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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.