ETCH'D
CYPHERPUNKS HASH'D
// THE ONCHAIN MARKETPLACE

Art that outlives
everything.

Every artist works against time. Stone weathers, canvas rots, servers shut down. Ethereum is the first medium in history that keeps every work exactly as it was made, for as long as the chain exists, and the chain is built to exist forever.

ETCH'D 01 ARTWORK 02 TERMS 03 DEPLOY Your CypherPunk — holding unlocks the press
XCOPY, LAWS_INNIT — animated SVG, fully onchain-capable
✓laws_innit.svg · 84.4 KBACCEPTED — animated SVG, self-contained, renders forever.
FORMAT
AUCTION EDITION
STORAGE, PAID ONCE0.019 ETH
84.4 KB · 86,409 BYTES ONCHAIN
CONTRACT DEPLOY0.003 ETH
PLATFORM FEE0 ETH, EVER
THE COST OF FOREVER$38 · 0.022 ETH
// artwork: XCOPY · LAWS_INNIT · CC0, “no rights reserved”
// his site serves this as SVG from a CDN.
// same bytes, better address.
// choose AUCTION and it sells over 24 hours, reserve yours to set — it’s your contract
// every contract the press deploys is born at 0xC0DE…, art, created through code
// THE FEES

FREE FOREVER

0%
PLATFORM FEES
0%
PLATFORM ROYALTIES
0
MIDDLEMEN

You pay Ethereum for permanence, once. ETCH'D never touches the money path. Not at mint, not on a sale, not ever.

// THE GRAVEYARD

Marketplaces die. The art shouldn't go with them.

Every one of these held artists' work, artists' markets, artists' careers, and switched them off. And collectors paid the same bill: the NFT you “owned” was a token pointing at their server.

2019 SIGKILL ascribe early NFT registry, XCOPY's early works went with it
2019 SIGKILL digital_objects collectors call what was lost here “lost XCOPYs”
2021 SIGKILL hic_et_nunc abandoned overnight, community left holding mirrors
2022 SIGKILL ftx_nft exchange collapsed, hosted images went dark with it
2023 SIGKILL async_art programmable art pioneer, wound down
2023 SIGKILL formfunction Solana 1/1 house, closed inside a year and a half
2023 SIGKILL recur $50M raised, shut down anyway
2023 SIGKILL coinbase_nft sunset within two years of launch
2023 SIGKILL voice built to onboard the mainstream, gone before it arrived
2024 SIGKILL gamestop_nft wound down, marketplace closed
2024 SIGKILL knownorigin acquired by eBay, then closed
2025 SIGKILL lg_art_lab a tech giant's three year experiment
2025 SIGKILL bybit_nft closed while recovering from a $1.4B hack
2025 SIGKILL makersplace a decade of 1/1s, wound down
2025 SIGKILL kraken_nft closed its marketplace
2025 SIGKILL x2y2 three years, then lights out
2025 SIGKILL christies_digital even the auction house closed the department
2026 SIGKILL nifty_gateway tried to save the art on the way out, could not save all of it
2026 SIGKILL foundation the defining 1/1 auction house of the era
2026 SIGKILL magic_eden_evm retreated to one chain, closed the rest, four months ago
$ kill etchd
etchd — no such process. no server, no company, no off switch.
runtime: as long as Ethereum. the art is in the chain, the contracts belong to the artists. there is nothing here anyone can take down.
// NO THIRD PARTIES, EVER

You don't need us. And that's the point.

The marketplace model is rented shelf space. They host the image, they own the listing, they can delist you, raise the fee, or disappear, and your work goes with them.

THE ART

Lives on Ethereum itself, not on our server, not on IPFS, not behind a link. The chain renders it. As long as Ethereum exists, so does your work.

THE CONTRACT

Deployed to your wallet, immutable, owner: you, only you. We keep no pause button, no upgrade path, no back door. It answers to your key alone.

THE SALE

Collector to your contract, ETH to your wallet, no intermediary in the money path, no fee switch waiting to flip.

// HOW IT WORKS

Three rules. No fine print.

01 · THE KEY

Hold a CypherPunk and the press is yours. One punk is auctioned every day, no reserve, and every punk is a key.

02 · THE DOOR POLICY

The key admits you. The door judges the work. Only art that is onchain gets in.

03 · YOUR CONTRACT

Every press deploy is born at 0xC0DE…, owner: you, only you. Auction or edition, primary sales go straight to your wallet, royalties your call.

// TWO WAYS TO SELL

Auction or edition. Both contracts are yours, both immutable.

The auction machinery descends from Zora's original 2021 protocol. ETCH'D adds the standard it never enforced: the art itself must live onchain.

THE AUCTION CONTRACT

A 24-hour auction for the 1/1 that deserves a market, not a price tag. Reserve yours to set, or none at all. Highest bid wins, the way the punks sell every day, and the hammer price goes straight to your wallet. No middleman to pay, because there isn't one.

THE EDITION CONTRACT

Editions up to 100, at your price. Small runs on purpose, scarcity is part of the medium. One inscription covers every copy, storage does not multiply, so a 100-edition run costs the chain no more than a 1/1. Your collectors mint from your contract, and every sale is yours.

// THE GALLERY

Every artist gets an orbit.

The ecosystem gallery puts each artist at the centre of their own universe, their collections and works circling around them, all of it onchain, every artist discoverable inside it.

XCOPYXCOPY
// artwork: XCOPY · FRESH HELL · CC0, "no rights reserved"
shown for illustration only, XCOPY has not minted on ETCH'D
// THE KEY

Holding a CypherPunk unlocks the press.

ETCH'D is part of the CypherPunks ecosystem, one pixel punk auctioned every day for 27 years, art fully onchain, no reserve. Hold a punk and the press is yours: etch, deploy, sell. Keep holding, and your work lives here, forever.

A CypherPunk, the key to the press GET YOUR KEY
// THE ARTIST LIST

Become a CypherPunk Artist.

CONFIRMED. YOU'RE ON THE ARTIST LIST. SEE YOU AT THE PRESS.