a small museum of the NFT years
The chain kept
the receipts.
A walk through the hype, 2021 to 2023: a YouTube tutorial, a 10,000-token sellout in thirty minutes, a paid mint that met the bear market, and two rigs mining a testnet. The websites died. The blockchain did not, so the dates here are checked against it.
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Karma Cats
103 pixel-art cats, lazy-minted on OpenSea. Built directly from the NFTBirds tutorial. The practice run that taught us the whole pipeline.
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Substandard
10,000 free-mint NFTs, 9,500 of them gone in 30 minutes on day 3. Hand-painted layered art, Arweave-permanent images, contract verified on Etherscan.
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Aether Pilgrims
14 trait categories, 26 countries, 20 planets, a fiction archive. Priced at 0.077 ETH. Minted 54 of 10,000 before the bear market arrived. Contract still alive.
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rrrad.io
Layered audio stems composed at random. Pydub-as-Pillow-for-music. Engine survived; never deployed on-chain. Being put back online live.
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The three original sites are dead — GoDaddy WordPress and Linode both went down in 2024. The on-chain contracts are still alive; the off-chain stories almost weren't. So: one Flask app, one museum, four project surfaces, one chronological timeline that ties them together. Lore where there was lore. A working playground where the engine survived.
Four contracts. Three ours, one not.
- KARMACATS — OpenSea shared
0x495f…b5e· 103 lazy-minted - SUBS — own contract
0xf80c…2cd3· 10,000/10,000 - PILGRIMS — own contract
0x8a34…f9be· 54/10,000 · revivable - rrrad — never deployed on-chain. Just code, stems, vibes.