Project · 2021–2025 · Community project
Back to the roots of crypto
For a crypto community in DeFi, decentralized finance, I created the story, and with it the onboarding: cyberpunk, told like a campfire tale. The name CyOp, short for Cyber Operation, and the storyboards are mine. Other members handled design and code.
Name, story, and storyboards · NFT concept
Each cycle, usually a week, the community could nominate other crypto projects, the CyOperations. The winners got money from a CyOp fund. The cards turned those rounds into a game. Their abilities could push projects ahead or hold them back, like augmentations on real cyberpunks.
Every card got loaded into the module and played in the terminal. Everyone saw what happened and why, like playing RPG characters on a blockchain. Which ability a card got came down to a random distribution key. Even a common card could carry a strong ability, just more rarely. The renderings below show actual combinations of class, rarity, and ability.
Concept of the cards and their abilities: me · rendering: an artist · ability texts verbatim from the 2022 spreadsheet
Affects: voting
Replicant · Legendary
EXCLUDES A CYOPERATION FROM WINNING WITHIN A CYCLE, BUT ALL COLLECTED VOTES WILL BE TRANSFERRED INTO THE NEXT ONE
A CyOperation can’t win this round. But its votes don’t expire. They carry over into the next week.
Affects: terminal
Photonic · Legendary
RAISES A CYOPERATION TO THE TOP OF THE VOTING LIST
The chosen CyOperation sits at the very top of the list in the terminal, right where everyone looks first.
Affects: system
Hacker · Legendary
BECOMES A MASTER NFT CREATING POWER UPGRADES WITHIN THE METAGRID
This card became a tool itself. As a master NFT, it created new abilities that could hold others back or push them ahead.
TAKES OVER CyOp CORP'S SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS TO PROMOTE A GIVEN CYOPERATION
Whoever holds the card gets to use CyOp CORP’s social media accounts for a CyOperation.
EXCLUDES THE TARGET FROM THE TERMINAL LIST - TRACKABLE ONLY VIA DIRECT LINK
The CyOperation disappears from the terminal list and can only be found through its direct link.
INDUCES A CYBERPSYCHOSIS-LIKE STATE CAUSING INCOMING VOTES TO NOT COUNT AND RANDOMLY GO TO ANOTHER CYOPERATION
Votes for a CyOperation don’t count there. They land on another one at random.
In the beginning Devs handcrafted from a single block of code an ever recharging crypto fund, the CyOp Protocol.
And Devs saw their creation, that it was good;
Then Devs envisioned disruption to divide the light from darkness.
[…] CyOp is the red line… it’s the turning point… this is revolution.
That’s how “The Grid” begins. Story and text: me · tax and finance rules: others involved · excerpt verbatim, cut marked
CyOp 2021–2025. The community carries the project on and still uses many of my productions. I’m no longer involved and hold no tokens. cyop.io in the Internet Archive, April 2023