Kim Asendorf

German net and generative artist who wrote an open-source pixel-sorting script and now makes onchain real-time animations such as PXL DEX and Cargo.

Complex, his first retrospective

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PXL DEX by Kim Asendorf

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Kim Asendorf on PXL DEX: Elegant Symbiosis

Tokenizing Pixels

Pixel Deck 1

Minting opens on January 17. Deck 1 goes to the artist, and 154 Decks are minted that day.

Pixel Deck 98

Deck 98, the last of the 256, is minted on March 29.

Shown in Complex, his first retrospective, at the Goethe-Institut in Bangkok.

Raoul Pal names it his standout artwork of 2025 in Le Random.

Pixel Pod 1

PXL POD's first Pod is minted on March 6. A collector needs a Deck to mint a Pod, one per Deck.

NODE opens PXL in Palo Alto on July 11, with DEX, POD and the new NET.

PXL POD

Pixel Pod 26

Alternate by Kim Asendorf

Alternate 8v1

Alternate

SABOTAGE by Kim Asendorf

SABOTAGE #250

SABOTAGE

Pixel Deck 81

Pixel Deck 67

Pixel Deck 184

Pixel Deck 203

Pixel Deck 15

The densest Decks

Pixel Deck 70

Pixel Deck 253

Pixel Deck 91

Pixel Deck 188

Pixel Deck 240

The emptiest Decks

Pixel Deck 113

PXL DEX

Kim Asendorf's 256 onchain animations, each a cube of colored points in which every point is a PXL token its owner can add or remove.

PXL DEX is a series of fully on-chain real time animations, where each pixel is a token in itself. PXL DEX is the first artwork within the PXL ecosystem, an ongoing work series to experiment with pixels as utility tokens. The collection consists of 256 NFTs that are deployed via a custom Smart Contract on the Ethereum Mainnet.

The NFTs can be minted for 0.5 ETH plus 0.000001 ETH per pixel. Each pixel is actually a PXL token and will initially be owned by the PXL DEX Smart Contract to be assigned to the minted NFT. PXL tokens can be withdrawn and deposited by the owner. The minter is allowed to mint up to 500.000 PXL tokens along with the NFT. Each Deck has an additional allowance of 500.000 PXL to be minted any time later. The allowance is bound to the NFT and will transfer along with the NFT ownership.

A single Deck can hold all available PXL tokens, there is no limit on the Smart Contract level. The only limitation is the GPU of the computer that displays the Deck.

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

PXL DEX: floor price, sales and loans