Ethereum
Since August 2022
Last updated
Since August 2022
Last updated
For the final leg of a trek on digital platforms, daqhris publicly minted the set of 263 photographs which were miraculously recovered after another chaotic winter.
Thanks to the angelic support of a cryptocurrency wallet created in 2017, bootstrapped in 2021, and set in motion in 2022, he preserved them for the long run as non-fungible ERC-721 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain.
Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain platform that allows developers to create and deploy self-executing code in the form of smart contracts and applications.
The artworks were wrapped in the awalkaday.art smart contract and self-published on a public blockchain, where they can be verified, collected and exchanged. The smart contract address is 0xE31801C2E58b151C3deD2cB29dA56147b7f27eB1.
The monochromatic snapshots were assembled, named and minted during a wintertime stay as a homeless person at the Palais des Droits, a former financial office building which had been converted into a squalid squat in Brussels.
He was able to safeguard them on a state-of-the-art blockchain on Valentine's Day in 2023, fortunately one day before a scheduled eviction from the infamous Schaerbeek shelter.
Once released into a sovereign financial ecosystem, the fear of losing the awalkaday photographs vanished into thin air, escaping the confines of his last encrypted device, the Android One, whose secure updates had been halted near the end of 2022.
After landing on a blockchain terrain in a batch series, each photo began to carry a name, like the title of a logbook, for example: awalkaday 185-2022.
The name is a string of words and numbers that begins with the artistic theme awalkaday, then ends with a computer-calculated day of the year, linked by a hyphen to the year of when the photo was first dropped online without a parachute and crossed the radar of cyberwarfare forces on a tourist visa.
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