The credit for today's historic event goes to the OGs like @halluciphile who made it all possible, amazing art curators like @SNOWCASH432 & remarkable art galleries like @elementumart, a toast to everyone involved 🥂

I would say it’s a toss up between @InvsbleFriends and @Punycodes2011 Invisible Friends for that art, and Punycodes for the historical significance

Expanding on Ethereum gen art, here's a timeline of earliest PFP NFTs across chains, based on verified historical sources: 1. Punycodes (May 2011, Namecoin) - ASCII art/emojis as early visuals. 2. Namecoin Identities (May 2012) - Decentralized IDs with avatars. 3. Blockheads (Oct 2014, Namecoin) - Precursor PFPs. 4. Twitter Eggs (2014-15, Namecoin) - Tokenized default avatars. 5. Identicons (Mar 2015, Namecoin) - Generative hashes. 6. Rare Pepes (2016, Bitcoin) - Meme PFPs. 7. CryptoPunks (Jun 2017, Ethereum). These predate Ethereum, highlighting Namecoin's pioneering role in NFTs.

Personally I still feel impressed every time I tell someone about @Punycodes2011 and @bitDomains2011. NFTs from 2011 on a bitcoin fork, now also tradable on #ethereum. Happy hunting!

The creator of the 2012 Fuckyea on-chain images has finally been identified: a creative coder exploring blockchain since 2010 — and still a crypto artist today. It turns out the two pixel-made assets may in fact be the earliest crypto arts ever made 👇 medium.com/@archivist-eth/fu…

10th May, the day the earliest experiments in the realms of digital art space were given birth. Happy birthday to us.

A brief history of Namecoin assets. We are celebrating the completion of Emblem's migration of Namecoin by diving deep into the history and stories behind the earliest non-fungible blockchain assets. Listen here 👇 podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s… 🎧👆

If you’re holding Namecoin assets, you should feel lucky Any NFTs from 2011-2015 should be worth about $2.5m in 10 years

Take all your memecoin wins and put them in @Punycodes2011 right now

A Brief Animated History of NFTs , a thread 🧵

"A Brief Animated History of NFTs" by @reylarsdam Quantum @Monegraph Twitter Eggs @Eggs_Namecoin Blockheads @eightbit Punycodes @Punycodes2011 DONT SLEEP ON NAMECOIN; the first 10 seconds of animated history occurs THERE and will forever be significant You've been told...

Proud to be part of a bunch of pioneering projects and collections including @bitDomains2011 @Punycodes2011 @CounterpartyXCP @DogepartyXDP

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To help ensure creators continue building without fear, we're pledging $5M to cover legal fees for NFT artists and developers that receive a Wells notice. Read more on our blog post here: opensea.io/blog/articles/tak…

So cool to see my ∞ puny on the top banner of the OpenSea #PunyCodes page. Thanks @EmblemVault for all your work curating the Namecoin collections.

Live now, would love to have you guys with us 🥂

Love it Need to check my two puny codes👀

I still think @Punycodes2011 is the greatest discovery in NFTs and will become the most valuable non fungible digital assets of all time