For NFT pros - how do you define or quantify "rare" or "ultra-rare" in a collection? What are the cut-offs? Looking for something quantifiable and not feeling-based, if possible. Thanks for any and all thoughts!
Let's say this is a there's a property on an NFT collection called color. It determines the color of the NFT: blue, red, yellow, etc.
In total, there are 20 different colors that the NFT can be. But each one is equally rare.
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That would mean that there's a 5% chance that an NFT has a certain color. Which sounds like a rare trait, but then you realize every NFT has one of these "rare traits," so holding one isn't all that valuable.
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Now, let's say there's a "sword" property on the NFT and it determines whether the NFT is holding a sword or not. Let's say 30% of all NFT's get swords.
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Even though the 30% is a much higher chance than the 5% we get with the color, it actually matters a lot more than the 5%.
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This all seems simple with this perfect example I gave: "just pick the NFT that has a sword and ignore the color" but things are a little more complicated in reality:
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An NFT collection might have a property "headgear" and the trait rarities are 5%, 10%, 13%, 35%, 37%. Multiply this by 20 different properties and it's quite difficult to know what the TRUE rareness of your NFT is.
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