🛰️ CTC-0 Mission: Complete
Cadets, there’s no better way to hear this very special mission update than straight from Captain Oh.
We’ve officially routed the world’s first end-to-end blockchain transaction through space, proving that our vision of a decentralized, satellite-based internet is technically viable!
The signal was sent from Chile → CTC-0 → Portugal, spanning over 7,000 km, and showcases intercontinental transmission capability.
To celebrate our milestone, we’re planning a special event to get Cadets involved in our digital testing lab, where you can actively observe live blockchain message transmissions from the CTC-0 satellite! More details to come soon.
For now, to thank you for your continued support as we build our network, we are giving you 150 points toward our airdrop S2.
Head to Penguinbase and use code: CTC0Success.
Onward to the next mission!
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I created a new soulbound-like contract on mainnet.
Rather than just leaving the artwork onchain, I'm also leaving proof of its trace.
You can view the minted tokens via the website (IPFS+ENS) and on the marketplace.
Introducing AI-NFT, a new kind of non-fungible token that turns each AI agent into a real crypto asset, powered by @ai16zdao Eliza.
We'll provide an open-source toolkit to let you create AI agents just like minting NFTs, and enables your AI-NFT to interact seamlessly, securely and autonomously with dapps across multichains.
This time, you can truly own and trade your AI agents!
The 'this X or Y will be valuable because it was minted pre-this arbitrary date' applies to some tokenized digital art - mostly for very particular reasons - but not all tokenized digital art.
There will be digital art that will come to birth or spawn entire genres of art that has not even been minted yet by artists yet to even arrive here.
When those artists go on to become amongst the most widely recognised digital artists, and some will, then collecting one of their early minted pieces in, say, 2026, means you have an early, highly-coveted grail of that artist and that genre.
Those who focused only on collecting things from say, 2015-2018 or 2017-2023 or whatever arbitrary date as is often seen, will overlook on all those artists. rip. The same goes for things being made right now.
Provenance being immutable does change some things from the past, of course, but art being categorised into art genres and movements (and being collected as such) is not one of them. That will remain so 20 years from now or 50 years.
Digital art & crypto art will inevitably be atomised into genres and movements by posterity. The people of the future will be collecting the main players and innovators of genre X, genre Y and so forth.
Very few artists even like the idea of categorisation. Those now or throughout history. But it's inescapable, it will happen. It's already happened here on a small scale (think 'glitch art', 'AI art', 'on-chain' art here etc).
So to say the only art that will be valuable will be the art made before a defined date, is to also say art genre/movement categorisation will cease entirely, which is of course absurd.
Another curious but pragmatic point is that firsts don't always guarantee the most premium value either. In some cases yes, but:
Warhol wasn't the first Pop Artist. Neither was Roy Lichtenstein.
Dali wasn't the first Surrealist artist. Neither was Magritte.
Van Gogh wasn't the first Impressionist or Post-Impressionist. Neither was Gaugin.
De Kooning wasn't the first abstract artist. Neither was Pollock or Rothko.
Yet all of these command the immense demand and market value of their respective genres.
For value, there are a lot of variables at play, date of creation being but one of them.