market became art
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how an hour becomes a work
The canvas remains open for one UTC hour. Eligible onchain market actions change it. After the hour closes, the work and its source record are preserved together.
- canonical archive · v2
- frozen renderer
- experimental atelier · v3
- study · not mintable
source
A work begins with one UTC hour. The published eligibility policy decides which market records enter it.
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Only canonical, finalized records enter a finished work
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Open-hour observations remain provisional and may change
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Chain, token, venues and policy are committed in the public manifest
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Rejected and unrelated activity never enters the final image
chronology
The image preserves order without drawing a chart. Time establishes the armature; market behaviour deforms it.
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Archive v2 places each event on a vertical hour spine
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Atelier v3 lets the UTC weekday choose a compositional family
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Exact event time anchors each gesture inside that family
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Canonical ordering resolves every tie before rendering
composition
Composition is the arrangement of visual weight, movement and empty space. The hour determines all three.
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Canonical v2 builds an hour body around a vertical time spine
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Amount rank assigns each action a primary, structural or filament role
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Minute activity, volume and wallet diversity shape the body and collective seal
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Experimental v3 studies focal form and negative space without altering the archive
gesture
Every included action receives one gesture. Its visual role can be derived from the same market record.
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In canonical v2, exact time fixes each trace to the hour spine
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Action and source identity set direction; amount rank sets hierarchy
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Route structure and round trips bend the canonical trace
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Experimental v3 studies rhythm and spacing without changing the archived work
finality
The live canvas is a preview. A work becomes canonical only after its UTC hour closes and its source records reach finality.
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The open preview can revise as canonical data changes
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The closed hour is rendered again from its complete ordered record
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Renderer v2 is frozen and remains the historical archive
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Renderer v3 is an atelier study and is not mintable
provenance
Each image is stored with the record that formed it.
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The event root commits the included market record
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The manifest names the policy, source and renderer
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Artwork, preview, manifest and metadata each carry a SHA-256 digest
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The renderer version and contract hash make reproduction testable
marketplace
OpenSea supports Robinhood Chain. Market Became Art has not minted or listed a token there.
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The planned sale format is a one-hour fixed-price listing; no auction flow is implemented
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A live listing requires a deployed collection, a minted token, price and currency, OpenSea credentials, any required NFT approval, and the maker's signed order; gas is needed only when an approval transaction is required
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The collection contract is not deployed and no live mint or listing worker is configured
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The current policy requires the maker wallet to be the payout wallet
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Atelier v3 studies remain offchain and cannot be listed