Update Oct 23: the mint has been extended for another 24 hours, meaning it now ends on October 24th at 6 PM UTC, and you now don’t need to create an account on the marketplace to participate!
Sci-fi franchise and blockchain gaming platform Unioverse is hosting a limited-time Starfighter Genesis sale since October 20th, and there’s now about 24 hours left to mint your NFT for 10,000 $UNIO tokens before minting closes and the supply becomes officially capped.
What Is a Unioverse Genesis Starfighter?
Genesis Starfighters are customizable and interoperable playable spaceships part of the ever-growing ecosystem of Unioverse games. This NFT supports user-generated designs, meaning that holders actually start off with a ‘blank’ ship and use a variety of creator tools to make it look the way they want, allowing for owners to truly make their spaceships look unique. You can choose different shapes for various parts of the ship, paint it with the colors of your choosing, add numerous decals, and more.
The platform’s Twitter/X account has been sharing various beautiful custom designs made so far by the community, so if you want to get an idea of how much customization variety there is, then you’ll want to have a look at this tweet, as well as this one, and this cool Magic Eden-branded ship created by the platform’s team. The video below also gives you a great preview of what it’s like to personalize your game-ready NFT.
Thanks to its interoperability, the ship’s unique design and all the achievements you manage to get with your NFT will carry over to future web3 games in this futuristic universe.
It looks like this Genesis series will have multiple generations of NFT collections, with the ships being minted in this sale representing Generation 1 assets. According to the announcement on the official website, future generations will have a “totally different design.”
How to Mint Unioverse Genesis Starfighters & Join $1K Creator Competition
To mint a Generation 1 Genesis Starfighter, you will have to head to the Unioverse marketplace and pay 10,000 Unio Coins ($UNIO) on the Base network to successfully get a blank ship NFT. That’s around $40 worth of tokens at the time of writing. The Unio Coin was introduced in April this year and launched at the end of September 2024, and is now available on a couple of centralized exchanges, including KuCoin, Bitget, Gate.io, MEXC, and CoinsPH.
As the sale kicked off on October 20th at 18:00 UTC, there is now about 24 hours left at the time of writing to participate in this limited-time mint. The total supply is determined based on the number of participants in this sale. Once the sale is over, the supply will be capped, so the more people that take part in this mint, the bigger the total supply will actually be.
The marketplace link to the minting page is here, as well as in the official announcement. To access the mint page, you will need to sign up using your mobile phone number. The developers are using Twilio’s authentication system for this process in order to verify users and prevent botting.
Once you’ve signed up, connect your wallet holding enough $UNIO on the Base chain and simply press the “Buy Now” button to begin minting your desired amount. You can choose to mint 1, 5, or 10 at a time.
Successfully minting this NFT will give you a Starfighter blank asset that you can assemble and paint on to give it a unique appearance. You don’t have to do this straight away though. Everyone will have at least a year to customize their blank spaceship to their liking before the design gets locked in.
If you miss out on this sale, then you might be able to get a blank Genesis Starfighter from a secondary marketplace.
Those who love to get creative may want to hop in the Starfighter Creator competition, which you automatically enter by minting a blank ship. This official Unioverse contest lasts for one week after minting is over, and you can submit your design by heading to the official forums linked in the announcement tweet. The winner will be rewarded with $1K worth of $UNIO, while the top 3 are set to be showcased across social media platforms.
