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Alright, Today we use AI to store images onchain 👇
Onchain NFTs are hard
Ethereum isn't designed for large files. Smart contracts are capped at 24kb.
For context, here’s Beeple's latest Everyday compressed to ~24kb:
And it still costs $240 to put this pixelated garbage 👆 onchain:
This is why most onchain art is pixel art.
Less details → smaller files → cheaper storage !
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the birth of "compressionism" a movement led by 0xdiid
A new technique
Stable diffusion is the best compression algorithm I've seen.
After storing the initial 3-8GB model,
each image is just a sentence and a few bytes of data.
Sadly storing Stable Diffusion onchain would cost millions (I don't have)
The Trick
What if we only store a low-res version of the artwork + a prompt ?
Future upscalers, likely embedded in browsers, can handle the rest,
Here's a real-life example for my next project Zima:
This is how I turn a detailed 3D render into an AI✨ upscaled onchain artwork.
See you next week ✌
Nahiko
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