copy_cats

There are many different measurements of success, such as strong holders, a good reputation, and the like of community.

Another one is when you start having copy cats. When you come up with idea, make it happen, and others start to copy what you do.

This gallery celebrates a PROOF art with the power of a mirror: successfull copy cats that share some ideas, naming or business model with PROOF.

Copy Cats

Moonbirds is the most successfull PFP collection by PROOF. 126 traits split to 9 categories and still every image is very clean. Pixel art is polished to a perfection.

Moonbirds

AINightbirds

A collection that boosted a trend of AI-copying top nft PFPs has 6.2K overall volume and impressive top sale of 7.5E

When you are looking for one, go check who is holding the original bird. What if he wants yours later or paperhands his (ha-ha)?

Moonrunners

Moonbirds logo is also a target for copy cats alongside with the naming.

Some projects even get descent volume and community (Moonrunners)

Mooncatz

Proof

MoonRacoons

Moonbirds

8.8k Volume 15E Top sale

1.1k Volume 3.1E Top sale

200E Volume 1.3E Top sale

17E Volume 0.3E Top sale

168k Volume 350E Top sale

Sometimes both the traits and logo are copied badly and still those "hardcopy" cats get some attention from the crowd.

That is happening right now with Proof of Pepe.

However, the more straightforward the copy is, the less chances it has to last long. Most of these collections become abandoned after initial pump.

Grails by PROOF

The smart idea behind Grails is to involve the community into research of twenty artists' work to match the pieces of art to its authors, respectively. Those who succeed get masterpiece from the artist they are willing to hold, or sell for better profit, as some of the Grails' artists are more popular than others.

Wall by Tyler Hobbs

Protoglyph by Larva Labs Top sale 80E highest of all Grails

횡단보도 by Dmitri Cherniak Second high sale 35E

ON THE SHOULDERS OF by Alexis Ohanian

Second Moon by Nicolas Sassoon

WAGMI by Hackatao

Catchem by Gremplin

Pixel Blossom

Pixel Blossom is a good example of the development of Grails concept. Here you mint a picture of a random invited artist that gains details over time and becomes distinguishable.

On early stages the community has to discover which color palette belongs to every artist and make correct choice of the masterpiece they would like to collect.

The ideas definitely call to each other, but PROOF was the first to come up with this concept.

Losing His Marbles by Dirty Robot Top sale 2.8E

Flower Spirit by Peter Mohrbacher Top sale 2.6E

Moonbirds Oddities

Probably the oddest collection by PROOF, the Oddities are derivatives of Moonbirds, with a smattering of new traits and features. The collection is created by famous digital artist Gremplin.

Odd Little Creatures

Unlike other PROOF collections, Moonbirds Oddities still do not have successfull copy cats. That might be because of Gremplin talent. His work is both simple and genuine, which is very hard to copy.

One of the copy cats that tried to mint out (unsuccessfully) is Odd Little Creatures.

Emotes by Heart You

Emotes is an artist collaboration of his community and The PROOF Collective. The collection had moderate success and therefore didn't find copy projects worth to mention.

I suppose in future we will see more copies of all kinds of PROOF collections. That is trully a sign of respect and recognition of the PROOF art.

The gallery was created to celebrate the art of PROOF 25 PROOF + 9 non-PROOF + 6 logo pictures.

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