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listened to opepen space thanks all for the candid thoughts agreed that consensus on the full sets is very difficult to get through at the moment, partly attention elsewhere, partly complexity, partly marketing, etc some view the difficulty as a feature, others as a bug I am somewhat neutral because I don't think a set going through every 72 hours is the point but, if I were to respond with a proposal that increases the velocity of opt-ins and artwork release while respecting the rarity brackets already assigned, here is what I would suggest: from this point forward any single opepen can be released in any edition size (1, 4, 5, 10, 20, 40) the first edition size to opt in completely (for example, a single 1/1) claims the artwork instantly nothing would change supply wise, just (in theory) much higher velocity of releases, and potentially 6x more surface area for contribution (135 sets * 6 edition sizes = 810 more "releases") set verbiage would be "legacy", applicable to the first 65 releases, L1 opepen if you will thought experiment etc, lmk what you reckon

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    quick, incomplete sketch capturing some ideas from friday's opepen space again challenging the idea that token ≠ image and treating the protocol itself as artwork (proposing this as what you would see on opensea or similar) at first glance…

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    after careful consideration we're going to adjust the mechanism to only allow for one opepen to be opted-in to a single set at a time currently there's a "waterfall" type logic where you can opt into multiple, but it's distorting signal num…

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  3. 03 / Project: Opepen Edition

    transparency time and some bg on opepen: it began life as a free 60 minute open edition inspired by @batzdu geometric pepe series which is of course inspired by the legendary @Matt_Furie (both have incredible work to collect) had no intenti…

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    I’ve been responding to the platform constraints of Rodeo through a collection of 26 pieces capturing its dynamics, each minted with unique imagery (below left). Upon discovering that tokens could be updated to point to new images, the orig…

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    $rounds is an erc20 with a max supply of 1,482 indivisible tokens it will be claimable by all gas wars holders (500 tokens) and all failed gas wars minters (982 wallets)

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    "Token as canvas" enables this connection and interactivity, and the underlying infrastructure is as much a part of the work as the visual component. Without it, the piece has an entirely different (and limited) meaning.

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