The idea was birthed in a tweet

opepfp?

— Jack Butcher (@jackbutcher) February 20, 2023

It was released as a free mint where the mint reached 15,984 - 16 short of 16,000. To clean up the math and simplify the mechanics, 16 were minted to the current "one" check holders.

The "Opt-in" process is the reveal process for this collections.

80 Opepens will be revealed at a time and there will be 200 waves of reveal as 80 x 200 = 16,000 (total # of Opepens)

Each wave will consist of a different artist and each wave will have a different style for each edition.

Each wave will have 80 Opepens revealed and specific number equal to the edition numbers. I.e. In wave 001 there will only be 40 "Forty Edition" Opepens revealed in that wave.

For each wave there will only be a reveal if over 2 times of the allocation per editions size "opts-in". This guarantees demands for each wave and empowers the users to pick which wave they want to be a part of

This is Jack Butchers take on the "PFP" collection but his bet on the future of this category of NFTs.

Jack's theory is we are currently in the "aesthetic led pfp meta" but as commodification of image making, contract deployment, etc drives cost to launch to close to zero this meta will die. The lesssson to learn from this is the idea of a collection is more important than the actual images.

aesthetics matter and always will

but my bet is that the speed of image generation in particular will compress cycles of relevance exponentially

so we go a layer deeper than style, and arrive at symbol pic.twitter.com/3kYYhvLAeK

— Jack Butcher (@jackbutcher) April 17, 2023

The symbol being the easily recognizable geometric shape of Opepens.