JestemZero

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Official announcement of the second ZeroContract Artist Studio group collection - Art's Not Dead. Art is not dead. Or is it? Is it even worth your time anymore? Maybe it is just boring. Especially that on-chain art. What is it even good for? Boring On-chain Art. Check out the collection when it opens on July 23, 2025 for the surprise twist.

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ZeroContract Feature Highlight #7: ○ Freedom with artwork of any file size This one has been waiting in the wings for a while now. That's because we have some surprises coming up very soon. Excited to share. With this new contract version, artists are no longer bound by the strict 21kb artwork limit. While this can allow for gigantic files, the real benefit is going to be those pieces of art that look best at 35kb, 27kb, etc. When the art is only slightly above the previous hard cap. No more compromises. This has been a request since I released the first contract back in August 2024. It has been on my list ever since and only recently was able to work on it. While doing so, this feature was coded by @opdev61035933 and released on ZeroTerminal. Now that my version is built it is starting to be used as well.

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#ZeroContract Feature Highlight #6: ○ Ability to add infinite types of artwork Ever wish you could pack various types of art into a single token? Do you want to let collectors buy multiple versions, multiple aspect ratios, multiple assets all in one package? Bundle together images, audio, video, code nicely all as one piece of art? Most standards only let you add a handful of files, or just one link, and rarely work with on-chain assets. That’s limiting for creators who want to offer more. Introducing extraUri as a new way for artists to attach unlimited types and numbers of files to one token. Think of it as giving your art its own portfolio that can hold and display different files, in any format you want, and you can add as many as you like! I will try not being too technical here, but there is a lot of technical limitations we are pushing thru now with this new mechanism I think should become a future Tezos standard.

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Zero Contract Feature Highlight #5: ○ True Destroy of art versus Burn There is a large distinction here and I feel we need to change our language. The most common "burn" that people understand is sending a token to a burn address. This is used all the time. And it is the only way a collector has to get rid of a token. But in reality, this is just a token transfer to another wallet. This results in the artwork technically still in circulation just owned by a dead, unmanaged wallet. Destroy, in contrast, removes the token from circulation. The blockchain ledger takes it out of the entries. For provenance, we do keep the metadata information, but the token is now more a historical reference and nobody can ever own it again.

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ZeroContract Feature Highlight #4: ○ Family relationship between collections The Parent/Child relationship has been in the ZeroContract from nearly the beginning, but it is still the least adopted feature. This is in part that on the ZeroView I built displays this information. No marketplace or wallet has adopted this, so even if used, there is only one place to view it. That said, to me this is incredibly useful, and I feel will grow in adoption over time. For any collection, the artist is able to create soft links with other collections. Creating a hierarchy between collections, no matter when they are created. I think I am the only person who has used this, but you can see the example below:

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ZeroContract Feature Highlight #3: ○ Add Collaborating Artists directly on-chain The Collaborators mechanism has been part of the ZeroContract for a few versions now. But for those that don't know, here is a primer. The original artist has the option of adding as many collaborators as desired. These collaborators have all the same ability as the original artist in order to Mint, Append or Destroy the tokens they create. Collaborators cannot affect any token created by another. This is also true for the original artists. Collaborators are the sole owner and administrator of their tokens. This has been used already for some fun collections. Check the comments below for some links to great artwork.

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#ZeroContract Feature Highlight #2: ○ Freedom to edit Token Metadata There is nothing revolutionary about editing token metadata. People have been doing it for a long time. It was not part of the Tezos on-chain artwork contracts however and plenty of artists have wasted a lot of ꜩ burning and reminting artwork. Example in the comments to show that we can edit all the token metadata information including the artwork, tags, attributes, royalties, etc. If you forget something, or need to change something, it takes only a few seconds to fix it. No more burning. No more frustrations. Big caveat here is in order to protect our precious collectors, token metadata can only be edited while you own all of the editions. Once another address ones even one edition, this feature is locked.

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#ZeroContract Highlight Feature #1: ○ Freedom to edit Contract Metadata After deploying a contract, the collection information (contract metadata) can be edited as many times as needed as long as you have no tokens in circulation. As in the example I provide in the comments, I didn't like my initial description and logo so decided to change it. I had not minted any tokens yet so this feature was unlocked. But what if I want to change the information AFTER I mint a token? Initially, this feature will be locked out. We do not want artists changing collection information after people are buying artwork. However, the artwork simply needs to not be in circulation. So if you mint, but never sell, you can use the Destroy feature (to be discussed later) to remove the artwork from circulation. The contract metadata editing feature will then be unlocked again.

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Happy to announce the newest version of the ZeroContract has been minted. It is out in the wild now. Anybody that is interested, let me know. We'll get this revolution going. I'll be sharing a series of small infographics with information in threads to explain all the new features of the contract. There are quite a few. All very useful. And one is super innovative that I plan to try getting into the official TZIP standard. Quick summary of the topics I'll be discussing: ○ Freedom to edit Contract Metadata ○ Freedom to edit Token Metadata ○ Add Collaborating Artists directly on-chain ○ Freedom to swap artwork (artifactUri) ○ Freedom with artwork of any file size ○ Ability to add infinite types of artwork ○ Family relationship between collections ○ True Destroy of art versus Burn ○ Full compliance with Tezos standards ○ Full compatibility with existing marketplaces

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Have you ever minted some on-chain artwork and then noticed a mistake? Did you burn it? What if I told you we no longer have to destroy our Tezos art mistakes? That we will soon be able to simply replace the artwork with a correction. Are you interested? The next upgrade to the ZeroContract has this built right in. This is only available while the minter owns all of the editions, but as such lets us fix things before selling. With no destruction involved. Are you not entertained?

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This is my art included in the 'Quote Your Low-Res Art' collaborative collection. It's an animated SVG so this social media version is a poor substitute. Go check out the original along with all the stellar artwork. objkt.com/tokens/KT1EyfSpgTdbdfTdmeTBN27B2r9kjNibYQ5B/1

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I was invited to join the /quote-art first on-chain collection. So much great work here. Highly recommend everybody go check it out. https://objkt.com/collections/KT1EyfSpgTdbdfTdmeTBN27B2r9kjNibYQ5B

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Super excited that my custom contract was used by the Quote-Art community for this collection.

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Are you frustrated with burning your onchain Tezos art because of a simple spelling error? I know I am. Forgot your description? Burnt! Missed your tags? Burnt! Applied the wrong license? BURNT!🔥 Not anymore! 😲 Our onchain mints are saved thanks to the upcoming ZeroContract upgrade. As long as the original minter owns all of the editions, token metadata is fully editable. Name, description, tags, royalties, license. Change, add, remove are all possible. ♻️ We can all save our matches now for the campfire. 🏕️

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Is anybody interested in the possibility to include infinite assets attached to their on-chain artwork? I know I am. A little understood, overlooked and by many unknown, metadata element of @tezos NFT are the formats[] and assets[] arrays. These are really powerful and let artists provide access to various formats of the artwork. Think different file types (music to accompany the artwork) or aspect ratios (9:16 version of the 16:9 artwork), etc. With IPFS these work brilliantly. However, a major complication with on-chain art is that these are inaccessible to us. Since they are libraries (an array nested in the metadata key), everything that goes into them must fit within one transaction block which is only 32kb. Instead, we need something different. So, I built something different. And powerful. And infinitely extensible for on-chain artists – extraUri. Interested? Keep notis on because the newest version of the ZeroContract is going public soon.

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/quote-art your evil art

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It's time to announce the winners of the #ZeroContractContest x Trilitech. All of the entries were stellar, and we appreciate the dedicated work by the artists. We will host more contents in the future and look forward to the growth of the Tezos on-chain art community. For the winning teams, I will be in contact with the main entrant (contract deployer) to coordinate distribution of the prize.

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I'm so over pointless L1's, lousy L2s, and absurd L3's. Until we hit punk L7, we are not going to make it with crypto. Who's with me?

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The last collection thoughts before we announce the winners: Condition: 0 - Human Condition: A really delightful execution of the theme across a collaborative effort. The well-known story of every individual starting from nothing, progressing through life, in order to return back to nothing. Using the broad theme with each artist expressing a different stage of humanity, there is both a cohesiveness and uniqueness shared between each artwork. Stepping through the collection I am able to see how the artists viewed each decade of life, from zero to zero in each stage and from beginning to end. Thank you @jams2blues @paxromanart My3y3 @pixellare ItsBB @3t6s9n @vyd3n @leonfaesulis @baiwei @aleein zeroart.app/tezos/Zeroview/tokens.html?contract=KT1BBYSucxPHDRSmgmQqr1w7D9kC5XYYjt8w

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0RIGIN: An interpretation on one of the oldest artistic themes – the human transition from nothing into something. Referencing old themes and old art, this collection expresses that humanity does not have a singular beginning. As society changes, our zero point restarts. From nothing to something. Until that something becomes the next nothing and we step into the next something of existence. All the more prescient as we are quickly approaching our next zero point. Thank you @muriellherm & @treeskulltown.eth zeroart.app/tezos/Zeroview/tokens.html?contract=KT1XMt6js7rBphnpv3YzUARWhdzddHA8uCZF

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