This is the Bond Bear equivalent article and is needed for BearGate and InfinityGate.

Henlo, please note everything written after this statement may, or may not be, psyops. This is written for education and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Most of this was written by Napzilla who has a lot of bear jpegs and edited by Janitooor who also has a lot of bear jpegs and is also a seed investor in Berachain. Remember anon, do your own psyops.

Every so often, an NFT project comes along and changes everything. In the earlier days of Ethereum, CryptoPunks kicked off the demand for jpegs on the blockchain. Later came SuperRare and Art Blocks for more curated collections. And we all know about the apes from Bored Ape Yacht Club, helping to evolve NFTs from a niche market for crypto degens into a worldwide phenomenon with A-list celebrities buying in (and getting hacked and losing their apes in increasingly novel ways).

Then came our beloved Bong Bears. The first rebasing NFT collection that rewards holders with more NFTs every few weeks - or months. Also, the first NFT project to branch out from the jpeg game to create a whole new L1 blockchain. Berachain is coming soon (maybe), and will have a whole slew of things to do within its ecosystem once it launches. A large part of this is due to its roots in the game dynamics and ponzus of DeFi and NFTFi. Not to mention an absurd, raucous cult of supporters ready to do its bidding. For an in-depth analysis of why the combination of these things will bring a prosperous result, read our article “Berachain, Cults, and the Dawn of The Honey Jar.” Indeed the stage is set for Bong Bears becoming the first NFT collection to break out of the confines of its origins (mainstream towards DeFi or DeFi towards mainstream). We’ll be digging into this in our upcoming “BeraFi: Bong Bear x NFTFi'' article.

Even with all of the innovation in NFTs over the past few years, most projects tend to stay in their own distinct lane. Sure, projects occasionally collaborate and unite communities, but generally a team focuses on their own specific product and community. And for some projects, this has worked! If we have learned anything from some of the most successful NFTs, it is that building a strong community of believers and delivering for them is the most surefire way to be prosperous in the short to medium term. But where does a successful team go from there? Delivering new derivative works and project-specific utility can only go so far. Eventually the magic can wear off and returns can diminish.

For longer term success, perhaps projects should align their incentives with the overall success of the ecosystem that they are building in. Enter The Honey Jar.

What is The Honey Jar?

There are so many things happening at all times within the crypto world. Even if you are active on CT and follow thousands of people, there will still be large projects with thousands of followers that you miss completely. Have you wished you could hire your own personal intern (or maybe GPT4.20 model) who could spend all day researching and grinding whitelists for quality up-and-coming projects? Have you ever been a project founder looking to summon a magical elf that could curate a list of high-quality engaged community members? So when you release your token or NFT, your airdrop would yield the most bang for your buck, and avoid getting farmed and dumped to zero. Have you been an L1 wanting to build a deranged and loyal fan base without spending a single satoshi on marketing (which coincidentally is The Berachain Foundation’s marketing expenditure to date)? Well anon, The Honey Jar may well be the thing you have been wishing for.

The Honey Jar is an unofficial community NFT project, situated at the heart of the Berachain ecosystem, which hosts a number of games. When we say games, we mean them in the sense of meta metagame as outlined in our earlier piece as well as games in the traditional sense. The lore draws influence from the Bong Bears and the wider Berachain ecosystem. It is built by the beras for the beras. Ooga booga.

A lil mad honey side quest

Before we go on, a side quest. The bear market has been rocky anon, well done for making it this far. Come in, take off your cloak, put your feet up by the fire and have a goblet of Honey Mead and let us tell you a tale. On the Winter Solstice - December 21, 2022, whilst deep in the forests of Witch country, the ancestral lands of Rumpelstiltskin, the idea for The Honey Jar struck Janitor like a full-body vision, as if having eaten a heroic dose of Mad Honey. He saw the image of Glitch Bear disappearing into a cave and being slowly enveloped by Honeycomb made of code. Only once the last piece of Honeycomb snapped into place did Spring arrive and Glitch Bear awakened. Glitch, ravenous after his hibernation, then made his way to eat some honeycomb. A piece of honeycomb had fermented, becoming Mad Honey. “Oh, Henlo, and furthermore, Ooga Booga '' said Glitch to himself. “This must be the most Special Honeycomb in all the Land '' as he proceeded to break his winter fast on this food of the gods. And so it was that Glitch, in cult-like religious ecstasy embarked on his next adventure, with new frens.

Whilst clearly a hallucination of an astrological bent, the seeds for this delusion were sown over a year earlier in November 2021, when Janitooor swept the infamous Glitch bera from the floor. Even back then, Glitch was envisioned as someday being a bear of the people. At first, the plan was to send Glitch into the world's largest Gnosis Safe (which ended up proving impractical) but the universe had much bigger plans for him. We do love a twin, an oddity, a jester. It could be said that the fate of Glitch was etched into the blockchain the moment Smokey, Shaman of Bera Shenanigans - our very own Loki, high as a kite, “accidentally” inscribed #84 as a duplicate in August of 2021, as if to say “Ooga Booga fren, your fate is sealed - let the chaos proceed”. The Honey Jar is the ultimate realization of the spirit of the Genesis of Glitch in his Hero’s Journey.

As if possessed by the Archetype of Mother Bear (with all her strength, introspection and the power of the death/rebirth cycle), Janitor den transformed into Nick Furry and over the next few days assembled a crack squad of the best of the best from the bera universe.

“There was an idea, @FWCrypto_ knows this, called the @0xhoneyjar. The idea was to bring together a group of remarkable people, to see if they could become something more. See if they could work together when we needed them to to fight the battles that we never could.”

Everything you have read about The Honey Jar and everything which has been produced, has been pulled together by this crack squad since December 21, 2022 (with alotta help from GPT4.20). And they’ll be ready to launch The Honey Jar on a meme date, sometime thooon, on an internet connection near you.

Technically speaking, what is The Honey Jar?

Now, where were we? Technically speaking, The Honey Jar is made up of a number of immutable smart contracts initially hosted on the Ethereum blockchain, as it’s technically quite difficult to launch on a non-existent chain. It also has a website, hosted on the world wide web, which anons can use to interface with the games and contracts.

The NFT itself is called Honeycomb. It is an ERC-721 token which is created by the smart contract once it has been supplied with an OG Bong Bear. The mechanics of the mint and the utility of the NFT will be discussed in detail below.

The Honey Jar will run games in Seasons. Each game will create a new generation of mintable Honeycomb. Each mint will begin with the Hibernation of an OG Bong Bear (with more gud jpegs coming thooon). Honeycombs will be able to be used to vote within The Honey Jar system (more on this in a later article) and to get access to free claims in subsequent Hibernation games (more on this below).

We like to call The Honey Jar a call option on the Berachain ecosystem. What does this mean? To put it simply, it is the easiest way for entrants to gain exposure to the full breadth of the projects and protocols building on Berachain. That being said, if you can afford a bear, they really are very good jpegs.

Why is this Important?

As noted earlier, the normal NFT project paradigm consists of a team building and delivering for their specific project community. The Honey Jar flips this model on its head by providing benefits not only to those who hold the NFT, but also to a large percentage of projects building on Berachain… and even Berachain itself. But what do we mean by benefits?

For NFT Holders: The Honey Jar aggregates perks from many projects building within the ecosystem, and provides them to the Honeycomb holders. It gives anons a relatively inexpensive way to gain exposure to much of what is being built on Berachain, all without having to do excessive research into dozens of projects. It’s like having a dedicated BD team working for you, maximizing your value.

For Bera Projects: The Honey Jar aims to solve the age-old problem of identifying wallet addresses connected to degens who are actively engaged in the ecosystem, rather than giving airdrops to CT replyguys who are not actually invested in or aligned with the success of your project. This provides projects with an audience to target for potential airdrops, discounts, whitelists, early access, and anything else they can dream up. Honeycomb holders will be a much larger and decentralized group to work with, as opposed to the lucky few who hold the gud bera jpegs (though we’re working hard to mek sure The Honey Jar is a bery gud thing for Bong Bear OGs too).

For Berachain: The Honey Jar has been built from scratch to show the power of the bera community. By bringing new entrants into the bera community, the strength of Cult as a Service (Attention as a Service) grows. Who needs a marketing budget when there are thousands of degenerates willing to do the marketing for you?

The average NFT utility isn’t particularly impressive. Some allow holders to stake their NFTs to earn yield. Some provide fee reduction on a single DeFi protocol. But buying 20 different NFTs to get 20 different benefits can get tedious… and expensive. Wouldn’t it be much better to buy one NFT and receive benefits from many different projects and protocols? With The Honey Jar, Honeycomb holders will have a whole host of perks available to them, courtesy of our partnooors.

Here are just a few potential (and definitely not real) benefits to Honeycomb holders:
Earn extra yield from vaults

• Receive reduction in fees from swap protocols

• Access special items in NFT games

• Have extra votes in protocol governance

• Receive increased referral incentives

• Collect free NFT mints

And that’s just the tip of the hypothetical honeyberg!

What Games are There?

We mentioned that there will be games. There are two main types of games hosted by The Honey Jar.

1. Retro Games

   1. These can be found on the website. Do bears like easter eggs too?

   2. Winners of these games within set time periods will win spots on the PartnooorGate free claim lists when the next Hibernation Honeycomb Generation event happens

   3. The Honey Jar is willing to host minigame versions of any of our partner projects games

2. Hibernation Games

   1. A Hibernation game begins when the Head Beekeeper supplies the Honey Jar with an OG Bong Bear (support for more gud jpegs thooon). The Bong Bear enters The Honey Jar Cave and begins its hibernation. This act of hibernation triggers the creation of a new generation of Honeycomb NFTs

   2. A limited number of Honeycomb NFTs are available for free claim by eligible wallets, and the rest for purchase by general mint

   3. Once all Honeycomb have been minted, Spring will begin and one of the Honeycomb will undergo magic fermentation to become Special Honeycomb which can wake up the OG Bear from its slumber. Once the Special Honeycomb is used to claim, the OG Bong Bear will then live in this anon’s wallet

      1. If Honeycomb never sells out, then the OG Bong Bear will forever slumber in the Honey Jar Cave. The contracts, and thus the cave, are immutable

How Can I Get Honeycomb?

There are three ways to get your grubby little paws on Honeycomb:

1. Free claim and Early mint (this is just early access to General mint)

2. General mint

3. Secondary markets

The Honeycomb available through each of these avenues are the same. There are no tiers to Honeycomb. All are equal in the eyes of The Honey Jar.

1. Free Claim and Early Mint:

The Honey Jar has iterated on the AirLock design created by the Apeliens Larvae NFT project. In their design, the AirLock was a way to supply partner communities with passwords to AirLocks ahead of general mint, which would allow these communities to get early access to minting before it became open to the general public. The Honey Jar has introduced the notion of gates, a 0 to 1 innovation in the NFT space, which are allowlisted with the following logic. Here are the ways you can be eligible to claim free Honeycomb:

1. The InfinityGate (IG)

   1. A wallet is eligible for one Honeycomb if it holds one of each of the digital collectible versions of each of the articles which have been released at time of game initiation.

   2. This is the only gate which is not first come, first serve but must be claimed before General Mint mints out else the free claim will become mintable as part of the General Mint

   3. The InfinityGate will be the first gate which opens (along with BearGate), and will be open for 24 hours before the FrenGate and the PartnooorGate opens

   4. Eligible wallets will have access to the free claim as well as early mint (this is just early access to General mint)

   5. Those who meet InfinityGate criteria will also be eligible for BearGate and FrenGate.

• The BearGate (BG)

  1. A wallet is eligible for one Honeycomb per rebase of the Bong Bear collection that is in the wallet

  2. A wallet is eligible for one Honeycomb per digital collectible of any of the Bong Bear equivalent 0xHoneyJar articles contained in the wallet

  3. The BearGate will be the first gate which opens (along with InfinityGate), and will be open for 24 hours before The HoneyGate opens

  4. Eligible wallets will have access to the free claim as well as early mint (this is just early access to General mint)

1. The HoneyGate (HG)

   1. A wallet is eligible for each type of Honeycomb held in the wallet. Each generation of Honeycomb is considered a type

   2. The HoneyGate will be the second gate which opens (after IG and BG) and will be open for 24 hours before the FrenGate and the PartnooorGate opens

   3. Eligible wallets will have access to the free claim as well as early mint (this is just early access to General mint)

1. The FrenGate (FG)

   1. A wallet is eligible for one honeycomb for each type of token or NFT listed in the frens list

   2. Frens list is a single commingled bucket of allocation so all tokens and NFTs are competing with each other

   3. The FrenGate will open at the end of the HoneyGate period, and will be open for 24 hours before general mint

   4. Eligible wallets will have access to the free claim as well as early mint (this is just early access to General mint)

1. The PartnooorGate (PG)

   1. The Honey Jar partners with projects, protocols, and their communities. Each partnooor may supply an allowlist of wallets which will be eligible for free claims

   2. Each partner free claim allocation is non-competitive with other partners. Only those listed on a partner allowlist can access those allocated free claims

   3. A wallet is eligible for one honeycomb for each partner allowlist they are registered on

   4. Winners of The Honey Jar retro games will be added to a bucket of free claims as part of PartnooorGate

   5. The PartnooorGate will open at the end of the HoneyGate period and will be open for 24 hours before general mint

   6. Eligible wallets will have access to the free claim as well as early mint (this is just early access to General mint)

***Free Claim Limits:***The following limits will be published at the beginning of a Hibernation game:

• The maximum Honeycomb that a wallet can claim per Gate

• The minimum holding of tokens listed on the FrenGate list to be eligible for The FrenGate

When are Snapshots Taken?
A snapshot will be taken at the beginning of each Hibernation game

First Come, First ServedEach free claim gate will be on a strict first come, first served basis (except for InfinityGate). This means that you may be WL (on the allowlist) but it does not assure you will get a free claim. Being on WL does assure that you have access to early mint before the public opening of General Mint.

Which NFTs and tokens are on the Frens list?
You should check the website and docs before launch or in the meantime you can propose a project (and see the current list) here.

How many Hibernation Games do you plan to run through The Honey Jar?
Assuming the first Season of The Honey Jar is successful we plan to run Seasons until there is no longer support from the community. We have some familiar dynamics from DeFi which we will be applying into this NFTGamu experience which we think will make for an interesting experiment.

***Will the rules be the same for future games?
***Whilst we reserve the right to update the Gate and allowlist logic, at this moment in time - yes. The rules will be the same.

What is the schedule for the article digital collectibles?

2.General Mint:

General mint will cost 9.9 OHM or 0.099 ETH. There is no limit on the number of Honeycomb a wallet can purchase through this mint.

General mint opens 72 hours after the BearGate and InfinityGate opens, and 48 hours after the HoneyGate Opens and 24 hours after FrensGate and PartnooorGate opens. When the general mint bucket is exhausted, it will start to draw from any of the free claim buckets that still have available Honeycomb like a Bera Ouroboros.

3.Secondary Markets:

Anyone is free to set up a secondary market at any point. In addition, The Honey Jar team may set up liquidity via services such as Caviar, Sudoswap, and Llamalend to offer liquidity for Honeycomb. Partners may also set up pools.

Partnooorships

A foundational principle of The Honey Jar is to be a win and help win flywheel that maximizes benefits to each stakeholder in the Berachain ecosystem: the Honeycomb holders, Bong Bear holders, the projects building on Berachain and Berachain itself. Details and alfa will leak over the coming days, but at the time of writing, The Honey Jar is aiming for 33 partnerships for launch and has secured the following partnooorships:

1. AbacusDAO - NFT Lending

2. Aori - first fully collateralized, member-owned, and decentralized options protocol.

3. B2Options - Decentralized options platform

4. BabyBera Finance - NFT/Yield farming/Memecoin

5. Bera Dex - ᴀɴ ᴀᴜᴛᴏᴍᴀᴛᴇᴅ ᴍᴀʀᴋᴇᴛ ᴍᴀᴋᴇʀ (ᴀᴍᴍ) ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ʙʏ ʙᴇʀᴀꜱ, ꜰᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇʀᴀꜱ.

6. Beradrome - AMM and yield protocol

7. Bera Inu - Stickiest memecoin $BONG

8. BeraLand - Bera community hub

9. Beramonium Chronicles - NFT RPG game

10. Beranouns - Naming service

11. Caviar - NFT AMM

12. ChainBet - Decentralized betting platform

13. Crocswap - DEX

14. dAMM Finance - Transparent institutional lending platform for any token

15. Goldilocks - DeFi DAO - AMM/NFT-Fi/Yield farming

16. Gumball Protocol - NFTFi platform and NFT marketplace

17. Hibernation - Strategy engine and yield optimizer

18. Hive - Liquid staking Honey Pool - Collective prize savings protocol

19. Honeypot Finance - DEX

20. LandX - Perpetual commodity vaults protocol

21. ParagonsDAO - Economic and social partner-DAO to blockchain gaming ecosystems

22. Protecc - NFTFi Infra

23. Redacted Cartel - Empowering on-chain liquidity, governance, and cash flow for DeFi protocols

24. RnodeC - Nodes validator

25. SpiceDAO - NFT lending aggregator

26. Stacking Salmon - Decentralized lending protocol

27. TeddyBera DAO - NFT-based DAO to support Bera projects

28. TempleDAO - DeFi DAO with Wrapped Treasury Token

29. The Honey Cast - Bera podcast

30. The Honey Jar Games - Winners of game on THJ Site

31. Ursadom Labs - Berachain incubator

32. … with more still in discussion

More partnooorships are expected to be forged in the coming days. The benefits which Honeycomb holders will receive will be the topic of an upcoming article. With the success of The Honey Jar comes the success of our frens. As they say, a rising tide lifts all boats. Or perhaps, rising honey lifts all beras.

Allocations and the Future of France

The initial Hibernation Honeycomb Generation event will allocate Honeycomb in the following way:

The Honey Jar has no VCs, no team allocation, and no honoraries (fuck off bearyphus and bearmo). There is also a cap on free claims per wallet to limit the power of Bera Whales. The purpose of this approach is to achieve the widest and most decentralized distribution of Honeycomb NFTs to the Bera Cult as possible. In doing so, Honeycomb could become the most financially accessible way to gain exposure to the Berachain ecosystem.

Attestations of Smart Contracts

Smart Contract Details:
The smart contracts powering The Honey Jar have been written by GPT4.20. Some titans of the industry are peer reviewing the contracts and will make the following attestations:

• The smart contract is immutable

• Honeycomb NFTs can only be generated once the contract is supplied with an OG Bong Bear ERC-1155 token

• Honeycomb NFT is given to a degen as soon as they mint (either by free claim, early mint or general mint)

• The random selection of the Honeycomb which can be used to wake up the OG Bear uses ChainLink Oracle to ensure verifiable randomness

• There is no way for anyone, including the team, to remove the OG Bear from the cave other than through random honeycomb selection. The team cannot rug pull

• There is no way for the team to pre-mint Honeycomb Admins can remove revenue from early or general minting at any time

Wen Launch?

Thooooon. The Honey Jar’s first hibernation mint gamu will launch in 3-4 weeks pending contract reviews on a gud meme date. We will be launching from within the Berachain Community Discord, where we will be doing a live screen share of Glitch Bear being sent into the smart contract cave, potentially for forever, to initiate the opening of InfinityGate and BearGate for Season 1 of The Honey Jar. We hope you will join us in chanting “Ooga Booga and Safe Travels” to wish Glitch a safe hibernation and good luck on the next chapters of his adventure!

If none of this made any sense to you, we recommend you catch up on Bong Bears 101 and our longer piece called Berachain, Cults and the Dawn of The Honey Jar. Ooga Booga.