Elusive Definitions: Lessons from “Computer Art” for “Cryptoart”In the 1980s, a graduate student named Richard Lucas embarked on an intriguing project: He wanted to define “computer art.” His method? A…Jan 6Jan 6
Aesthetic Commodities through a Collective FilterSurveying relationships between cryptoart and performance art and introducing a data performance that involves creators and collectors as…Dec 1, 20244Dec 1, 20244
Published inEtherscan BlogCreating, Destroying, and Restoring On-Chain ArtworkA recent innovative NFT project on Ethereum stores an image on a thousand tiny contract balances and illustrates several ways that hacking…Oct 8, 20242Oct 8, 20242
Published inEtherscan BlogSome L2 Data Trends Post-DencunAn analysis of trends in bridging from L1 to L2 after the March, 2024 upgrade that included blobs and moreAug 7, 20241Aug 7, 20241
Published inEtherscan BlogPast & Future of Gas on EthereumIntroduction to the origins, evolution, and potential multidimensional future of the transaction-cost model on Ethereum mainnetJun 5, 2024Jun 5, 2024
Published inEtherscan BlogBlobs Are Temporary and PermanentOn the beauty of cryptographic evanescence; and other curious tidbits from the first few weeks of blobsApr 9, 20241Apr 9, 20241
compose[d]: “…directed cultural evolution, an echo of its place.”tl;dr: compose[d] renders little rhopalic poems. In the tradition of the Oulipo movement, you can think of compose[d] as a systematic rule…Feb 24, 2024Feb 24, 2024
Published inEtherscan BlogEvolving Topics in Data Availability for the Ethereum EcosystemCrypto news, podcasts, blog posts and 𝕏 threads are awash in “Dencun” — the forthcoming Ethereum upgrade that will probably land next…Feb 7, 2024Feb 7, 2024
Published inEtherscan BlogLatent Cultural PotentialNFTs have special powers afforded by their technical details and the ledger on which they reside. This power can be exercised across remote…Nov 4, 2023Nov 4, 2023
Published inEtherscan BlogSuperchain CircuitryCoinbase’s OnChain Summer is now complete. During August 2023, OnChain Summer celebrated the activation of Coinbase’s Base, a second layer…Sep 6, 2023Sep 6, 2023
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