Larva Labs

Studio of Matt Hall and John Watkinson, creators of CryptoPunks, Autoglyphs and Meebits, early experiments in NFT ownership and onchain generative art.

Autoglyph #17

Autoglyph #23

Autoglyph #40

Autoglyph #66

Autoglyph #70

Autoglyph #72

Autoglyph #85

Autoglyph #93

Autoglyph #94

Autoglyph #97

The dev set, ten glyphs

Autoglyph #463

Autoglyph #187

Autoglyph #30

Autoglyph #25

Autoglyph #115

Computer Worlds (Autoglyph #25)

Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms (ten glyphs)

Poétiques de l'immatériel, du certificat à la blockchain (Autoglyph #25)

Automat und Mensch (physical glyphs #36, #48, #77 and #98)

Writing the History of the Future (Autoglyphs #17, #66 and #72)

Exclusive: Inside the Historic $14.5 Million Autoglyphs Set Acquisition

Collecting the Algorithm: Autoglyphs

Sotheby's First Sale of NFTs From Three Arrows Capital's Collection Pulled in a Stunning $2.4 Million, Obliterating Estimates

Major Paris Art Museum to Exhibit CryptoPunks, Autoglyphs NFTs

Autoglyphs, Generative Art Born On The Blockchain

Autoglyphs Post Launch Report

Created on the Ethereum Blockchain, These Abstract Images Raised Around $13,500 for Renewable Energy

Launched in April. All 512 are created within hours, and 76.8 ETH goes to 350.org.

Larva Labs keeps Autoglyphs when it sells the CryptoPunks and Meebits IP to Yuga Labs.

Voxelglyph (Fingerprints DAO Membership)

Voxelglyph, the Fingerprints DAO membership token, is built on Autoglyph #134.

The Centre Pompidou accepts Autoglyph #25 as a gift from Larva Labs.

Autoglyph #187 sells for $571,500 at Sotheby's New York.

The dev set of ten glyphs sells privately for 5,000 ETH.

The Whitney accessions Autoglyph #115, a gift of Larva Labs.

Ten Autoglyphs appear in the Toledo Museum of Art's Infinite Images.

The Larva Labs Catalog publishes archival text files for all 512 glyphs.

Protoglyph by Larva Labs

Protoglyph

Voxelglyph #191

Voxelglyph

CryptoPunks

CryptoPunk #5822

Autoglyphs

Larva Labs' 2019 generator that runs inside its own contract: 512 drawings made of text characters, with glyphs in the Centre Pompidou and the Whitney.

Symbol scheme

Autoglyphs are the first “on-chain” generative art on the Ethereum blockchain. They are a completely self-contained mechanism for the creation and ownership of an artwork.

Autoglyphs are an experiment in generative art, each one unique and created by code running on the Ethereum blockchain. The glyphs were originally created in 2019 by anyone who was willing to donate the creation fee of 0.2ETH (around $35 at the time) to a chosen charity, 350.org. The creator of each glyph became the first owner of that glyph. After 512 glyphs were created, the generator shut itself off forever and the glyphs are only be available on the secondary market.

Since the project was deployed to Ethereum, the creator and deployer no longer control the code that generates the art, nor the code that manages the ownership of the glyphs. This is a crucial difference from art that is editioned and sold by an artist or gallery. It allows a long-term guarantee of ownership, provenance and edition size that is independent of any central authority.

512 verified Autoglyphs NFTs. Buy, sell or borrow against them on GONDI, or buy now and pay later with a loan.

Autoglyphs: floor price, sales and loans