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Proof Collective Membership
A private group of 1,000 dedicated NFT collectors and artists. Membership valid from 1/1/2022-1/1/2025.
The Proof Collective is a select NFT community that is only accessible to its 1,000 members and is valid from 1/1/2022-1/1/2025. The Proof Collective has been behind some highly successful projects such as Moonbirds, Oddities and Grails. The group is made up of renowned artists and collectors in the NFT space, many of whom remain anonymous.
Founded in December 2021 by Co-Founder Kevin Rose, The Proof Collective evolved from a closely-knit community that had developed around the Proof podcast, with a clear mission to act as the most vigilant and knowledgeable experts in the NFT space, always on the lookout for the most promising projects for its members. Learn more
Brand Manifesto
Art is proof of our collective humanity.
From handprints on cave walls to pixels on screens, art forms the unbroken chain of our shared human experience. Art isn’t frivolous, it’s fundamental—the foundation to the stories we tell, cultures we create, and societies we build. But art is also at risk of being commodified.
The blockchain has the potential to usher in a digital art renaissance, but we have to decide: is it about the numbers or the people?
At PROOF, we’re focused on creating unique experiences for collectors to connect with artists to own and champion their art. Art is more than a floor price—it’s humanity’s handprint on the world.
GRAILS
Grails
Proof has already released three sets of its popular Grails collection, each consisting of 20 unique NFTs by 20 renowned artists in the NFT community. To obtain a Grails NFT, one must have a Grails III Mint Pass, which is distributed as an airdrop to Proof Collective NFT holders. Some lucky holders of "Grail" trait Moonbirds are also entered into a raffle for a chance to win a Mint Pass, and they can also be purchased on the secondary market.
The minting process for Grails drops involves an interesting dynamic. Once the minting window opens, Proof members and Mint Pass holders can mint an artwork within a seven-day period. However, the names of the artists are not revealed until after the minting is finished, incentivizing members to select pieces they appreciate rather than those associated with big-name artists. While it is still possible to identify an artist's style, the concept creates an intriguing element of the unknown in the minting process.
Proof has enlisted some big names to participate in the Grails drops, including Gary Lee, Alexis Ohanian, Hackatao, Grant Riven Yun, Refik Anadol, and Drifter Shoots, among others. Season III of Grails was released on January 17 and has introduced new mechanics such as Editions and Series mints. Editions are single artwork NFTs with a hard cap of 50, while Series mints consist of a curated selection of works by a single artist, with each mint randomly selecting pieces from that series. The artwork displayed on the Grails minting page shows the first piece in its corresponding Series.
GRAILS I
20 artists. 20 pieces of art. Choose wisely.
Total minted: 1,036
Once live, PROOF Collective NFT holders will have the ability to mint one Grail per PROOF Collective membership NFT held. During the open minting window, the artist identities are hidden for all. Once the minting window closes, PROOF will host a live streaming event to reveal the artists.
I’m Alexis Ohanian, I’m best known as a founder/CEO/investor, but this is my first piece of art (not withstanding creating logos like Reddit’s Snoo and hundreds of variations) and my first NFT. I made it to celebrate the best thing I've ever created. My wife took this photo on a family trip to Mougins, France. I’ve never made low poly artwork before, but I’ve long been obsessed with the style. I’ve always found the process of creating art to be very therapeutic and now that I’ve made this, I think I’ll be doing it more often. Thanks, Kevin & the entire PROOF community.
Second Moon is an animation created in 2022 using a digital moiré patterning technique, consisting in the overlap of two images to generate the illusion of a third image. In my practice, this process is often used to created abstract textural works inspired by atmospheric and natural forces. In Second Moon, the animation oscillates between abstraction and figuration: it can be read as an abstract composition or as a figurative landscape representing the reflection of a celestial object over a liquid surface. At large, Second Moon relates to many histories of abstraction and figuration in painting, optical art, moving image, computer graphics and screen savers. The notion of surface is important in this work, as it constantly plays with the perception of depth and flatness within the space of the screen.
Knowns and unknowns\n\nCapturing the moment of the feeling we have when choosing. Thinking about knowns and unknowns. From all the artworks you've chosen one, you've made the choice. Inspired by the Grails concept.
The beauty of the eternal & internal harmony within. During every day, at any moment, within every mind we’re given opportunities to rethink & renew. Turning our inner webs & weeds into greatness & growth, bursting with blooms of beauty. It’s up to you to choose to renew, so choose wisely! Genesis Piece; hand illustrated digital cel animation using stop motion techniques by Rachel Ryle; 2022; silent; 47-second looping film; mp4; 1080px1080px.
This Protoglyph is the output from an early algorithm exploration for the Autoglyphs, but operates at much higher resolution and detail. These initial explorations were done before we realized just how limiting executing everything on-chain was going to be. Once we incorporated those limitations the resolution and output format changed somewhat, but you can still see some of the original DNA present from this early prototype.
Dreaming my queen through the machine in my Hollywood studio.\n\nOriginal VideoDream by Sarah Zucker / @thesarahshow. Created in studio in 2021 by feeding an original digital photo collage through VQGAN + Clip using the phrase “Siamese Cat on top of the Capitol Records building with sunset | iridescence | unreal engine”\n\nOpen Edition released as part of Grails for Proof Collective.
Quoting one of my favorite chapters in the “Original Dune” series: "A no-ship was a starship, and type of no-chamber, that was invisible to prescience. This meant that its movements or occupants could not be seen by many of those who possessed prescient powers, such as Guild Navigators."
In this case, we are going to call them “Shell Navigators.” Every collector of the fragments of these “Ixian No-ships” will have a part in this generative-sci-fi inspired worlds I've been inspired by from the very start of my journey. This is not a roadmap but as the story says “it's all part of the path triggered by a perceived need to diversify the human race and allow it to evolve.”
“How to Start a War” is the first published fiction piece by bestselling author Tim Ferriss (The 4-Hour Workweek, Tools of Titans, etc.), available only in NFT form. This short story is about mercenaries, modern life, mental gymnastics, and the games we play. The prose, handwriting, and concept is by Tim Ferriss (tim.blog). The design is by Lisa Quine (lisaquine.com).
“Wall” is an algorithmic appreciation of a brick wall - everything that it is made of, everything that has been added to it or removed from it, and everything that it interacts with.
We're thrilled to present Grails: Season II. We're bringing more artists into the collection and distributing Mint Passes to PROOF Collective NFT and nested Grail Moonbird holders. As always, artist identities are kept hidden until the post-mint live reveal event.
The depression sits idle, patiently waiting to find more time to breathe. It eats what I eat and thinks what I think, but better. Forever hoping that it leaves me be but terrified it will. Love, friendship and responsibility exist around me…but IT does not know those things.Either I contain it well, or I've made them all liars. I'm sorry.
Stereoscopic 3D crowd photograph taken at Tame Impala / The Flaming Lips Halloween concert 2013 This night was the most wild concert I've photographed from an audience perspective for sure. Being from Australia, Tame Impala were unaware of the USA's Halloween tradition and were good sports and dressed up in drag as The Spice Girls. The Flaming Lips re-enacted the blood drenching scene from Carrie. Truly odd. The crowd was dressed up for the occasion and this photo really struck me for all these years. How odd. What is he? A futuristic tinman? Def a space cadet, no matter what.
When I was asked to interpret one of Alma Thomas' seminal works, Resurrection, I was overjoyed by the opportunity. Alma found delight in the sway of a leaf blown in the breeze, in the changing hues of a tree from one season to the next, in the quiet contemplation of nature's course. Serendipitously, over the last few months, nature has been at the core of my practice, by way of artificial intelligence. It all started last year when I decided to train my first GAN model with a database of my works - hand-painted acrylic abstract vignettes. I needed something to meditate on while creating the necessary volume of work to properly train the GAN; in my case, 2000 paintings. What better than nature as a focus of meditation? Its expansiveness as well as its changing place in my life over the years provided me with enough inspiration to get through the vignettes. This was the biggest undertaking of my career as an artist, and I had no idea how drawn I would be to both the process and the results. All of my work today incorporates the outputs of this training and AI in general. I have discovered more ways than I could have ever imagined to collaborate with AI, guided always by the exploration of phenomena in nature. Sparrows do not fear the sun is the beginning of a new direction in my collaboration with AI. In this new exploration, I bring outputs of my AI training into the canvas and integrate them back into my painting practice. There is something fascinating that happens in the journey from human to machine back to human. The process is long and leaves lots of room for contemplation and meditation on the natural phenomena I set out to explore. In the case of Sparrows do not fear the sun, I focused on the only tree on my late grandfather's millet farm which provided the only shelter from an often cruel sun. It was a neem tree of modest size but a mighty capacity for cooling. Most importantly, it was easy to climb and one could see the whole spread of the farm from a few branches up. From up there, I would watch sparrows descend on the millet stalks to feed for short periods of time and fly back up. Their choreography was fluid and ever-changing, providing entertainment for long stretches of time. Unable to cope with the increasing demands for water and inputs as climatic conditions worsened, my grandfather eventually sold the farm, and with it, the neem tree, the rows of millet, and the sparrows that liked to feed on it. I am glad one of my earliest memories of communing with nature is still alive in my mind and lives on in my work. Thank you Alma for taking me back there.
Imperfect restorations of the same picture. Each restoration has limited information and a limited ability to reassemble the pixels correctly. This is a re-utilisation of a pixel-sorting algorithm I made a few years ago. The combination of applying it on a relatively simple image and doing it multiple times makes the workings of the algorithm more apparent. The attached video shows how the algorithm works, repeatedly swapping pixels to recreate the original image.
I do not do editions for a variety of reasons. This practice continues in this Grails Piece. While each of these may appear the same, they are actually unique generative pieces augmented with noise from the quantum computer ibmq_quinto. At regular scales our world is consistent and predictable, but at the quantum level everything is random and chaotic. Look closely at the details of this piece and you will see that it mimics this phenomenon. Furthermore, the animated numbers, which may be confused with binary, are not actually binary. They are visual representations of qubits in perfect superposition as measured by observing atoms within ibmq_quinto.
Latent Floral A is a multi-dimensional AI Data Painting that transforms a fragment of the world's natural phenomena into a visual poem for Metaverse. Utilizing a raw dataset of 100 million flower images to train a generative adversarial network (GAN), the NFT artwork reveals the latent space in which a machine "dreams” of flowers after learning what a flower is – its colors, patterns, and shapes that exist in its synthetic memories. Anadol's pioneering take on painting with data takes the form of a celebration of the latent sensations that floral patterns and colors induce and gives an abstract "shapelessness” to pigments. The result is a mesmerizing visualization of an alternative natural world that evokes themes of transformation and innovation at the intersection of art, nature, and technology.
The style is an amalgamation of the many art styles that I have been deeply influenced by throughout the years- From Italian renaissance portraiture, Catholic Medieval, Flemish Primitives, Thanjavur, Thangka, and the first art styles ever introduced to me- 16bit pixel work and Anime inspired American cartoons from the 1980's. The backdrop is the view of Manhattan from my childhood neighborhood of LIC Queens. The 80's iconography is obvious and cliche, but it's continued influence on my aesthetic is undeniable.
There were a few ideas I had for who would be the deity of this piece. I shared my sketch ideas with my friend from childhood, Gene, who was an incredible graffiti artist and musician. He liked my Voltron inspired sketches the most, and I always valued his opinion, so I went with his choice. Tragically, Gene went on to take his life only a week later.
I adorned the Voltron deity in Michael Jackson's "Thriller” jacket- Gene's first musical influence. Shortly after, my beloved B Paul's health took a nose dive. His fight with cancer was coming to an end- he was in rapid decline.
I worked on most of this piece from my iPad while sitting next to him in the little Brooklyn apartment that we used to share together throughout his hospice. B paul had an affinity for gold and bling in general. The gold accents of this piece are a homage to him and his distinct style.
B Paul's numerological number is "33”. It is the number of the Master Teacher, a Master Number. 33's are the personification of pure love and compassion- and the love that B had given to me, and all those around him was genuinely nurturing, unconditional and pure. Without B Paul's care and guidance, I would have never become a tattoo artist, nor would I have had the opportunities and career I have today.
Both Gene and B Paul are integral features to my story, who I am as a person and artist, and a large part of my NYC experience. This isn't the first piece that they have influenced, and will not be the last.
Artwork created on the IPad with Procreate and Pixel Studio
She deserves it. Below a poem I wrote for your girl, to accompany her beautiful roses… “I made these roses for your girl, in hopes that she would smile. The last time you bought her flowers? I think it’s been a while. She said she likes the subtle glitch and the way the roses sway, she said it via my DM’s, just the other day. I hope next time you take her out, you stumble on my name, saying “that damn Centauri kid has really got some game”… You’ll laugh and smile, then take her hand and try to catch her gaze, and say “my darling i will spend my life to buy you more A.C.K’s”.” Dedicated to your girl (past-present-future)
The Bookends series explores the tension and harmony between ceramics, one of the oldest crafts known to mankind, and the seemingly unlimited variety of algorithmic art. This specific output was manually composed by overlaying two hand made ceramic bowls on top of a generative code based artwork (plus a quick and dirty drop shadow). It is my favorite of dozens of manually assembled compositions exploring what an algorithmic edition would look like combining these two very different mediums. While I've been exploring algorithmic art for nearly a decade, my experience in the medium of ceramics is only a year old. Over that year I have found the practice of hand forming and glazing pinch pots/bowls to be a wonderful counterweight to the frantic nature of the crypto/NFT space.
This work is a 2022 reimagining of a previously unreleased composite drawing I made in 2012. At the time I was investigating the Deviant Art community as an outsider, somewhat as visual anthropologist. The aesthetics that emerged from that community strike me as influential for many Degen PFP NFT projects - but then without the financial component. The image is animated with a wavy SVG filter, and it responds to your operating system's settings for 'light' or 'dark' mode appearance.
Hand-drawn animation with ink on paper. My work is typically made by destroying and reworking the same image over and over again for months to create a highly detailed, 1-minute mind-bending animation. But when I am traveling or away from the studio, I will work on flip-books to keep my hands busy and experiment with movement. I don't often publish the results, but when PROOF reached out about providing older work or work in an atypical style for Grails, I thought it would be fun to share one of my favorite flip-books. Ball was hand-drawn on one pad of Post-It Notes while commuting by train and subway, I used a quarter to trace the circle on each page. I wanted to depict three types of movement all at once - a moving object, a moving light source, and a moving viewpoint or "camera” - while also exploring the expressive, painterly and distorted qualities made possible by drawing at a very small scale in a moving train car. When the flip-book was complete, I scanned each page to create the endlessly looping digital animation. To me, Ball is a meditation on the illusion of movement itself. An object in motion stays in motion. Always move forward.
Unlike Xie's typical code-based work, "Away from Keyboard" is a physical piece: a hand-cut and pasted collage inspired by her own algorithms. Each piece of paper used is printed with one of her generative patterns. Through this manual creation process, Xie gets to explore and understand her generative systems in a different light.
The artwork reflects on some questionable elements in biblical writings on which a number of know right-wing politicians still base their misogynist and homophobic law-making practices. The artist suggests them to eat their own scroll and stop harming women and LGBTQ+ bodies based on historical writings. Created by Pussy Riot in Chicago in the spring of 2017, and was a reaction on Donald Trump becoming a president.
A digital artwork by Mr Doodle as part of a continuation of his Abstract Doodlism series. Which features layers of loose doodles on top of one and other in a way that creates a feeling of colourful graffiti like lines building raw, vibrant images.
Gas masks were extensively used during the First World War and the Second World War. Although it is rarely talked about, Africans played a huge role in both wars, which means that they must have been handed gas masks at some point to go out into the war front and face the enemies. Yet, a cursory search on the internet shows that there is hardly any image of an African wearing a gas mask in these wars. Why?
"It is a ghost of an image, a preview, a thumbnail… squeezed through slow digital connections, compressed, reproduced, ripped, remixed, as well as copied and pasted into other channels of distribution.”—Hito SteyerlMade with noise, code, scrap paper, tea, tape, discarded electronics, graphite and light projection. Inspired by artist friends in the highly networked practice of generative art, as well as Hito Steyerl's seminal defense of the poor image, GEIST mixes generative, traditional, digital and material processes.An exploration and reconciliation with the strange power of the static thumbnail in web3.An homage to all the poor images no less haunting for their humble resolution that became formative cultural influences for those of us who grew up on the Internet. Lastly, a non-literal labyrinth linking past and upcoming long form generative art projects - GEIST gives rise to keys for those willing to explore a non-linear future.
A year ago I was obsessively crafting algorithms to draw trees with a pen plotter. At the core of them is a piece of code that fast computes line intersections, the black magic behind all of my pen plotter works. The Fabric of Trees is an output from the same algorithm that later made my genesis ETH piece "The Oak Tree", nothing less, except the magic of deactivating line intersections. " • 5600x5600 PNG • made with javascript code • exists as a plottable file
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Grails II
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Type | Open Edition Total minted | 75
GRAILS III
20 artists. 20 pieces of art. Choose wisely.
Total minted: 1,000
Adorned with fresh mechanics and a few new surprises, PROOF is proud to present Grails: Season III. We’re bringing 20 artists into this season, which features both limited edition and curated series of artworks. As always, artist identities are kept hidden until the post-mint live reveal event.
Seven physical grails hand forged from 24k gold, silver, bronze, copper and iron. This series explores the historic symbolism of grails as well as the recent interpretation of the term by NFT enthusiasts. In contrasting raw physical process with layers of intangibility, and playfully depicting the contexts in which we experience NFT art, one may consider what grants the status of "grail", and how that collective agreement is influenced by social cues and distribution medium.
Wrapped in ribbons with an introspective gaze, she is a symbol of balance, energy, life, power, and beauty in the world.
The title "Her" is a nod to the ideal that many creatives like myself strive for: a state of flow where the world melts away and we are one with the muse. In Her, we all see different things: a reflection of ourselves or those around us, inspiring us to tap into our own potential and lead the way to balance, love, or the next challenge. When I look at Her, I see my own journey as an artist, creator, builder, and the struggles and triumphs that we face everyday.
This piece is the first time I have used artificial intelligence in my artwork. I was fortunate to be trained by an AI engineer, James, who taught me how to create training sets from scratch, run trained text to image and image to image models, and of course how to write successful prompts. It was a pleasure and honor to have this hands-on learning experience with this new technology.
I added my human touch, enhancing the work with hand-drawn layers. In a collaboration between human and machine, her spirit embodies the beauty of both worlds.
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Grails III
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Type | Edition Max supply | 50 Total minted | 50
03. Proof of Origin - Picture of the Planets Artist
Crayon and code are united after four decades in a collaboration with the self. Artist Matt Kane has become well known for using time and change as artistic mediums. Additionally, Kane has referenced space and the cosmos in several series including his 2021 magnum opus, Gazers, a generative lunar phase calendar released on Art Blocks in 2021. In fact, Kane's very first NFTs in 2019 were depictions of the M87 Black Hole. The subject of 'Proof of Origin' is a red crayon drawing that the artist made when he was just 4 years old, which he titled at the time 'Picture of the Planets.' 38 years later, as a cryptoartist, Kane reminds us ""don't trust, verify. I've explained how my interest in the cosmos extends back as long as I can remember. This drawing is proof of my early passion and to my estimate, my very first visual expression of outer space. My father remembers the drawing hanging on our refrigerator for a very long time. That's probably where the stains came from. He and my mother were both very happy to see it again.
Each NFT has a unique set of stars which are deterministically generated according to an NFT's minting transaction hash. The sky is made up of one star for every month that has passed since the original drawing was made on March 1st, 1985. The work begins with 454 stars. A new star is added to shine brightly at the top of each new month.
In addition to archiving and responsively presenting the original crayon drawing, the work also serves as a 24 hour clock. Each hour is represented by a different color from the 24 pack of crayons Kane would have drawn from in 1985. "I've traded black and gray for 'Cornflower Blue' and 'Sea Green' - my favorite colors from the larger packs of crayons. I remember trading these with my kindergarten class's box of 64. I'm pretty sure I got in trouble for that." The sky fades according to the minutes that have passed, appearing darkest at the top of each hour.
Clicking on the left and right edge of the screen or pressing the spacebar changes the viewing mode of the artwork. Viewers are encouraged to reflect on their own memories of interacting with the night sky, especially at an early age.
All that we see with the naked eye is composed of that which is invisible to it: an endless realm of building blocks starting in the atomic and organised into elements, in turn comprising ever more complex structures that take on emergent, reactive properties that border on the generative aesthetically. Ascorbic acid, known to us as the essential vitamin c (which our bodies cannot produce) becomes in its microscopic state a generative element that can be interactively coaxed into forming complex, beautiful structures.
An intangible resolution becoming apparent, frustrations transform into beautiful efficiencies, nothing else matters. Realization is a 150-piece generative collection written in GLSL.
The "Duressa" dance from the Dorze community of Southern Ethiopia. It represents power and courage, and is usually performed at funerals to honor a hero. The women sing "Come my Lion, come my Hero." Traditional dances are kept alive in the Dorze community by allowing kids to dance from an early age in weddings and other important ceremonies marking rights of passage.
Into the Blue is an art series that explores the abstract digital depths with movement of light and colour.
Curious and vivid, blue light becomes the viewer's guide through virtual landscapes. Closely inspecting every corner of digital depths, beams emitting from without become an expansion of our senses that helps us perceive artificial worlds.
Still, as we strive to comprehend the digital reality that we created, it remains as unattainable as distant stars. It is a world that is separated from us by its immaterial nature. Diving into the depth of the screen with our attention, we are imagining mere projections of our reality onto the digital canvas and stay defined by our three-dimensional mind.
Reticulum is part of my continued exploration of developing deep color and texture using 100% generative approaches. For this project I created an entirely new generative color model and for the first time rendered the entire artworks using SVG making it possible to scale the outputs to any size in live mode.
I wanted this series to look like rudimentary and mutating networks. Crude interconnecting webs of primordial elements. I love the idea of a network coming online in terms of self awareness. Networks seem to pervade all of life from the vast Mycelium webs in forests through to the circulatory, nervous and neurological systems in our own bodies. More inspiring for me however is thinking about the first pulses of life that evolved in microbial networks in ancient epochs and also the possibility of self awareness evolving quietly and wildly within the interconnected machinery of the internet. This series of artworks I hope are a playful expression of my fascination with this subject.
A recurrent theme in all my work is an attempt to create a simultaneous sense of both macro and micro vistas. In building the primitives for this project I was inspired by images of both microorganisms and vast skeletal gas clouds in interstellar nurseries revealed by the James Webb telescope. I often have the sense when looking out into the cosmos that this might be what it's like for a cell or even an atom looking around at its neighbors and unfathomably distant cousins. In this way I am filled with a sense that we ourselves might be nodes in a much larger self aware network.
When I’m at my desk developing a work I don’t tend to think about much else other than the code and what is directly in front of me. Mostly I’m thinking visually or just involved with technical problem solving. It is exciting and sometimes even surprising for me to see how the subjects I have been contemplating and reading about recently reveal themselves in my work. When I write about my work it may seem contrived, but I would say the subjects I write about are genuinely inspiring a series, it's just that the means by which they get translated into visual forms is often a mystery even to me.
As a way to make this a true Long Form Project in the sense that it is not just a curated collection of generative outputs I used a list of Seed Phrases to generate each output. These are included as a feature so collectors can see them and potentially use them as a name for each piece. I started out by forming a list of words that describe the project plus a few other words related to Long Form Generative art and the Web3 space. 'Proof' is in there! Each seed phrase is then passed to an algorithm that turns it into a hash of the same variety that is generated on the Ethereum network. This hash is then passed to the algorithm and the artwork is created in the same way an standard Art Blocks project is built.
Expired Polaroid Time Zero photograph of my guide standing on the frozen ice of Tempelfjorden, Svalbard Archipelago, 2011.
Part of my first photo series of Svalbard, a trip that motivated me to dedicate my artistic practice to photography, as my time as a full-time musician drew to a close.
Bathybius Haeckelii is the genesis NFT by Mika Tajima, presented by Pace Verso, the web3 hub of Pace Gallery. The artwork is a visualization of New Humans (2019), in which emergent gatherings of synthetic humans rise from the surface of a black ferrofluid pool. Appearing to morph like a supernatural life form, these dynamic clusters of magnetic liquid produced by machine learning processes are images of communities of synthetic people — hybrid profiles modeled from actual DNA, fitness, and dating profile data sets sourced from public and leaked caches. The work questions the very nature of identity as something liquid, ever-evolving, and emerging, much like Bathybius Haeckelii, a substance that British biologist Thomas Henry Huxley discovered and initially believed to be a form of primordial matter, a source of all organic life.
Substance is a generative study of color, matter, body and mass. PNG, 5000x7000px. 2022.
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Grails III
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Type | Edition Max supply | 50 Total minted | 50
FAQ
What is the PROOF Collective? An art collective supporting the Digital Renassance.
What are the PROOF Collective benefits? With the 1,000 PROOF Collective NFTs, each will have access to our private Discord, early access to the PROOF podcast, research reports like monthly Deep Dives and daily PROOF Espresso reports, in-person events, and other upcoming collaborations and rewards created exclusively for PROOF Collective members. The PROOF Collective NFT is our highest tiered NFT with exclusive access to our community and access to future PROOF related drops such as Grails and our new artists collaborations we announced at Future PROOF. You can read more details here. More information about PROOF can be found in our Terms of Use: https://www.proof.xyz/terms
-Membership is valid from 1/1/2022 till 1/1/2025
What happens after the pass expires on 1/1/2025? After it expires, we will be launching Moonbird Elders. This is a code name and the actual name of it will be decided by the Collective Community.
This is about unifiying the group with Moonbirds. So one unified brand champion. Mechanics though will work a bit different for the Elders but we'll talk more about that as time goes on.
Announcement about Moonbirds Elders can be seen in this video here.
Until 1/12025, we will continue to deliver the the art exhibitions / collections for the PROOF Collective as we announced here.
Summary of the changes can be seen in the video starting here.
I’m thinking of buying a PROOF Collective NFT. Is there anything to be aware of?
Yes. PROOF Collective membership “perks” are tied to our Terms of Use. Additionally, if you're interested in minting a Grail, please check to make sure that the Grails II Mint Pass has not already been airdropped. PROOF makes no guarantee of NFT eligibility.
How do NFT sales proceeds and artist royalties work?
100% of primary sales are pooled together and split amongst participating artists. 80% of secondary sale royalties go directly to the artist responsible for the work.
Which chain will Grails be minted on? What about carbon emissions?
Grails NFTs will be minted on the Ethereum L1 main chain. We eagerly await the upcoming Ethereum transition to (eco-friendly) Proof of Stake consensus. Until then, PROOF will carbon offset all smart contract deployment and initial Grails mints through Aerial. An offset certificate will be posted here once minting is complete.
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Grails Season 1 Reveal
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20 artists. 20+ works of art. Choose wisely.
1,138 Max supply
We’re bringing 20 artists with limited edition, series and generative artworks. As always, artist identities are kept secret until the post-mint live reveal event. Mint starts on August 7 at 08:00 AM
Mint Passes:
Minting a Grail requires a Grails IV Mint Pass. Passes are airdropped to PROOF Collective NFT holders on August 1st. In addition, Moonbirds who have hit the Diamond Nest tier by the time of Mint Pass airdrop will be entered in a raffle for a Mint Pass. 25 winners will be selected. Stay tuned for other ways to win a Mint Pass, and they may always be purchased on the secondary market.
