Day 1 of building DullPunks in public.
I first started DullPunks back in 2023.
At the time, I thought I had a solid concept.
Then I started running the numbers on Ethereum gas costs.
The more I built, the more obvious it became that the original approach wasn't sustainable, so I went back to the drawing board.
What followed was years of experimenting with different approaches, rebuilding parts of the contract, and learning every optimisation technique I could find.
What I discovered is that every feature comes with a trade-off.
Every function costs gas.
Every byte matters.
Every new capability usually means compromising somewhere else.
The challenge became fitting everything I felt was essential into the collection while keeping it practical to deploy, mint and use on Ethereum.
That journey led me deep into contract optimisation, storage reduction, SVG compression and gas-efficient design.
DullPunks today is the result of years of refining, rebuilding, optimising and compromise.
It's still evolving.
And I'm still building.
Here's a first look 👇
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