about arkai
TL;DR: Read this to understand what is arkai
gmove,
As usual in this space, (lots of) things happened crazily and unexpectedly. Some of the events are fun, some of the events are hard to watch, and some of the events hit you very hard.
Recently, there have been two events that have affected us (and me personally), so I want to write something to share with you:
As the creator of arkai, tbh, it's (maybe) just another NFT Collection in this chaotic space, maybe nothing different. We keep building but it will not fair if just keep silent, you guys at least need to know about what we work, what we do, that's fair point. To believe in something, you need to understand about it first.
So I write this to share to you about vision of arkai. We know exactly what we aim to and where we want to go.
1. What is arkai?
1.a) About Elden Labs
First to understand about arkai, you guys need to understand about us, Elden Labs, the team behind arkai.
We started as a Web2 illustration and animation studio, just another creative shop, working client-by-client. But in 2021, during the NFT and GameFi boom, we got pulled into Web3 through our clients. That’s when everything shifted.
Working as an outsourced team gave us a front-row seat to how Web3 biz are really built, from the inside out. It's give us an opportunity to be an observer of what happened behind the scene of fancy projects. Since then, we've been through the up and down time of this market, we saw many full product life-cycles, from its peak to the downfall. We saw many people come, many people leave.
And we choose the stay.
That’s how we earned our skin in the game, built real networks, and developed a understanding of the business behind the noise. Through the time, we expand our team, our product, our package and our service. We began designing and building DApps, helping clients go from idea to execution.
For us, shipping a product is low-hanging fruit. But launching something that survives? That’s different. That takes business logic, market timing, cost control, and a thousand boring truths only builders deal with.
We don’t move slow, we move right. Not rushing to drop a dead product, not dragging just to say we're shipping. We time our moves with intent.
1.b) Why we build arkai?
In Web3, no matter what you do, you will need a community support you.
We’ve built a solid team. We’ve shipped high-standard products. We’ve established trusted relationships with clients and partners. Now it's time for us to go further and expand our branding. To achieve next stage, we need a great community support us.
That’s what arkai is. arkai our base layer.
It plays a critical role in anchoring everything we’re building: our products, our network, our reach. I’ll go deeper into this in the next section.
2. Thesis & Rules
In next section, I would love cover about thesis & rules, our framework making decisions, especially when things get chaotic. Understand this, you guys will understand why we do this and why we don't.
2.a) Trust Comes First
In this space,if you lost money you could make it back. But lost trust, you lost forever.
That’s why trust is our non-negotiable. Every decision we make passes through this filter. We do not, under any circumstance, risk the trust of our team, our branding.
Long-term culture > short-term capital. It's not worth to risk our branding to chase any short-term money and ruin the whole business.
2.b) We Care About Profit
If we don't care about profit, why we're here?
In everything we do, we always need to carefully think about the cost and profit, not only for our team but also think the cost and investment risk of our community. We aren't a team put use a DYOR label to take out our responsible.
Fun Fact, most of the time in Web3 space, the cost > the profit. Especially when chasing hype.
We know what it costs to build real products. Dev work, design, infra, growth, support, it adds up fast. Then most of the time, the profit not worth it after lots of effort.
This explains why:
We haven’t rushed to launch any in-house product just to check a box.
We haven’t dropped a staking token, because maintaining it costs more than it returns. It also introduce huge risk for branding of team and investment risk from community.
Profit matters, but it has to be sustainable.
2.c) Do the Ordinary, Differently
We don’t see ourselves as the most innovative or experimental team in the space, and we’re okay with that. We deeply respect the builders who constantly push boundaries and try new things.
For us, the approach is different: we focus on what already works in Web3, models that have been proven, and we do them our way. Not just to follow, but to refine, optimize, and executed differently.
You’ve probably seen this in how we run collabs. While 99% of NFT communities run collaborations one way, we do it differently, and it works. That same thesis guides how we release products and host events: take what’s familiar, and do it different.
Follow up in our big picture:
For clients, we offer more than delivery, we give access to a real, high-quality community.
For our team, a strong community means stronger leverage, bigger clients, and better deals.
For the arkai community:
It’s about having an unfair advantage.
It’s about early access to real deal flow.
It’s about tapping into the growing power of the arkai network.
2.d) Capture the Narrative
In short:
We don’t just build. We capture, shape, and move with the narrative.
We connect the dots. We position where attention flows. We move when the meta shifts.
This one’s deep, so I’ll write a full article on it later.
2.e) arkai is NOT for everyone
In section, I want to cover about current status of Floor Price & Volume of arkai.
Current Status
FP arkai: 400+ $MOVE
Volume: ~3000+ $MOVE/day
What does this tell us?
Movement OG hodlers & community hodl strong.
Some arkai hodlers already made solid returns via arkai incentives. They don't need to sale arkai to take profit anymore.
Next action:
Focus on creating & shipping value. People mostly talk about supply. What is supply mean wen have no demand? Creating Value -> Get more and more demand for people to buy arkai.
Onboarding more and more incentive that could get hodlers make real money and profit. The more profit our community make, the stronger the conviction, the tighter the hold, and the more people will want to own arkai.
We have already go over the "Hype" stage. Now it come to the stage do real work, make real profit.
I’ll share a deeper breakdown in next article about:
How we read FP + volume
What milestones we’re targeting next
What value capture might look like down the line
The nature of this space is Flipping and Trading, it's often easier to rotate into new projects than to commit long-term to older, higher-entry ones. We respect and fully understand that. That's the part of this space.
That's exactly why arkai is NOT for everyone, we build this for a niche of crypto community, where people listen and share real value, who listen, contribute, and play the long game. We're not build this for the current crypto space, where we love and hate most.
3. Vision of arkai
We don't share Roadmap, we share vision
The specific roadmap is clear in short-term, we know exactly what we do right now.
To keep it simple:
We’re releasing products, both in-house and outsourced, and arkai holders will benefit from the value we create.
4. How to support arkai
Hodl your arkai
Rep the cult, show up and post about arkai every day
Join the mission, stay active, contribute
Connect us to great builders
Spread the word, every mention matters
In a space driven by hype, we focus on building real value. It takes time, but it’s worth.
build the legacy together 🏛️
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