Azuki developer Cygaar_dev has jokingly written code that might stop Steve Aoki from shopping for NFT initiatives — to keep away from the “Aoki curse.”
NFT mission house owners, bored with @steveaoki shopping for into your mission and dropping the ground? Here is a pair traces of code you may add to your contract to stop this from occurring. With this code in place he’ll by no means have the ability to harm you or your holders. pic.twitter.com/3Xb4iC5eND
— cygaar (@cygaar_dev) August 10, 2022
In an August 10 tweet, the Azuki developer advised NFT mission house owners who’re bored with seeing Aoki purchase into their initiatives and the ground worth dropping so as to add the code to their contract.
“With this code in place he’ll by no means have the ability to harm you or your holders.”
In the meantime, NFT initiatives like Edgehogs have additionally jokingly included codes to stop Aoki from shopping for their mission.
Hey @steveaoki we heard you are well-known for bringing unhealthy luck to #NFT initiatives.
We’ve got taken care of that 😂 pic.twitter.com/LfXqNYicFG
— Edͩgeͤhͪoͦgs ⛓🦔 (@EdgehogsNFT) April 29, 2022
What’s the Aoki Curse?
In keeping with neighborhood members, the ground worth of an NFT assortment tends to drop every time the movie star DJ pronounces its buy.
The state of affairs has performed out a number of occasions, which has led to the NFT neighborhood calling the phenomenon a “curse”
For instance, after Aoki purchased the Moonbirds NFTs, the ground worth of the gathering tanked from over 30 ETH to 22 ETH.
The identical state of affairs performed out when he purchased Azuki NFTs. The gathering had a peak ground worth of 36 ETH, which fell considerably after Aoki revealed he had bought the gathering.
Is the Aoki Curse actual?
Whereas some throughout the neighborhood assume the Aoki curse is actual, the decline in worth of a lot of the NFTs he purchased is explainable.
Within the case of the Azuki NFTs, Aoki aped into the gathering across the similar interval the gathering’s founder publicly admitted that he had deserted three completely different initiatives earlier than creating Azuki.
In the meantime, a few of his purchases occurred throughout the thick of the industry-wide crypto market crash alongside the decline in NFT buying and selling exercise. All of this performed a job within the declining worth of a few of these NFT collections.
Aoki stays an avid NFT collector
Regardless of the parable about his NFT acquisitions, Aoki stays a prime NFT collector with initiatives like Azuki, Bored Apes, Moonbirds, Goblintown, 3Landers, and so forth., in his assortment.
Apart from being an avid collector, Aoki additionally has his personal NFT avatar assortment on The Sandbox. Earlier than that, he launched the Dream Catcher collection and created the A0K1VERSE.