Songbirdz

1️⃣ A Year of Growth & Engagement 🥂🐦

On April 4th 2024, /songbirdz took flight on @base, bringing bird watching onchain.

Today marks our 1 year anniversary!

💡 Over the past year:
✅ 4,000+ birds identified (i.e. NFT mints)
✅ Tight-knit community of 1,500+ holders
✅ 4 seasons of bird-watching competitions
✅ 40,215 birder points awarded

Here’s a look back at our biggest milestones ⬇️

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3️⃣ Onchain Summer: Explosion in Growth

🔥 July 11, 2024 – @coinbasewallet featured Songbirdz as the #1 trending app in its new Onchain Summer page.

🕊️ Hundreds of mints flooded in, instantly selling out the 1,000-bird Genesis flock.

🌊 The Deep Blue flock (another 1,000 birds) was launched… and sold out just as fast!

🏆 August 1, 2024 – Songbirdz was chosen as a winner of the GAMING with @thirdweb category in the @buildonbase Onchain Summer Buildathon  ⬇️

4️⃣ Fall & Winter: Competitions, Collabs & Rewards

🍂❄️ 3-month bird-watching competitions continued through Fall & Winter.

💰 ~1 ETH in prizes was distributed to the top onchain birders.

 🎶 We launched "Sounds of Summer", an onchain art collab with @basecolors and @jake 

🎃 In October, we hosted our first ever AMA with @wopr ⬇️

5️⃣ Wrapping Up Year 1: Features & Flocks

🚀 2025 brought exciting new features:

 🎯 Daily Streaks
 🃏 Memory Match Game
 📱 Farcaster Mini-App
 🎨 Minting gallery redesign

🕊️ New flocks dropped every 1-2 months:

 🔥 Fire & Ice 🌓 Night & Day 🦅 Predator & Prey 💕 Lovebirds

🌍 We were officially listed on both the @base Ecosystem Page & the @superchaineco Projects Page. ⬇️

6️⃣ The Numbers Speak for Themselves

📢 4,045 NFTs minted
👥 1,563 unique holders
🦉500 unique species
🥇26 “1 of 1” rare species
📈 Floor price: 0.0055 ETH on @magiceden | 0.0057 ETH on @opensea 
🏆 325 species identified (record: paesan.base.eth)
🔥 100-day mint streak (record: jpunke.base.eth)
🎁 ~1 ETH in rewards & prizes awarded to holders
🌿 $12.07 in royalties donated to Belize Bird Rescue via @endaoment  (matched by 2 others)
 
The flock keeps growing! 🦜 ⬇️

7️⃣ Looking Ahead: Join the Flock!

Our mission? Bring bird watching onchain & onboard new users to Web3. 🚀

🎨 Songbirdz art is CC0 – remix & create!

🛍️ Want to make merch? Mini-apps? Games? This community is yours to co-create alongside us.

💙 Thank you, birders. Here’s to another year of memes, minting, collecting, competition & good vibes! 

Drop a 🐦 in the comments if you’ve made it this far and you’re part of the flock!

2️⃣ Humble Beginnings: The First Flock

📍 April 4, 2024 – The Songbirdz contract was deployed to @base 

🐣 Songbirdz #0 was minted by me

🐦‍⬛ Songbirdz #7 was minted by Biltongus (our 1st official holder)

🦉@osthelka became the 1st holder to mint multiple Songbirdz!

📢 We started from 0 followers & slowly built a passionate community.

Our journey got a major boost when we joined the Onchain Summer Buildathon. ⬇️

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I am a crypto enthusiast passionate about my daughter, nature, music, art, photography, travel, friends and human beauty.

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Thank you! Happy to have you in the flock 😀

Congratulations buddy!!
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