willing to help. We also have a lot of very intelligent folks here who are willing to share their knowledge to help others succeed. Keep kicking ass, SolPunks fam!
HisDudeness
Jan 2022
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Figure it's about time I typed up my testimonial! Been paper handling crypto since 2017, dogecoin is my best example I sold 100,000 doge for around £2000, which would later be worth £50,000 when it hit 50p. I found Solana in late July, watched it pump, did a little research and decided this would be the one I hold. Brought in early August and been buying more every month since. Started up my twitter account to shill my SOL bags with fellow like minded individuals and decided I wanted a Solana NFT as my profile pic. When I found SolPunks I became a little bit obsessed, I'd wake up in the night and open up Solanart before even making it to the bathroom. Stumbled across this discord thinking it to be the official SolPunks discord at the time and here I am 6 months down the line.
TL3
Mar 2022
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Figured it's about time I introduce myself. I have been in the NFT space for 3 months, and SolPunks was my second NFT. I am 33 and am a healthcare executive in the US. I was a hospital operator for the past 8 years (the past 2 years in COVID were quite the experience) and recently transitioned to running outpatient surgery centers. I have been in the crypto space since 2017 but really only in this past year have I started dedicating time to learning and understanding the ecosystem and all the utilities in the space. I mostly sit back and learn but I couldn't be happier with SolPunks being the group I learn the most from. Also glad I joined the sol community early without learning about ETH gas fees...
Hvarl
Mar 2022
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Hey team, wanted to chuck some things down. I've been in the NFT space since about September last year. Mostly rolling around eth projects but since the start of the year, I've been transitioning to sol-based projects. SolPunks was one of the first projects I joined and followed for quite a while before diving in. I've been into crypto since 2016. I work as an investment manager in Aus, so seeing how crypto is making waves against traditional assets is a frequent occurrence for me. While I don't have much time during the day, I try to stay active and watch both community and alphas. Love my punk
EZ_95
Mar 2022
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Hey Solpunk fam, my nickname is EZ and I'm 26 years old. My native language is German, so please bear with me if I have some mistakes in my sentences. I'm currently writing my master thesis, but in my free time, I like to look for new and interesting NFT projects. Since I heard that our team is looking for WL hunters, I would like to apply for a zombie role and try to get WL spots for our amazing Solpunk community. I'm quite new to this space, (only minted my Solpunk last year, and then drifted away from NFTs but got more interested again in 2022) but I'm always ready to learn more about this space. This is my way to show how grateful I'm for the Solpunk DAO and community. And if you have any questions, please just ask!
ArtJen
May 2022
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Hey everyone! Happy to be here! I'm from Russia, Moscow. Happy to be in really good communities, as it's quite rare in the nft space :) I'm quite new to this space, started learning and buying nfts last year, fall of 2021. Was excited, as i love painting myself. Like SolPunks cause they are the first project built on Solana and cheaper than CryptoPunks on ETH :) plus everyone can find themselves on those nfts :)
BlueMagic
Feb 2022
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26 from London. A retired pro footballer due to breaking my leg. Got into crypto in the last bull run end of 2017 and bought my first NFT in 2021. Got sick of the gas fees on ETH and didn't have the funds for a Cryptopunk which led me to a SolPunk… now I have 2 and I'm not finished yet. Love the community, great idea to start separate discord.
DiamondHands2
Feb 2022
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I am 22 years old from the US. I run a fitness gym with my brother and enjoy every single day as I better the lives of others! Now, is time for me to focus and gain more knowledge of NFTs and join such a great community! I mean really.. this is an outstanding project with a huge potential to grow. I will also have to agree with @BlueMagic for I did get sick of gas fees! I have bought my SolPunk and plan on buying more very soon! … btw first round on me fellas.
RedRum-NFT
Jan 2022
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Hey! Just bought my first NFT ever... SolPunks #9659, not selling in 2022... so excited.