token.art Now Allows Counterparty and Dogeparty Creators to Fully Categorize Their Collections in Our App!

We're partnering with the community to build an open source collection configuration experience

We’re excited to introduce an even better way to browse Counterparty and Dogeparty NFT collections in token.art!

token.art NFT Showcase on Twitter: "We now support full collection categorizations for Counterparty and Dogeparty collections! 🚀 Browse entire collections by series or see just the NFTs you own of #SpellsOfGenesis, #RarePepe, #FauxSoGs, #RareDoge, and #RareRejects (+more on the way!) pic.twitter.com/6bMcArwavF / Twitter"

We now support full collection categorizations for Counterparty and Dogeparty collections! 🚀 Browse entire collections by series or see just the NFTs you own of #SpellsOfGenesis, #RarePepe, #FauxSoGs, #RareDoge, and #RareRejects (+more on the way!) pic.twitter.com/6bMcArwavF

Counterparty and Dogeparty contain some of the earliest-known NFTs (dating as far back as 2014), with Counterparty being the trailblazer as the original issuer of NFTs on the Bitcoin Blockchain.

Collections, Sets, and Editions

Collectors can now browse entire collections organized by set/series or see only the NFTs they own. Also shown are the percentages of each set that a user owns.

We launched this feature with full categorization support for Spells of Genesis, Rare Pepe, Faux SoGs on Counterparty, and Rare Doge and Rare Rejects on Doge Party.

👋 Get Your Collection Added!

The lack of a consistent standard for these NFTs has inspired us to partner with the community to build a seamless, open source collection configuration experience.

Are you a collection creator or curator and would like to have your collection added to our configuration repository? Find out how you can contribute by visiting our public GitHub repo here.

What blockchains would you like to see us support next? Drop us a mention on Discord, Twitter, Instagram, or leave a comment below!

Thanks to all of the collectors and creators for your ongoing feedback, feature requests, and support.

We now support multi-chain, multi-address NFT collections across 8 blockchains including Ethereum, Solana, Cardano, WAX, Counterparty, and Dogeparty 🎉

2023 will be the year of the multi-chain NFT collector, and we are here to provide the easiest, safest way to view and showcase your NFT collection. With that being said, to kick off the new year we’ve rolled out support for Polygon and Avalanche, the two most requested blockchains from our community.

token.art NFT Showcase App on Twitter: "2023 will be the year of the multi-chain NFT collector. We'll be here to provide the easiest, safest way to view and showcase your collection! 💎 #NFTCommunity pic.twitter.com/EytF9FHFaC / Twitter"

2023 will be the year of the multi-chain NFT collector. We'll be here to provide the easiest, safest way to view and showcase your collection! 💎 #NFTCommunity pic.twitter.com/EytF9FHFaC

Aggregate and Create Multi-Chain NFT Showcases Across 8 Blockchains with token.art (+ more on the way!)

With addition of support for Polygon and Avalanche NFTs, we move even closer to our vision of creating the easiest, safest way for collectors to aggregate and showcase their multi-chain, multi-address collections.

• Ethereum
• Solana
• Polygon
• Cardano
• Avalanche
• WAX
• Counterparty (XCP/Bitcoin)
• Dogeparty (Dogecoin)

More to Come!

We’ll be adding even more blockchains and new features soon, so stay tuned! You can download token.art for iOS or Android here.

What blockchains would you like to see us support next? Drop us a mention on Discord, Twitter, Instagram, or leave a comment below!

token.art NFT Wallet Viewer App | Ethereum Solana Polygon Cardano Avalanche WAX NFTs

Thanks to all of the collectors and creators for your ongoing feedback, feature requests, and support.

Happy collecting! 🎉

Our latest update adds support for these “historical” NFT protocols — view your Rare Pepes, Spells of Genesis, SaruTobi Island, and more

The latest version of token.art, our multi-address, multi-blockchain NFT aggregator and showcase app just landed in both Apple App Store and Google Play Store, and includes some exciting new features and enhancements!

Support for Counterparty and Dogeparty NFTs!

We are huge fans and collectors of highly sought after “historical” NFTs, many of which came into existence years before CryptoPunks and Bored Apes! We’ve added support for two of the major protocols — Counterparty (built on Bitcoin) and Dogeparty (built on Dogecoin), so you can now view your vintage Rare Pepes, Spells of Genesis, QUANTUM, TEST, JOLLYROGER, SaruTobi Island, and more!

Simply enter (or scan) your Counterparty wallet and/or Dogeparty wallet address and all of your assets will be aggregated (along with all of your other NFTs from other chains). As always, no wallet authorization is required because we only access public/on-chain data, so it’s 100% safe!

Improved Solana Experience — Asset Values and Listed Items

We now show estimated Solana asset values based on current floor prices, and include your MagicEden-listed NFTs in your holdings.

Other Improvements

• Cardano ADA Handle support — an NFT-powered personalized naming solution for your Cardano wallet address
• Tokens tab now aggregates duplicate assets owned and displays quantity
• Added ability to display NFTs with fractional ownership
• Much-improved tablet experience

Much More to Come!

We’ll be adding even more blockchains and new features soon, so stay tuned! Thanks to all of the collectors and creators in our Discord community for your ongoing feedback, feature requests, and support.

Be sure to follow token.art on Twitter and Instagram!

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Happy collecting! 🎉

Feature your favorite Ethereum, Solana, Cardano, and WAX NFTs on both mobile and web (with more blockchains on the way!)

We are excited to share the latest update to token.art, our multi-blockchain, multi-wallet address NFT viewer for iOS and Android! This update includes two huuuge features — shareable NFT showcases and a new Tokens screen.

🖼 Shareable NFT Showcases!

In addition to an even more polished collector experience, we have finally added curation features! You can now create personal showcases (galleries) featuring your favorite NFTs from any wallet address, that can be shared on mobile and web and accessible via your own personal token.art profile address.

All of your showcases are also viewable on the web:

🪙 Tokens Screen

Our new Tokens screen provides a unified, multi-chain view of all of your NFTs. You can also search and filter for NFTs based on asset name, collection name, schema name, and rareness.

🐛 Bug Fixes and Performance Optimizations

The amount of work we’ve put in behind the scenes (understandably) goes unnoticed by most users but we are working very hard to make the app fast and enjoyable to use — 233 commits of code is no small feat!

More to Come!

We’ll be adding even more blockchains and new features soon, so stay tuned! Thanks to all of the collectors and creators in our Discord community for your ongoing feedback, feature requests, and support.

Be sure to follow token.art on Twitter and Instagram!

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Happy collecting! 🎉

View all of your collections including SpaceBudz, CardanoBits, CryptoKnitties, CardanoKidz, and more 🚀

We’re excited to announce that the latest version of token.art, our (free) NFT portfolio viewer, now supports Cardano blockchain NFTs! 🎉

A Multi-wallet, Multi-chain NFT Portfolio Viewer

Many collectors (us included) have collections that span multiple blockchains (WAX, Cardano, Ethereum, Flow, etc.) and it’s always been our vision to provide a unified collection view across these blockchains. We started out supporting WAX NFTs, and the addition of Cardano support is the next step towards that vision.

How to View Your Cardano NFTs

Adding your Cardano collection to token.art is easy! Just go to the “addresses” tab, select “Cardano” from the add address menu, then add one of your public wallet addresses. If you use one of the popular Cardano wallets like Yoroi or Daedalus, we’ve even added a QR code scanner option so you don’t have to type in or cut-and-paste a bunch of characters 👍

🐛 Bugs Squashed & New Features

While adding Cardano support was the primary focus of this update, we’ve also been working hard on bug fixes and performance improvements:

• To further our goal of “all you NFTs in one place” we added our 4th staking platform, Coin Pirates.

• Updated all Graffiti Kings collection configurations to fully reflect new staking assets
• Fixed some instances of packs not showing up in collection schemas
• Farmers World staking no longer incorrectly shows coins and packs that had been burned
• If you have more than six addresses you can now scroll the address selection list on the Collection tab
• Improved collection loading indicators

More to Come!

We’ll be adding even more blockchains and new collector features soon, so stay tuned! Thanks to all of the collectors and creators in our Discord community for the ongoing feedback, feature requests, and support.

Be sure to follow token.art on Twitter and Instagram! 🚀

Emblem vaults are a genius invention. They were created to simplify the trading of crypto assets from non-compatible blockchains and have many potential uses.

Recently NFT archeology on historic and less user friendly blockchains has taken off. And because these chains are not widely accessible, emblem vaults have taken off with them.

But what exactly are they?

The basics…

• You, the vault creator, mint an empty vault on your blockchain of choice (Ethereum, Polygon, BSC, xDai and Fantom currently supported). The vault is basically it’s own NFT.
• The vault automatically creates wallets for various blockchains and securely stores the private key send-addresses. BTC/CPY, ETH, LTC, NMC, DGB, DOGE, BCH are currently supported.
• The public receive-addresses are readily available and any asset from supported blockchains can be mixed, matched and sent into the locked vault.
• Vaults are tradable on markets like OpenSea, Venly and fangible.
• Only the owner can “crack the lock” and move assets out of the vault.
• Once cracked vaults are no longer secure and become un-purchasable on places like OpenSea.

If you let your imagination run the use cases are massive. More down and dirty details can be found in DesktopCommando’s article.

For now, their first product market fit is historic NFTs. Collections like Spells of Genesis and RAREPEPE, originally from 2015 and stored on the Bitcoin blockchain, are now seeing major sales volume on OpenSea via the Ethereum and Polygon blockchains.

It’s all thanks to Circuits of Value and their genius invention emblem.vaults. We’re excited to see what they do next!

Disclaimer: This is simply a guide for conducting research on NFTs. No financial advice is given — do your own research and understand what you are buying!

CryptoEggs (aka Twitter Eggs) and BlockHeads History

While most people believe that more high-profile Ethereum-based collections like CryptoPunks and EtherRock were the earliest NFTs, “blockchain archaeologists” have been hard at work going back and uncovering collections that pre-date CryptoPunks and EtherRocks by 3 years!

For some background, this is the most in-depth overview of the “vintage NFT”/digital antiquities market:

The origin digital antiquities market (NFTs)

One collection that was recently re-discovered is called Twitter Eggs (aka Crypto Eggs), a limited set of 255 colored Twitter egg avatar NFTs that were minted on Namecoin in 2014–15.

Here’s another great overview thread shared on Twitter:

Klaus Stortebeker on Twitter: "I just bought a Blockhead and a Twitter Egg NFT. These are some of the oldest NFTs in existence and almost definitely the first sets of NFT profile pictures. They pre-date #cryptopunks and #etherrocks by 3 years, and the oldest #rarepepes by 2 years. More reasons in this thread👇 / Twitter"

I just bought a Blockhead and a Twitter Egg NFT. These are some of the oldest NFTs in existence and almost definitely the first sets of NFT profile pictures. They pre-date #cryptopunks and #etherrocks by 3 years, and the oldest #rarepepes by 2 years. More reasons in this thread👇

This purpose of this article is to share our experience conducting due diligence on these risky, but (potentially) very valuable NFTs. Again this is not financial advice; do your own research please!

Choosing an Egg

After joining the TwitterEggs Discord, we put in a WTB (“wanted to buy”) egg request and one of the admins reached out with current availability and prices. Due to demand, they had sold out of the least expensive eggs and only had rarer (and more expensive) eggs available (Orange, Neon, Light Blue, Dark Blue and Blue Eggs).

Our criteria for purchase (and asset valuation) was:

• Date minted (older = better)
• Rareness/color (fewer available)
• Verified from a Twitter account (some Namecoin addresses used Facebook for verification)
• Metadata never altered (the avatar image url has never been changed)
• Budget, Risk/Reward assessment (comfort zone)

Verify an Asset’s Data on Namecoin Explorer

They offered to sell us an early orange egg (from 2014) and provided a link to view it on a Namecoin explorer:

This allows you to see the entire history of name operations and when information has been updated or altered. What’s most important is identifying the date/time when the image metadata was first added (for TwitterEggs, there will be something resembling {…“avatar”: {“url”: “https://s3.amazonaws.com/kd4/mnukala"}} in the value field.

Verify Authenticity of NFT’s Hosted Media File

Next, we wanted to ensure that the original media hasn’t been tampered with since 2014. Today, most NFTs point to images/videos that themselves are hosted on distributed/blockchain-based filesystems like IPFS. However, in 2014 the Namecoin folks simply stuck the images in an Amazon S3 bucket.

Checking File Headers for Last-Modified Date

In order to confirm authenticity of the hosted media, we used a web-based curl-command tool like this one:

Looking at the Last-Modified header, this result shows the S3-hosted image file was last modified in September 2014, which aligns with the NAME_FIRSTUPDATE value stored on chain.

(If you are are more familiar with opening a terminal or running commands from the command line you can simply run $ curl -I https://s3.amazonaws.com/kd4/mnukala ).

Saving Proof of Provenance and Authenticity

Since S3 buckets are not permanent, there is no guarantee that the media or bucket will be modified or deleted in the future. In order to best “future proof” the NFT, you’ll want to make every effort to permanently archive any information about the NFT that can provide provenance:

WayBack Machine (Internet Archive)

Archive.org has been preserving content snapshots for 25 years and is a great resource for going back in time to see things like early versions of websites via WayBack Machine. They also offer a url submission tool where they will cache any url at a point in time:

Look for the “Save Page Now” section on the homepage — you’ll want to submit 2 urls:

1. The result page using the web-based curl tool mentioned in the previous section

2. The avatar url in the asset metadata (hosted on S3)

Great, now there is some proof of the existence of the asset data and image. But why not store this archival information itself on a blockchain?

Arweave (Global, Permanent Chain-based Archive)

Arweave is a blockchain-based “distributed hard drive” that can permanently store any archival information. Storing data here takes just a few more steps:

1. Press the “Claim a Token” button and follow the instructions to set up a wallet (they will credit you some tokens that will cover the fees needed to archive the urls).
2. Install the Arweave Chrome Extension and add your wallet

After a few minutes, you will see a confirmation that the information has been written to Arweave. You can then view the transaction details on ViewBlock.

Should You Upgrade Your Links To Point Away From S3?

There is some discussion about the best way to preserve the media associated with each Twitter Egg and avoiding dead links. This post provides a thorough overview on how to move media to IPFS and update the Namecoin data.

How to use Namecoin explorer to upgrade links to IPFS

We don’t yet know if making any modifications to metadata will impact an asset’s price in the future, so for now we are going to hold off altering any data.

Not So Fast… Is This Vintage NFT Truly “Unique”??

We had originally settled on an orange egg, but something about it seemed… off. The other eggs we checked out all had usernames that mapped to Twitter usernames, but this egg’s username was appended with “-1” and the Namebrow.se url used a different format (/i/username vs. /u/username)

We put in the username (without “-1”) in the Namebrow.se search and lo and behold we found there were two Namecoin accounts:

This shouldn’t be an issue, however when reviewing the metadata we realized that both /u/mnukala and /i/mnukala-1 pointed to the same avatar image!

On other NFT chains, when there are multiple mints that reference the same underlying asset/file they are viewed as being “x of n”, where x is the mint number based on minting timestamp and x is the total number of similar assets. In our opinion, these would be considered “1 of 2” and “2 of 2”.

For this reason, we ultimately decided to pass on this particular orange egg (but it’s yet to be seen how the market will account for/value these types of “non-unique” assets).

(What appears to have happened was this user first connected their Twitter account, then a few days later connected their Facebook account, resulting in the creation of a second Namecoin username — the “-1” at the end is a technique used to generate a new unique name when one is already in use, like when saving a file on your computer when one already exists with the same name.)

Finally Finding Our Egg

We were then presented with the opportunity to purchase a (more rare) dark blue egg. It checked off all of the boxes, including the fact that “dark blue” is actually Twitter’s first genesis egg color and was minted in August 2014.

It was priced significantly more than the orange egg, but we decided to proceed with the transaction and put down a deposit. We completed the transaction the next day, and are now the proud owners of a Dark Blue Twitter Egg! 🎉

Next Steps

In a few weeks these authentic Twitter Egg NFTs (look out for fakes!!) will be available for purchase on OpenSea by way of an innovative tool called EmblemVault that allows for cross-chain transactions by wrapping an entire wallet in a token.

Don’t forget to renew your Namecoin every 6 months or you risk losing your egg!

Happy Collecting! 🎉🚀

Further Reading:

The origin assets of the digital antiquities market (NFTs)

A brief history of NFT development: looking for “treasure” from these “hardcore” NFT projects

Links:

TwitterEggs Discord

CryptoEggs Twitter

CryptoEggs Sales Bot Twitter

EmblemVault

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Introducing token.art — an App to View and Share your NFTs!

Made for collectors, by collectors, token.art puts the “FUN” in “non-fungible”

We’re excited to share the latest project to come out of Awesome Labs: a fun new NFT portfolio viewer app called token.art! 🎉

NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are all the rage these days and as NFT collectors ourselves, we were frustrated that there wasn’t an intuitive way to browse and show off our digital collectibles. So after many late nights of coding, we launched our own app, and it’s now available for FREE on both iOS and Android!⁣

Currently token.art supports any WAX (WorldWide Asset eXchange)-based collectibles, and soon we’ll be adding other blockchains (Ethereum, Cardano, etc.), so stay tuned.

Features Include:

• View NFTs (non-fungible tokens) associated with multiple addresses/wallets
• Browse digital collectibles by collection, rarity, variant, and more!

• Toggle between viewing all NFTs in a collection or just the ones you own or are missing
• Interactively swipe and flip through items (fun!)

• See the total value of your NFTs and the value of each collection you own
• View prices in crypto (WAX) and more than 30 international currencies
• View collection stats like percent completed

• View any assets that you have staked with collections from R-PLANET and Green Rabbit Adventures
• Easily share and show off your favorite items to your socials!

If you’ve gotten into NFTs, we’d love for you to download token.art (and we’d appreciate any app store reviews that will help other people find it). 🙏 Thanks, and happy collecting!