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by maarten3 2268 days ago
Hi all, creator of Etherdoek here. I had this idea for a while and the corona lockdown was a good excuse to work on it. I’ve also written an article about tokens and art and when I think it makes sense to put things on the blockchain: https://www.etherdoek.com/tokens_and_art.

In short, Etherdoek is a 1,000 by 1,000 pixel canvas. Pixels are sold through a smart contract. The buyer sets the pixel color (hex value, 3 bytes) and gets an ERC-721 token which corresponds to her pixel. Pixel tokens can be traded like any other ERC-721 token. Through the same smart contract any owner of a pixel token can change the color of the corresponding pixel.

The canvas will exist as long as Ethereum. Ethereum contains the full state of the image and changes are saved forever as events. It’s censorship resistant and does not depend on any data being stored outside of the blockchain.