# A.O.T.E. Whitepaper (complete)

A.O.T.E. is a multi-faceted blockchain project with a goal to create an artist/investor symbiotic relationship. By forming this relationship, artists will be empowered to create endless art projects that impact the world and raise the value of everyone within our community.

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A.O.T.E. will be a fully functioning dao in the future, but first, we will need to give our community a strong foundation to build on.To form our automatic working system between artist and investor we will execute the following steps:

Step #1:

A.O.T.E. Evolving NFT’s

The crypto space is changing and evolving more and more everyday, so our NFT’s will change and evolve with it.

* Each NFT is a character in the A.O.T.E. comic/manga book series, their are 10 different characters in total.
* These NFT characters have a level indicator, on the front of the image, that specifies what level your NFT is on. All NFT’s start at level 0.
* Every six months a new level NFT of your character will be available to our holders, for free. However, to level up your NFT character, your current level NFT will be burned.
* Each new level NFT will be created by a different professional artist in our community, giving our NFT’s the ability to change their visual style every 6 months while still keeping your same original NFT character.
* As you evolve your NFT to higher levels it will give you more utility and perks. Their are 11 levels in total, 0-10. Level 0 was created by artist and founder Cory Evans.
* Their are 5,500 NFT’s in total, released on a descending schedule over the course of 5 years. Drop schedule:

2022 (drop first 1,000 NFT) six months later (drop 900 NFT)

2023 (drop 800 NFT) six months later (drop 700 NFT)

2024 (drop 600 NFT) six months later (drop 500 NFT)

2025 (drop 400 NFT) six months later (drop 300 NFT)

2026 (drop 200 NFT) six months later (drop final 100 NFT)

* 50% of all secondary sales will go into treasury
* 50% of secondary sales will go to the artist that created that level NFT.
* Treasury is used to fund A.O.T.E. creative projects voted on by NFT holders.
* In the future, these NFT’s will be avatars for blockchain gaming.

Operating under these guidelines will constantly improve the value of our NFT collection and their use cases for years to come. Making A.O.T.E. one of the most visually/utility diverse projects in the market.

Step #2

A.O.T.E. Creative Projects

A.O.T.E. will bring as much value and opportunity to our artist NFT community

as possible by following these guidelines for all creative projects:

* Our team will present art projects, to our community, that will expand the A.O.T.E. fictional world and increase the brand in notoriety/value.
* We will only hire (exclusively) artists and creatives that own an A.O.T.E. NFT.
* 50% of all profits from art projects will go to the artist that executed them. The other 50% will go into the A.O.T.E. treasury to fund the next community art project.
* All NFT owners will have an opportunity to vote and present ideas to the community that help A.O.T.E. grow.

Creative Projects:

\#1) Book Series

A.O.T.E. Founder and artist Cory Evans has created a comic/manga style book series, 10 volumes long, called “Artist of the Eyeris”. The first book (volume 1), over 150 pages, written and illustrated by Evans is currently for sale on amazon. Volumes 1-10 will have the same author but illustrated by different artists in our NFT community for a truly visually dyverse story. If your project is chosen by our community, writers and illustrators will have a chance to create a story of their own in the A.O.T.E. world.

\#2) Public Murals

A.O.T.E. will hire visual painters and graffiti artists on a regular basis to paint Promotional art pieces that market our project to wide audiences, raise the value of our NFTs, and financially support real artists in our NFT community in the process.

\#3) Art Basel Exhibition event

We will hold an artist exhibition event in Miami during art basel weekend 2022. The event is free for all, however only artists that have a NFT will be able to showcase their work for free. More detailed information will be provided at a later date.

\#4) Exclusive Merch

We will hire professional creators in our community to create exclusive merchandise for our brand including clothes, collectables, limited edition prints and more.

\#5) Artist Proposal

A.O.T.E. will give regular opportunities for our artist to tell us how they would like to be valued and what type of creative projects they want to make. This will give our NFT’s utility that is constantly adding more creative projects to its list and evolving as our community needs evolve.

Step #3 Crypto currency and Blockchain gaming

We realize the implications of having our own token/”play to earn blockchain game” etc. and the value it would bring to our A.O.T.E.community. Once our first 2 steps are put into play, we will announce our plans for our communities coin and blockchain game/metaverse.

A.O.T.E. NFT Tokenomics

In order to increase the strength of the artist investment relationship, it is important that this project forms a large collective of creative people. The NFT total supply is broken down in a way that guarantees our community will always have a healthy supply of artists and creatives.

* 5,500 NFT’s in total released over 5 year schedule
* 5% of the total supply will go to NFT artist giveaways over 5 year period. (NFT giveaways are chosen at random and are exclusively for artists who make A.O.T.E. fanart/content.) (275 NFT’s)
* 10% of the total supply is reserved for the team, developers, and future artists that bring large value to our community from their creations.(550)
* 15% of the total supply will be exclusively reserved for artists to purchase. Our team loves investors, but we also want to leave room in our project for more artists to join in the future and share in the success. A portion of the whitelist, for every drop, will be reserved for artists to purchase, artist verification will be done via social media.
* 50% of all secondary market royalties of A.O.T.E. NFT’s go to the treasury
* 50% of all secondary market royalties will go to the artists that created levels 0-11
