Project Overview
As an art oriented crypto platform, the artwork itself has some features that make it "alive", it unironically lives inside the inter-blockchain zone, can be staked, cloned, burnt, exchanged, admired, hidden, asked, etc.
Artworks are like flowers of perception ready to blossom. The first collection is called GENESIS SYNTHETIC ACID.
Genesis Trans Acid is the statement of Kiddo, in the image and likeness of a collective dream. Your key to identity disorder.
The first edition is composed of 42 unique transparent PNG squares from 1x1 to 42x42 pixels. In fact what you are looking at are not just transparent pixels, but contracts that make lies sound facts. You own fakes.
Collaborators: Cosimo Mollica - Alessandro Giannì - Gerdi Patanaj
Let's talk tech
For this project, it was important to have an art-focused website, we rebuilt the website UI multiple times to get its feeling right and it was always styled with tons of CSS Variables and styled-components.
For the tech stack, it uses NextJS, both to ensure a lower Largest Contentful Paint(LCP) and for having the possibility to include a headless CMS(Strapi) to allow the editors to edit the current content
and maybe having the easy future possibility to create a Blog infrastructure.
For the integration with OpenSea, and with Client Side Renderer(CSR) I fetched the API, and it worked just fine, the documentation was just very descriptive and helpful in any part of the project.
Before abandoning - at the moment, at least - the project, a tentative to play with Tokens and Smart Contracts was made. With Solidity, we ran some Auction Smart Contracts on a Testnet and it was possible to participate in an image auction with Ethereums.