UFO is an onchain radio station, magazine and club for music, arts and ideas.
Today we're introducing the UFO Network Pass for contributors. The token enables broadcast access on an upcoming version of ufo.fm.
UFO is a wild assembly of people based around the world. Artists, musicians, writers, designers, activists, filmmakers, developers, founders and collectives. Many are doing ground-breaking things in the onchain space.
The Network Pass is a hint for how UFO is taking shape. A LEGO block that will make sense later. We'll leave it up to your imagination.
As usual we’re doing something new.
We got talking with Jonny Mack from Fabric and Hypersub and together we designed a new type of subscription. It had to be free and not available to mint, which are unusual characteristics.
Artists and creators such as LGHT, 0xen, Ted, 0xDesigner, Chris Carella, Sirsu and Artcaster are using Hypersub as a place for subscribers to pay for early access, exclusive content, professional services, and prizes.
Something to know about Hypersub is you subscribe for amounts of time, perhaps it's 1 month, 3 months or a year. This time gets added to your token in seconds that count down until you’d need to renew the subscription.
Our interest to do this was creating this building block.
We created an initial 180 Passes and started granting them to members' wallets set for 84 months. This concept is opt-in. It's a collective experiment.
Network Pass members have the option to toggle between active and inactive. It's like setting your status on a retro internet chat like ICQ or Myspace. Being active means you can broadcast to a collective signal. Other times you might prefer to be inactive.
This framework is a way to be in sync. It's a serendipity machine. Participants benefit from shared discovery. It's similar to groups that form around a community radio station and live music scene.
With this approach the Pass is held by a spectrum of members from active UFO contributors to friends who have collaborated with us and supported the project.
There's invaluable context to be discovered from an onchain social graph.
It's a synchronicity. It’s the future of the internet.
This is only the beginning.
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Yes looking forward to this
excited to see this go live!
how to get one? I would love to be part of this
really enjoyed working with @hollins on the /ufo network pass. by combining the three hypersub features of: onchain supply cap, grants, and paused minting he's creating something really unique and special each member has 7 years of write access https://hypersub.withfabric.xyz/collection/ufo-network-pass-yyy5zl1bh7nk
read more here https://news.ufo.fm/ufo-network-pass
mint paused :(
its invite only for now. there will be another one that's mintable soon
It's always fun to create things that can't be minted.
What's the thinking behind the Pause mechanism?
looks interesting…going to do some reading on /ufo
lmk if you have any questions, happy to help!
thanks jonny
Introducing the UFO Network Pass for contributors We designed a new type of subscription with @nonlinear.eth from /fabric The token enables broadcast access on an upcoming version of ufo.fm https://news.ufo.fm/ufo-network-pass
how do i set this up for /clubted? @nonlinear.eth let me in on the alpha
Wen mint?
There is no mint
Haha love it, very fitting. An old friend of mine is in that scene 😊
So glad to hold this
hey nick. I see the minting is paused (also read on the newsletter that its not available to mint). don't know how it works. help?
Introducing UFO Network Pass by @ufoclub.eth for contributors enabling broadcast access on ufo.fm. A groundbreaking initiative in onchain space, it's a unique subscription model designed with Jonny Mack from Fabric and Hypersub. An experiment towards the future of the internet.
nice branding and great idee