Series 01 · Minting now

Sediment by Nao Ishikawa

Algorithms mint the artwork, the contract seals the provenance, and the creator keeps the keys. Nothing is uploaded after the fact.

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ARTIFACT #338

    Series 01 · Sediment

    Sediment

    by Nao Ishikawa

    512 outputs from a single algorithm. Each token is generated at mint time from your transaction hash — the artwork does not exist until you claim it.

    Price
    0.08 ETH
    Edition
    512
    Chain
    Ethereum
    Royalty
    5% on-chain
    337 / 512 minted --:--:--
    1

    Demo interface. No transaction is broadcast and no wallet approval is requested.

    From the studios

    Recent releases by artists.

    Every series lives at its own contract address, deployed and signed by the artist who wrote it.

    Provenance

    The record travels with the artwork.

    Mint, transfer, exhibition, and custody events are written to the same contract that generated the piece. No off-chain database can rewrite them.

    • Stored, not linkedGeneration code and metadata live on-chain and on Arweave — not on a company server.
    • Enforced royaltiesCreator splits are executed by the contract on every secondary settlement.
    • Cold-wallet custodyHold and sign from hardware or delegated vaults. We never touch your keys.
    1. Minted

      2026-03-04 · 0x9f2c…d41a

      Token generated from block hash at claim time.

    2. Transferred

      2026-05-19 · 0x4a1b…7c03

      Secondary settlement. 5% routed to the creator by contract.

    3. Exhibited

      2026-06-22 · Kyoto

      Signed display attestation added by the venue.

    4. In vault

      0xc7e0…5b92 · hardware signer

      Held in a delegated vault. Read-only until the owner signs.

    Artist and algorithm

    The people who write the code.

    Each avatar below is rendered from that artist's own signature seed.

    For creators

    Deploy your own contract. Keep your name on it.

    Your collection lives at your own address, not inside a shared marketplace contract. Build the mint page, set the rules, sign the deployment from a hardware wallet.

    See the flow
    Contract draft Unsigned
    Standard
    ERC-721 · creator-owned
    Supply
    512
    Royalty
    5% · EIP-2981
    Storage
    On-chain script + Arweave
    Signer
    Ledger · cold

    Deployment is simulated locally for this preview.

    Creator tools

    Everything you need to run the release yourself.

    01

    Claim pages

    Your own mint page on your own contract — allowlist, timing and pricing under your control.

    02

    Open editions

    Time-boxed drops with unlimited supply, or fixed editions that close the moment the clock runs out.

    03

    Burn & redeem

    Let holders trade one token for another, or for a physical piece, entirely on-chain.

    On-chain generation

    The script that draws your token is stored in the contract itself.

    Permanent storage

    Metadata mirrored to Arweave and IPFS with content addressing.

    Hardware signing

    Ledger, Trezor, Keystone and air-gapped QR flows supported.

    No custody

    Tokens settle directly to your address. We never hold them.

    Three steps

    From connection to sealed provenance.

    1. 01

      Connect a wallet

      Hardware, air-gapped, or delegated vault. Recovery words are never requested — by us or by anyone legitimate.

    2. 02

      Claim an output

      Your transaction hash becomes the seed. The artwork is generated at that moment and belongs to that token forever.

    3. 03

      Hold, display, or transfer

      Provenance follows the token across venues and wallets, with royalties settled on-chain each time.

    Reading

    A selection from the journal.

    All articles

    Exhibition

    Sediment on the gallery wall in Kyoto

    Forty outputs printed at scale, each one signed back to its block.

    Artist insights

    Nao Ishikawa on writing erosion into code

    Two years of field notes compressed into forty lines of noise.

    Technique

    Why the script belongs in the contract

    A short walk through storing renderable code on-chain, and what it costs.

    Collecting

    Ten collectors on why they held through the drop

    Notes on patience, provenance, and reading a series as it fills.

    Questions

    Before you claim.

    What exactly do I own?

    The token, the generation seed, and the on-chain script that renders it. The artwork can be reproduced from the chain alone, without this website.

    What happens if this site disappears?

    Nothing changes for your token. The contract, the script, and the metadata remain readable by any node or block explorer.

    Can I mint from a hardware wallet?

    Yes. Review the payload on the device screen and approve there. The keys never enter the browser.

    Are royalties actually enforced?

    Splits are written into the contract under EIP-2981 and executed on every settlement that respects the standard.

    ARTIFACT

    512 outputs. 175 left.

    The algorithm is fixed. The seed is yours.

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