CryptoArte — Painting #2985

Pre-Launching CryptoArte

An Ethereum art collection & non-fungible token

TLDR: The CryptoArte collection projects the Ethereum blockchain history into 9,895 colorful, unique, meaningful paintings. You can purchase pre-launch paintings from our OpenSea storefront, browse the collection at the cryptoarte.io website, and check out the smart contract on etherscan.

Following my previous Medium posts on Ethereum development, I’m extremely excited to share today a project I’ve been working on for a few months:

CryptoArte — a multi-disciplinary project that blends together the Ethereum network, an art collection, a non-fungible token, and a decentralized application.

Let’s dissect that!

Ethereum Art

The CryptoArte collection currently consists of 9,895 provably unique paintings. Each painting represents 576 consecutive blocks of the Ethereum blockchain through a meaningful combination of shapes, colors, decorations, and more.

For example, Painting #0 is an artistic representation of blocks 0 (the Ethereum genesis block) through 575. Painting #1 goes from block 576 to block 1,151, and so and so on. Here’s a low-res image of Painting #0:

CryptoArte — Painting #0

The paintings come with a 7,680 by 4,320 pixels digital image (or 8K UHDTV resolution, also known as 4,320p), allowing for both high-resolution prints, and excellent fit on monitors and TVs. Painting owners can download their corresponding digital images free of charge from the cryptoarte.io website. The website also allows owners to order high-quality, signed and framed, ready to hang 18x12 in prints.

Here’s Painting #80, where the first Ethereum transaction ever took place:

CryptoArte — Painting #80

The paintings organize 576 blocks into 18 rows of 32 consecutive blocks each. The first and last blocks are decorated with their corresponding block numbers and timestamps. All other blocks are decorated by 4 corner triangles that serve as a form of “security mark” while bringing a vitreau or node/network effect to the paintings.

Here’s Painting #2488:

CryptoArte — Painting #2488

Block miners are represented through a shape or icon within each block. Their shapes are unique (i.e.: no two miners will ever have the same icon) and remain constant throughout the entire collection.

Here’s Painting #7934:

CryptoArte — Painting #7934

The paintings were created by mathematically transforming the publicly available Ethereum blockchain information. The transformation is deterministic, and the same for all the paintings. Here’s Painting #8118:

CryptoArte — Painting #8118

The collection hence illustrates the Ethereum blockchain history by projecting several data points and statistics (e.g.: amounts transacted, block miners, etc.) into colorful paintings. Head over to the about page to learn more about the collection.

The Non-Fungible Token

CryptoArte is also an Ethereum non-fungible token (ERC721). Each token issued represents a unique painting and matches the painting’s SHA-256 hash stored on the blockchain and displayed on the CryptoArte website.

Implementing the full ERC721 standard and storing the painting’s hash on the blockchain provides painting owners with many benefits, including:

Trustless ownership : owners have a decentralized, automatic, immutable and uncensorable record of ownership.

: owners have a decentralized, automatic, immutable and uncensorable record of ownership. Authenticity verification : given a painting’s full resolution image, owners can independently proof its authenticity by simply recalculating its hash and comparing it to the on-chain stored hash.

: given a painting’s full resolution image, owners can independently proof its authenticity by simply recalculating its hash and comparing it to the on-chain stored hash. Transfer mechanisms: owners can easily sell and transfer ownership of their paintings through the many exchanges and marketplaces that support NFTs such as, for example, OpenSea.

For transparency, you can read the verified and published CryptoArte non-fungible token smart contract code on etherscan.

The Website and Decentralized Application

The CryptoArte website allows you to browse through the entire collection.

Each painting has its own page with three public image versions: a low-resolution image of the whole painting, a high-resolution image of the painting’s top left corner, and a high-resolution image of a random section. Here’s how that looks like for Painting #9872:

CryptoArte.io — Painting Page example

The website is also an Ethereum Dapp that integrates with web3 and MetaMask.

The integration allows owners with MetaMask installed to securely download the full resolution images of their paintings free of charge by simply signing a transaction. In addition, painting owners can also order high-quality, signed, framed and ready to hang prints, making the crypto collectible even more valuable as it transcends from the digital world into the physical world.

The Pre-launch sale

During the pre-launch period, we’re making certain tokens and paintings readily available for purchase at the OpenSea storefront. There you can immediately purchase paintings at their offered price, or make offers for an amount of your choice.

If you’d like to purchase a painting that’s not been minted yet, just let us know.

What’s coming

In the next few weeks, we’ll be working on further automating and polishing our processes, adding more capabilities to the CryptoArte website, minting more tokens, and making the buying process easier and more generally available.

We may also run some giveaways and/or contests. Make sure to follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook, or join our Discord chat to stay up-to-date with the latest from CryptoArte!

Questions

If you have any questions for us, please drop us a note at hello@cryptoarte.io or head over to our Discord chat.

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