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The Genopets Habitat unique minting process began on Solana on April 4th and the crafting window will be open for a full month. This gives all long-standing community members plenty of time to gather up the necessary ingredients and mint their new lands.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n For Genopets holders, April 4th was a good day. It was, quite literally, the dawn of a new world. The popular NFT project introduced self-contained Habitats for holders of Genopets to mint and own. If you aren\u2019t familiar with the project already, here\u2019s an image of the Genopet avatar.<\/p>\n Genopets\u2019 creators describe Habitats are \u2018beautiful generative 3D landscape NFTs that promote the enhancement and evolution of your Genopet and unlock your ability to earn KI regularly\u2019. The artwork certainly lives up to this description.\u00a0<\/p>\n There are five elemental classes of Habitat:<\/p>\n By owning a Habitat, players can harvest unrefined crystals that spawn within it. Specific elemental classes give holders specific crystal types. Using the Habitat Laboratory, the player can then refine (mint) these crystals.\u00a0<\/p>\n Once this is done, there are two options: players can sell their crystals on the open market or apply them to their Genopet to change its appearance or unlock new movesets.\u00a0<\/p>\n Once a player has harvested and refined all the crystals they want, they try to swap their Habitat with another user in a mutually beneficial trade. Or, if you just love the piece of land you own, you can keep it.<\/p>\n Since the Habitat minting process launched, activity on the secondary markets has been intense. Over at Magic Eden, one of the biggest Solana marketplaces, there are 328 listed Genopets Habitats, with a current floor price of 16.5 SOL ($1,701 at the time of writing).<\/p>\n The average sale price in the past 24 hours is slightly higher though, currently sitting at 16.47 SOL ($1,698). The total volume of Habitats traded is 9,944 SOL ($1,033,181).<\/p>\n The Habitat NFTs have sustained these high prices since appearing on the secondary markets, a sign of the strong support the Genopets project enjoys. This high demand, though, is coupled with low supply. And we all know where that leads.\u00a0<\/p>\n Technically, the minting process is open for anyone to take part in. But in order to do so, a user needs five crystals, one terraform seed and 10 GENE to do it. For someone to buy these things on the secondary markets would cost around $700. So really, it\u2019s the devoted community who have endured from the beginning who will be supplying the booming secondary market with newly-minted Habitats.<\/p>\n The Genopets project began in August 2021 as the world\u2019s first Move-to-Earn NFT game. Its goal is to incentivize an active lifestyle by rewarding players with XP points when they get up and get moving.<\/p>\n The Genopets platform tracks users\u2019 movements via their smartphone or fitness wearables. And the more a person moves about, the more mature a Genopets grows and the more valuable they become.<\/p>\n\n
What players will get<\/h2>\n
\nWhat we know of the mint so far<\/h2>\n
What is the Genopets project?<\/h2>\n