TimelineNotable Opepen Activity
gm 🌊 dozens of artists worked together to create "Zoopepen" on the platform @jackbutcher and @jalilwahdat built for creators. incredible to see a web3 moment driven by genuine appreciation for digital art and collaboration. artwork by @patrdoy!
take a look at zoopepen, and then zoom out. the amount of time and effort to curate 71 official Opepen sets is impossible to visualize. we are building something special, it’s not too late to be apart of it
particularly brilliant summary of the process by @lukeweaver_eth who had a massive hand in organizing all of this
you can now connect your x account to your opepen profile bot will tag you in all updates if/when you do
a roundabout way of plugging something we have been working on at vv for a while a project that taps into the the desire to express oneself in the age of infinite image generation a networked art collection with a fixed supply, and a permissionless coordination mechanism that
agi is when a machine gets into the opepen permanent collection without being prompted
vibe coded a natural language image editor w/ new gemini api for the sole purpose of never having to open photoshop again free while in alpha →
you can think of successful opepen sets as blocks: each mined set reduces supply, ratcheting submission difficulty upward, just like bitcoin's difficulty adjustment. artists are miners, submissions their hash power, competing to validate cultural blocks. with every new set
STRATEGIC CRYPTO RESERVE
a couple new opepen features - consensus breakdown - delegated opepen on profiles enjoy!
A quick overview of opepen v4 is here
wow, opepen is a decentralized art studio, museum and gallery cataloguing the evolution of internet culture and the inception of digital property and identity, I didn't know that, you're telling me now for the first time
opepen site has become a bit like snapchat / impossible to use zoomer ui with many obscure patterns and buried actions good in some respects (if you know you know etc) but seems to be consensus that it needs a drastic rework will do it in public below
opepen explained 🧵... (yet another attempt)
swipe right opepen v0.3 a massive simplification of the ui
Playpepen is now a full fledged Opepen creator! Mint the tool, the artifact and the tool updates!
new opepen dot art landing page is live 11,890 acts of creation 334,580 acts of curation (so far)
Claim is live. Last tweet.
Opepen v2 TLDR by @jackbutcher
how to submit an opepen set
opepen v2 shipping march 20 4am utc will thread updates here 🙏
The International Council of Museums (ICOM) defines a museum as: "a nonprofit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, and open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study
sketch from early march when we were trying to figure out wtf to do with 16000 opepen tokens @jackbutcher 😅
set submissions live no concrete plan as to how we will handle these yet, but will update our thinking after a few days of it being out in the wild
INFINTE CHOICE
great tool by @tanishqxyz
FOR THE CULTURE
A thread about @jackbutcher and @jalil_eth's opepen. This is not a TLDR on the project. It’s just some observations that I, as a fan, holder, and creative person, find ingenious and interesting. Let’s go…
for those concerned we are playing a long game with opepen, we are playing a long game with opepen
opepen update drop 001 and 002 incoming will be an opt-in system with a generous window (48h~) starting this weekend, reveal early next week if either pack isn't oversubscribed (% tbd), art won't drop and we develop a new pack more details shortly
snapshot for opepen rarity assignment tomorrow at 7pm est 🫡
opepen evolution ↓
transparency time and some bg on opepen: it began life as a free 60 minute open edition inspired by @batzdu geometric pepe series which is of course inspired by the legendary @Matt_Furie (both have incredible work to collect) had no intention to build on it initially and quite
Opepen Edition. Ξ0. 1 per wallet. 60 mins.
