If you get the coin, you lose the art.
This is the first blockchain-native artwork we ever made. It starts with a simple question that flips a switch for us:
Can we create something that only works on the blockchain: not just a JPEG with a token, but something where the medium is the message?
Satoshi’s Coin is a 1/1 NFT with 1 wrapped Bitcoin locked inside. The only way to unlock the Bitcoin is to burn the NFT, destroying the art and giving up ownership forever.
It’s a play on the ideas of intrinsic value, permanence, and temptation. In theory, the piece is always worth 1 BTC plus whatever value the art holds. But as Bitcoin rises, the pressure builds up.
This creates a digital version of a Schrödinger’s vault: it’s both a work of art and a financial asset, but you can only ever truly have one. Once you open the box (or burn the NFT), the other is gone forever.
What do you value more: the art, or the coin?
An evolving experiment in storytelling, code, and on-chain art.
Le Anime begins as a large open edition collection in early 2021, with the intent to twist the standard concept by turning each edition into a unique, on-chain artifact.
Using a custom smart contract, each edition is assigned a set of randomly encoded traits, transforming every piece into a unique 1 of 1, visually represented through a cast of characters known as Le Anime.
This becomes the foundation for a broader, ever-evolving project, driven by continuous experimentation across both storytelling and technical dimensions. From the beginning, the goal is to push the boundaries of what an NFT can be.
Using smart contract logic and on-chain data not just as background infrastructure, but as an integral part of the artwork itself.
But what happens when randomness alone isn’t enough? How do we invite collectors to become active participants in the creative process rather than passive observers?
In a second phase, through a custom coded auction system, we expand the collection with 9,054 additional NFTs — introducing a fresh visual identity, new traits, and deeper layers of encoded on-chain data.
More significantly, we shift away from pure randomness and artist-defined rules toward a system that invites active user participation.
Through new smart contract mechanics, collectors can merge existing NFTs to craft “Heroes”—custom 1 of 1 tokens built from the on-chain DNA of the original collection and shaped by user decisions.
A Hero is more than an image — it’s a culmination of on-chain data and user-driven choices. Each one forms a new symphony between artist and player, where creation becomes collaboration.
This phase marks a move toward permissionless composability: the ability to expand on previous work without overwriting it.
The world's greatest Library.
This theme continues in works like the Library, a 1/1 intricately tied to the Le Anime universe. The Library allows collectors to write and store stories directly on-chain, becoming co-authors of an expanding narrative.
In 2022, Axis Mundi deepened this idea, merging the visual and the functional, the permanent and the evolving. Minted on SuperRare, it is paired with a smart contract that gathers on-chain stories written by players, each preserved as its own immutable contract. In this way, Axis Mundi becomes a direct analogy between code and literature, blockchain and book.
The collector of Axis Mundi holds more than visual ownership — they possess the power to close the Library, to declare finality to the process of collective authorship. This transforms the work into a living system, where the outcome depends on the tension between openness and closure.
Here, art becomes a collaborative ecosystem: artist, collector, and community together shaping a body of work that grows, evolves, and coheres through participation.
The art is not what you hold, but the choices you make.
Trust is a multi-year project unfolding through five veils, each confronting holders with a choice that tests their commitment to the collective.
Initially released as a $1 USD edition of 20, distributed by random selection, Trust sets up a social experiment where tempting rewards are offered in exchange for breaking trust.
The first choice arrived two years later: a burn mechanism offering a new artwork as reward for defection. Two holders accepted, reducing the edition to 18 and creating a 2/2 new edition titled Adoramus.
Each decision point becomes part of the permanent record, with the accumulated choices of participants shaping both the final outcome and the meaning of the journey.
Ultimately, the work forms a dialogue between collectors and collection—a slow-burning test of value, authorship, and restraint.
The choice is simple, but never easy.
Exploring Bitcoin’s past through games, puzzles, and soundscapes.
Timestamps marks our first experimentation with Bitcoin, ordinals, and runes.
Challenged with inscribing artworks directly onto the Bitcoin blockchain, we shift from high-resolution 3D visuals and smart contracts to pixel art, interactive scripts, and algorithmic soundscapes.
How do we translate the invisible infrastructure of consensus into something you can touch, hear, and play with?
The collection becomes an interactive journey through Bitcoin’s technological and historical evolution. Each piece invites viewers into on-chain games, cryptographic puzzles, and soundscapes that bring key moments to life.
Works like POW mirror Bitcoin mining, while Genesis Block visualizes the network’s birth. Historical pieces such as The Bug and Echoes of Mt.Gox revisit vulnerabilities while underscoring resilience.
The final work, Ordinals, serves as a meta-artwork, reflecting on the nine before it through recursion—showing how each timestamp builds upon the last.
If every timestamp builds on the one before, is the chain recording history — or writing it?
