The Mad Lads are working to get Solana back on track

It has been a while since the Solana NFT ecosystem was up against certain obstacles. This forced deGods, as well as y00t’s collections, to move off the blockchain. The same was the case with the premier Solana marketplace, Magic Eden, which had trouble satisfying both creators and collectors. Even die-hard supporters of the blockchain seemed to have been in a quandary.

A similar event had taken place in the case of ETH, where all it took was a single NFT project to bring about a revival. Now this is happening with Solana in the form of a fresh, innovative collection that goes by the name Mad Lads and which will help bring Solana back on track.

At first glance, Mad Lads is just another PFP pool and has 10,000 NFTs. The mint price for each NFT in the collection is 6.9 SOL. The collection comes with different humanoid PFPS with separate clothing styles, as well as weapons, accessories and much more. There is also the inclusion of unique biological traits that represent celestial, as well as robotic and undead personas.

Solana’s architectural development company, Coral, was responsible for the construction of the project. The most important players here were Armani Ferrante and Tristan Yver. The fallout of Mad Lads was through Backpack, which is an all-encompassing wallet application, once again built by Coral. This was also Backpack’s way of getting back into Solana. The backpack is built around executable NFTS (xNFTs). These are non-fungible tokens that come with executable programming scripts. In other words, they are platforms for usable Web3 applications. Backpack also manages the private keys and creates a link with apps. Using the wallet, holders can get connected with token-gated content.

The developers of Backpack managed to build two individualistic coining portals, one for humans and the other for robots. General users were encouraged to use the minting site, while those who reverse-engineered the code were targeted for a honeypot. This was an intended distraction to help fool the threats and force them to spend the mint price on an artificial coin, from which they gained nothing.

However, this artificial contract managed to accumulate almost $250,000 worth of SOL. All this helped to increase secondary sales. In less than a day’s time, an amount of more than 8 million dollars was generated. This even prompted the founders of Solana, Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal, to become collectors. Currently, the collection has become a great asset to Backpack, as well as xNFTs and the Solana network on which it was created.