Night Watch is an art collection of 455 animated impossible animal trios strolling about in a mysterious void. Each animation has 15 frames, and each frame of each animation is an NFT. By collecting the same frames of an animation in the same wallet, you form an animation of those frames. Your goal is to complete the animation by collecting all 15 frames.

A trio is made up of three animals, and each trio has its own unique animation/gif. These trios form the foundation of Night Watch.

Each frame of the 455 trio animations is an NFT that can be traded and merged. By collecting the same frames of an animation into a single wallet, you can form an animation from those frames.

Night Watch has an initial supply of 6,825 tokens. However, the on-chain game of Night Watch makes the collection deflationary, meaning the supply will decrease over time. In theory, the total supply can drop to as few as 455 if all the frames are merged.

Night Watch has 455 unique animal trio animations. As the frames are merged, more animations are generatively created to accurately depict the frames of a token.

Night Watch features 455 unique animal trio animations. Each animation consists of 15 frames. As each frame is represented by an NFT, this totals 455x15=6825 tokens.

The merge mechanism allows the distributed frames of Night Watch to reconnect when they are in the same wallet. This merge operates seamlessly, thanks to our smart contract, you don't need to do anything other than collect frames of the same animal trio in one wallet.

When you collect the frames of the same animal trio in the same wallet, the token with the lower ID is updated with frames from the token with the higher ID. Afterward, the token with the higher id will be burned to complete the merge. All this occurs automatically through the smart contract and the metadata servers.

Yes you can! You can simulate the merge above to see how it works.

You can use OpenSea's or other marketplace's search filters to find animation frames similar to yours. For example, if you have trio id 223 (you can find this number on your token's page in the marketplace), search for tokens with trio 223 to see which other tokens you can merge with yours.

There are 15 unique animals in Night Watch:

• Caretta
• Elephant
• Tortoise
• Lemur
• Seahorse
• Seal
• Giraffe
• Lion
• Whale
• Unicorn
• Penguin
• Panda
• Dolphin
• Rhino
• Gorilla

Rarity in Night Watch is dynamic. The simplest metric is the frame count of a token. However, there are several psychological layers to consider. For instance, if someone aims to collect every frame of an animation, a token with just one frame could be highly valuable. Ultimately, the community will determine the rarity.

You can find our official links below. Please do not trust any other social media account or links other than these:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/nightwatch_art
• Discord: https://discord.gg/nightwatch
• OpenSea: https://opensea.io/collection/nightwatchwalks
• GitHub: https://github.com/NightWatchWalks
• Mirror (Kaybid): https://mirror.xyz/kaybid.eth
• Mirror (Yigit Duman): https://mirror.xyz/yigitduman.eth
• Instagram (Kaybid): https://instagram.com/Kaybid
• Contract Address: 0xEf0b00d38eED201733F2AA6328e5f56891A57BB2
• ENS:

impossibletrios.eth, nightwatchwalks.eth

• Domains:

nightwatch.art, impossibletrios.art, impossibletrios.com, impossibletrios.xyz, nightwatchwalks.xyz

Night Watch is on the Ethereum blockchain. Also, we chose ERC721 token standard for our collection.

The two-step process is designed to ensure the randomness of the transaction. First, you purchase and reserve your tokens. We then wait for 1 block to be mined. After that, we use the blockhash of that block as a randomness seed to determine the tokens you receive. Finally, you claim your reserved tokens to have them transferred to your wallet. This ensures a transparent and random distribution of the tokens.

Night Watch has a different mechanism for distributing tokens. All tokens are minted at launch and sent to the Night Watch vault. They are then distributed via the Vendor smart contract. This is because Night Watch tokens need to be minted and fully visible to start the game.

Yes, Night Watch is entirely open source. You can check our GitHub to find the source codes for our smart contract, website, off-chain tools, and metadata server. However, the artworks, animations and visuals are not public domain. If you have an idea or collaboration in mind, you can reach out to Kaybid to discuss.

Of course! You can read more about how Night Watch works in our Technical Breakdown article.

There are many layers of randomness in Night Watch. First, we assign a random unique id to each trio using our mapping tool. We use the blockhash of the Night Watch contract deployment block as the seed for randomness. Then, we randomly assign a trio id and a frame to each token. This randomness is ensured by the same seed. The randomness of the purchase events are ensured by the seed of the block following the purchase block. In this manner, Night Watch remains completely transparent at every level of distribution.

Yes, we did. We employed a bitmapping method, which you can learn about in our Technical Breakdown article. This method allows us to reduce the gas usage of the merge function by more than 50%. However, since Night Watch is a unique project with special functions like merge, the transfer gas fee is higher than in regular NFT projects. We did our best to keep the gas fees low, but unfortunately, creativity comes with a cost on Ethereum. The gas fees are slightly higher than regular projects.

Yes, and it's encouraged! Our smart contracts and the game are open source; you can build on them as much as you want! However, the artworks, animations and visuals are not public domain, but if you have an idea, you can reach out to Kaybid and work it out!

Night Watch has been designed with decentralization in mind and can be considered sufficiently decentralized. However, due to the current limitations of the Ethereum blockchain, we can only offer a partially decentralized experience. Our metadata servers are currently hosted on the cloud. Nevertheless, we have plans for the future to transition to a fully decentralized structure. We constructed our smart contract with this future shift in mind, ensuring that the metadata server is upgradeable. We plan to initiate the switch once Layer 2 solutions become more prevalent or practical.

Since Night Watch uses a more complex transfer function, some users may experience more gas usage than a regular NFT. You don't need to worry about gas usage if you have less than 13-14 trios in the same wallet. However, if you are holding more than that, you can keep the transfer gas low by keeping different trios in separate wallets.