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[Forma 🎭 @Formachain]

Important Forma update

After careful consideration, we've made the difficult decision to sunset the Forma chain.

We understand this announcement may feel sudden, and we wanted the news to come directly from our team as soon as the decision was finalized. 🧵

[Forma 🎭 @Formachain]

@Dracks0n @mammothos No need to withdrawal Mammoths. You should withdrawal any TIA. The Forma team will migrate Mammoths to ETH L1. Once there, you just need to claim them. We will communicate when you can do this.

[Forma 🎭 @Formachain]

Forma mainnet will shut down at block 34,567,890, estimated around November 5. Users have approximately two weeks to withdraw funds before the chain halts.

After shutdown, we’ll take a snapshot and migrate any remaining TIA to Eden. Both networks are EVM chains, so you’ll use the same wallet address and can withdraw from Eden once the migration is complete.

Modularium will live on Ethereum, with all NFT assets migrated there. Holders will need to claim their NFTs through the relaunched Modularium website. NFTs will not be automatically airdropped.

The migrations may take a few days after shutdown. We’ll announce when each is complete, with more details and instructions to follow in the coming weeks.

[Forma 🎭 @Formachain]

@AlexP_ML Following the chain halt, there will be a process to claim Mammoths on ETH L1. We will communicate at that time. There is no time window to worry about here, you will be able to claim them at your leisure. But Sloths are not on Forma.

[Forma 🎭 @Formachain]

@Thali_To You don't have to transfer them anywhere. After the chain shuts down, we will be migrating them to ETH L1. You will have to claim them at that time, but only you can claim your Mammoths. They will not be lost.

[Forma 🎭 @Formachain]

@f_dezuo ETH L1. We will be relaunching https://t.co/pH3CRSX7ah on ETH L1 which will serve as their home base but you will also be able to see and trade them on ETH marketplaces like OpenSea etc.

[Forma 🎭 @Formachain]

6/6 Most importantly, user funds and NFTs are safe.

We will continue sharing updates regarding timelines and migration steps as they are confirmed.

Thank you to every artist, collector, builder, and community member who supported Forma. 🎭

[Forma 🎭 @Formachain]

Important Forma update

After careful consideration, we've made the difficult decision to sunset the Forma chain.

We understand this announcement may feel sudden, and we wanted the news to come directly from our team as soon as the decision was finalized. 🧵

[Forma 🎭 @Formachain]

5/6 We strongly encourage users to withdraw their funds through the Forma bridge:

https://t.co/7dztp4aU0W

Any funds that are not withdrawn will be manually migrated to an EVM-compatible chain that will be announced later.

[Forma 🎭 @Formachain]

The culture of fandom will continue to create cognitive dissonance in artists who mistake their own celebrity [among a cabal of thirty 40 year old men] for artistic success

[lowbie @archivepilled]

Outside of Solana, my other favourite work of on-chain art this year is ‘Wanderer’, by Jan Robert Leegte (@JanRobertLeegte). As part of Photo Paris 2025, Jan made ‘an autonomous, digital flâneur, an internet-based entity that roams the map of our physical world through an endless sequence of directional choices, recorded immutably on the blockchain and visualized through web-based map services’. It started at the Grand Palais, in Paris, and has now made its way West, deep into the countryside.

Walking pieces have been a staple of conceptual art, from Stanley Brouwn’s ‘This Way Brouwn’, where he asked strangers to draw him maps of directions he had asked for, to Vito Acconci and Sophie Calle’s following pieces, where they elected random strangers to trail until they lost them (either through entering a building or general disorientation).

I love Jan’s work here, the mix of autonomy and monotony, a never-ending trek across the globe that is totally decided by randomised transaction hashes on the blockchain. It feels like a work that should’ve come out during the lockdowns, but still feels fitting with the rise of AI and the fears around the autonomy of such technology. An exciting addition to the canon of ‘walking as art’, updated for the 21st century.

[Forma 🎭 @Formachain]

@leyla_solos @solos_gallery @tylerxhobbs @verse_works Have you read the Jennifer Roberts Mellon lectures book on print? Some very good bits

[Jan Robert Leegte @JanRobertLeegte]

A winter rose along the Seine.
https://t.co/vzFdh9hwc2
@Formachain @office_impart

[Forma 🎭 @Formachain]

@sssluke1 @heft_gallery @mpkoz Yeah bro

[Forma 🎭 @Formachain]

@verse_works @refikanadol @tylerxhobbs @eli_schein @motzko @chilltulpa @davidshrigley @osf_rekt @redbeardnft @JerryGogosian @RaoulGMI @sashastiles @_nic_hamilton_ please

[Forma 🎭 @Formachain]

Most NFTs exhibit a kind of Zombie Formalism, yes, but the form that preoccupies them is the fetishized object of Technology itself.

[Jan Robert Leegte @JanRobertLeegte]

Enjoy the in depth conversation between Sam Spike and me about Wanderer for @Formachain

[Forma 🎭 @Formachain]

@TeSLaX_D89 @office_impart @ParisPhotoFair 😂

[Forma 🎭 @Formachain]

Missed our chat with @JanRobertLeegte about 'Wanderer'?

You can now listen to it here in full, with improved audio quality: https://t.co/2lPTLSJ20B

We discuss: the art history of walking, art on the early web vs now, the interface as a territory to be explored, and much more…