Vision & Values

On 25th September 2021, the first of our VIP Plushie NFTs were minted! The following day, we launched the first CryptoRaggies NFT public mint. This set us on a journey of no return - always striving to outdo ourselves and create value for our supporters and community.

Shortly after our first sell-out, the full supply of RaggieCoins was minted on 2nd October 2021. This launched 100,000,000 $RAG into circulation, as the first NFT Gaming Native Token on Cardano. With our VIP programme freshly launched, fortnightly VIP airdrops of $RAG was formally set in perpetual motion.

At launch, RaggieRun was already one of the first working games on Cardano with a live wallet connection, and certainly the first one available to play outside of the core development team! The first version of our wallet connection code only supported Nami wallet, as it was the only wallet with a dApp connector at that point.

RaggieRun remained in alpha testing through to February 2022. Over these months, RaggieRun moved from closed alpha to open alpha phase, during which all CryptoRaggies NFT holders can play the game. We pushed weekly updates to the game, building features such as RaggieRage and RaggieRush superpowers. Early players were rewarded by a very generous leaderboard, turning the casual game into an intense competition within the community every week!

Without much fanfare, we launched our second mint when there were around 500 members in our Discord server. This mint took a long time, but we eventually managed to sell out without any support from influencers. It is also during this phase when we started developing strong ties with several other projects in the CNFT community, getting involved in fun social activities such as weekly cross-server game nights which have proven very popular!

December 2021 was a truly special month indeed. On top of multiple significant developmental breakthroughs in our project's core, we have also entered into a long-term partnership with one of the most striking, creative and characterful projects on Cardano - BlockOwls! This partnership started with the implementation of BlockOwls within RaggieRun, and the establishment of a dedicated weekly BlockOwls special leaderboard featuring enhanced $RAG and NFT prizes for winners!

Some may think that an "infinite runner" game is easy to make, but trust us, the complexity of RaggieRun is no easy feat. We have even one-upped ourselves by creating a boss fight within the game, introducing the first in-game item that can be minted on RaggieStore using $RAG multi-signature transactions! Our boss fight also deepened the connection between us and BlockOwls, with BlockOwls helping us create a professional 3D cutscene leading into the fight.

In February 2022, just before the conclusion of RaggieRun alpha, we implemented yet another significant, scalable feature in the game! We creating a secret dungeon for Raggies with the HUD trait using procedural map generation. This ensures that every dungeon is different every time.

We completely revamped and relaunched our website in March 2022, featuring wallet connection with $handle support. 

Within Member Zone, it is also possible to manage all things related to the user's account with us - this includes Discord connection, staking of Raggie NFTs, etc.

We launched our Phase 3 Raggies NFT Mint under a new policy as our previous policy was locked. With significant developments in multi-signature transactions within our project ecosystem, we launched this mint using this game-changing technology and sold out in 1 day - an achievement we'll forever be proud of!

Over the Easter Weekend of 2022, we launched our first ever charity mint with our collaborative partner C_Bunnies. This NFT was minted exclusively in RaggieStore using $RAG, and all proceeds were donated to Wildlife Conservation Society. Through the efforts of our loving community and C_Bunnies, we managed to raise a total of 632 ADA for a good cause, and one lucky RaggieBun holder saw their NFT transform into a Golden RaggieBun, allowing them to receive a physical handcrafted RaggieBun from C_Bunnies!

After working on some marketing and launching our first game RaggieRun on Android mobile with wallet link, we starting our Wave 4 mint which was an immense success! The originally planned 500 Raggies were close to sold out by the end of the whitelist mint window and after a team meeting we decided to release a further 500 Raggies for public mint. These were all reserved 30 minutes into the mint, and were completely sold out and confirmed on-chain in 2 hours! This is the most intense demand we have seen since the inception of our project, and provides confidence and direction for us to plan our future mints!

June 2022 is a very important month for Cardano, with the launch of the Vasil Hard Fork on testnet initially, and then the planned deployment on mainnet at the end of June.

The Vasil Hard Fork was planned to bring significant improvements to the scalability of the Cardano blockchain. We have launched a special limited edition NFT to commemorate this important milestone, and to celebrate the life of the man whom this Hard Fork Combinator event was named after - Vasil Dabov.

Each VasilRaggie features the iconic ginkgo leaves as a special background, inspired by Vasil's life as an experienced ginkgologist. The VasilRaggie also has a special utility as a permanent raffle ticket for whitelist raffles and other special raffle events within our community.

Cardano Proxies is one of the projects building on Cardano which we truly admire. They have amazing artwork and a very elaborate, sophisticated but realistic project goals and plans, and a dedicated and professional team working together to achieve the project goals.

We are therefore extremely honoured to be approached by the Cardano Proxies team to build their Proxies Store for them, powering it with the multi-sig minting tech which we developed in-house. Proxies Store launched on 22nd June with 10,000 unique raffle tickets available to mint using $PROXIE tokens and ADA. 

We have entered into an agreement to team up with NFT Invaderz to give more utility and value to holders of their Stardust ($DUST) tokens and Pixendo Spaceship NFTs since the Pixendo project has been fully absorbed under the NFT Invaderz brand.

This collaboration involves the launch of a dedicated NFT Invaderz leaderboard for holders of Pixendo Spaceships or $DUST tokens. This leaderboard is also available in Free-to-Play mode, hence no one who wants to play and benefit from this collaboration will miss out just because they don't own a Raggie! Remember, we are here to build value for Cardano!

We are deeply honoured to join forces with another powerhouse NFT project on Cardano with solid fundamentals and a clear long-term vision - Derp Birds.

Derp Birds are true innovators who have built a very successful gamified NFT collection ecosystem with many amazing innovations such as multi-sig minting, which we have now adopted as standard for our minting transactions throughout our ecosystem!

Our partnership with Derp Birds started with the introduction of the PRED boss fight into RaggieRun. This is a very challenging and intense fight, and along with it we launched our second boss fight weapon - the shield - which we think is essential to protect points from this menace!

What does the future hold? Our future is bright, if you ask me! With a fully function Free-to-Play, truly Play-to-Earn game, attractive original NFTs, powerhouse collaborations, a creative and consistently delivering team, a native token that is already live on a mainstream DEX, our project is uniquely placed in the Cardano NFT ecosystem as one of the premium projects that has achieved what many couldn't.

Our immediate upcoming priorities include:

Expanding our range of RaggieRun add-ons on offer

Developing a stable iOS version of RaggieRun

Working on further major RaggieRun collaborations and partnerships

Improvements to first RaggieRun boss fight and implementing an in-game loot box drop system

Implementation of different game modes in RaggieRun

Development of next collaborative game

Automating project "hygiene" work

and much more that we can't wait to disclose when the time is right!