24 Hours of Art: Today's Mint Explained
What?
366 tokens (each receiving a unique day of 2024)
When?
2:00pm ET
Where?
@TransientLabs (link in second tweet)
How?
- Public sale
- 0.24 ETH per token
Why?
24 Hours of Art is a daily, independent and unbiased report on the digital art medium and marketplace on blockchain.
The feedback from those who have seen value in its standard and vision has been thrilling. This is the right moment for 24 Hours to enter the blockchains and medium it covers and open a door to the digital ownership it strongly believes in.
What makes it the right moment? Three things:
1. Technical Innovation:
The vision of this year-long 2024 endeavor needed the strongest of technical partners: Transient Labs. They are unlocking major features - the ERC-7160 token and Story Inscriptions - as well as ensuring fundamentals - e.g. trusted randomization - are covered.
2. Information and Collaboration
Collaboration is at the heart of Web3. We wanted to find a pathway down which the core report stays unbiased, while others are invited to participate.
Token Holders:
- Can Story Inscribe on each report of 2024, allowing contextual blockchain additions from artists, collectors, galleries, platforms, and more perspectives
- Receive gated, art-focused Telegram entry in 2024
- Access upgraded reports, weekly wrap-up shows, and monthly macro recaps via that TG
3. Art
The conceptual statement of the collection is bringing it full circle. Art becomes data. Data becomes art.
The public ledger based system of digital art ownership and its marketplace have unlocked massive opportunities and growing respect for digital creators. For all of its challenges - there are many - we believe that is undeniable.
Each token has (at least) 3 stages:
- Blank canvas token with a 2024 date
- 1/1/366 ART collection, the hybridization of art and data, delivered after the date happens
- 1/1/366 artwork collection, based on the days and year we experience together, delivered after the year concludes
Using Transient Labs ERC-7610 token, each of these stages can be added. The metadata of a stage can never be changed once you have it. You can always toggle among the stages themselves.
Tell Me More About The Art!
The 1/1/366 ART collection is created by
@artifex_project, spearheaded by the wizardry of
@justinwetch. Months of effort and iteration have gone into the design itself.
- A day's data is analyzed and applied to parameters, generating the day's token in Houdini
- Texture is applied by sampling, pixel sorting, and parametrically diffusing the day's artwork highlights
- Traits are created semi-procedurally/semi-generatively in Houdini
- From a source mesh of about 10 million polygons, the token is rendered in Vray in 4k resolution
Details of the 1/1/366 artwork collection to climatically conclude the year is undisclosed but will be disclosed upon release.
We reserve the right to exercise optionality and add additive chapters to the art story!
Provably Random
Transient fundamentals. Proof of a token's random date assignment: bcd95fa4b178f5166d66664cac019abca5cfee106509d0b3368856f299bb9a2b
This sha256 hash was generated with an object array containing all token IDs for the mint and their randomly assigned day of the year for 2024.
Closing Thoughts
In our perfect world, this token group consists of those driving the digital art medium and marketplace into its future.
The release has its complexities. The mission is simple: deliver art and information at a high level, unlock the collaborative layer, and leave the door open for unknowable magic that we create together.
Let's tell one hell of a story about art!