100 1/1s · neon line art + cartoon · by @NftRaffi
Big Belugas is 100 one-of-one belugas, #000 to #099, built from a last .012 SOL. Every one has its own name and its own little story. It's about starting small, surviving, and swimming together.
Start small. Swim together. 🐋
Teaser · 10s 🐋
The story
In November 2025, my wallet said .012 SOL. Not 12 SOL. Point-zero-one-two. I'd just been rugged in the Solana trenches. 😭 I could have logged off for good. Instead I picked up a pen.
I was a mod and collab manager around pump.fun and fomo, helping launches, hyping friends, watching charts go vertical and then go to zero. One day the zero was mine. So I posted that I was leaving Solana with my last .012 SOL, half joke, half goodbye. That same month I pitched CZ with nothing but a dream and a terrible wallet balance.
Then I did the only thing left to do: I rebuilt. Line art every day. Vibe-coding my own tools. Making brand kits for other builders. Playing piano covers at night. About 110 followers, zero shortcuts, still building.
Why belugas? Belugas live in pods. They talk to each other constantly, they travel together, and they survive the cold by sticking close. That's the whole collection in one sentence. Nobody swims alone.
This whole thing started small: .012 SOL, one pen, about 110 followers. It grows the way a pod does, one beluga at a time. Start small. Swim together.
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The pod code
Nobody swims alone. The pod wins together or not at all.
Every beluga is a 1/1 with its own name and story. The art comes first.
No floor promises, no panic price cuts. Keep drawing, keep building.
Got rugged once. Never doing it to you. One official link, no surprise airdrops.
Cartoon lifestyle art from the socials. Promo pieces, not part of the 100.
The pod
Every beluga is the only one of its kind. Filter by trait, search by name, number or story, and tap one to meet it.
No beluga matches that. Try another filter. 🐋
Hand-curated
1/1 gift#000
The first beluga wears a gold hard hat, carries a hammer, and stacks glowing blocks on Builder's Reef "so the whole pod always has somewhere to grow." It's a 1/1 gift for CZ, a thank-you to the builders who made this free, open internet worth fighting for.
No strings attached, and no endorsement implied. Builders build. Full page →
Not for sale#013
This one's mine. #013 runs the shoreline at Condado Beach in San Juan, Puerto Rico: red gloves up, gold chain swinging, shades on, shadowboxing the surf at sunrise. Pure bad-boy energy. He got knocked down in the trenches like the rest of us, then laced up and kept swinging. Manifesting destiny and victory, one jab at a time. 🥊
Real science: belugas can recognize themselves in mirrors. A PLOS One study published May 20, 2026 (reported by National Geographic) saw them doing barrel rolls, “pec shimmies”, and blowing and biting bubbles at their own reflections. #013 looked in the mirror and saw a champion.
#013 stays with me. It's my reminder that I didn't quit. Full page →
Fight week in San Juan. Tap a piece to see it big.
Work in progress
Big Belugas is a mix of neon line art and a cartoon edition. Here are the first cartoon drafts. Same belugas, softer water. These are drafts, not final art, and more are on the way.
Chain reveal
I haven't locked it in yet, and I want to be straight with you about the options. It could be one of these, or a combo. Reveal coming soon. 👀
Fits the free-internet, privacy-first ideals I care about most. NFTs there are still early: native private NFTs aren't available on Zcash today, and Zcash NFTs right now are Zerdinals inscriptions.
Where I came from, and where most of my people still are. Cheap mints, great tools, and a comeback story that writes itself.
Went live this summer. EVM-based, OpenSea already supports it, and its builders are openly saying memes are welcome.
Pods travel together. The final answer: [CHAIN]
Roadmap
No roadmap cope, no floor promises. Just the route from here to mint, and a little past it. Anything not locked in yet shows as a placeholder. 😭
30 Founder Invites + 10 BB Invites. DM @NftRaffi with the beluga you'd want and why. Invite holders pick their beluga.
“CZ The Builder”, a 1/1 gift. No endorsement implied.
Solana, Zcash, Robinhood Chain or a combo. The answer: [CHAIN]
The Condado Bad Boy, revealed on the 13th. Obviously. 🥊
60 public · [PRICE] · [CHAIN] · on BigBelugas.com only.
Same belugas, softer water. Drafts are up.
#099 is the last number in this pod. Holders see what's next first. 👀
Mint
The only official mint link lives on BigBelugas.com. I will never DM you first, and I will never ask for your seed phrase.
Transparency
Belugas move in silence. Start small, swim together.
Resale royalty · 35%
If you sell, we'll remember.
HODL with honor. Swim with the pod.
A 35% creator royalty on resales. Royalty enforcement depends on the marketplace, and some cap creator royalties lower or make them optional.
How to get an invite
Start small: tell me which beluga you'd want, and why. 30 Founder Invites and 10 BB Invites go out before the public mint, and invite holders pick their beluga from the gallery, first come, first served.
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