WTF is CC0Mon? The Only Explainer You Need
9,999 pixel monsters. Fully on-chain. CC0. No rules. Just vibes and creatures.
The Shortest Version
CC0Mon is a collection of 9,999 pixel art monsters living permanently on the Ethereum blockchain — not on some server, not on IPFS, not in the cloud. On. Chain. Forever. And every single one of them is CC0 — meaning you can do literally whatever you want with them. Build a game. Print a hoodie. Tattoo one on your forehead. Nobody can stop you. No permission needed. No licensing fees. No lawyers. Just pure, unhinged, permissionless creativity.
Created by Satoshi's Mom (
@SatoshisMom) — a full-time crypto artist collected by 9,000 people worldwide, and the Founding Director of The Digital Asset Museum, a legit 501(c)(3) nonprofit preserving Web3 history IRL in St. Petersburg, Florida.
No VC. No hype machine. Just art, lore, and monsters.
OK But What Actually ARE They?
Think pixel Pokemon meets public domain meets degen culture.
260 unique species — each one named, storied, and weird in its own way
16 energy types — elemental vibes for every creature
4 rarity tiers — from floor creatures to legendaries
Every single CC0Mon has its own name, energy, and backstory
We're talking creatures like Doomhoof, Scorchjaw, Blobby (community favorite, possible Marxist-Leninist), Toxarach, Circuitbreaker, Frostwyrm, Petalbash (shoutout Ralph), Gillsin, Muckape, Poltergrip, and 250 more weird little guys.
The pixel art style isn't just aesthetic — it's practical. Low data footprint means the art can actually live on-chain without costing a fortune in gas. Brain beauty.
Why "Fully On-Chain" Actually Matters
Most NFT art? It's a link. Your JPEG lives on IPFS or some random CDN, and you own a token that points to it. If that server goes down, your art goes poof.
CC0Mon is different. The art and metadata are encoded directly into the Ethereum smart contract. As long as Ethereum exists, your CC0Mon exists. No dependencies. No external storage. No trust required.
Contract: 0x32261fedf404a9a6c98f81d8ccab9a10277b381a (Labeled "CREATIVE COMMONS ZERO" on Etherscan. They really meant it.)
The CC0 Thing — Why It's Actually Huge
CC0 = Creative Commons Zero. The most permissive license that exists. It's not "some rights reserved." It's not "ask me first." It's no rights reserved. Period.
What you can do with CC0Mon art:
Build a video game (someone's already making a monster-capturing game)
Make a trading card game
Create merch, clothing, stickers, prints
Write stories, comics, expand the lore
Make TikToks and reels
Build an entire brand around them
Remix the art into something completely new
Ship commercial products — keep all the money
Spin up a whole new project using CC0Mon as your foundation
No fees. No attribution required. No asking. Just do it.
Why giving away IP creates value
Sounds backwards, right? "If everyone can use it, why is it worth anything?"
Because CC0 flips the script. Instead of value from exclusivity, CC0Mon gains value through cultural significance. The more people build with it, the more the originals matter.
Nouns proved it.
CrypToadz proved it.
mfers proved it.
The more derivative works that exist, the more important the genesis collection becomes.
You're not buying IP rights. You're buying a piece of the origin story.
Where to Find CC0Mon
Buy / Collect
OpenSea —
opensea.io/collection/cc0mon (primary marketplace, full trait filtering) Blur —
blur.io (zero marketplace fees, pro-trader focused)
The floor is absurdly accessible right now — we're talking single-digit dollars to get in. "Borrow your grandmother that 6 bucks and join the game before the big sweep" as the community puts it.
Follow / Lurk / Engage
Project Twitter/X —
@cc0_mon Creator Twitter/X —
@SatoshisMom
Community Hub —
cc0mon-community.netlify.app
Etherscan —
etherscan.io/address/0x32261…
Community Tools
CC0masters — Collection tracker with rankings, built by community member aster. Top 10, Top 50, full rankings. Track your completionist journey. Community Hub — Full CC0Mon library, rarity tools, links to everything community-built.
Where the Community Lives
The heartbeat of CC0Mon is the X Community Chat — 162 members deep and growing. This is where the gmons happen, the sweeps get live-tweeted, the art gets shared, the memes get born, and Town Halls go down.
Join the group chat:
x.com/i/chat/group_join/g202…
What to expect in there:
Daily GMON greetings (it's "good morning" but make it monster)
Community art drops that go genuinely hard
Market sniping and sweep alerts
Game development updates
Town Halls (the first one was March 17 at 4:20 PM EST, obviously)
Blobby discourse
People naming their CC0Mons and giving them full backstories
An alarming amount of fire emojis
The Crew
This isn't a faceless discord. The community is tight:
Satoshi's Mom — creator, project lead, site builder, lore queen
aster — built CC0masters, collector completionist energy
beadphrase — artist extraordinaire, Last Supper CC0Mon energy
Oshin / FourFace — galaxy-tier derivative art
SpecialAgentK (SAK) — wrote the viral thread, named his Petalbash "Ralph" (a hangry, energy-drink-fueled crypto degen who hasn't seen sunlight since the merge)
Christine / SUPAWCOOL — community champion
RufusRandale — PHAZOR maximalist, Blobby advocate
LLB — raid captain, whale watcher
Horus — making reels and TikToks
internethobo — daily CC0Mon battle matchups
And a whole squad of collectors, artists, and builders showing up every day.
How to Participate
Level 1: Collect
Grab one (or a few) on OpenSea or Blur. Floor is dirt cheap. Pick a species you vibe with. Start your collection. Try to catch 'em all if you're feeling ambitious — the CC0masters leaderboard is waiting.
Level 2: Join the Chat
Drop into the X Community Chat. Say gmon. Post your CC0Mon. Lurk. Absorb. Become one of us.
Level 3: Create
This is where CC0 gets real. The art is yours to use. Some ideas the community is already exploring:
Games — a monster-capturing game is actively being built. Someone's giving away CC0Mons for high scores.
Art — derivative art, remixes, banners, stickers, movie posters (yes, there's a Godfather Blobby)
Merch — print it, wear it, sell it
Lore — every CC0Mon has a backstory seed. Water it. Grow it. Write the epic.
Cards — trading card designs are already being shared (Wyvernax the Dragon Legendary, anyone?)
Content — TikToks, reels, threads, memes. The content mines are wide open.
Level 4: Build
Build a tool. Build a game. Build a derivative collection. Build a whole ecosystem. The CC0 license means there are literally zero barriers. The community celebrates builders — drop what you make in the chat and watch the fire emojis roll in.
The One Rule for Derivative Art
Satoshi's Mom laid down the Likeness Preservation Guidelines — if you're making derivative art of specific CC0Mons:
Keep the identity intact (head shape, eye shape/spacing, silhouette)
Don't humanize the creatures
Don't add features the original doesn't have (no random noses or mouths)
Same design language, just rendered in your style
It's CC0 so legally you can do whatever, but respecting the character designs is how you earn community love.
The Bigger Picture
CC0Mon isn't just a PFP collection. It's positioned as a genesis collection — the foundation for a creative universe that anyone can expand.
Where CC0Mon sits in the ecosystem:
CC0Mon — Fully on-chain, CC0, pixel monsters with 260 game-ready species Nouns — Fully on-chain, CC0, governance treasury, 1 minted per day Blitmap — Fully on-chain, CC0, OG on-chain art with community compositions Chain Runners — Fully on-chain, CC0, cyberpunk characters CrypToadz — IPFS-hosted, CC0, Gremplin's swamp creatures mfers — IPFS-hosted, CC0, sartoshi's stick figures Loot — Fully on-chain, CC0, text-based adventure gear
CC0Mon combines fully on-chain CC0 creature theming game-ready traits in a way nobody else has. 260 species with energies and rarities is basically a game engine waiting to happen.
The Creator: Satoshi's Mom
Not anon. Not a lab. A real artist who stumbled into NFTs in 2021 making pixel art for fun and turned it into a career.
9,000 collectors worldwide
No VC funding — ever
Founding Director of The Digital Asset Museum (
thedam.art) — a 501(c)(3) nonprofit building an actual IRL museum in St. Petersburg, Florida dedicated to preserving Web3 history and culture
Also created EDITIONZ, a hand-drawn art series
This isn't a cash grab. It's a creative experiment by someone who's been building in the space for years and put their art into the public domain because they believe permissionless creativity creates more value than locked-down IP ever could.
TL;DR
What: 9,999 pixel monsters, 260 species, 16 energies, 4 rarities Where: Ethereum blockchain, fully on-chain, permanent License: CC0 — do whatever you want, seriously
Floor: Absurdly cheap (single-digit dollars)
Creator: Satoshi's Mom (
@SatoshisMom) — legit artist, museum founder
Buy: OpenSea () or Blur (
blur.io)
Follow:
@cc0_mon Community:
cc0mon-community.netlify.app
Chat: Join the X group (
x.com/i/chat/group_join/g202…)
Vibe: Permissionless creativity. No gatekeepers. Just monsters.
CC0MON! 👾