Ignat Bondarenko

hink of NFT as Trading Card Games for adults who love collecting and with some money to spare. NFT is trending. Now is the time to join the party! NFT fundamentally changes how people can collect and trade art. We strongly believe that it's here to stay. For example, through common standards, everyone can easily peek into each others' collection a.k.a wallets. It’s like art collecting on steroids. Trading art has never been so easy, and Art is like the new stocks. Who knows? The NFTs you buy today might be worth millions in the future (or zero). Nevertheless, your NFT experience will be priceless.

As for why Chubbies? So many reasons! Well, maybe you want a Chubby NFT because you're chubby. Or skinny. Or maybe you're an Ape, a Robots, a Zombie, or an Alien and want an NFT waifu. Or an NFT husbando. Or you want one for your Cat.

Fidenza is my most versatile generative algorithm to date. Although it is not overly complex, the core structures of the algorithm are highly flexible, allowing for enough variety to produce continuously surprising results.

Along with 998 siblings, Fidenza #313 was minted for 0.17 ETH on June 11th, after which it was immediately sold for 0.58 ETH. Just over 10 weeks later, the NFT nicknamed “Tulip” sold for 1,000 ETH on Opensea — $3.3 million at the time.

Fidenza is the brainchild of Tyler Hobbs, 34, who quit his computer engineering job to work as a full time artist. He struck ETH when he discovered Art Blocks, an art platform that creates NFT’s based on generative art, and became a curated artist.

The work is named after a town in northern Italy, which Hobbs stumbled upon via Google Maps. Inspired by abstract expressionist painter Francis Klein, Hobbs likes to use the names of places for his art because they carry little baggage or definitive meaning.

CryptoSkulls was created by developer and artist Alex Slayer. Launched in May 2019, while this collection reached the market around the same time as innovative projects like Plasma Bears and Autoglyphs, its 10,000 supply and pixel-art design was a unique callback to Larva Labs’ groundbreaking 2017 project CryptoPunks.

Akin to the contemporary PFP (profile-picture) projects that have popped up over the last year, each NFT in the CryptoSkulls collection has a varying array of traits, with some being rarer than others. In the case of CryptoSkulls, this range of attributes is called a Uniqueness Index. On the Uniqueness Index, the fewer traits a Skull has, the rarer it is.

Beyond the general supply of CryptoSkulls, the project’s founding team also released 10 Skull Lords. These legendary-tier NFTs were hand-drawn, assigned names, and endowed with a Uniqueness Index of 1.

It seems not all Skull Lords were created equal though, as most (#9, #24, #27, #36, #41, #43 and #70) display static pixel images, the art for CryptoSkull #19, CryptoSkull #20, and CryptoSkull #42 links to short, animated YouTube videos complete with music.

CryptoSkulls are 10,000 collectible ERC-721 Non-Fungible Tokens stored on Ethereum blockchain. Each CryptoSkull character is a unique pixel art image."