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"Token as canvas" enables this connection and interactivity, and the underlying infrastructure is as much a part of the work as the visual component. Without it, the piece has an entirely different (and limited) meaning.

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These are selected development notes from 7-10 January 2023, not the final protocol. The unnamed visual reference in the second post is left unnamed here; no attribution is inferred from a hint.

Checks: an image becomes a set of rules
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Project documentation: Checks · VV Rare

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  1. 01 / Same selected reading record

    @jalil_eth @traf Current working mechanic (not final): Burn your edition for an on-chain original. Burn 2 originals for the next smallest edition original. 80 > 40 > 20 > 10 > 5 > 4 > 1 Stop wherever you like.

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    Recruited the legendary @jalil_eth & @traf to build some proper tech for the next round. Below courtesy of the giga talented @traf (all this animation is done in-browser)

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    Some new wireframe sketches informed by our semiperfect concept, and true to the invisible grid of the original piece: 80, 40, 20, 10, 5, 4, 1, 0

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  4. 04 / Project: Checks

    This is not what we are going to do, but an important precedent to recognize. Next steps for Checks — checking technical feasibility on a few things, and double checking some math. Will be back to share soon, thanks for reading.

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  5. 05 / Project: Checks

    A lengthier detour than planned, correction below: The majority of the market opted for the physical version.

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  6. 06 / Editorial topic: Rules

    after careful consideration we're going to adjust the mechanism to only allow for one opepen to be opted-in to a single set at a time currently there's a "waterfall" type logic where you can opt into multiple, but it's distorting signal num…

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  7. 07 / Editorial topic: Participation

    I’ve been responding to the platform constraints of Rodeo through a collection of 26 pieces capturing its dynamics, each minted with unique imagery (below left). Upon discovering that tokens could be updated to point to new images, the orig…

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  8. 08 / Editorial topic: Participation

    $rounds is an erc20 with a max supply of 1,482 indivisible tokens it will be claimable by all gas wars holders (500 tokens) and all failed gas wars minters (982 wallets)

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