ryley-o.eth

👁️ Smart Contract Engineer at Art Blocks | Generative Artist | ryley-o.eth | Opinions are all my own ✌️

[ryley-o.eth @RyleyOh]

pool party goes live today! 🩳🤿
The project started when @basement_xyz talked about ways that we could use PostParams to bring the network to the NFT, instead the NFT to the network.
pool party was where we landed! 💦
What is it? 🧵

[ryley-o.eth @RyleyOh]

nice ui ledger

[ryley-o.eth @RyleyOh]

Mister Rogers crayon factory was actually peak humanity.

[ryley-o.eth @RyleyOh]

https://t.co/OWkQ8KLCxF

[ryley-o.eth @RyleyOh]

Sunday: I push up an AI agent memory management and consolidation system biologically inspired by human sleep, called "somnicortex".
Tuesday: Claude announces new "/dream" AI agent memory management and consolidation system biologically inspired by human sleep.
🤷‍♂️

[Eli Scheinman @eli_schein]

Gen art laboratory. Open tomorrow.

Harvey Rayner with Art Blocks.

[ryley-o.eth @RyleyOh]

been playing with this for months while building... it’s mind blowing what your agents can do with a little Art Blocks context 🤯

[Art Blocks @artblocks_io]

Introducing the Art Blocks MCP server.

Any AI agent can now discover, browse, and collect from 500+ on-chain generative art projects. 

Plus countless other possibilities.

Check out potential use cases for Collectors, Artists, Researchers and Developers 👇

[Derek Edws @derekedws]

v good foundation here ♥️

SEC x CFTC issued a joint interpretation clarifying how federal securities laws apply to the spectrum of crypto assets

with a fun citation to two of my fav crypto art networks

cryptopunks by @larvalabs
chromie squiggle by @ArtOnBlockchain

[Art Blocks @artblocks_io]

EX NIHILO is NOW OPEN for a 24-hour period. 

A series of 256 artworks by Casey @REAS 

in partnership with @FeralFile 👇

https://t.co/DvHJsbqXx9

[BASEMENT @basement_xyz]

token #6 has the highest pnl so far, +16.97%

[ryley-o.eth @RyleyOh]

@lindsayrgil @aaronpenne @basement_xyz @artblocks_io so kind 🫡
love your BTC output!
https://t.co/31HbEaCkAr

[ryley-o.eth @RyleyOh]

The first pool party price check-in happened... and we are up!
https://t.co/5KXhTFArYD
@basement_xyz

[ryley-o.eth @RyleyOh]

@JordanLyall @basement_xyz @artblocks_io You described this better than I can 😆 thank you ser 🫡

[Jordan Lyall @JordanLyall]

Just minted pool party #5 by @basement_xyz x @RyleyOh on @artblocks_io Studio and I'm genuinely fascinated by what this project is doing.

The concept: when you mint, 80% of your ETH is atomically swapped into a randomly-selected ERC-20 token from a pool of 13 (WBTC, LINK, UNI, AAVE, APE, SHIB, etc). Then over the token's lifetime, @chainlink Automation performs 12 price check-ins — and those real price movements are injected directly into the artwork as on-chain PostParams, shaping an evolving generative composition in real time.

My #5 got assigned USDT with a 15-day check-in interval. So over the next ~180 days, my artwork will essentially be a visual record of ETH volatility rendered through the lens of a stablecoin position. Every piece in this collection will look completely different because no two price histories can ever be the same.

What makes this technically impressive:

→ The swap happens atomically at mint via @Uniswap V3 with Chainlink oracle validation to prevent MEV/sandwich attacks
→ Price check-ins are fully automated via Chainlink Automation — no human intervention needed
→ Every price data point is stored on-chain as a PostParam that the generative script reads to produce the visual output
→ When all 12 check-ins complete, the owner can toggle the isWithdrawn PostParam to claim the underlying ERC-20 tokens back to their wallet
→ The entire generative script is stored fully on-chain

This is one of the most creative uses of PostParams I've seen. For those unfamiliar — PostParams (Post Mint Parameters) is Art Blocks' system for allowing artwork attributes to change after mint. Most projects use them for simple things like claiming a physical or toggling a display option. Pool Party uses them as the actual artistic input — the price feeds ARE the medium.

And it's not a coincidence that this is the most ambitious PostParams project to date: it was created by the people who built the system. Ryley and Lindsay are on the Art Blocks team. They built the tools, and now they're showing what's possible when you push them to their limits.

Conceptually, this is what excites me most. Pool Party isn't art "inspired by" DeFi. It IS DeFi. The NFT holds a real financial position. The artwork is deterministically shaped by real market data. The collector's journey has genuine economic stakes. And the decision to withdraw your tokens at maturity becomes a permanent, on-chain part of the artwork's provenance — do you take the money, or leave the piece "whole"?

This is what NFTs can be. Not static JPEGs, not simple PFPs — living compositions with real state, real data, and real stakes, all stored and executed on-chain. The tools exist. Artists just need to use them.

https://t.co/YBPrBZSk2U

[ryley-o.eth @RyleyOh]

pool party #3 with a check-in period of 7 days: 12 weeks of UNI hodl 💎🦄
https://t.co/TCdCTnA6G7

[ryley-o.eth @RyleyOh]

live! 💦

[BASEMENT @basement_xyz]

live

https://t.co/K7lH8C4ZWF

[ryley-o.eth @RyleyOh]

Thank you @basement_xyz for making this such a fun collaboration!
Minting opens today in a couple of hours!

https://t.co/G0ud9jdZIt

[ryley-o.eth @RyleyOh]

pool party goes live today! 🩳🤿
The project started when @basement_xyz talked about ways that we could use PostParams to bring the network to the NFT, instead the NFT to the network.
pool party was where we landed! 💦
What is it? 🧵

[ryley-o.eth @RyleyOh]

The entire thing is intended to be an experience more than a collectible, so please have fun with it, and do not risk what you aren’t willing to lose!

⚠️ We wrote a *ton* of open source custom smart contracts to make this happen safely, but with complexity comes risk. ⚠️