What you need to know about the Solarbots Mint Event
The Solarbots Mk.I mint is nearly upon us...
Greetings, Pilots!
With most details for the Mint event being finalised, we would like to share with you the dates, times and specifics of the upcoming whitelist and public mint event.
Whitelist Mint
The start of the whitelist mint event will be:
Dec 20th 6:00 PM UTC | 10:00 AM PST and it will last until Dec 22nd 6:00 PM UTC | 10:00 AM PST
Public Mint
The start of the public mint event will be:
Dec 22nd 7:00 PM UTC | 11:00 AM PST
The public mint event will last until the remainder of the total supply has been minted.
Mint Specifics
We are painfully aware of the implications of mint events of projects with high demand, which is why we’ll have multiple gas war mitigation mechanisms employed.
1) We have whitelisted partners, team members, advisors and high profile individuals who would have claimed their stake in the Solarbots ecosystem regardless and would have therefore caused gas prices to exceed a level that can be considered competitive.
In total, the whitelist amount for Community + Partners + Advisors + Team + High profile individuals makes up 5,447 total mints.
This means, that the public sale will have a supply of 4,553 mints, provided all whitelist mints are claimed before the public mint starts.
2) Thanks to Owl, we not only have multiple iterations of gas efficiency improvements behind us, but also a mechanism that will allow you to prepay and reserve a set amount of teams (a maximum of 10 teams per transaction) which will be available to be claimed at a later time, when gas costs are lower.
How to reserve a team and save on tx fees
During the public sale, you will be able to press either "Mint" which mints the amount of teams you specified (max 10 per transaction) as you would expect from any other project; or you can press "Reserve" to trigger a transaction in which you pay the cost of the set amount of teams you specified (example: 10 teams => 2 Eth).
This will register your wallet eligible to then mint the amount of teams you have reserved at no additional cost (except gas fee, of course). Before claiming your reserved teams of Solarbots Mk.I, you will have to sign a transaction and submit this signature to the smart contract to prove that you're not a bot.
This action only needs to be done once and it will be clearly signalled in an adequately market button on the website, as you can see on these recorded walkthroughs of the process:
Step 1 - Reserve your desired number of team(s) by pressing the “Reserve” button and confirming the action on Metamask.
Step 2 - When the “Verify Human” button appears, click on it to verify you’re not a bot and confirm the action on Metamask.
Step 3 - When you’re prepared to claim your team(s), click on the “Claim” button and confirm the action on Metamask.
Now all you need to do is stack that ETH and get ready to mint.
The mint event will take place on: https://solarbots.io/#mint
Good luck, future Pilots!