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🧵 We’re excited to announce that Patchwork is live on @base! Patchwork is a fresh new protocol that empowers tokens, contracts, and addresses with rich, interactive, interconnected layers of onchain data.

🧵 We’re excited to announce that Patchwork is live on @base! Patchwork is a fresh new protocol that empowers tokens, contracts, and addresses with rich, interactive, interconnected layers of onchain data. https://blog.patchwork.dev/hello-world

Onchain data for the new internet. patchwork.dev

Patchwork started when our team was working on an idea for a data-rich NFT project where users could earn seasonal NFT traits and compose, recompose, and decompose them together at will. We quickly realized that all the things we wanted to enable weren’t fully possible using existing standards or tools.

Patchwork works by extending ERC721 with a standardized onchain metadata format and data interaction utilities, effectively turning NFT contracts into database tables where each token represents a row of data. Multiple contracts can be hooked together to create rich datasets with complex relationships between them.

Additionally, individual pieces of data from a token can be further encapsulated as a separate NFT altogether, allowing for added secondary utility where granular bits can be traded, pooled, loaned, and all the other NFT verbs.

Schemas and datasets are dynamic and mutable, ensuring projects can continually grow and adapt their onchain IP.

Patchwork also introduces the ability to permissionlessly soulbind—or “Patch”—these datasets to other existing onchain entities. Any developer can annotate and extend the onchain world with their own vibrant data, and anyone else can do the same to that developer’s data.

Launching today are a few exciting things:

👉  Patchwork Protocol:  These audited and deployed contracts are the foundation for orchestrating and enforcing your application’s rules for data and relationships.

👉  Patchwork Developer Kit (PDK):  Simplify your dev process with automatic contract generation. Define your application’s rules in JSON and our PDK outputs contracts, schemas, and efficient data storage layouts.

👉  Patchwork-flavored ERC721 extensions:  Enhance your projects with our Patchwork-compatible interfaces that manage metadata hierarchies, relationships, and ownership efficiently.

We're also launching a couple fun projects we built with Patchwork to show off some of its different functionality and ownership modes: 👇

🐘 Elephants.fun:  Mint traits, combine them into an Elephant, and swap traits at will. While assigned, traits can’t be transferred and ownership is proxied to the Elephant owner. When the Elephant is transferred, the entire ownership tree goes with it.

🫧 Canvas:  Celebrate Patchwork's launch by minting your own commemorative bubble. You can own and transfer your bubble, but it remains irreversibly assigned to the Canvas. Mint at

🫧 Canvas:  Celebrate Patchwork's launch by minting your own commemorative bubble. You can own and transfer your bubble, but it remains irreversibly assigned to the Canvas. Mint at https://canvas.patchwork.dev/

So that’s Patchwork. If you’re dreaming of building an onchain app, take a read through our docs, check out our PDK codgen tool, and hop in our Discord. With Patchwork, the possibilities are endless, and we’re excited to see what you'll build

A big thank-you to IDEO CoLab Ventures and the @base Ecosystem Fund for the early backing to help get us this far. We’ve got more things in store for the coming weeks and months, so follow along on X/Farcaster and Discord as we work to bring better onchain data to web3.

The more we dug in, the more we realized how broad the potential use cases were for a CRUD-capable, database-like, tokenized data primitive and protocol that allowed for full onchain data availability and interoperability between projects. We decided to tackle this and Patchwork was born.