About Gifed

Gifed is a collection of fully on-chain generative gifs from the ethereum blockchain. Each unique token is assembled entirely by the ethereum virtual machine. This contract will become home to multiple versions exploring similar techniques. Having spent time staring at the bits and bytes of the gif format while creating my first collection, I've wondered about the possibilities of generating them on-chain. This contract will be my playground.

Nota bene. Although the supply of each version is limited at the time it's added, the collection's total supply is undetermined. To be clear, the total supply will increase with each version. I understand this may be an important factor for some collectors so consider this a warning. The contract can be locked against adding new versions but I have no plan for when that will be.

Each piece uses up to 8 bytes for the salt. The salt is what determines the output by following the rules of the algorithm. You can mint random salts or ones you've chosen. I encourage everyone to take time to explore. Nothing about this collection is fast and sometimes the unassuming ones will surprise you. Use the Explorer on the mint page to find salts you like. A connected wallet will expose a Mint Picks section where you can save potential mints across browser sessions.

The contract for this collection includes a curate function. If the current version is set to allow it, anyone is welcome to curate outputs. If one of your curated salts is minted by another collector, you will earn part of the mint fee as a commission. I've added this partly because the algorithm is capable of producing more outputs than there are eyes to see them. I also have an debilitating allergy to marketing. I hope this might incentivize exploring and sharing the odd discovered gems.

Curating is similar to minting. A curate transaction is required to store your curated salts to the contract. A Curate Picks section is available in the Explorer to help keep them organized. Once curated, your output will then be publicly available to mint from the Curated section of the mint page. A link will be provided to direct collectors to your selections. Discounts on mints will be rewarded for curating to offset the gas costs.

Due to the nature of how these gifs are animated and the moving goal post of how marketplaces display artwork, the tokenURI will include a secondary image to accompany the main work. These are intended to be used as the thumbnail images. They may not be identical to the main gif but should be helpful to identify pieces at a glance on marketplace collection pages.

About Version 1

This first version of the collection is my initial experiment with this technique. It hasn't changed drastically from it's early iterations. I've stolen data from other on-chain artists as sources of randomness. These "traces" are used to paint light across a black void. It's been an exercise in producing more with less as I wrestled with the constraints of both the gif format and the the evm's limited resources.

Meet the artists and their works which I've used for the traces. Links to twatter accounts and artworks on OnChainChecker

Mint details for for v1

The first stage of version 1 will only allow curating salts for a several days. It will then be open to minting by curators for a short period (~48hrs) before being opened to public minting.

mint price: 0.01 ETH
max version supply: 1024
max mints: 10 per account

10% of all minting fees will be donated to charity. Just because.

Curating is enabled for v1

curator commission: 0.004 ETH
curation discount: 0.001 ETH
max curations: 10 per account