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Although Bitcoin recently approached the $100,000 mark, many crypto players are heavily invested in altcoins, and their returns may not even outperform the market. Don't worry, the last big "opportunity" of 2024 is coming, which is the Lumoz esMOZ+OG NFT explosive airdrop combination.
On November 5, the modular computing layer and RaaS platform Lumoz announced the opening of esMOZ airdrop queries, with a total airdrop amount of 10% esMOZ, valued at over $30 million; a week later, Lumoz announced that the OG NFT event was officially launched, with all NFT acquisition channels being completely free. Lumoz OG NFT allows users to directly exchange esMOZ 1:1 for MOZ after the mainnet goes live, with no lock-up period required, meaning esMOZ+NFT=MOZ. Yesterday, Lumoz announced that esMOZ can be exchanged 1:1 for MOZ using NFTs. With the combination of the two, Lumoz's explosive airdrop combination has officially arrived!
esMOZ airdrop query: lumoz.org/airdrop
Lumoz OG NFT acquisition: lumoz.org/og-nft
Market data shows that the current floor price of Lumoz OG NFT is 0.0027 ETH. According to the editor's analysis, this price is severely underestimated, and as Lumoz's TGE approaches, the NFT floor price has at least five times more room for growth. In the long run, as Lumoz's potential is released, the price of MOZ will be further elevated, making now the perfect time to buy esMOZ and bottom out OG NFTs.
- The essential scenario for NFTs, unlocking esMOZ airdrop tokens
Just one day before the announcement of the U.S. election results, Lumoz presented a great gift to crypto players, with the long-awaited airdrop officially launching.
In the announcement, Lumoz's officials expressed gratitude to all ecosystem participants. "We want to thank every community member for their efforts and contributions to Lumoz's success. Every user's contribution is driving the growth of Lumoz, and we are deeply grateful for this! This airdrop is not only a return for everyone's support but also an important testament to our collective move towards the next stage!"
Of course, gratitude is not just verbal but also reflected in actions. How significant is Lumoz's official vision?
First, the airdrop value is high. This airdrop will distribute a total of 1 billion esMOZ, accounting for 10% of the total token supply; based on the latest round of valuation of $300 million, the total value of this airdrop is approximately $30 million. Whether in terms of airdrop proportion or asset value, it ranks among the top in this year's airdrop projects.
Second, the airdrop has a wide coverage and a good reputation. This year, several blockchain projects, including LayerZero, have conducted airdrops, but due to various stringent conditions and lack of transparency in rules, they have sparked widespread controversy. Lumoz learned from these lessons and extended the airdrop to early Lumoz participants, Lumoz PoW & node holders, high-quality ecosystem users, ETH & L2, Celestia, Move Ecosystem, and other active ecosystem users. The scale of the airdrop is also the largest in Lumoz's history, receiving widespread acclaim from the market.
(1) esMOZ airdrop cannot be immediately unlocked
Logically, this is a win-win outcome: ecosystem players receive the tokens they care about through the airdrop, and the officials achieve both reputation and traffic by rewarding early participants. However, many airdrop users have "complained" that the esMOZ tokens they received need to be locked before they can be claimed.
According to official documents, Lumoz implements a dual-token model: MOZ and esMOZ. The MOZ token is used to pay network gas fees, and using ZKP calculations and AI services also requires payment in MOZ tokens as resource usage fees. esMOZ is the network incentive token, and users who provide computing power, security, and stability to the Lumoz network (including zkProver and zkVerifier nodes) can earn esMOZ rewards, and it also serves as a token for participating in staking and promoting decentralized governance of the network.
There is a certain exchange ratio between the two, where MOZ tokens can be exchanged 1:1 for esMOZ tokens to accommodate a wider range of application scenarios; while esMOZ can be exchanged for MOZ tokens, the exchange rate varies depending on the duration of the exchange period.
To prevent a large transfer of esMOZ leading to governance imbalance, and to avoid the project facing significant airdrop sell pressure during TGE, which could cause prices to slump, this is a challenge that all airdrop projects must face. After all, many investors have previously bought STRK, ZRO, etc., at high prices in the secondary market and have yet to break even.
However, from the perspective of airdrop users, the inability to immediately unlock the esMOZ they "worked hard" to obtain raises concerns about potential price declines and reduced returns. Therefore, users urgently need a means to realize the value of esMOZ immediately.
The Lumoz project team has launched the Lumoz OG NFT event with a grand vision, and all NFT acquisition channels are completely free!
(2) OG NFT unlocks esMOZ in advance
On November 12, Lumoz officials announced the launch of the OG NFT event. "There have been voices in the community hoping for an early unlock. We value every community user's voice. Therefore, we have added an NFT section that will support users to directly exchange a certain amount of esMOZ for MOZ."
Specifically, there are three types of OG NFTs, each level of NFT has different esMOZ exchange limits, allowing immediate conversion of esMOZ to MOZ without any lock-up period:
- Sly (Slytherin), can directly exchange 200 esMOZ for MOZ;
- Puff (Hufflepuff), can directly exchange 1000 esMOZ for MOZ;
- Claw, can directly exchange 5000 esMOZ for MOZ.
More importantly, all OG NFTs are free airdrops; users only need to complete corresponding tasks on the Galxe task platform and Discord to receive NFT airdrops. Additionally, the event also considers the interests of core contributors to the Lumoz ecosystem, including ecosystem partners, developers, KOLs, and node holders, who will receive direct free airdrops.
- The huge appreciation potential of OG NFTs, prices still await further exploration
After the launch of the Lumoz OG NFT event, it quickly ignited the crypto community. One question many people are concerned about is: What is the actual value of Lumoz OG NFTs?
From the current price perspective, the prices of the three levels of NFTs are: Sly floor price 0.0027 ETH (about $9.5); Puff floor price 0.015 ETH (about $52.5); Claw floor price 0.047 ETH (about $164.5). This price is actually related to the amount of esMOZ that each NFT can unlock. For example, Sly unlocks 200 esMOZ unconditionally, based on a $300 million valuation, the price of each MOZ would be $0.03, making the valuation price of 200 esMOZ $6. The current NFT floor price is only slightly above the valuation price, indicating significant growth potential.
First, the previous calculation was based on a $300 million valuation, but in reality, the valuation of Lumoz after launch may experience a surge. How to estimate Lumoz's FDV after launch? A common method for estimating FDV at launch is to look at the FDV of similar financing and competitor projects; here, we choose Celestia ($TIA), which is also a modular blockchain. This project raised about $55 million, with a pre-launch valuation of $1 billion, and at one point after launch, it surged to $2 billion. Currently, the project's FDV is $8.5 billion, an increase of nearly 8.5 times.
From this perspective, Lumoz's latest round of financing values it at $300 million, with an initial FDV of about $600 million at launch. Considering the current market is in a bull phase, the valuation could be even higher, possibly reaching $1 billion, making the price of each esMOZ about $0.1, thus the floor price of the lowest level Sly NFT would also reach $20. In the long term, Lumoz's FDV could eventually rise to $2.5 billion or even $3 billion, making the price of a single esMOZ reach $0.25 to $0.3, thus the floor price of the lowest level Sly NFT would also reach $50 to $60. Therefore, the current Lumoz OG NFT has at least five times more room for appreciation.
Second, from the perspective of supply and demand, the current price of Lumoz OG NFTs is also at a low point. As mentioned earlier, the core function of OG NFTs is to allow esMOZ to be converted to MOZ immediately without a lock-up period. There is a serious supply-demand imbalance issue here; the esMOZ that NFTs can unlock is actually insufficient to meet user demand during TGE.
According to data from the NFT market Alienswap, among the claimed NFTs, the highest level Claw NFTs account for less than 2%. Based on this, if the total number of NFTs is 1 million, there may only be 20,000 of the highest level NFTs, which can unlock 100 million esMOZ (20,000*5000). The other two levels of NFTs combined may distribute 900,000 Sly and 80,000 Puff. In total, all NFTs can unlock 360 million esMOZ.
However, the total amount of airdrop tokens is 1 billion esMOZ, meaning only 36% of the tokens can be unlocked unconditionally and immediately. This will lead to two situations: first, the actual circulating MOZ tokens will decrease, which can further increase prices, directly raising the early valuation of $0.03 to over $0.1 and directly boosting the market price of NFTs. Second, the increase in the secondary market price of MOZ will also encourage more users holding large amounts of esMOZ tokens to choose to buy more NFTs for early unlocking. However, in a market where supply is less than demand, combined with speculative trading, NFT prices may rise further, especially as the later stages approach, the price increase will be more pronounced.
- Strategy: Accumulate esMOZ+NFT, catch the new wealth train
As mentioned earlier, the current price of OG NFTs has not been fully discovered and still has significant growth potential. For ordinary users who missed this round, how can they capture more wealth opportunities through Lumoz? Here are a few strategies for reference.
First, zero-cost path, farming. According to Galxe data, in just two weeks since the launch of the Lumoz event, it has attracted over 52,000 users to participate; there are still a few days left until the end (November 30), and the total allocation of NFTs on Galxe is 100,000, so users can continue to farm. Additionally, users can participate in activities in the Discord community to earn NFT rewards.
Of course, these methods are not suitable for ordinary large-scale operations, especially since various anti-farming mechanisms now require human identity verification, ordinary players can just earn a little "pig rice."
Second, light asset investment, buy NFTs in the secondary market. Currently, the market circulation of NFTs is relatively low, and the large-scale claiming time is expected around early December, when a batch of "farming" users may dump their zero-cost NFTs, causing the floor price to continue to decline; as long as the NFT floor price is below its reasonable price—Sly's reasonable price is $6, Puff is $30, Claw is $150 (all based on Lumoz's $300 million valuation)—large-scale acquisitions can be made, waiting for subsequent price increases. If funds are sufficient, it is recommended to allocate the three types of NFTs in a ratio of 7.5:2:0.5, as lower-level NFTs are more likely to be sold in the early stages, but higher-level NFTs have greater premium potential later on.
Third, heavy asset investment, long-term optimism, purchase esMOZ and NFTs. If the first two are considered speculative methods, this one is a true investment, growing together with the project and capturing excess returns. Currently, due to the lock-up period of esMOZ, some users choose to sell off-market at a discount, with some community discount rates even reaching 50%. Players who are optimistic about the long-term prospects of the Lumoz ecosystem can choose to buy a certain amount of esMOZ off-market to "bottom out," and then buy a certain amount of NFTs, waiting for Lumoz's future value to be truly discovered and prices to soar.
Why are we optimistic about Lumoz? One core reason is that Lumoz is one of the few providers of modular Prover networks in the modular Rollup space, supporting "one-click chain issuance," with narrative stacking and strong explosive potential.
Currently, chain issuance has become the first choice for many Web3 entrepreneurs, with DeFi projects like dYdX, Magic, and FXS also joining the chain issuance camp, as the valuation of self-built public chains is far higher than that of single projects. However, for teams without native technical genes, the threshold for chain issuance is high. Lumoz provides "shovel-selling" services for projects with such needs.
Lumoz is a modular computing layer and ZK-RaaS platform that addresses the computational costs and centralization issues in the ZKP proof generation and verification process, providing projects with one-click chain issuance capabilities—through its no-code ZK-Rollup Launchbase, any user can generate customized zkEVM application chains without coding. At the same time, Lumoz provides underlying computing power for general ZKP calculations through a Decentralized Prover Network. Beyond the Prover Network, Lumoz further opens the verification layer to ordinary users, with its zkVerifier aimed at achieving decentralized verification, effectively reducing L2 gas costs.
Lumoz's positioning combines ZK-RaaS and DePIN, offering low-cost and convenient ZK-Rollup deployment capabilities. OKX Ventures has recognized its advancements in the ZK-RaaS field and Prover technology, and this investment will help Lumoz accelerate the development and technological innovation of its modular computing layer and ZK-RaaS platform," commented Dora, the founder of OKX Ventures.
Currently, Lumoz has received backing from several top-tier capital firms, including IDG Blockchain, OKX Ventures, and HashKey Capital, with cumulative financing exceeding $14 million and a valuation of $300 million.