Rare Pepes is a historic NFT collection of 1,774 unique cards with varying designs and rarities that were minted from 2016 to 2018. The collection was created using the Counterparty protocol on the Bitcoin blockchain and is the first decentralized community art project in the history of NFTs. More than 300 artists submitted cards that were approved by the Rare Pepe Scientists, who curated the completion of 36 series of 50 cards each (Series 36 ended with 24 cards). This collection is curated by Emblem Vault.

Ether

Rare Pepe (2016 - 2018)

Wrapped Ether

a low-supply experiment in aesthetic remix and cultural provenance, driven by social play, think big, stay mini!

on-chain miniz

Ten Years Of Ethereum

09.14.22

My last piece of work on the proof of work Ethereum blockchain.

A free edition to commemorate a moment in time.

MERGE VV

Mizuki Anime Shorts is a collection of anime-inspired digital collectibles that marks the next chapter of storytelling in the Azuki universe. Produced by renowned anime creator Gensho Yasuda, these Content Collectibles let fans own moments from Azuki’s narrative journey.

Mizuki Shorts bridges art, culture, and community — inviting collectors to track the stories they’ve supported and hold pieces of the Garden’s evolving lore.


Azuki Mizuki Anime Shorts

Urban Punk is an NFT collection on the Ethereum blockchain consisting of 10,000 collectible Urban Punks with commercial rights. Yes they are late and gate crashed the party.

By CryptoBroNYC.ETH

Urban Punk Official

Heralding the dawn of NFT power users, OpenSea Pro unlocks a new level of optionality, selection, and control for pro NFT collectors. Previously known as Gem, OpenSea Pro has been months in the making, culminating in the platform’s rebirth as the most powerful NFT marketplace aggregator.

Commemorating our community’s journey, we are releasing Gemesis, a thank you to Gem community members who have steered the ship with us. This limited-edition collection encapsulates our evolution, celebrates our community, and embodies the exciting road ahead.

[OpenSea Pro](https://pro.opensea.io)

Gemesis

by 8-Bit & Eto Vass

A dynamic, pixel-packed PFP collection built entirely on-chain and living forever on Ethereum Mainnet.

Every All-Star is wrapped in a neat little HTML shell. This enables dynamic artwork that lets you switch up the background style. Your PFP, your vibes!

The artwork is generated from contract, fully on-chain and stored there forever. No IPFS or other third-party servers required store your art. Just hard-coded to Ethereum Mainnet.

On-Chain All-Stars

The Peplicator!
https://www.peplicator.fun
By Matt Furie

The first generative NFT collection from the creator of Pepe The Frog
Each NFT an original 1/1 Pepe

Brought to you by Chain/Saw
https://www.chainsaw.fun

Peplicator by Matt Furie

20,000 unique crypto investors on the blockchain with commercial rights. Twitter: [@Nakamigos](https://twitter.com/Nakamigos).

Nakamigos

In celebration of the one-year anniversary of the Zora protocol and the initial release of zorb, we invite you to mint a commemorative NFT for your collection. Minting is open for 20+22 hours on New Years Day and cements your status as an early supporter of Zora.


[zorb.dev](https://zorb.dev/) by [zora.co](https://zora.co).

ZORBS by ZORA

An egg that can be redeemed for… well, go find out!

Like what you see and want to work with us on shaping the future of redeemables? [Get in touch with us here.](https://opensea.io/blog/articles/opensea-redeemable-standard-get-in-touch)

Baby Burn: Redeemable Example

The Treehouse Squirrel Council is an NFT collection where 1,000 magical squirrels gain unique Treehouse ecosystem utilities by transforming through a golden nut. 

Treehouse Squirrel Council

From one of the founders of Zynga and some of the creative minds behind FarmVille and Words With Friends comes Common Ground World. Blockchain is the next evolution of gaming and has the $148B industry buzzing with excitement. It’s gaming re-imagined to benefit creators and players, alike.

Learn more at [TownStar.com](https://townstar.com/)

Common Ground World

🧬 CLONE X 🧬

20,000 next-gen Avatars, by RTFKT and Takashi Murakami 🌸

CLONE X - X TAKASHI MURAKAMI

The Merge is a massive technological milestone bringing sustainability, security, and scalability to Ethereum. To celebrate this important moment, ConsenSys commissioned a series of works depicting detailed worlds embodying these concepts.

The collection, called Regenesis, comes in different editions including an open edition focused on the most important benefit of the Merge: sustainability. The art explores the scale and significance of the Merge, an ambitious re-architecture of the world’s largest open programmable blockchain, which makes the network 2000x more energy efficient and positions Ethereum to sustainably support the next generation of Web3 creators and developers.

The Merge: Regenesis

EmBells is a collection of 10,000 Bellinals from the Bellscoin blockchain. Art is created by Viva La Vandal and this collection is curated by Emblem Vault

EmBells

Moonbirds is a home for creatives, dreamers, and collectors seeking real connection as we all contribute to the future of web3 art, culture, and technology.

Moonbird art is entirely in-chain, meaning the images are outputted directly from the smart contract, with no need for storage on IPFS or the like. There are also a number of customisable backgrounds available to holders based on their on-chain activity (such as other NFT holdings)—which disappear when the bird is transferred. You can check what each bird looks like with the different backgrounds on our [site](https://proof.xyz/moonbirds)

Moonbirds

Blur ETH

The HV-MTL (Heavy Metal) collection is made up of 30,000 Mechs derived from 8 different Power Source types. Beginning March 15, 2023, eligible Sewer Passes can be burned to summon a Power Source that will reveal an Evo 1 Mech. Evo 1 holders can participate in future minigame sets with their Evo 1s to unlock additional HV-MTL evolution stages. Holders of HV-MTLs are subject to the HV-MTL License Agreement available at https://hv-mtl.com/hvmtl-license-agreement.

HV-MTL

EmoHeads is the first fully-animated 10k collection in Spain! Our mission is to make the world and the metaverse more human, connecting people's lives through emotions.

Created by Javirroyo.

EmoHeads by Javirroyo

CryptoPunks launched as a fixed set of 10,000 items in mid-2017 and became one of the inspirations for the ERC-721 standard. They have been featured in places like The New York Times, Christie’s of London, Art|Basel Miami, and The PBS NewsHour.

CryptoPunks

Pudgy Penguins is a collection of 8,888 NFT’s, accelerating Web3 innovation through IP utilization and community empowerment. Embodying love, empathy, & compassion, the Pudgy Penguins are a beacon of good vibes & positivity for everyone. Each holder receives exclusive access to experiences, events, IP licensing opportunities and more. Let’s break through the boundaries of Web3 together.

Pudgy Penguins

Take the red bean to join the garden. View the collection at [azuki.com/gallery](https://azuki.com/gallery).

Azuki starts with a collection of 10,000 avatars that give you membership access to The Garden: a corner of the internet where artists, builders, and web3 enthusiasts meet to create a decentralized future. Azuki holders receive access to exclusive drops, experiences, and more. Visit [azuki.com](https://azuki.com) for more details.

We rise together. We build together. We grow together.

Azuki

CryptoPunks were created before the ERC-721 standard for non fungible tokens existed. For this reason CryptoPunks are only tradable on the CryptoPunks App. Yuga Labs created a wrapper for CryptoPunk holders to wrap their Punks into ERC-721 tokens.

Wrapping a CryptoPunk converts it to an ERC-721 enabling you to interact with other marketplaces and defi applications. For more information go to https://721.cryptopunks.app/

CryptoPunks 721

Stratified landforms constructed from many small strokes of colour. The hash of each token describes a coordinate within a multidimensional generative space, locating a unique composition that lies along one of many possible longitudes.

Meridian by Matt DesLauriers

Lil Pudgys is a collection of 22,222 NFTs originating from Pudgy Penguins. Don’t let their small stature fool you, Lil Pudgys are an integral piece of the Pudgy Penguins history. Their story began during the most frigid of winters. In the midst of adversity, the birth of the Lil Pudgys helped spark new-life into the Pudgy Penguins community. With their unique traits and personalities, there’s a Lil Pudgy for everyone. Lil Pudgy holders receive exclusive access to experiences, events, IP licensing opportunities and more. 

Lil Pudgys

The Bored Ape Yacht Club is a collection of 10,000 unique Bored Ape NFTs— unique digital collectibles living on the Ethereum blockchain. Your Bored Ape doubles as your Yacht Club membership card, and grants access to members-only benefits, the first of which is access to THE BATHROOM, a collaborative graffiti board. Future areas and perks can be unlocked by the community through roadmap activation. Visit www.BoredApeYachtClub.com for more details.

Bored Ape Yacht Club

The MUTANT APE YACHT CLUB is a collection of up to 20,000 Mutant Apes that can only be created by exposing an existing Bored Ape to a vial of MUTANT SERUM or by minting a Mutant Ape in the public sale.

Mutant Ape Yacht Club

Since the dawn of humanity, the Moon's phases have fascinated humans, influencing any number of activities on Earth including ocean tides, seasons, harvests, migrations, hunting, crime, sleeping, sex, and has inspired countless works of art. The first lunar calendar, dated to 32,000 BC was discovered, drawn on animal bone in caves. It's believed hunters during the last Ice Age used these portable lunar calendars to anticipate the behavior of different animals like Mammoths. Since then, our Moon has been imprinted across all our ancient and modern cultures, even becoming the system from which our Gregorian calendar evolved from. In the present day, investors in crypto have used the Moon symbolically. 

What does it mean for all of us in crypto to be so ahead of our time, all while using the same metaphor of the Moon for the various measures of success and individual goals we collectively share in crypto? And how will the future appreciate our ambitions and perseverance within the present moment's growing pains on our way to mass adoption? These are some of the questions that Gazers ask.

On the surface, Gazers function as a lunar calendar, algorithmically synching closely with Moon phases in the sky, joining the blockchain with one of humanity's longest running lineages in art. Gazers seeks to create a community of collectors celebrating the change of our perceptions that happen over time, our collective goals in crypto, and our love of color theory, astronomy, and generative art. 

What we are building in blockchain and NFTs will primarily be for the benefit of the future. As such, this artwork was designed to pace itself and speed up its frame rate over time, scaling into anticipated advancements in technology that will steadily allow the artwork to run at faster speeds while at larger scales. Each NFT starts out with the assignment of a date from the past 20 years. These dates correspond to events that happened under particular New Moons that shaped my path as an artist. This is the Origin Moon trait and how Gazers is in part a conceptual self portrait. 

Starting from the Origin Moon, each New Moon that arrives will speed up the potential animation of the NFT. For example, an NFT with a 20 year old Origin Moon might run at 20 frames per second, appearing as an animation. But one with an Origin Moon fresh from the sale will run closer to 1 frame per second, appearing more like a slowly evolving painting. Every moment, the frame rate of the artwork speeds up fractionally, indecipherable to our eyes. Stacking these advancements over time creates a generational evolution of experience. There is something undeniably beautiful about everything speeding up within our lifetimes, but the Moon, high above us, continues to carry on at the same meandering rate of 29.53 days in each cycle. Much like these blockchain technologies and NFT markets, this artwork was designed to be collected by the present, but appreciated in a greater sense than we can even imagine by the future. 

I created Gazers to be like a living artwork, to be lived with, and to not only have the artwork evolve over time but also the appreciation and experience of viewers. As I coded the work, I imagined it hanging on the wall of collectors, a fixture in their physical space. Collectors might spend a moment admiring their work, walk away for a couple hours, and then come back to be delighted, noticing the most subtle of shifts. Each layer of the work consists of pattern designs. With the passage of time, the thickness of the layered lines pulse and the direction a design moves will advance or rotate, changing our perception of color in the most subtle and optical of ways. Each day at midnight, each layer receives a new set of rules in terms of how to rise or shine over the next 24 hours. The result is color that rises and sets, echoing the change of light in our sky.

My use of color has consistently been what I've been best known for across my 20 year artistic career. In all my work until now, I've made all the color and design choices as I've painted as a human in the moment. But in Gazers, I designed a complex system around color theory as I understand it, joining my talent for coding with my vision for color. 

Many NFT collectors of my work might be familiar with the additional experiences some of their NFTs unlock at my website. Rather than use a Gazers NFT to unlock a website, I decided this time to create rendering modes that unlock within the code over time. These additional modes of viewing are intended to help a collector better understand the architecture of their artwork's design and also benefit from greater enjoyment of it. The addition of these experiences should present an additional benefit to HODLing for some. 

Every 29 and a half days, we reach a Moon phase called the New Moon. This is when the dark side of the Moon is fully visible and no sunlight is reflected from the lunar surface back to Earth. In Gazers, each New Moon phase creates a New Moon design. In this artwork, the hash seed creates color theory and design rules. These rules are deterministic and dictate all the moons that will generatively be created into infinity. Time reveals our moons. Pairing time with deterministic generative code creates the ephemeral moment. We can all agree that looking at the Moon in the sky never seems to be the exact same experience twice, nor the exact same from different locations. I wanted to echo this nature in Gazers and emphasize the urgency and rarity of our present moment and how an artwork can capture this. 

As individuals, we all have our own version of the Moon and what reaching it means. Just as our goals change over time, often subtly, sometimes dramatically, so will our moons, creating a visual representation that might coincide with what's changing inside of us. In crypto, we are all ahead of our time. We are all gazers. And we are all waiting for our next Moon.

Gazers by Matt Kane

Wrapped Punks are ERC721 Tokens, each one backed 1:1 by an original Cryptopunk by Larvalabs.

Buy an original Cryptopunk at https://larvalabs.com/cryptopunks

Turn your Original Cryptopunk into an ERC721 at https://wrappedpunks.com/

CryptoPunks launched as a fixed set of 10,000 items in mid-2017 and became one of the inspirations for the ERC-721 standard.

Wrapped Cryptopunks

Milady Maker is a collection of 10,000 generative pfpNFT's in a neochibi aesthetic inspired by street style tribes.

Milady Maker

Launched on August 10th, 2017, the MoonCatRescue Insanely Cute Operation was a success! The 25440 MoonCats rescued are acclimating to their life as fully on-chain (https://mooncat.community/about) collectible critters.  Vintage, generative, and a pioneer of fair distribution, MoonCats can also be customized in the on-chain MoonCatBoutique (https://boutique.mooncat.community/)!  Owners have Personal and Commercial License (https://mooncat.community/mooncatlicense) to their MoonCat's imagery.

MoonCats

CryptoPunks, released on June 9, 2017 by Larva Labs. 

This is the original ERC-20 token now tradeable via a modern ERC-721 wrapper. 

[Wiki](https://v1punks.gitbook.io/) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/v1punks)

CryptoPunks V1 (wrapped)

The collectibles that started it all. Doodles Original Collection features 10,000 characters created by Co-Founder and renowned artist, Burnt Toast. The generative art was designed with a joyful range of colors, traits and personalities, with 32 hand-drawn, unique, 1 of 1’s to round out the set.

Doodles

Kaito Genesis is the genesis NFT collection created by Kaito AI.

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