# Liquid Editions *Author: Bankless* *Published: Mar 3, 2026* *Source: https://www.bankless.com/es/read/liquid-editions-sr* --- [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/2026/03/Group_718.webp)](https://mercuryo.io/get-in-touch?utm_source=email&utm_medium=brand_media&utm_campaign=bankless&utm_content=newsletter) Liquid Editions Published on March 3, 2026 [ View in Browser ](https://www.bankless.com/metaversal) --- [**Sponsor: Mercuryo**](https://mercuryo.io/get-in-touch?utm_source=email&utm_medium=brand_media&utm_campaign=bankless&utm_content=newsletter) — Infrastructure powering the crypto economy.[](https://bankless.ghost.io/ghost/#/editor/post/69580059dbc84d000120d568)[](https://www.bankless.com/portal/content/posts/view?id=8502)[](https://bankless.ghost.io/ghost/#/editor/post/69580059dbc84d000120d568) [See how Mercuryo can power your product →](https://mercuryo.io/get-in-touch?utm_source=email&utm_medium=brand_media&utm_campaign=bankless&utm_content=newsletter) .  .  . 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PRIMER Market as Canvas: SuperRare Is Launching Liquid Editions Bankless Author: [ William Peaster ](https://x.com/wmpeaster) [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/2026/03/image---2026-03-03T130207.401-2.png)](https://www.bankless.com/read/superrare-liquid-editions-tokens)**SuperRare has long been a force in cryptoart.** I have NFTs I collected there in January 2020 that I still hold and cherish to this day. Yet amid the ongoing bear market, it's a good time for veteran projects to explore new approaches. For their part, SuperRare has begun leaning into *networked art*, beginning with **Liquid Editions**. If you don't know what either of these things are, SuperRare's [124.eth](https://x.com/rhtkpr) wrote a good introduction last week, "[A New Era of Networked Art](https://x.com/rhtkpr/status/2026715451317698649)." In that post, he explained: - SuperRare is aiming to "deepen the experience for the collectors who are already here, and [...] lower the cultural cost of entry for everyone else." - For this, the team is leaning into networked art, which "treats the network as part of the canvas [...] where participation matters, meaning can change over time, and the audience is not only viewing but also shaping the social reality around the piece." - SuperRare's first rollout here will be Liquid Editions, which "treat the onchain market state as a creative primitive. Not finance for its own sake or a wrapper to pump liquidity, but a new vocabulary for participation, circulation, and collective behavior with art at the center." That explains the basics and the rationale of this vision. But we already know more about the technical details and the first drop, too. > Something entirely new is coming to [@SuperRare](https://twitter.com/SuperRare?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw).Introducing Liquid Editions: a new primitive where ERC-20 tokens function as living, generative artworks.We are proud to kick off this era with "Value Discovery" by [@ripe0x](https://twitter.com/ripe0x?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw).Thursday, March 5th @ 12:00pm ET. 🧵 [pic.twitter.com/zt6dSamJvn](https://t.co/zt6dSamJvn)— SuperRare (@SuperRare) [March 3, 2026](https://twitter.com/SuperRare/status/2028858208958189925?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Specifically, [Liquid Editions](https://x.com/SuperRare/status/2028858208958189925) will be generative artworks that use fungible ERC-20 tokens instead of NFTs as their vessels. The token's own market behavior, like trades and transfers, determines what the art looks like at any given moment. In other words, there's no static image file underlying these tokens. Instead, a smart contract serving as an onchain renderer will read the live market state and paint the visual outputs from that. The artwork is essentially a function of its own economic activity, recomputed continuously, always on. And the good news is we don't have to wait for long to see Liquid Editions in action. The first launch using this primitive, slated for March 5th at noon ET, will be [*Value Discovery*](https://value-discovery.ripe.wtf/) by [ripe](https://x.com/ripe0x) (whom you might recognize from their recent excellent [*To Be a Machine*](https://tbam.ripe.wtf/) drop). As SuperRare explained: "The project explores a profound parallel: how image processing discovers 'brightness' through error, and how markets discover 'price' through disagreement." To make that theme concrete onchain, the plan for Thursday is that ripe will launch two liquidity pools, each with distinct fee tiers, for one token. That fee disparity creates a persistent price spread between the two pools, and the onchain renderer reads that spread as its input to create a degraded, shifting dollar bill image. [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e4/b7/e4b77544-5a37-4f0b-8824-8440aa348476/content/images/2026/03/image-2.png)](https://value-discovery.ripe.wtf/)Now, it's true we've already seen fungible art experiments before like DN-404 hybrid NFT + ERC-20 combos, fxhash Art Coins, Zora content coins, etc. But in each of these cases, there's some element of abstraction or separation. DN-404 coins run in parallel to their NFT counterparts, Art Coins complement and evolve their collections, and content coins are tied to external media. There's nothing wrong with any of these things. In fact, fxhash's Art Coins are quite innovative. But what I find interesting about Liquid Editions is that the coins are the *thing*. They aren't counterparts, or divisible complements, or representative of anything outside of themselves. They are the art, or in the very least, an indivisible part of the art. Whether it's NFTs or ERC-20s, I think ownable programmable art like this that is *always *generated in real-time and can *always *be interacted with and participated in represents a new medium in the art world and the future of art in the Ethereum ecosystem. Plus, ripe is a superb onchain artist and a fine pick to usher in this new Liquid Editions era for SuperRare. Keep your eyes peeled for the drop on Thursday if you're curious. [Bookmark on Bankless.com](https://www.bankless.com/read/superrare-liquid-editions-tokens) ---