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.
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.
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.
Not on our server, not on IPFS, not behind a link. The chain renders it, for as long as the chain exists.
Deployed to your wallet, immutable, owner: you, only you. No pause button, no upgrade path, no back door.
Storage is paid once, at the gas price of the moment, and never again. This is the press's own bill for the XCOPY piece in the phone above, 366,200 bytes, priced off live mainnet gas, next to the gas watch every artist etches by.
The auction machinery descends from Zora's original 2021 protocol. ETCH'D adds the standard it never enforced: the art itself must live onchain.
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, minus a 1% fee hardcoded in your own contract. No middleman to pay, because there isn't one.
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. The only fee is 1%, hardcoded.
