Quantum Temple’s Cosmic Membership
In our litepaper, we’ve laid the foundations of Quantum Temple’s vision, mission, and value proposition.
With this foundation in place, we look forward to going through this journey together with you and creating the first global, multi-disciplinary community of culture patrons committed to protecting cultural heritage.
Bali, the Island of the Gods, is the destination that inspired our first Cultural Heritage NFT collection.
Balinese knowledge, traditions, and art forms that date back thousands of years are at risk of getting lost — at Quantum Temple, we’re striving to create a community of philanthropists and patrons that are committed to protecting Bali’s unique heritage by funding the mint of Cosmic Egg NFTs.
The Cosmic Egg NFT establishes the founding community of Quantum Temple, where members work together, and preserve and nurture Bali’s cultural heritage. Bali’s Cosmic Membership will be the first of many decentralized communities where members will drive cultural heritage preservation of ancestral communities globally.
By minting a Cosmic Egg NFT, 50% of the proceeds will form Bali’s Impact Fund.
Our Impact Fund
Our goal with the Cosmic Eggs mint is to create an Impact Fund of ~$3M (based on variable ETH prices) that will be managed and deployed by the Cosmic Members via decentralized governance.
The objective of the Impact Fund objective is to drive inclusion of ancestral communities into the Web3 socio-economic paradigm and revitalize their heritage.
- Infrastructure: providing ancestral communities with the infrastructure necessary to access connectivity (eg. green energy, Wi-Fi network, cable, etc.)
- Crypto On-Ramps & Off-Ramps: providing easy-to-access and regulated crypto on-r and off-ramps product solutions to interact with the wider Web3 ecosystem.
- Education: providing valuable educational content and knowledge to understand, learn, and embrace Web3 as a new paradigm, technology, and a force for good.
- Research & Development: supporting research, conservation, and implementation projects around traditional knowledge and cultural expressions in partnership with ancestral communities.
The Impact Fund will ultimately work to help these communities embrace the Web3 new socio-economic paradigm.
The long-term plan is to raise many Impact Funds and benefit multiple ancestral communities around the world — unlocking regenerative funding to nurture their heritage for posterity.
It all begins with a Cosmic Egg
Cosmic Eggs, our genesis NFT collection, are the gate to becoming a founding member of our community and join us in driving this mission forward.
Only 2,444 Cosmic Eggs are available — half on Ethereum and half on Algorand blockchains— to join Quantum Temple’s Founding Community and Impact Fund. Cosmic Egg comes in two tiers — Gold and Silver — with various benefits for each.
As mentioned above, by minting a Cosmic Egg you:
- Distribute 50% of its value to the Impact Fund focused on Bali’s ancestral communities
- Earn governance votes to make decisions in the Impact Fund
Collectors that purchase our NFTs will transparently distribute royalties to the culture keepers to celebrate the value of their work and provide them with more equitable income in perpetuity.
Collectors also earn the right to gather in a social impact DAO to make decisions on how to best deploy the regenerative funding to impact cultural keepers and their heritage around the world.
But holding a Cosmic Egg also unlocks unique benefits. Each holder will:
- Get priority access to future NFT drops, airdrops, and rewards
- Access to exclusive token-gated content and community
- Earn Quantum Temple founding member status
We want our holders to learn from and deeply connect with cultural heritage and their ancestral keepers.
Connecting Collectors with Ancestral Communities
To enable this connection, we’re building a series of digital collectibles, digital artifacts, and unique IRL experiences.
- Cultural heritage NFTs — stunning 4k, video NFTs that capture the unique heritage tokenizing dances, ceremonies, rituals, and traditions — so that collectors can re-live and share these unique experiences with their friends and family.
- Cultural artifact NFTs — digital tokens that give you access to exclusive, ultra-limited heritage artifacts hand-made directly by culture keepers. Owning these tokens will give you the right to receive — for example— a gorgeous ceremonial Balinese bell shipped directly to your home, and display it right next to your other collectibles.
- Cultural experience NFTs — these are access passes that will grant you the right to directly visit the culture keepers in Bali — as well as other destinations around the world — to live curated, IRL, conscious tourism experiences. You’ll be able to deeply connect with their rituals and traditions, forging stories and memories like never before.
Your journey to mint your Cosmic Egg
Here’s all you need to know to mint your very own Cosmic Egg and join us in our mission.
1. Email list
If you haven’t already, join our email list to keep up to date with our future newsletter, digital and IRL events, and exclusive content.
2. Whitelist application
After you sign up, we’ll enroll you in our whitelist application. In this phase, we’ll send you a form to fill in to learn more about yourself, your background, interests, and skills.
Quantum Temple is not your average NFT project — we’re building a community that’s committed to preserving the cultural heritage of Bali and has the skills, interests, and commitment to do so. We seek to attract founding members that are multi-cultural, multi-generational, and interdisciplinary, hence our strict selection process.
Whitelist applications are now open — submit your application today.
Our team will manually go through each whitelist application and use its insights to select the people that best fit our founding members for Bali’s Cosmic Community.
3. Pre-sale
The whitelist findings will inform our pre-sale outreach.
In the pre-sale phase, we’ll contact the whitelist members that passed our application and share with them a unique, secret link to mint their Cosmic Egg Gold and Silver.
Cosmic Egg will be minted for a fixed price on a dual mint, respectively 111 Gold and 1,111 Silver on Algorand, and 111 Gold and 1,111 Silver on Ethereum. You’ll be able to collect your Cosmic Egg via supported crypto wallets and selected cryptocurrencies — $ALGO and $ETH. Credit card payments will also be available.
For the ones new to Web3 and crypto, we’ve prepared detailed guides to help you set up your crypto wallet and mint your Cosmic Egg with confidence.
4. Public sale
Toward the end of the private sale, we’ll open up the remaining Cosmic Egg Silver NFTs to our email list members first, and then to the general public by announcing it on our social profiles.
Public sale prices will be slightly higher than the pre-sale ones.
Make sure you follow Quantum Temple on Twitter and Instagram to stay in the know — we’ll send you helpful reminders to get you up and running with what you need to do to mint your very own Cosmic Egg.
Beyond Public Sale
The Quantum Temple team is working out the details of the post-sale roadmap. Here is a preview of what we’re building for Cosmic Egg holders:
- A token-gated community where you’ll be able to meet, hang out and chat with other Cosmic Members, as well as connect with ancestral communities, anthropologists, and other experts on our advisory board.
- Our exclusive IRL launch event is where you’ll get to other holders, and the core team, and partake in our exclusive Cultural Heritage NFT drop. We’ll fly all Cosmic Egg holders in a secret, exclusive destination TBC to celebrate our launch and run our genesis Cultural Heritage NFT drop.
- The first Cultural Heritage NFT drop dedicated to Bali — we’ll give Cosmic Egg holders priority access to mint these unique digital collectibles at an auction to support the Balinese heritage and connect with the ancestral communities like never before.
Until then, never miss a beat:
- Join our email list if you haven’t already
- Complete your membership application
- Follow Quantum Temple on Twitter and Instagram
It’ll be an incredible journey, and it all starts with a Cosmic Egg…