Levi Harrell - Of All Nations Media
Stacks is a community. Not just any community, but my community. It’s where my friends are and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
Why Stacks?
One of the most significant decisions facing any artist wanting to get into NFT sales is choosing which chain to mint on. Most look at two major prospects when making this decision; where are the most active users and where is the most money being invested into NFTs? This lands nearly all creators on ETH and they soon realize the market is oversaturated for new creators. So what now?
This is where I was now over a year ago when I was approached by the team at Byzantion (now Tradeport) about creating a piece of art on the Stacks blockchain. They explained how there were virtually no gas fees, a budding community of creators, and that stacks is tied to Bitcoin! That’s all the convincing I took and I set off to mint my first collection on Stacks. What I didn’t anticipate was all the support and understanding from the community that lifted me up and encouraged me to create more art, take more adventures, and build a bigger community. By the time I left Stacks Miami in the spring, I was hooked. I founded the Stacks Photography Guild alongside two other Stacks OG’s (Eli Herf and Longstreet) and worked on building the photography community on stacks.
Coming to Stacks from an artist's point of view is very different from why others may have chosen to be here. For me having a small community of engaged members was way more important than nearly anything else. I knew that I would at least be able to reach my audience here vs something like ETH where it would be washed away in a sea of other creators trying to wring out any attention they could. I also knew I could afford to be in this space. Stacks was virtually gas fee free and if I wanted to mint some speculative art I could without fear of hundreds of dollars lost in fees.
In my mind, the big word for any chain should be retention. Not necessarily why stacks but why still stacks? That can be surmised in one word. Community. Stacks is large enough to feel exciting and prosperous yet small enough to still have real connections with collectors and creators. From the smallest projects to the largest everyone feels connected and involved. The support from both marketplaces can’t be understated either. They work both for the betterment of the creator and the collector. Showing deals when they pop up and highlighting artists they feel are exceptional.
So in short Stacks is a community. Not just any community, but my community. It’s where my friends are and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
Levi Harrell, Of All Nations Media
Twitter - oan_media
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