thespicemustflow

crypto: not even once

[Alex Mordvintsev @zzznah]

Growing Graphs demo is finally out! 🕸️✨
🔗 https://t.co/YJCA1WRrbL
Videos from a few months ago finally meet a finished implementation, thanks Gemini for doing the boring parts.

Inspired by Paul Cousin's Graph-Rewriting Automata: like a Game of Life, but cells can split if they want to

#GenerativeArt #WASM #SwissGL

[abeto @abeto_co]

Ever dreamt of having a job where you deliver mail to the residents of a tiny planet? Us too.

https://t.co/FNKiXFPk2K

#webgl #threejs

[banteg @banteg]

guys?

[ア @yuruyurau]

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[thespicemustflow @spic3mustflow]

@farcaster_xyz https://t.co/KLXV9lHkFQ

[quantized @quantize_d]

ArtTab 1.20 is live

Now supports all digital art: HTML/JS, videos, GIFs, images. Featuring new pieces from @bagdelete, @ALCrego_, @endless_mazin, @ex_mortal_, @SarahMeyohas & more.

Opening curation soon—DM me if you're interested in curating + sharing your own ArtTab playlist.

[113 ♖♖♖ @0x113d]

.@VitalikButerin you should know about Mathcastles Terraforms and ZK artworks if you don’t already

I’m eth genesis block and a full time artist <> programmer of 15+ years

Not a shill to buy, and have never wanted to bother you, but you might enjoy their aspirations and values

[Material Protocol Arts @material_work]

Cycles by Material Protocol Arts

Cycles by Material Protocol Arts is a network sculpture composed of space and time, a meditation on recurrence and change. Time and its manner of repeating appear as themes in art and metaphysics through the ages. Heraclitus steps into and out of a river, a new man each time while history draws irregular spiral loops, rhyming and stuttering out its story.

At its core, Cycles is a network artwork deployed on Ethereum. It comprises an abstract kinetic sculpture of rotating rings, composed of 512 individual lenses. Each lens represents a unique simulation, moving through parametric space and offering viewers a window into complex, evolving patterns. By using Ethereum as a networked computer, the artwork can develop over time and accept interactions via the network. Importantly, the core of Cycles isn't just a JavaScript file loaded and stored on Ethereum, but instead a program running live on Ethereum itself as a world computer sculpture.

Using blockchain technology as material for art making offers artists the chance to make artworks that are new in the context of art history: those that continuously evolve, record their own history, and run autonomously with minimal intervention. Leveraging Ethereum's distributed nature and economic incentives, Cycles aspires to operate on an extended time scale allowing viewers to live with and experience its changes over years, decades or centuries.

Cycles is a dynamically running network artwork. This distinction is important because in the history of computer-generated art, many artists have focused on designing computer systems to generate outputs such as drawings, videos, or sound recordings. This is a respectable tradition but this approach fails to express the dynamic and interactive nature of computer programs as artworks themselves. Cycles attempts to explore these qualities by creating a dynamic network artwork that runs continuously and autonomously on Ethereum, shifting the focus from the product of an art-making algorithm to the system itself.

Dynamism is a prerequisite for interactivity which Cycles allows for its collectors. The piece includes a method to stop a lens’ movement by freezing it. This causes the lens to focus continuously on the same point in space, causing the changing qualities of its simulation to be fixed and allowing collectors to control its aesthetic presentation. Freezing is a weighted decision. Once a lens is frozen it will require certain conditions to be unlocked. Methods for unfreezing lenses will be unlocked over time. The fact that the behavior of the sculpture can be affected by lens owners means that its future state is non-deterministic and will never be able to be fully predicted.

In technical terms, Cycles is composed of Solidity, JavaScript, and SVG code, stored and computed on the Ethereum blockchain. This design avoids external dependencies, ensuring the artwork's longevity and resistance to technical failures. While the current form of Cycles is complete, its nature as a software artwork allows for potential future development through non-destructive updates or connections to other systems.

By rendering systemic processes as aesthetic experiences, Cycles offers viewers a unique perspective on the passage of time and the nature of change. It invites contemplation of the cyclical yet varied patterns that characterize both natural and human systems. As viewers engage with Cycles over extended periods, they are encouraged to reflect on their own relationship with time, change, and recurrence, viewing the artwork as a lens through which to observe the interplay of repetition and variation that shapes our existence.

[poof @poof_eth]

Say hello to DX Research Group, a new AI studio focused on innovative onchain experiences

Our first experiment DX01: SINGULARITY begins this Thursday on Base

Follow @DXRGai and read below to learn more

[Monk Antony @monkantony_tez]

It's done 🥳🎉 but still processing😅

This is the single thing I've worked on the longest—nearly two years. Thank you to all the wonderful people in the space I know. The TL comes from you and is for you🙏
✅
• 10 chapters
• 1,060 moments
• 111,000 words
• 70,000 BCE – 2023

[ً @lightclients]

"One bad signature will be able to drain your account on Ethereum after EIP-3074."

Yes; this is true. 3074 coauthor here! Let me put this concern to rest a bit before it gets more out of hand.

[cygaar @0xCygaar]

EIP-3074 was just approved to go live in the next Ethereum hard fork.

This EIP will forever change how users interact on EVM chains, making wallet UX simpler, cheaper, and more powerful.

Here's a high level overview of EIP-3074 and how it'll change the game 🧵:

[ren (wassie arc) @0xren_cf]

The biggest update since ordinals is coming to BTC at the halvening ... RUNES. I listened to 30 hours of the Ordinals Coding Club and this is what runes are and what's coming in the future:

Runes are a new fungible token protocol on Bitcoin that uses an indexer based model similar to ordinals to establish social consensus around balances:
- Etched within a single UTXO (name, total supply and other properties)
- Uses a 6 block commit reveal scheme to prevent miners from front running and registering their own rune when mining the block.

Runes can be viewed as a successor to BRC-20 with several key improvements:

The names of runes are unique unlike ERC-20s, so you can't create a rune with the same name that someone else has already created:
- Rune names shorter than 13 characters will be gradually released over a 4 year period after the runes launch to prevent immediate grabbing of the shortest names
- Every 4 months, names that are 1 character shorter will become available

New units of a rune can be minted by spending the UTXO containing the rune, the total supply increases and the newly minted units are sent to a new output. Runes can be transferred by spending the UTXO that contain them.

Runestones are the "precompiles" for runes that are instructions that facilitate how runes move from inputs to outputs. Runestones are stored in the OP_RETURN and the first runestones direct transfers

To extend the rune protocol in the future, runestones are tagged with even and odd integers with backwards compatibility. One thing to be really careful with when runes launch is that if you see an EVEN tagged runestone, the rune theory will treat the input runes as having no location and effectively burn those runes, what Casey calls a "Cenotaph"

Now onto what Casey is thinking about in the future:

There can be recursive endpoints for inscriptions that tell you about rune balances, so you can make inscriptions that interact with runes. Let's say you wanted to make a pokemon inscription, you could power up the pokemon depending on how much of the pokemon rune you had in the output. This provide runes and inscriptions a similar type of design space to DN404s on Ethereum.

In the near term Rune trading will happen in a more off-exchange type of manner but Casey had an interesting idea for light-pools which would be off chain pools of liquidity for trading runes that could use peer to peer networks separate from the Bitcoin mempool. Users could connect directly to a light pool node and do atomic swaps of runes for BTC. This would look similar to Cowswap and Seaport intent based trading architectures that enable atomic swaps without relying on exchanges to custody the assets.

Follow for a series of posts over the next month leading into the halvening where I'll publish my notes on what's being built in the BTC ecosystem

[thespicemustflow @spic3mustflow]

https://t.co/vDpANrw6tS

[banteg @banteg]

🚨 ledger library confirmed compromised and replaced with a drainer. wait out interacting with any dapps till things become clearer.
https://t.co/xapunW8zC3

[𝕭𝖏ø𝖗𝖓 𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖆𝖑 @_nonfigurativ_]

Entangled #fxhash

[ア @yuruyurau]

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[remnynt @remnynt]

An algorithm I started in 2008 has found its purpose.

I'm bouncing with excitement, and maybe a bit nervous, but overall so thrilled to finally properly introduce Proscenium!

I'll share some thoughts in this thread, starting with the essay just published on Mirror.

1/8

[Mathcastles @mathcastles]

zero glimpse sunflower one (for unit)

an unknowable drawing,
abstractly glimpsed through provable features,
using our zero-knowledge artwork system

made for Unit's Uncomputer exhibition
https://t.co/hZVHQFA9XU

facets revealed through the month,
starting with today's txt frame