Print your place in history
your picture, printed in real candles on a live price chart, and kept on the blockchain itself.
How long?
The size of your print: one hour, or up to a whole day in a row. The longer it runs, the bigger the picture. A whole day is always a print of your own picture: Pressheads can't be printed on one.
Your picture
Drop an image, type some words, or sketch one below with the pen.
or type some words · or start from
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In candles
sketch here with your mouse or finger, or add a picture above
On the live chart
Your print
minted to your wallet (or the one you send it to) the minute the booking is over: nothing to claim. it is stored on the blockchain itself, not on a server, and shows in any wallet or marketplace: the contract draws it from the candles that were really printed and stamps it with the block it was minted in. no image server, no IPFS, nothing to go offline.
Your Presshead
One of 1,000 avatars, each printed once. You choose when it prints; the draw chooses which one.
a few of the 1,000: some put together from parts, some of the 100 Rares.
- drawn at random. a block made just after you pay picks yours from those still left: nobody can choose it or see it coming, the press included.
- shown when it is printed. it prints on the live chart in the 4 hours you pick, and is minted to your wallet the minute it is done.
- 100 Rares. one-offs with names of their own, printed in reverse; the other 900 are put together from parts, 28 heads of animals and creatures, no two alike.
- made to be an avatar. square, nothing written on it, whole in a round crop for X or Telegram, and stored entirely on the blockchain.
- one per wallet a day, by the date in UTC. first come, first served: the price of any 4 hours, and as much again for the Presshead itself.
- printed at the next free time. it goes in the line with prints of your own, first come, first served: nothing to pick. a Presshead can't be printed on a whole day or a special date: those are booked as prints of your own picture.
When it prints
It goes in the line: it prints at the next free time.
times in · (what the chart and the chain run on)
★ special dates are whole days, midnight to midnight UTC: the same moment everywhere.
next free
it goes in the line: bookings print one right after another, in the order they are made. if someone books a moment before you, yours goes right after theirs.
a Presshead always prints in the line, at the next free time. a whole day, or a special date, is booked as a print of your own picture, so a Presshead can't be printed on one.
want a particular day?
the number under a day: the hours available.
Special dates
auctionthe six biggest days of the year (New Year's Day and Eve, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween and Christmas Day), each a whole day, midnight to midnight UTC, sold by auction, up to ten years ahead. make your picture for the day and bid for it: the winner's picture is printed on the day. if nobody bids, the day is let go when bidding ends: its hours sell like any other day's, and whatever prints on it carries the day's name.
how bidding works
a date can be bid on up to ten years ahead, and the first bid opens its auction. your picture is locked in with your bid. bids start at what a whole day costs to book at the time, which follows how far ahead the press is booked, and only go up, each at least 5% over the last. bidding ends a day before the day starts, and a bid in its last 15 minutes adds 15 more, but never past an hour before the day. choosing a date sends nothing, and it can be cancelled until you bid. once placed, a bid can't be taken back, but outbid, your dollars and deposit come straight back. should the press ask more for printing by the time bidding ends (a bid can be years old), the highest bidder tops up the gas deposit here; a winner whose deposit still falls short an hour before the day gets everything back. a day nobody bids on is let go when bidding ends, for anyone to book by the hour.
you are the press. hold hours for yourself, as far ahead as you like: nobody else can book them. holding is free; print on them later like any booking (the press pays only the gas deposit), or let them go.
auction a special date: a whole day, midnight to midnight UTC.
Book it
auctionPay in dollars and sign in your wallet: the hours are yours the moment it goes through.
Stored on the blockchain, shown everywhere
100% on-chain. a print is not a link to a picture kept on someone's server: the chain keeps the picture itself, and anything that shows NFTs can show it.
- most NFTs are a link: the token on the chain points to an image on a web server or on IPFS, and if that goes offline, the picture goes with it.
- a print keeps its candles on the chain, every one that was really printed, and the print contract draws the picture from them whenever it is asked, with its name, description and traits. nothing is hosted anywhere, so there is no link to break.
- so it shows wherever NFTs are shown: in your wallet, on marketplaces like OpenSea, on block explorers and on this site. each of them asks the contract for the picture and gets it straight from the chain.
- each print is stamped with the block it was minted in. with the first candle of every hour, the chain also keeps an inscription of the booking: the print number, the wallet, the hour, a fingerprint of the picture and its title. anyone can check them on a block explorer.
- and as long as the chain runs, your print can be drawn from the contract alone: no website needed, not even this one.
The chart, live
everything booked here is printed on one chart, one candle a minute. once the press is live, that chart is shown here, with links to it on GeckoTerminal and DexScreener.
how it works
- your picture becomes one column a minute. each column keeps its lowest and highest point, so the chart shows your picture's outline. words are printed in an alphabet made for charts.
- book one hour, or up to 24 in a row for something bigger. a booking is printed as one picture, every minute from its first hour to 50 minutes into its last: the hours run straight on into each other, and only the last 10 minutes are left quiet, before the next booking.
- prints of 1 to 23 hours, and Pressheads, go in a line: each prints at the next free time, right after the one booked before it, so there are never gaps, and nobody can hold hours back from anyone else. the page shows when yours would print before you pay; if someone books a moment before you, yours goes right after theirs. the line runs up to nine weeks ahead.
- a whole day (24 hours) is booked for a date you pick, up to eight weeks ahead, midnight to midnight UTC: for a birthday, say, or a launch. it's a premium purchase: twice the price of its 24 hours. a whole day is always a print of your own picture: a Presshead can't be printed on one, only in the line. the line goes around it. two whole days are never booked in a row, so the line always has at least every other day.
- first come, first served: the hours are yours the moment your booking goes through, and a booking can't be cancelled.
- special dates, the six biggest days of the year like Christmas Day, are whole days (midnight to midnight UTC) sold by auction instead, up to ten years ahead. you bid with your picture locked in, bids only go up, and bidding ends a day before; a late bid adds 15 minutes, never past an hour before the day. the winner's picture is printed on the day like any booking, with nothing more to do: the winning bid is its price, so any minute not printed is refunded like any booking's. an outbid bid comes straight back. if nobody bids, the day is let go when bidding ends, and its hours sell like any other day's: a print or a Presshead made on it carries the day's name.
- hours are priced in dollars and paid in USDC, a dollar token. the price follows how far ahead the press is booked: an hour costs $1 with nothing booked ahead, and every hour booked ahead makes the next 0.5% dearer. every hour sold adds an hour to that, Presshead or print, and every hour that goes by takes one off, so the price eases back by itself. booked a day ahead, an hour costs about $1.13; a week ahead, about $2.31. buying up the line gets dearer with every hour taken. hours can be booked until 10 minutes before they start.
- one booking per wallet a day, by the date in UTC: an hour, several in a row, or a whole day. a Presshead is counted on its own (one of those a day too), and a bid on a special date isn't a booking.
- with the price you send a gas deposit in ETH. it pays for the printing transactions, a transaction every minute (at the gas price of that minute); what is left comes back when your booking is over. if part of the picture does not get printed, you only pay for the part that was.
- the printing doesn't depend on the press: anyone can run the open-source keeper that sends it, and one that prints a minute the press's own keeper missed earns a small reward from the press's earnings. so the prints go on whoever is around.
- nor does your money: connect your wallet, and the page shows anything of yours left waiting (an hour nobody printed or closed out, a Presshead nobody drew within a day, what came back for a Presshead's hours), with a button that sends it back to you.
- with the first candle of every hour, the chain keeps a permanent inscription: the print number, your wallet, the hour, a fingerprint of your picture and your title. anyone can check it on the block explorer.
- when the booking is over, the chart of those hours is minted as a print to you, or to the wallet you chose, in the same minute: there is nothing to claim. the print lives entirely on the chain: the contract draws its picture itself, from the candles it keeps, and stamps it with the block it was minted in. there is no image server and no IPFS, so there is nothing to go offline, and it shows in any wallet or marketplace. every print carries collectible traits: its edition (the first 100 are Founders), its length, its shape, when it was printed, the occasion it fell on and anything special about its number.
- print #0000, the genesis, belongs to the press: the first artwork, printed over 23 hours right after the launch, its last line in memory of Nikolai Mushegian.
- the token on the chart cannot be bought, sold or held by anyone. it exists only to print with.