PortalDAO brings artists, village builders, and crypto enthusiasts together to create and fund meaningful, regenerative, protopian projects.
PortalDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization that is stewarded through a collection of NFTs called Archetypes, which give its holders special benefits.
PortalDAO’s 3 key activities
Archetypes NFTs are the keys to PortalDAO. They are required for accessing the Runes – Journey, Gift, Gathering, and Wisdom. Each of the Runes gives its holders special perks.
Archetypes are ancient parts of the human psyche. They’re different modes of being that helped our ancestors survive and thrive. Archetypes go to the core of human experience. They’re a part of our collective unconscious, which is why they’re so ingrained in our myths and stories, where they appear in the form of characters.
Each Archetype represents a deep and ancient force in the human psyche: ingenuity, inventiveness, attunement, discipline, wisdom, curiosity…
Which Archetype will you choose to embody?
The materials that each Archetype is made out of are named after archetypal processes of transformation, such as mutation, growth, insight, grief, clarity, and awe. The materials themselves are also archetypal – fire, water, air, earth, blood, gold, and many others.
The Archetypes appear in one of three stages.
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The 6 archetypal masks chosen for Season 1 of the project are:
Season 2 Archetypes will be:
A community of creators and mythmakers, competitions with prizes, project proposals, treasure hunts, new NFT collections, and whatever else the community will dream up.
Anyone can join the public area, but only Archetype holders can vote on competitions, access the private areas and have special privileges.
Each Archetype NFT was handcrafted by a group of 6 artists over the course of a year, using Adobe Illustrator, After Effects, Element 3D, Blender, Unreal Engine, 3DS Max, and Logic Pro.
The mask designs were inspired by traditional hand-carved wooden masks from cultures around the world. Each mask represents one of the 6 archetypes.
The designs around the Archetype masks were meant to be ornate doorways leading to new worlds, with the archetypes as guardians to those worlds. The background of each Archetype is a conceptual design for a protopian village built to exist in harmony with nature.
There are 3 ways to buy an Archetype:
The music of each archetype was composed to encourage the listener to embody each archetype through meditation.
The overall design of the archetypes was crafted to be ornate and proudly displayed. All of the designs were created in such a way that the industrious maker can feed the vector files into a CNC machine, laser cutter, or a 3D printer to create their own wall art.
The symbols in each of the doorways are designed after the 4 elements, and signify hidden meaning, purpose, and benefits for its owner.
Art simplifies complex ideas. Art communicates truth. Art makes uncomfortable ideas more palatable. Art attracts people. Art makes places more livable.
Therefore, art is a great starting point for bringing people together and building villages.
NFTs are a new medium for delivering that art, and potentially funding the building of those villages. NFTs also make for great “access keys” to DAOs, places where people can coordinate in a decentralized way and build cool things.
