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A new kind of onchain experiment ✨

"The token economy will, on its present trajectory, produce more tokens in the next two years than have been issued in the prior history of the industry. The question is not whether this growth can be slowed — it cannot, and probably should not — but whether protocols can be designed in which growth is structurally aligned with the holders of the protocol itself. Ten Thousand Tokens is one such design. None of its individual components is novel: burns, MasterChef accrual, decaying launch taxes, hook-mediated fees, soulbound mints, and on-chain art are all established primitives, each with multiple production-grade precedents. What is novel is the configuration: a fixed-cap primitive in which a fraction of fees from launched tokens is routed to NFT holders who have not yet burned, where excess decay fees are recycled, in ETH, into each launched token's own buyback reservoir, and where the geometry of every launch is hardcoded and identical." — TokenWorks

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• 🎮 Ronin finished its migration to a full Ethereum L2 via the OP Stack. In the process, the gaming chain slashed annual RON emissions to 5M and introduced new treasury revenue streams from sequencer profits + marketplace fees.
• 🪙 TokenWorks intro'd the mint for Ten Thousand Tokens, a 10k NFT collection. Each NFT = a launch key for an ERC20 on Uniswap V4. Holders who don't burn keep a cut of the 30% of trading fees made across all deployed tokens, while burners become their token's launcher and earn 50% of its fees.
• 🤖 OpenSea launched NFT Collector Copilot on Pinata. The AI assistant can track floor activity, assess new listings, and execute Seaport trades for you through a spend-capped Privy wallet.

If you're wanting to mint NFTs of your own creations today, you've still got solid options. My first all-around recommendation to anyone, for almost any type of NFT project, would be Manifold, considering its flexible suite. Transient and Sealed are good alternatives here, too.

But let's say you've created releases across all sorts of Ethereum platforms over the years. It's true for me: I've dropped NFTs on +20 separate EVM platforms since late 2019. Minting has been easy enough, but organizing mints, whether for archiving or better discoverability or both, has long been a pain because of this sort of fragmentation.

That's because no platform currently indexes all your creations correctly, at least not out of the gate. Things slip along the wayside. Or platforms index creations that you forgot about, that you don't consider authoritative anymore, and that you wouldn't want to highlight for posterity.

All that said, it'd be nice to have the ability to DIY assemble your own "official" record of your creative works on Ethereum. This way you'd always have a definitive oeuvre prepped to share around and to bring with you to new onchain platforms to cover their default gaps. Fortunately, one new resource offers us the ability to do precisely this, and it's Catalog.

As those of you who read my article "Salvaging Foundation's Art" may recall, ripe is an onchain artist (TBAM, Value Discovery, etc.) who's recently been working on PND, a frontend that began as a path for migrating works from Foundation but has quickly evolved into a full platform where artists can preserve their NFTs, deploy DIY auctions that they earn 100% from, and so on.

It's an awesome resource already, and ripe has steadily been expanding its features. The latest addition here is the Catalog smart contract + simple UI combo. It lets any artist publish a permanent, self-curated record of their releases on Ethereum. Designate pointers to the contracts or specific tokens you want to recognize, and voila, they're readable by any interface from then on.

For example, there's an Aug. 2020 collection I minted on a platform called InfiNFT (which offered simultaneous onchain + IPFS + Arweave mints) that I'd like to attest to, as I made the pieces by handpainting over Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) collages I'd assembled, thus they represent some of my earliest AI art experiments onchain and show I'm not some recent tourist to AI creativity.

To do this attesting, I just copied the collection's address (which I found on OpenSea), pasted it in my artist catalog page with the "All tokens on this contract" option selected, and then pressed the "Add to catalog" button and confirmed the input transaction with my wallet. That's all it took, and now this series is officially authorized in my personal onchain record.

This might seem like a niche resource, but it's definitely useful for anyone who's been active as an NFT creator before, and we'll likely see humans and AI agents increasingly turning to registries like this over time for a variety of reasons, including secondary trades. I could also easily see this infra being separately generalized for curation, e.g. onchain lists for onchain things like "The Best Cryptoart of 2026" or etc.

For now we'll have to wait and see where ripe takes Catalog from here, though consider the feature for your creative toolbox in the meantime.

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