This crosschain NFT is going viral

Two weeks ago, Bjørn Staal sent out a tweet that simply said:

It went viral. 

Then people begged him for the code behind the art. 

So he open-sourced some of it. 

But they pushed for more. 

He said chill guys, it’s not that easy – some of it is intertwined with my own proprietary artistic material. 

They pushed again, even in DMs. 

Who could deny such a request? 

So Bjørn went to a printer, printed out the minified javascript used for the video, signed it, and minted it as an NFT titled:

bro here are the codes

It sold for 0.4 ETH, with all proceeds going to three.js.

He’s a novel artist and a troll? 

You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention.

So I went down a rabbit hole to learn more about this Entangled, which included an interview Bjørn recently did on the Arbitrarily Deterministic Podcast, where he gave more info on the drop. 

Here’s the TLDW: 

1. This is an fxhash 2.0 drop (which is itself delayed until Dec 14)

2. It will mint on both Ethereum and Tezos

3. The video from the tweet is a WIP of the art

4. The NFTs will be able to “pair up”, which leads to some magic

I need to expand a bit on point 4. 

Each NFT is randomly (but deterministically) paired with another NFT in the collection, likely from the opposing chain. 

Without pairing up, the art simply exists in a single browser window. 

But when you open two browsers with NFTs that are paired with each other, they will connect and become “entangled” – a process using window.getScreenDetails() and localStorage. 

This creates an incentive for owning an entangled pair, which could lead to some scavenger hunts on secondary. 

Overall, very cool.

Still waiting on price, supply, date (pretty much everything) – but I think it’s worth keeping an eye on.