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SEEDS is a collection of 9,999 ordinals inscribed on Bitcoin.
The artwork is an interactive visualizer for onchain seed numbers.
Inscribe a new seed number to change the artwork's state, anytime, infinitely, forever â¨
Inscriptions are onchain data associated with an atomic unit of cryptocurrency. A unique digital artifact owned and transferred as easily as the network's native currency.
Inscriptions are permanent, immutable, and public.
Perfect for art đŧ
Ordinals are inscriptions on Bitcoin.
Each ordinal's content is associated with a single, specific satoshi, the smallest atomic unit of the Bitcoin currency.
Transfer the satoshi to transfer the inscription đ¸đ
Seed numbers are used to initialize pseudorandom generators.
Seed numbers make generation reproducible. If a generative system is reinitialized with the same seed number, it will always produce the same output.
This is how SEEDS works â
Seed numbers are the language of SEEDS:
A numerical representation of a binary string that determines which of the artwork's layers are visible, as well as its default colorwayâits "natural attunement".
Express yourself đŦ
There are 10^30 possible seed numbers, with 10^16 ways to "mod" each of them. A number of permutations so large it is difficult to comprehend.
Multiply every star in the universe by milliseconds since the Big Bang. Way more than that đ
The SEEDS editor makes setting seeds easy.
Each button on the grid represents a unique numerical value that toggles one of the artwork's 100 layers.
The editor sums all active layers' values to get the unique seed number for that layer combo đ¨
In addition to setting its base seed number, you can fine-tune the look of your seed using a mod.
Mods are optional 12-digit decimal values that can be included at the end of a seed number to dramatically transform its appearance â
Every seed number has a natural attunement by default that is determined by the most frequent numeral (0-9) in the seed number.
You can override this natural attunement by specifying the numeral at the end of a seed number separated by a colon đĸ
SEEDS seed numbers use this syntax:
X.Y:Z
"X" represents the base seed number.
"Y" represents an optional 12-digit mod number preceded by a period.
"Z" represents an optional 1-digit attunement number preceded by a colon đ§Š
When you set a seed, you inscribe the text of a seed number as its child.
That inscription is called an incarnationâa natural byproduct of setting a seed.
Incarnations can be re-inscribed on the same sat as the seed, or as separate inscriptions.
Maybe. Incarnations are the actual onchain seed numbers.
While not in the SEEDS collection proper, they are forever tied to the seeds that spawned them through their onchain ancestry.
Keep them, trade them, use them to form networksâyou decide.
Yes, there are 505 rare seeds with unique, locked seed numbers.
No other seeds can display these seed numbers đ
Attempting to use one of the locked rare seed numbers on another seed inscription will revert the artwork to its default blank state âŦ
Rare seeds have unique seed numbers that were locked at mint, selected for various qualities:
No, the only locked seeds are the 505 locked rare seeds.
SEEDS is not a gold rush to stake out numbers; it's an expressive medium that encourages holders to modify their seeds.
Whether for fun, or communication, or to influence generative systems đĄ
Every seed is special; a rare artifact with a specific position in the onchain garden.
Seeds may also be special due to emergent traits, like its children, who set it last, or if it is the eldest seed with its seed number đ
There are two main ways to get a seed:
đ Purchase in the launch sale
đ Buy on the secondary market
Community members can also win or earn seeds through contests đ° and bounties đ
The SEEDS artwork, code, and editor app were created by @dxxmsdxy , one of the earliest artists in ordinals, and crypto at large.
Known for timely creations during the launches of @dogecoin and @ethereum, they have been a constant in crypto art.
A Block 9 sat is a satoshi (the smallest unit of Bitcoin) mined in Block #9 of Bitcoin's blockchain on January 8th, 2009.
Block 9 sats are the earliest units of Bitcoin in circulation, sent from Satoshi to Hal Finney just days after Bitcoin's launch.
