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Its predecessor, 1988, was a commentary on the tenuousness of physical provenance. Provenance is supposed to establish an artwork’s history—its origin, ownership, and value—but it often depends on subjective storytelling…

1988 was distributed as a 3D model that could be projected into physical spaces via augmented reality. You can read the full story here:

As a final nod to "The Physical Impossibility of Provenance" 1988, minted on Ethereum Layer 2, is now redeemable for "Hardware" pieces on Ethereum Layer 1. For each new mint, the cost goes up by one. A maximum supply of…

Just pay gas (to cover the migration to L1). Provvenance, innit.

Massive props and thank you to @Highlight_xyz team for pulling this together completely custom.

Slight correction to the above, maximum supply is in fact 544, not 554.

The prompt is refined two images at a time, in this case using Flux 1.1 Pro Ultra via the Krea AI front end. Each render takes a couple of minutes, probably around 1,000 takes to get the prompt right.

Once the prompt is nailed, plug straight into the Flux API and render 1,000 images at a time.

Pour a cold one and pick 544 of your favorites from 10,000~ images.

transparency time lemonade stand a visualize value market simulator

the above is a few prompts in and doesn't really work yet, but the plan is to teach myself how to build a little game to extend the lemonade stand metaphor into something interactive will share progress in this thread

something I will get better articulating in time is this funny parallel between crypto and the lemonade stand that makes me want to build more stuff on top of it to further drive the point home permissionless capitalism…