Cyberbrokers

CyberBrokers is a creative NFT project building a cyberpunk world set 200 years in the future, where pockets of humanity survive beneath a frozen earth and plug into a metaverse called The Paradigm Lost. The team needed a site that could scale with their vision and act as the central hub for the lore, onboarding newcomers smoothly while letting dedicated fans dive deeper.

The brief we set ourselves was to make the site more than a place to store the stories. It had to be a location the stories happen within.

The UI takes its cues from futuristic operating systems, with influences including GMUNK, Star Wars, Fallout, and Snow Crash. The result is a retro-futuristic holographic interface that feels degraded and glitchy, patched together across two centuries. Randomised text effects, graininess, satirical content, and malfunctioning patterns run throughout.

Because the NFTs themselves are highly colourful, we set a darker base to let them carry the colour. A theming system responds to the content on each page and serves a complementary palette to the UI around it, so artwork always leads and the interface never competes with the thing being sold.

The homepage puts users inside the metaverse's database, surrounded by characters, giant mechs, and cyberpunk relics. Objects can be picked up and examined, then used as an entry point deeper into the site: 10,001 character profiles, AI-generated locations, or data chips holding the latest chapters of the canon.

Background stickers are treated as cyberpunk graffiti drawn from the lore, and the Locations pages read as live feeds from a fictional future, as though surveyed through high-tech binoculars with breaking news scrolling past.