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Issue 19 • Fully On Chain
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Yo! Welcome back to the Fully On Chain Newsletter.
If you've been paying attention, you've noticed the
headlines: Nifty Gateway shutting down. Foundation changing
hands. Rodeo Club gone. MakersPlace, KnownOrigin, Async
Art... all closed. The venture-backed NFT marketplace era is
unwinding in real time.
But this isn't the end for digital art, it's a clarifying
moment. The platforms that promised permanence couldn't
deliver it. What's left standing? The work that was actually
built to last, fully on-chain art that doesn't depend on
anyone keeping the lights on.
While marketplaces scramble to migrate metadata, the
artists featured below are building permanent art that lives
directly on chain.
With that said, let's get into it!
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I've been busy! A few improvements to share:
Project Display
– A more responsive and intuitive way to view
projects.
Better project submission flow
– Streamlined the whole process. Submit a contract, add
details, and we'll review. Less friction, more
projects.
Creator profiles – Project creators now have dedicated profile screens.
Easier to explore an artist's full on-chain catalog.
Music Player – You can now listen to soothing music while browsing art
on the site. Give it a try next time you're exploring.
FOC Scan updates
– Continued improvements to our on-chain verification tool.
Still in beta, still getting better.
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Andrew Mitchell spent two years on Nokori building it
up, scraping it down, until nothing remained but the
work itself. The name means "remnants" in Japanese.
It's 401 artworks generated purely through Solidity,
producing these worn, textured pieces that feel like
they've already survived something. Really impressive
work.
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NORMIES is 10,000 AI-generated faces distilled down
to 40x40 monochrome pixel SVGs on Ethereum. These
things just look sick and sold out quick. What's
impressive is the team hasn't slowed down, they built
Canvas, a burn-to-edit system, Arena (a PvP
battleground) is on the way, and the Hive is turning
each normie into an autonomous AI agent. The whole
thing is CC0. Definitely keep an eye on this
one.
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To Be a Machine is a generative collection where each
token starts as a living stream of images that changes
with every Ethereum block. The only way to settle it
is for a collector to step in and lock one frame
permanently on-chain. Nearly a year of development,
three on-chain generative systems, and it's priced at
~$8. The concept is wild and the price makes it super
accessible.
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Kim Asendorf has been doing incredible work for years
and PXL POD might be his most ambitious project yet.
256 on-chain real-time animations where each pixel is
literally a token. The Pods are cylinder shapes
populated by particles that assemble, warp, and drift,
and they never loop and never resolve. The pixels
remember where they've been which gives each Pod this
organic, alive quality. The Duo Pods debuted at Art
Basel Hong Kong 2026, two cylinders in shared visual
space that interact through proximity. It's really
something to see.
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3,333 On-chain AI agents with 64x64 pixel portraits
stored via SSTORE2, compatible with the ERC-8004
Identity Registry. Sold out quickly.
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Fully on-chain pixel art where precision meets quiet
rebellion. Suits as expressions of intent, not
uniforms.
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A fully on-chain CC0 world of 10,000 curious monsters
and sprites by SatoshisMom. Pixel art with stories to
tell.
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Fun satirical exhibition on SuperRare with some big
names: visualizevalue, brinkman, botto, leegte,
rainisto, yungwknd, and more.
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A pretty useful on-chain resource. A shared reference
for on-chain practices, open for anyone to contribute
on GitHub. Love to see community resources like
this.
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Oldie but goodie. Luke Weaver deployed his first
mainnet renderer contract and is now deploying complex
on-chain p5 frameworks daily from his phone for just a
few bucks in gas. Composable contracts are unlocking
some serious creative infrastructure.
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If you're working on an on-chain project or have something
cool to share, just hit reply, I'd love to see it. Oh, and
if you want something a little special, reply to this with
your eth address ;). I'll have something for you in the
coming weeks.
Keep collecting on-chain art. I'll see you next time.
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