The blockchain is to the generative medium what film was to the lens. A recording format that captures an ephemeral moment in a durable, publicly available, interactive and interoperative way aligned with a more democratized, permissionless and transparent future. 👇

Five years ago today @artblocks_io was launched as a hobby passion project to provide a mechanism for artists to release and distribute resolution agnostic deterministic code based art. The platform launched with the Chromie Squiggle, Genesis by @DaCaldera and Construction Token by @jeffgdavis. 👇

Today, the three of us got together to mint token 0 of each of the last three projects of the Art Blocks 500, 5 years to the minute of the launch of our initial mint 0s. Drawings for a Monument by @jeffgdavis, Diggly Collects All by @DaCaldera, and my project send/receive. 👇

It’s been a tremendous honor to witness the evolution of not just Art Blocks but the generative medium as a whole over the last 1825 days. Thank you to all of the artists and collectors that have participated in the last five years and the incredible team at @artblocks_io for sticking through the madness. And here’s to the next five years. Love y’all. 🫂