~ Wild Word Web ~

WHAT?

Wild Word Web (WWW) is a phygital, philanthropic initiative that aims to cultivate the potential of web3 to harvest financial resources and positive action for wildlife conservation. The endangered animals and elements in each NFT are purposefully developed to sensitize our unhinged species about the realities of the broadly misunderstood, disregarded, and oppressed beings who share the Earth with us.

FOR WHOM?

Everyone is invited to purchase, collect, and trade these NFTs. If you don't understand why or how to buy NFTs, check out the beginner's guide from NFT Evening to learn how things work. Feel free to reach out to me directly if you have any questions.

HOW?

NFTs and related physical items are carefully crafted in Belo Horizonte, Brazil without random assembly or generative technologies. All designs follow four styles that call attention to specific matters chosen by the artist and feature animals on the Red List of Threatened species developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). This tool is used by researchers, policy makers, and activists around the globe to assess the likelihood of extinction of nearly 170,000 species catalogued to date. NFTs are listed for minting on OpenSea under two categories:

1. Alert

Pricing: fixed at 33 USDC

Fund allocation: IUCN Donation 50%, WWW t-shirt, print and stickers 50%*

Quantity: unique item per species

2. Ontem... Hoje! Amanhã?

Pricing: fixed at 25 USDC

Fund allocation: IUCN Donation 50%, WWW t-shirt 50%*

Quantity: varies depending on species' status to increase support base

Extinct in the wild: 1
Least concern: 2
Not evaluated or Data deficient: 3
Near threatened: 4
Vulnerable: 5
Endangered: 6
Critically endangered: 7

*benefit granted to an NFT's first buyer. Shipping fees apply. Subsequent NFT buyers will be able to purchase the WWW tee, stickers, and prints in January 2025. Those who choose to forego the physical benefit will earn exclusive NFT variants to mint the following month.

WHEN?

The pilot phase of this project will go live before the end of 2024 and will last approximately six months to test and optimize the flow of digital asset creation, transactions, and proper greenhouse gas offsets for estimated energy expenditures in the process. New NFTs will be released bi-weekly on Warpcast (casts), Instagram (posts) and Discord (events).

SO WHAT?

At the end of June 2025, the total amount raised by NFT trades will be disclosed on this website and 50% will be donated to the IUCN via their donation page.

* If you are unable or not interested in acquiring my artwork but still want to help endangered animals worldwide, you can make a donation directly to the IUCN using the link above.

Species Dossiers

Leontopithecus Chrysopygus

Panthera Onca

Proceratophrys palustris

Canthidium flabellatum

Mergus octosetaceus

Next species coming on march 10th

~ NFT Gallery ~

the subject is composed of binary code and arranged in vertical green lines, as the Matrix digital rain. The specimen faces the viewer with void sensory features, disappearing at the bottom into the black background, alluding to the way the species is fading into nothingness. This specimen places its virtual digits around its hollow insides, where the number “404” and the words “NOT FOUND” can be read. This piece is called “Amanhã?”, the Portuguese equivalent for “Tomorrow?”, as no one knows for sure what the future will bring for this species… or ours, for that matter. Are they still there? Or are their last traces of existence forever confined to mere "0"s and "1"s?

the subject is a specimen made with earth tones in simple strokes to simulate rupestrian paintings. The subject faces the viewer, standing inside a dark cave, which has paintings of birds flying in formation and paw prints. The specimen carries a sign depicting a flock of ducks that once flew away never to return. How come? Where have they gone? What have we done?

The subject is a Vitorious style specimen with a black body, halo, forked tongue, golden eyes and “v”-shaped markings. The specimen faces the viewer, standing on a red brick sidewalk, and carrying a rectangular sign with the words “Understand”, “Me”, and “Entenda” around a QR code and link to the NFT collection on the Vitorious website. The animal is near a spray can with a crossed out Vitruvian Man and in front of a grey wall with old graffiti and Be|Wilder Brigade logos freshly sprayed in black.

the subject is a specimen made with earth tones of brown, beige, and red in simple strokes to simulate rupestrian paintings. As its data deficient status suggests, not much is known about the species, aside from its relatives' fancy for using dung for a variety of purposes. Hence, the sign with the earliest known depiction of the poop emoji (this is a joke). The specimen faces the viewer, standing inside a dark cave, which has a painting of a small beetle rolling a massive ball of dung. What a magical sight!

The subject is a Vitorious style specimen with a black body, halo, forked tongue, and golden eyes. The specimen stands on a red brick sidewalk and faces the viewer while carrying a rectangular sign with the words “Understand”, “Me”, and “Entenda” around a QR code to the NFT collection on the Vitorious website, and the link to said site underneath it. S/he is also holding a spray can with a crossed out Vitruvian Man. The animal is in front of a grey wall with old graffiti and the Be|Wilder Brigade symbol sprayed in yellow.

The subject is a specimen made with earth tones of brown, beige, and red in simple strokes to simulate rupestrian paintings. As its critical status suggests, the species has nothing but its spots left and a simple sign that calls for more rain in hopes that its habitat will regenerate. The specimen faces the viewer, standing inside a dark cave, in which wall paintings of a single paw print and a couple of Pepes throwing a tadpole in the air in jubilation simbolize the small number of individuals left and their dreams of a more prosperous future.

NFT design elements: the subject is composed with binary code and arranged in vertical green lines, as the Matrix digital rain. The specimen faces the viewer with void sensory features and characteristic spots, disappearing at the bottom into the black background, alluding to the species fading into nothingness. The faux-fauve, tech composite of the majestic jaguar places its virtual digits around its hollow insides, where the number “404” and the words “NOT FOUND” can be read. The specimen's tail morphs into a snake, as the machine misinterprets the body part for another animal, yielding a chimera that is only less disturbing than our preference for "beasts" in zoos, fashion patterns and digital avatars.

NFT design elements: the subject is a simplified digital painting of a Jaguar and it faces the viewer. The specimen floats in front of a teal background, signaling the color code of its IUCN Red List status, and is flanked by his scientific name written in black and Near Threatened status in English and Portuguese written in black. The animal carries a yellow rectangular sign with the words “See Me?” in braille to check who is compassionately cognizant and supportive of their existence. A yellow and black flag is planted on the ground to call out for the Extinction Rebellion movement.

NFT design elements: the subject is a Vitorious style specimen with a black body, halo, forked tongue, golden eyes and “v”-shaped markings, and a spray can with a crossed out Vitruvian Man being held by its tail. The specimen faces the viewer, standing by an old piece of gum on a red brick sidewalk, and carries a rectangular sign with the words “Understand”, “Me”, and “Entenda” around a QR code to the NFT collection on the Vitorious website, and the link to direct people to said site underneath it. The animal is in front of a grey wall with old graffiti and a few words and symbols freshly sprayed in yellow.

NFT design elements: the subject is a specimen composed with binary code and arranged in vertical green lines, as the Matrix digital rain. The specimen faces the viewer with eyes shaped like two letter “x”s and a sad expression, disappearing at the bottom into the black background. The faux-fauve, tech composite of a real creature places its virtual digits around its hollow insides, where the number “404” and the words “NOT FOUND” can be read. Its tail coils into what seems like a middle finger, with the letters “F” and “U” at the top, directed at those who apathetically awaited and/or contribute to the demise of their kind and our own.

NFT design elements: the subject is a simplified digital painting of a Black Lion Tamarin and it faces the viewer. The specimen floats in front of an orange background, signaling the color code of its IUCN Red List status, and is flanked by his scientific name written in black and Endangered status in English and Portuguese written in beige. The animal holds a yellow and black flag with its tail to call out for the Extinction Rebellion movement and carries a yellow rectangular sign with the words “See Me?” in braille to check who is compassionately cognizant and supportive of their existence.

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