roughly two years ago

@ArtOnBlockchain shared an idea with me for an onchain generative artwork

it was titled:

LIFT (a self portrait)

the collection was deployed on @ethereum in august 2025

powered by @artblocks_io contracts

LIFT (a self portrait) consisted of 1,000 fully onchain artworks and video games, each playable through a Game Boy Advance emulator or physical cartridge

at the center of each game

was a character called 'pixel man'

a procedurally generated self-portrait of snowfro

who was asked to lift a heavy boulder with the assistance of his onchain friends, while overcoming obstacles and opposing forces

over 300+ artists and friends of @artonblockchain were invited to create onchain pixel supporters for the project, which populate across all the 1,000 unique artworks

importantly

the network snowfro built around LIFT (a self portrait) was always meant to be a starting point

the beginning

snowfro had a much larger network he wanted to build

designed around the second chapter of his LIFT universe

tonight in marfa TX

our team at @glitchmarfa is honored to present snowfro's second chapter

in partnership with @LACMA and sponsored by @Fountainxyz

the new collection is called LIFT (together)

LIFT (together) is an interactive artwork and system designed by Snowfro combining a physical pedestal, offchain software, the @ethereum blockchain, and a global competition

the system invites anyone to walk up to the pedestal

design their very own pixel supporter

engage in a game of speed

and help lift snowfro’s rock

upon completion

the system generates a 1/1/x onchain exhibition poster on @ethereum

each onchain poster is also unique artwork, incorporating your designed pixel character, procedurally generated assets, and elements using @ethereum entropy

a small number of artworks in the collection may also find *rare* and *very rare* artwork attributes

each exhibition poster is also a record of location, printed on each artwork

over the next decade

the LIFT (together) pedestal will travel across the world

allowing collectors across different geographies and institutions

to join snowfro’s onchain network

and tonight, the journey begins in marfa, TX

join us at @glitchmarfa ❤️

gm

actual computer

turns your local computers

into a department- scale AI factory

@actualinc

a few notes on local AI

and our computers that run it

around fifteen months ago, i led the pre-seed round for a weird local AI project

it was called @actualinc

led by @Tom_A_Lynch

for the first time in the AI movement

open models are now good enough for a large and growing ially where latency, privacy, bandwidth, and token cost are critical

hermes agent from @nousresearch and ‘lab’ by @primeintellect have broken this idea wide open with killer products today, built on open rails

we are no longer forced to assume that every useful task must route through one of a few centralized frontier APIs

and so

tom and the squad at @actualinc have painstakingly created a new type of proprietary inference engine

for all types of computers

maybe you are an owner of one of the tens of millions Apple macs

or an owner of one of the millions of RTX-class machines

or maybe you run a small team or company

and you are starting to realize

what many others across the world, have started to realize

which is that sometimes centralized AI systems bring their own set of unique problems

especially as our workflows move into an always-on, agentic era which might sometimes come with:

- exorbitant costs
- no privacy
- lack of control

but a problem remains

running local AI is still too hard

firing up one model on one machine is difficult enough

but running models across different machines means navigating drivers, networking, model sizing, memory limits, API setups

stitching together hardware is messy across Mac, Windows, Linux, NVIDIA, Apple, AMD

heterogenous systems were never meant to work seamlessly together like this

today, you'll find that most of the local inference software available is built around single users, for a single machine use case

running inference capacity in bulk, across many users, and many kinds of computers

that is a different animal altogether

tools like llama.cpp made local models accessible, but they are not designed to coordinate tens of thousands of heterogeneous machines under a live supply network

vLLM-style batching can be economical, but vLLM is limited in the machines it can run on

the local AI movement requires a simple product experience, for a tough engineering problem

that is the problem @Tom_A_Lynch pitched me fifteen months ago

and the problem @actualinc has been engineered to solve

now with the help of his cracked and growing team @skooookum, @somewheresy, @jack15032, and the rest of the crew

starting with their first product

go to actual.computer

in under one minute, install the @actualinc client, authorize your machine, load a model, and @actualinc turns your personal device into a private inference endpoint

in less than twenty seconds, add a second, or third, or fourth machine of any type and it will start behaving like a small private cluster

from a technical POV

actual runs as a lightweight daemon on each machine and turns local hardware into a routable inference endpoint

each node reports its available memory, accelerator type, model state, and health back into the cluster, while the user interacts with a single API surface

instead of managing ports, drivers, or SSH sessions
a relay layer lets requests reach machines without forcing users to configure networking or expose their devices directly

and as a result

computer owners of all kinds of computers

can get local inference clusters

- when they want to control costs
- when they want to control privacy
- when they want to build on top of a neutral stack

eventually, over time

computer owners running these local clusters should be able to seamlessly contribute their unused capacity back to the @actualinc network

for a market to price

and for someone else to purchase

you can think of @actualinc as building the engine and control plane for datacenter style throughput in homes, in offices, in small to medium sized businesses, and in very big sized businesses

because there are hundreds of gigawatts already on the grid right now, that are waiting

on desks, in storage closets

to become actual computers

since 2020, one of my north stars

is that the best and most robust networks will be built around:

- openness
- credible neutrality
- user sovereignty

by many metrics, @NousResearch hermes agent is now the most widely used open source AI agent in the world

and notably

the s not just that it is growing incredibly fast

it is that it is growing incredibly fast in the right ways

devs are cloning it

contributors are improving it

model providers can route any/all intelligence through it

and more recently

enterprises now feel safe to build on top of it

in a world where synthetic intelligence is one of the most important inputs into labor, software, hardware, creativity, decision making

it is more important than ever

that our infrastructure of the future should not be a black box

gatekept by a few to create distribution, pricing, or performance advantages

at the expense of the rest of us

it should be open, auditable, extensible

and it should be controlled and operated by the people and organizations that use it

proud friend and long time investor of this mission driven crew at @collab_currency

keep up the people's work @dillonrolnick @karan4d @Teknium @theemozilla @SHL0MS @yeahfortommy @gradyacc and the rest of the killer squad at @NousResearch ♥️

Actual Computer is pleased to announce its first source available-software, toks.

Actual's toks is the best tokenizer on earth and the first tokenizer designed for the quadrillion-token era.

actual.inc/company/blog/i…

.@derekedws and @Collab_Currency embody the spirit of ride-or-die.

Never ever doubted, not even for a second, that they were working for our best interests.

Every Art Blocks 500 piece can be rebuilt from Ethereum with one contract call. Artist code, token seed, libraries, all pulled from chain and assembled into the finished artwork. AB doesn't have to be around for it to work.

Two things are off chain: thumbnails, the preview Traits, which come from running the onchain code with the onchain seed, so anyone can recompute them.

As long as Ethereum exists, the art still renders.

docs.artblocks.io/protocol/on-ch…

(1/2) @artblocks_io Weekend 2026 is upon us. This year, Fountain will partner with Glitch Marfa to host our first two public events:

First, we’re thrilled to support LIFT (together) – Part II: FAILURE MODE by @ArtOnBlockchain, presented in partnership with @glitchmarfa × @LACMA // 6 – 9 PM

thank you g, appreciate you

a few random notes about this topic from my time running @Collab_Currency

in general

i remain a big believer that we should be using the internet and blockchains to open up better access to ideas, projects, and opportunities at the very earliest stages

stuff like fair launches, PoW, and cap formation tools

all of this extends from the same design principle of more equitable ownership formation

which i am very much inspired by and oriented toward

all that said

teams at the earliest stages still need a combo of tools in the toolkit for a higher probability of success

the three i usually point to are:

- capital
- connectivity
- counsel

capital gives founders room to hire, experiment, build

connectivity is the invisible and visible networks that help founders better find users, first hires, customers, collaborators

counsel is the experience from others around the project that can help founders work through hard decisions with people who’ve seen similar challenges before

so all this to say

at the very earliest stages, crypto/blockchains have started to become an amazing tool at pooling capital together for founders and projects

but i have found that it has had a harder time with the other two (connectivity, counsel)

which is the stuff after the capital arrives

i am talking my book a bit

but i'm also pretty optimistic that these two don't necessarily have to come from a pre-seed/seed stage investor in the future

over time i’d love to see those parts of the venture model unbundled

until then, i think i think there's a tremendous amount of value to be created

showing up for founders at the earliest stages

helping them navigate their project to higher ground

standing behind them as they do the tough stuff

100% working with @derekedws and the rest of the team at collab was great

1/ gm Marfa.

Introducing the @glitchmarfa track for @artblocks_io Weekend 2026.

I get to chop it up with two of the most iconic squiggle holders on Wednesday at 5PM PST... I made it 🔥

(pictured below: derek's squig aka the most aesthetic hyperpipe in the entire collection)

honored and stoked to circle back on this topic

a little over three and a half years ago, i wrote an essay that helped define attention networks for internet art, the role of external dependencies on terminal value creation, and how to think about digital objects as SoVs

x.com/derekedws/stat…

still have many folks bump me about these topics to this day, grateful the concepts took off and still deeply resonate with folks in the crypto art space ♥️

will revisit some of these ideas with @benroy and @akasteveyyy for the crew @Fountainxyz later this week

Introducing Recipes, because a good workflow is worth repeating.

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Still a banger after all this time.

We are proud to announce our $18.5M Series Seed raise

We're just getting started building the financial OS for business everywhere.

Led by @thirdprimevc, @NorthIslandVC, @thehousefund, @Collab_Currency with @paraficapital, @PharsalusCap, @DCGco, 1982 Ventures and @OnigiriVC s.

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Hermes Agent is open for business.

Nous Portal now lets you invite colleagues to a Hermes Business account: your team gets agents across channels while sharing one central balance with per-member caps and shared skills that compound into proprietary IP.

Hermes Enterprise brings o on-prem or the cloud of your choice: a complete, self-improving, sovereign AI stack already trusted by some of the world's largest companies. Contact us to join them.

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A few @raster_art keyboard shortcuts you most likely aren't aware of:
• +/- : zoom in/out on whatever art grid page you're on (artist, collector, series)
• tab ⇥ : reactivate local search (search within a certain page)
• ← / → : to use our new navigation bar 👇

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