Proof of Work: Blokyz Edition.
Taking the NFC Awakening vision to the next level. I've spent the last few hours finalizing the identity evolution flow and moving the architecture to a live server.
@MonkOnTheBlok@OriginalBlokyz@Tma_420
Currently building not yet on ⏳ DEPLOYING ⏳
Bridging the gap between code and culture for the community. Grinding for that REAL BLOKYZ OG ON CT with pure execution.
We're teaming up with @OriginalBlokyz to bring collectible IPs to life through physical toys and digital ownership.
Our first partner drop is coming soon. Stay tuned 👀
At first glance, they're just pixelated ASCII characters.
Then you realize each piece represents a memory being recovered from noise.
That's what makes PATTERN RETRIEVAL by @adamilenich interesting to me.
The art isn't just something to look at, it's something to think about.
If you’ve been current with NFTs in the last few days, you’ve seen PATTERN RETRIEVAL.
Everyone has been talking about it but not the person behind it
Who is Adam Ilenich
Adam Ilenich, known on x as @adamilenich or asterism.eth, was born and raised in Michigan.
He studied at Michigan State University, graduating with degrees in both Journalism and Political Theory
His professional path is a straight line from communication to community to culture.
He spent roughly three and a half years at Twitter, starting as a Community Manager and working his way up to Social Lead.
From Twitter he moved into Web3. In early 2021 he joined Rarible as Head of Community
He built the Discord culture, ran the weekly GM Weekly Twitter Spaces and drove partnerships that gave Rarible a genuine identity beyond just being a marketplace.
Then in April 2023 he joined OpenSea as Community Lead and Head of Social Marketing and Events.
His focus there has been the same as everywhere else: authentic creator support, community building and keeping on-chain culture alive.
Outside of work he volunteers with New York Cares, has mentored through Out in Tech, and he’s a member of @thedoomedxyz. He is based in New York City.
He also spoke at https://t.co/peqBnjiiHy 2023 on building strong engagement in NFT communities which is something he has spent years actually doing
Building Pattern Retrieval will be a success because Adam has a reputation, which is a harder thing to build
He has spent years supporting other people’s work which is one of the reasons why community energy around project is real.
If somehow you read up to this point and you’ve not heard of Project Retrieval, read more in the quoted post
after reading a lot about Project Retrieval yesterday, i came up with an idea to build an interactive Hopfield Network Visualizer that lets anyone play with associative memory right in their browser.
here is hot it works
sketch any character or shape pixel grid.
teach the network to remember your creation.
corrupt your drawing with particle drift noise.
watch the network scramble, think and recall your original pattern
here's a tutorial of how it works. in the video i tried to recerate @adamilenich pfp in the pixel grid (wasnt perfect 😅), i scrambled it, and then asked the system to retrieve it
check it out here: https://t.co/GnGUQGMepq
94 memories. 478 artifacts. Infinite fascination.
Can't stop watching these patterns pull themselves back from oblivion. Absolutely obsessed with this
got to get my hands on somth. what do you think @adamilenich ???
In an increasingly digital world, NFTs are only going to be more prominent and not less prominent.
- They are a means to coordinate globally around a cultural idea
- They are a way to provide strong identity and recall in a pseudonymous world
- They are going to be means for creator to rally early fans support in bringing their vision to life
NFT are going to be The medium for collectibles.
The Grid tries to flatten everything into uniform templates, but true lineage can't be erased.
respect to @Ukj1111 and @MonkOnTheBlok
By pulling the thread back to the Shaman archetype, @OriginalBlokyz isn't just dropping art , they are tracing the foundational roots of a faction. This is where high-fidelity IP design meets ancient digital anthropology.
Before the protocols, before the networks, there were the oldest eras. Respect the craft or get lost in the modern static.
If one were to trace the origin of the archaic, in most cases the thread will lead to a Shaman, somewhere in the oldest times.
While we will not get into a lot of details, This particular piece represents, An Archetype, A class, A faction as well as an Era.