Among the countless PFP<\/a> (profile-picture) projects that have long saturated the greater NFT market, Doodles<\/a> has maintained its status as one of the most influential and beloved NFT endeavors in existence. While the collection of colorful line-drawn characters that has literally swept across the globe ranks high on the list of top PFPs, in terms of both popularity and sales volume<\/a>, there\u2019s much more to these seemingly simple Doodles than meets the eye.<\/p>\n From first-of-its-kind token mechanics and high-profile collaborations to extravagant in-person events and much more, Doodles has traversed the ups and downs of the NFT ecosystem and come out on the other side as one of the most successful Web3 brands around. While it might truly be impossible to chronicle all of the twists and turns that led to the project\u2019s rise to prominence, this guide will lay out everything you need to know to understand Doodles.<\/p>\n Doodles<\/a> is a collection of 10,000 generative NFTs created by Evan Keast, Scott Martin, and Jordan Castro. The team uses \u201cworking aliases\u201d and are known as Tulip<\/a>, Burnt Toast<\/a>, and Poopie<\/a>, respectively. Before Doodles, Keast and Castro were already well-established in the NFT community, as they helped launch the legendary NFT project known as CryptoKitties<\/a> in 2017. Martin, meanwhile, had been minting his own pieces<\/a> and growing his creative brand within the NFT space for about a year.<\/p>\n Doodles features original art created by Martin, who produced hundreds of unique visual traits for the collection. However, the project ultimately followed in the footsteps of predecessors like CryptoPunks<\/a>, Bored Apes<\/a>, and Cool Cats<\/a> by randomly mixing and matching these individual traits to create the full Doodles collection.<\/p>\n Within the Doodles ecosystem live humans, cats, pickles, apes, sentient flames, skeletons, aliens, and more. As is the case with nearly all generative avatar collections, Doodles NFTs come in varying degrees of rarity, which is defined by their traits. Although the Doodles team has never officially released a catalog of what traits are the rarest and most common, you can find RaritySniffer\u2019s unofficial rankings here<\/a>. To date, skeletons, cats, aliens, apes, and mascots have continued to resell for the highest amounts<\/a>. <\/p>\n Keast, Castro, and Martin launched Doodles on October 17, 2021, pricing their product at 0.123 ETH per mint. At the time, the mint price was considered relatively high. Before Doodles, most PFP projects implemented mint prices below 0.1 ETH; however, the Doodles founding team decided on this higher price point to ensure an initial treasury<\/a> of ~420 ETH.<\/p>\n During the project\u2019s rollout, Doodles tried something that had seemingly never been executed by a PFP project. About a month before the project went live for minting, the Doodles team closed the Discord<\/a> when membership numbers had reached just over 1,000. This made it so that no new members could join, creating an extra level of exclusivity within the project\u2019s community. <\/p>\n This decision received mixed reviews<\/a>, as it effectively gave whitelist access (priority minting) to a select few. Yet, as the Doodles mint date drew closer, the project\u2019s following continued to grow, and the decision to close the Discord started to be seen as an innovative way to reward<\/a> early NFT project supporters.<\/p>\n Shortly after the full supply of Doodles sold out, the Discord server was reopened, bringing a slew of new collectors and enthusiasts into the community. In the following months, a wide variety of NFT influencers<\/a> and big-name celebrities<\/a> joined Doodles as collectors, further solidifying the project as one of the hottest PFP NFT communities.<\/p>\n While numerous avatar projects market themselves as community-centered, Doodles seems to have been all about empowering their community from the start. As stated on the Doodles website<\/a>, owning a Doodle and voting on community proposals \u201cmakes the roadmap collaborative.\u201d This facet of the project has become increasingly clear over the last few months alone, thanks largely to its voting system and anti-scam\/pro-artist culture.<\/p>\nWhat is the Doodles NFT collection? <\/h2>\n
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Building a community for Doodles NFTs<\/h2>\n