Let's Go Gambling!​

I love gambling. I hate gambling.

Casinos are not healthy for chains. Should they be online crypto casinos, or attention window casinos, they always have the goal of max-extraction. And not just of on-chain liquidity, but of people, leaving in their wake endless tales of regret and alienation.

Casinos are a low effort vehicle to extract value from a chain. They are running a business, and they will win because their winnings are built into the system (upfront fees or mathematical house edge). Then they remove liquidity (not a point of argument, it's an observable on-chain fact). They are not interested in culture, the common good, or humanity—only themselves. They've accumulated billions from crypto users and off ramped it. You can't ask someone delirious with greed to give back even a little.

Pixelady Maker CATA​

Minting of Pixelady Maker CATA has concluded. With it, the toll of war.

• Total Burns: 6,233
• Total Survivors: 13,767
• Total Sinners: 563
• Total Saints: 3,027

If you burned any CATA at all, you are a sinner.

If you minted CATA, but never burned any CATAs, you are a saint.

For the top four war criminals and saints, we have some prizes!

For all who participated in the CATA mint, there will be special things for you too. First, you'll be able to verify on our community and get a new role. Second, you'll get something in Pixcadia Online based on if you are a sinner or a saint.

Today is the day.

Today Abstract Mainnet goes live officially at 10AM EST! The first 24 hours of day one will be interesting...

This post will guide you through everything you need to know about Abstract for your day 1 experience.

Even if you are an experienced user, this guide will be useful for you!

Launch Info​

• Minting at: https://www.scatter.art/
• Pixelady Maker: Cataclysm launches on day 1 of Abstract launch (exact time TBA, within the first 24 hours of Abstract's mainnet launch)
• Only trust official information from this account, beware of fake replies
• A day 1 bridge will be available, see the Abstract Day 1 post for more information
• Mint prices will be: 0.05 Public, 0.04 Friends, 0.06 Enemies
• Friends: all Pixelady collections, all Oekaki Connect collections, all Remilia collections, all Pudgy collections, Dead Avatars, Burgers, Flurks, Retarts, Bored Milady, Radbro and more ... when you connect on the Scatter page you will be able to see if you are eligible for Friends discount!
• Enemies: anyone who has committed onchain sins, these people will find out who they are on launch
• The Pixelady snapshot HAS NOW BEEN TAKEN!
• Pixelady holders in the snapshot will be able to mint Cata NFTs 1:1 of their tokens held for all Pixelady collections, BC holders specifically will get 2 free mints per BC held
• The total supply is 20,000 as with Abstract the world will join us and more people than ever will be rocking a sick Pixelady
• As there are many free mints, look for deals on secondary, check our social for official links to the collection on secondary
• Reveal will happen one week after mint begins (or sooner if we decide to) which will enable more exciting secondary opportunities for collectors who may have missed the mint or just want to snipe a deal
• Cataclysm is our genesis event on Abstract, this is our first big step in this new history for Ethereum and we're hyped to have you join us on this adventure

The Spark in the Machine​

The world feels like a fever dream unraveling—death and rebirth looping endlessly, joy and violence entangled in algorithm. Media technologies amplify the noise, turning revelations and disillusionment into static. The Internet, once just a bright promise, has become a crucible of the zeitgeist.

Oekaki Connect as a team, community, and body of work continues to grow and with it our ambitions grow as well. We are always looking forward, thinking about what work warrants our focus, and how to bring attention to our work. We deeply care about our art, and will continue to relentlessly produce art in all forms.

2024 has been a very bittersweet year. We cherish our friends, our community, and the many memories we have all made together, and continue to put our best paw forward in order to make 2025 as good of a year it can be! We continue to build out our own world, from games, new platform launches, to exciting art collections and our own manufacturing facility. Oekaki Connect is working tirelessly.

Today we will be discussing some of what you already know, as well as revealing some of what to look forward to in 2025 from Oekaki Connect's dedication and ambition.

Summer​

call to adventure​

I discuss Oekaki with haiku​

Soooo. A looong time ago leancup pilled me on stable diffusion in milady village, it was very early still in AI art, a new anime model just released, we didn't even have .safetensors files. People used hypernetworks and textual inversions to train stuff locally, so the technology was very kinda early (think sd 1.4-1.5 at that time).

I've became a friend of haiku, we released a tiny lil Ghiblady side collection (strawberry juice) that financed me getting a solid GPU and Back then AI projects were just simple img2img and hand curation (if you were not lazy, we were and still are obsessive about curation), but I wanted something else. Those hand-curated projects where essentially 1/1s, but I am interested in generative art, so I thought, what if we make a generative pfp project that recombines prompt-traits and drawn traits for a truly generative NFT? A synthesis of artist and AI.

Learn the secrets to actually onboarding the next billion users through making crypto consumer first.

Crypto prices have gone up. But net users have not gone anywhere meaningful. What's going on?

Builders have been rewarded too much for optimizing for the wrong things which has held crypto back.

Crypto is stuck in the same patterns. Making the same ideas over and over again. Building products by crypto natives for crypto natives. While ignoring the greater world.

We firmly believe that crypto will reach mass adoption. We believe that the total global onchain world, if not the interplanetary onchain solar system, is inevitable. It may still be 10 or 20 years away, but eventually everyone everywhere will own thousands of tokens in their wallets and it will be completely normalized.

We are crypto natives who see the potential of the blockchain beyond the fugazi, we believe that crypto can be more for everyone, because we fundamentally respect the technology and can see that this way of doing things is better than the old ways.

We want to get good people into crypto now so that they can benefit in the long term. Our forward thinking visions are crystallized. We believe this is all going to happen, and so we want to help steer it in a direction that is ultimately good.

i. What's a PolyJank​

Firstly, PolyJank's release was a reactionary action to Scatter's recent upgrade to V2 - which came with the inclusive support of alternative L2 chains based on Ethereum's EVM. Polygon was chosen primarily as a proactive measure to begin populating Scatter's library of projects on the Polygon L2.

An important and foundational factor of this decision making was the Polygon team's support to Oekaki Connect during the recent Base scandal, whereby Base leadership openly signalled to our local crypto-sphere that they simply have no interest in cultivating or contributing to our prevailing culture, which encapsulates the legitimate passionate interest of real, human crypto users.

Pixelady Maker: Cataclysm will be releasing on Abstract — a people-first chain focused on supporting passionate creators, fostering emergent digital culture, and pioneering consumer crypto.

The Oekaki Connect team is gearing up to ignite a new era on Abstract mainnet.

When Oekaki Connect decided to release Kemonokaki on the Base blockchain we knew that we might face an uphill battle. We accepted this reality, and decided to work as hard as we could to create a beautiful, inspired, and successful project named: Kemonokaki.

Read: The Pawprint of Kemonokaki