Curios

cu·ri·o — n. a rare, unusual, or intriguing object; often a small collected one.

CryptoPunks · #7804 · Larva Labs · 2017

The first on-chain PFP set—tiny 24×24 sprites that turned wallets into faces and kicked off everything that followed.

Still from 0xDEAFBEEF Chronophotograph series

0xDEAFBEEF · deafbeef.com · 0xDEAFBEEF · on-chain

Generative art as minimal C on Ethereum—image and sound fully encoded on-chain, with a deliberate analog, lab-bench patina.

Nouns · nouns.wtf · Nouns DAO · daily · ∞

One noun per day, a treasury that never sunsets—DAO mechanics plus time as medium; the experiment keeps rolling as long as the chain does.

Autoglyphs · #14 · Larva Labs · 2019

The algorithm lives in the contract—the art isn't stored as a file. View a glyph and Ethereum regenerates the image straight from code on-chain.

Fidenza · #116 · Tyler Hobbs · 2021

A masterpiece of modern generative aesthetics—flowing curves and restrained palettes that became the reference point for Art Blocks-era composition.

Ringers · #17 · Dmitri Cherniak · 2021

A handful of simple geometric shapes—pegs, rings, strings—that combine into images far more interesting than the parts suggest.

→ currently watching:Terraforms (Mathcastles), anything XCOPY ships, Sam Spratt's Luci, on-chain music experiments, and the slow Cambrian explosion of artist-issued ERC-721s on Base.