“There are already so many NFT platforms in the world, from mint, trade to swap, and the market has suddenly changed from a blue ocean to a red ocean in just six months. Why do we need one more “Frame”? “
This is the question that investors ask the most about Christopher Hefty, one of the main sponsors of “Frame”.
The answer is always a concise and convincing sentence:“The future of art is NFT, and the future of NFT is free circulation and autonomous communities, which is “Frame”. “
The birth of “Frame”:NFT decentralization storm
In essence, NFT is its literal meaning “non-homogeneous token”, not just applied in the field of art. NFT is the cornerstone of the blockchain world, and art is a small part of it.
In the blockchain circle that advocates subversion/revolution, there are many opinions that NFT is the terminator of art first, because NFT is the evolution of art form in the digital age, and it is a fundamental shift in the de-authorization of artistic discourse power on the chain.
These powerful words have led to the development of some extreme carnivals. At the creative level, imitation has become a primitive physiological behavior. After the encryption cat and BAYC, 1.5 million animals in the world have NFT-like mappings of large and small; at the circulation level, extreme cutting-edge digital collectors have used traditional art The product is burned, only the corresponding NFT warrants are retained, and NFTs are “burned” like performance art; in some countries and regions, investors are busy signing all traditional artists to “enclose” the chain, while in other places investors think that traditional art Fine art and even traditional art will eventually be worthless under the NFT trend and thus discarded as a waste.
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The market is full of all kinds of new terms that artists need to learn: crypto art, crypto avatar, generative art, smart contract, contract address, decentralization, ERC721 protocol, mining, pledge…The ancient metaverse of the universe also reappears The rivers and lakes are like a saturation attack on the art dictionary by blockchain practitioners.
According to data from Opensea, the world’s largest NFT exchange, the transaction amount of encrypted avatar CryptoPunks topped the list.
“Frame” was born in this chaotic era of decentralization. The original promoters were a group of friends who were unmatched in their work. Among them were cutting-edge artists, some art collectors who were deeply poisoned by NFT but have been keeping a low profile, and some were experienced but still full of enthusiasm. Blockchain technology product geeks are popular, and there are also blockchain community big v that can call the wind and rain to influence the market on the Internet.
If NFT is like the blockchain that triggered a big bang in the art world, it is experiencing a dramatic increase in entropy from order to disorder. So what “Frame” hopes to do is to help the art world complete this ecological and natural evolution.After all: the meaning of life lies in the ability to resist the increase in entropy, that is, the ability to decrease the entropy.
The core of “Frame”: rewrite the casting rules to achieve transaction pre-processing
The core of “Frame” is to build a democratic and equal community that promotes the free and convenient circulation of NFTs. Democracy is the key to all issues. Based on this, the “Frame” autonomous community will redefine all aspects of NFT from casting to circulation.
picture:unslplash.comThey hope that there will no longer be the antagonism between “traditional artists/encrypted art creators, traditional art collectors/encrypted art collectors”, but that everyone will participate in the establishment of a set of diversified and multi-ecological coexistence rules of the game. They hope that there is no longer a long top-down circulation process of “producer casting-centralized platform display matching-consumer collection/re-sale”, but is dedicated to let everyone in the circulation link be in one place. At the beginning, we sat down at the table to participate in the game.
Individuality and consensus will get the same respect in “Frame”. In fact, the emergence of NFT is like a reconstruction of the art framework by the procedural language for men and women, a blockchain interpretation of Hegel’s dialectical aesthetics. The uniqueness of NFT addresses and the inviolability of rights ensure the individuality of each individual, and the introduction of Token is just like the introduction of a consensus mechanism.
If one end of art is the absolute freedom of the creator, emphasizing “self-expression”/”others are hell”, and the other end is the absolute freedom of the recipient, emphasizing “a thousand readers have a thousand Hamlet”, then let The ERC-721 protocol born from NFT’s shell is a perfect model that strikes a balance between these two ends.
Image: medium.comThe first important decision of the “Frame” community is to launch the middleware Frame of the same name: all the necessary elements of the NFT casting bottom layer of the “Frame” platform in the future, used to enhance balance and promote circulation.According to Eddie, the product owner, Frame middleware is just like the blank paper that artists face when creating in the real world. All community participants can mortgage tokens to generate Frame, and Frame can be combined with the artist’s creation to generate the final NFT. The advantage of this is that the transaction circulation link is unprecedentedly preceded. Every community participant can participate in creation and even share benefits through Frame, a middleware, and every creator can also obtain potential collectors in advance through Frame.
By staking and mining the most basic tools of the blockchain, Frame magically allows transactions to exist before artistic creation has occurred. The traditional top-down transaction process of e-commerce is thus subverted and replaced by a bottom-up reverse co-casting structure.And the idea behind all this is still those simple words: free circulation and equal communication.
The future of “Frame”: DAO Autonomous Community
In just two months, the “Frame” community has attracted many participants, including a head image art website, top investment bank executives, sponsors of important art fairs and art institutions, and a blockchain geek technical team. , There are many free individuals who have been immersed in the digital world for a long time.
Wuji NFT, one of the founding members of the autonomous community of the FRAME Foundation in Singapore.
In fact, if middleware solutions are the core cornerstone of the “Frame” platform, then the “Frame” community is the real future of this platform. The first version of the “Frame” middleware underlying technology will be developed by the ORB technical team in the community for version 1.0. The first batch of creators will be invited by various websites/institutions/art fairs/artists participating in the community. A batch of creation “Frames” will also be cast and used by the community to vote on their own.
“Frame” will be a DAO autonomous community without a CEO. Every contributor to the “Frame” community is the owner of “Frame”.
It is reported that the “Frame” middleware DEMO has been developed, 1PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai 2021 in early JanuaryBecame the first official global appearance of the “Frame” brand in cooperation with an art platform in Mainland China by exporting its underlying technological capabilities.
PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai Photo Shanghai Art Fair was held at the Shanghai Exhibition Center. Photo: PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai“Frame” market leader Michael said: “We understand that the chaotic world is full of uncertainty, but the development of human society is always looking for, discovering, and proving those certainties in uncertainty to establish basic principles.”
Meteorologist Syukuro Manabe of Princeton University just won the Nobel Prize in Physics in October 2021 for “quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”. What “Frame” is doing is precisely to In the wildly dancing global NFT storm, we have found a little trajectory of climate change to help the NFT industry move forward.
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