Be curious. Be creative.
Meet Lastraum
LASTRAUM’S MANTRA IS “CREATIVITY AND CURIOSITY,”
and he started exploring these concepts in late 2020 within the Decentraland ecosystem. He created an unofficial Dominos kiosk in the metaverse; you pay with crypto, type your address, and a real life pizza will be delivered from a nearby Dominos location. Mind blown!
Diving deeper into the creativity, Lastraum saw the need to help educate people on creating better content within Decentraland. This led him to create Last Slice in April 2020 - as an educational project to help on board more content creators into the Decentraland SDK, but also a challenge for himself to create an nft and token gate a discord.
His discord started without the nft, and he was engaging with members searching for better educational content. One of the members, Nicole Nixon, created the current nft image of the pizza box (keeping with the pizza theme from the Dominos kiosk).
It took two weeks to sell out the first batch of 50 nfts.
The discord was buzzing and every Sunday there would be live coding sessions with whoever could attend. The nft members were active Decentraland community members, and they also become closer digital friends through the nft discord.
More and more people wanted focused education, so the collective group decided to release 50 more nfts two months later: these sold out in 3 days. The discord continued to expand and more talented individuals started to join, collaborate, and create.
In 2021, many nft projects had “metaverse” on their “roadmaps” and were eagerly looking to fulfill these imposed obligations. Last Slice began building content for some of these popular nft projects (Deadheads, Chibi Apes, Crypto Citizens).
The popularity of the social aspect just as much as the building aspect began to take off. The collective again decided to sell more slices, and 50 were released: it took 3 seconds to sell out.
By the fall of 2021, Last Slice was getting inbound requests from marketing agencies to look at building experiences for their clients. The first major one being Samsung, and the rest is history…