The Space Genesis Project｜Collection of Genesis Drawings
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What is The Space
(TL;DR, friends who already know The Space, you can skip to the end of the article)
Origin: Reddit r/place
On April Fool's Day 2017, Reddit launched Reddit r/place , a co-creation art project. On a megapixel whiteboard , every registered Reddit user can edit the color of any pixel every five minutes. This "epic" evolution was recorded as a time-lapse video .
During the pop-up, users quickly filled the blank canvas. Flags, LGBT flags, internet memes, anime characters, game characters, Mona Lisa and Van Gogh's starry night, Linux logos, and even the Dark Void, a space where millions of users freely decide whether to cooperate or fight.
What's more, these works emerge in a completely democratic way. The ideas of each creator are "voting" for the direction of the entire canvas, and the whole of the work is far greater than the sum of its parts. This emergence is full of unknowns and novelties, and no one knows the outcome in advance. It's like a mirror , reflecting the culture of the Reddit community, and even the ideology of the Internet itself.
Reddit Place went offline after 72 hours of operation, and all the works disappeared in the information cemetery of the Internet. Like any centralized content publishing platform, even if millions of users participate in the creation of Reddit Place, whether it will stay or not will still be the decision of the Reddit company. It is ironic that a decentralized collective emergent work is stopped by centralized decision-making.
A decentralized collective emergent work, stopped by centralized decision-making... This is the norm in the Web2 world. But Web3 technology can bring about fundamental changes.
The Space: A digital graffiti wall that never goes offline
The Space Website | Twitter | Discord
In The Space, we recreated the game form of Reddit r/place, which is pixel art created by multiplayer online. The difference is that we will use NFTs to secure rights for each pixel, use the Harberger tax to govern public space, and use Universal Basic Income (UBI) to benefit everyone who participates in the game. And the mechanism can be implemented on the blockchain through smart contracts, which are open, transparent, records are permanent, and everyone can check and confirm. To participate in TheSpace game, you don't need anyone's approval, you only need to have the wallet address on the blockchain.
Because all the data and program logic are stored on the blockchain, The Space will not have a day off the station. Ten years later, 20 years later, or even 100 years later, future Internet historians will look back at the evolution of The Space screen and see how the Internet world, and even the cultural symbols of the real world, have evolved.
❤️ This is the most exciting part of The Space, it will become a "museum" of Web3 Internet culture.
game mechanics
In The Space, each pixel is a tradable NFT (Non-Fungible Token), and pixel owners can edit the color of their own pixels to create.
In order to get the most efficient allocation of limited public resources and maximize the liquidity of this "pixel market", we introduce another important design of The Space: " Harberger Tax ":
- Each pixel must be on sale at all times
- Owners can price their own pixels arbitrarily, and pay tax based on a certain percentage of the price (such as 10% per day)
Under the Harberger tax, all pixel NFTs in The Space are "on sale". If the owner wants to keep a certain pixel, it needs to set a higher price for it to avoid being easily bought by others. But correspondingly, a higher price must be paid. Here, no one really "owns" a pixel, and all "property" is fluid and public. However, public ownership of property did not lead to a "planned economy", but made maximum use of the power of the market.
The vast majority of taxes will be returned to each participant in the form of Universal Basic Income (UBI). The more plots you have, the more UBI you can get. The other part of the tax will be used as the community treasury, as the basis for the establishment of SpaceDAO.
The ownership of The Space project will be delivered to the decentralized autonomous organization: SpaceDAO in the future, which will determine the use rights of the community treasury and the key mechanisms of The Space, such as tax rates, canvas size, etc. SpaceDAO is open to all players, and the voting and proposal rights are determined by the amount of $SPACE locked.
*The institutional details of SpaceDAO will also be adjusted
** $SPACE is an ERC20 token issued for The Space, used for in-game pixel transactions, tax payments, and UBI distribution. The amount of locked $SPACE will become the basis of SpaceDAO's governance rights,
progress and plans
The Space has started public beta on the chain (Polygon Mumbai Testnet) in April, and will be officially listed on Polygon at the end of May.
At present, more than 1,000 players have participated in the test of The Space, and together they have created very interesting patterns and published many game experiences.
The SPACE (II) Apocalypse! Experience life in dot pixels
The enclosure game at The SPACE! Getting Started for Beginners
Honorary Participation: The SPACE Olympic Games | Second Beta Test
Rogue Landlord D80 of The Space
The Creation Map Project: Like Pangu's Creation of the World
❤️We hope to raise a creation map for The Space as a canvas for the official launch and provide it to players around the world. For The Space, which will live on forever, the initial graph is the origin of the timeline. Anyone who wants to go back to The Space's history will go back to the original diagram
On the basis of the elements of the original diagram, latecomers can freely derive, create, and destroy. Similar to Pangu's creation of the world, his body turned into the mountains and rivers of the world. The genesis map, as the starting point of The Space, will also be continuously changed by thousands of players.
The initial map as a starting point will be in sharp contrast to the subsequent timeline: the creation map is a centralized product of personal creation and design, while its evolution in The Space is the decentralized collective emergence of thousands of players and consensus. We believe it's a pretty cool thing to let our work be destroyed, deconstructed, and evolve with the consciousness of countless players in the world of The Space.
plan details
- You need to submit a 1000x1000, pixel style work by 24:00 on May 24th
- Once adopted, you will be permanently recorded in the history of The Space as "The Space Genesis Artist" and will receive responsive media dissemination and exposure. And get $1000USDT or equivalent $SPACE (optional)
- Submission email: thespace@matters.news
- If adoption is confirmed, we will contact you no later than May 26
- If in doubt, write to thespace@matters.news
Tips
During our many tests, we have the following experiences to share:
- Boldly add more Web3 elements and cultural symbols!
- A certain amount of white space, not completely filled
- Players will have more desire to interact with specific patterns with clear cultural meanings
- You can use pixel art tools to complete works, such as http://pixelartmaker.com/
Like my work? Don't forget to support and clap, let me know that you are with me on the road of creation. Keep this enthusiasm together!
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