context:
we're (w @yougogirl_eth & @jackbutcher) building networked dot art, it will be a new kind of auction house on ethereum.
went all in on enabling auctioning unwrapped cryptopunks.
so we have ERC721, ERC1155, and CRYPTOPUNKS token standard support.
the above is _not that_...
but while working on networked i went back and built a new data source contract for punks (punksdata.eth) to enable performant onchain trait and colors matching (yes for the first time you'll be able to bid on colors ).
i needed the data contract to enable onchain trait bidding, inspired by a years old concept of @_MouseDev (CryptoPunksBidsV2.sol).
initially i was solely working on original CryptoPunks (what the readers of this would call "V2"), but while working on it i went down a rabbit hole and found this fix for the V1 bug.
then i reached out to @seanbonner to get some history on V1s.
he gave me the idea to implement native V1+V2 pair auctions. great idea, and they are coming. the first building block for that is already live: punksvaultfactory.eth; more on this soon.
but this V1 workaround is actually an incredibly cool fix imo, independent of the auctions stuff... and since the bugged punks currently don't have a way to trade on their original marketplace, i decided to extract this standalone market contract.
it is a pure lego block extension of the bugged (v1) CryptoPunks.sol contract deployed by LarvaLabs on June 9th, 2017, and enables bug free trading without ever wrapping the original asset.
all sales settle through the original CryptoPunks.sol contract, and the entire orderbook is onchain. no offchain proprietary apis.
for whatever reason, i despise wrappers to an unreasonable extent. to me they destroy the provenance of the original token. there has to be a better way than parking the asset, and minting a new one (and thus losing transfer and sale provenance on the original market (which is what makes them so special in the first place imo)). and i think i found it...
ily all and mean zero disrespect towards any other protocol, wrapper builder etc.
i just like onchain legos and experiments.
This is unfortunately simply true. I wish it were an exaggeration rather than the problem of our time.
It is a difficult problem! Especially since we barely have the theory to explain why governance can be as bad as it empirically is.
one of the most beautiful and impressive pieces of art yet created in the AI era
reading his writeup (which he links below the QT) is a good reminder of just how much work and know-how is still required to create great things, contrary to the prevailing narrative on here
Ohhh i get it, they're going to use the ram shortages as the justification to push thin client computers onto consumers and make people dependent on cloud computing subscription services finally
during warhol's active years, the art scene in new york was small. everyone knew each other and would attend each other's openings. famous artists would sell their iconic works for a few hundred dollars. despite this, their cultural impact was enormous.
sound familiar?