👋Introduction

A brief history on Xin Dragons and the beginning of their journey

The Xin Dragons started journey with running on a 0.1 SOLANA ($SOL) mint price with a collection of 887. The mint took place in December and a few weeks later, the founder decided that he could not carry the project on into the future due to time commitments and effort. It was not a deceitful attempt to detach from the project but an honest one. Soon after Hal and Gentlemonke took the conscious decision to take the project into their hands. It was sitting at a low floor price on the aftermarket, but after the announcement was made public, the pair were able to start the building blocks. The ownership transfer took place at an almost perfect time as the original artist of the Gen 1 collection was working on a Gen 2 collection which we know today as the Baby Xin Dragons (Gen 2). This was a huge element in the timeline as it was the perfect time to build and have funds for the future. The Gen 2's were priced at 0.69 SOL with a collection size tripling the Gen 1's supply at 2,661 NFTs. On 3rd of February, 2022 the Gen 2's had an Solana Program Library (SPL) Token mint where Xin Dragon Tokens ($XIN) were airdropped to holders of the Gen 1 collection to reward them for holding. This was the first time the Gentlemonke had created an app on Solana for Xin Dragons and it was clear from this moment that there was an amazing potential to be witnessed within his arsenal of tools and proficient tech development knowledge. Shortly after the Gen 2 $XIN mint, he had coded left over $XIN to act as a minting discount where users were able to spend any left over $XIN from Gen 1 holders to calculate the $SOL cost of minting a Gen 2 NFT. The Gen 2 mint had a slow crawl lasting for 3 days, so during this time, Gentlemonke coded a swapping system to exchange $XIN for $SOL that was limited to 24 hours during the slow mint. Users that had been airdropped $XIN for holding Gen 1 NFTs and had left over balances were able to mint at a discounted rate thanks to this feature. Another notable thing to mention is that the launchpad made by Gentlemonke was unable to be botted and all botting instances were rejected. This was unseen in the Solana space in February, 2022 so the tech was advanced and ahead if its time. Just under 2 weeks later, Gentlemonke built a system called the Claimooor which interacted as an airdrop system for holders where they could sign into their wallets to claim their $XIN tokens. This Claimooor eventually evolved into the Stakooor which has seen a significant adoption amongst other NFT projects throughout the ecosystem. The development process has been evolving and the apps that have been developed has multiplied since the Baby Xin Dragon mint. To date (10th of August), the following utilities have been built:

• Mintooor

• Stakooor

• Claimooor

• Distributooor

• Mutatooor

• Trainooor

• Missionooor

• Rafflooor

XLabs NFT Techhighlights the utilities listed above in greater detail