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  "schema": "ab5d-series-essay/1",
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    "contract": "0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270",
    "projectId": 44,
    "slug": "cryptogodking-by-steve-pikelny",
    "title": "CryptoGodKing",
    "artistCredit": "Steve Pikelny",
    "artistDossierUrls": [
      "https://ab5d.xyz/artists/steve-pikelny/"
    ]
  },
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  "researchCutoff": "2026-09-17",
  "status": "published-with-research-limitations",
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      "note": "Current indexed observation; not independently replayed from chain events."
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    {
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        "S01"
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      "note": "Current indexed observation; not independently replayed from chain events."
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      "topic": "mint",
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        "S01"
      ],
      "status": "reported",
      "note": "Current indexed observation; not independently replayed from chain events."
    },
    {
      "id": "second_token_minted_at",
      "topic": "mint",
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        "S01"
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        "S01"
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      "note": "Current indexed observation; not independently replayed from chain events."
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      "id": "completed_at",
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        "S01"
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      "note": "Current indexed observation; not independently replayed from chain events."
    },
    {
      "id": "start_datetime",
      "topic": "mint",
      "value": "2021-04-11T17:01:10+00:00",
      "observedAt": "2026-09-17",
      "sourceIds": [
        "S01"
      ],
      "status": "reported",
      "note": "Current indexed observation; not independently replayed from chain events."
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    {
      "id": "price_per_token_in_wei",
      "topic": "mint",
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      "observedAt": "2026-09-17",
      "sourceIds": [
        "S01"
      ],
      "status": "reported",
      "note": "Current indexed observation; not independently replayed from chain events."
    },
    {
      "id": "opening-price",
      "topic": "mint",
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      "observedAt": "2026-09-17",
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      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "Current price setting is not historical launch-price evidence."
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    {
      "id": "original-maximum",
      "topic": "mint",
      "value": null,
      "observedAt": "2026-09-17",
      "sourceIds": [],
      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "Current maximum is not launch-era announcement evidence."
    },
    {
      "id": "mint-allocations",
      "topic": "mint",
      "value": null,
      "observedAt": "2026-09-17",
      "sourceIds": [],
      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "Public, reserved and administrative mints not independently separated."
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      "reportedLabel": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
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      "observedAt": "2026-09-17",
      "sourceIds": [
        "S01",
        "S09"
      ],
      "note": "Observed current label; index terms URL absent. Named deed linked separately; historical terms unresolved.",
      "unresolvedConflicts": []
    },
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      "category": "unknown",
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      "observedAt": "2026-09-17",
      "sourceIds": [
        "S02"
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      "note": "No separate artist-code reuse grant identified.",
      "unresolvedConflicts": []
    },
    "thirdParty": [
      {
        "reportedLabel": "LGPL-2.1",
        "category": "custom",
        "termsUrl": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/processing/p5.js/1.0.0/license.txt",
        "observedAt": "2026-09-17",
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    {
      "id": "work-context",
      "heading": "The work and its context",
      "bodyMarkdown": "CryptoGodKing places an emblem of authority in a field that can overwhelm it. An eye, a triangle and circular outlines occupy the centre, while repeated arcs and nested shapes extend toward the edges. In some editions the surrounding pattern moves, continually renegotiating the emblem's visibility. Others hold their configuration. The distinction matters: this is a family of related browser experiences, rather than one animated logo distributed in different colours. Four original token renderings were inspected for this essay. [^S05] [^S06] [^S07] [^S08]\n\nSteve Pikelny released the series through Art Blocks Factory in April 2021. The current edition contains 180 works. Its artist statement combines religious devotion with the language of speculative wealth, treating ownership as an encounter with a financial divinity. The extravagant promise belongs to the fiction of the artwork. Its interest lies in making the mechanisms of belief conspicuous, including the desire to find exceptional significance in an individually owned variation. The [Steve Pikelny dossier](/artists/steve-pikelny/) supplies a broader account of his practice. [^S01] [^S03]\n\nThe visual construction supports that fiction without illustrating a narrative. The central eye appears to watch the viewer; the surrounding geometry implies an order extending beyond the screen. Yet the image also shows how readily authority can be assembled from elementary marks. A circle, a triangle and an arc become convincing through symmetry, repetition and contrast. That is my interpretation of the inspected outputs, rather than a claim that the artist documented each association. [^S05] [^S06] [^S07] [^S08]"
    },
    {
      "id": "conception",
      "heading": "Conception and development",
      "bodyMarkdown": "In a retrospective interview, Pikelny describes moving from an initial interest in film to economics, working as a mutual fund analyst, and teaching himself programming. Front-end development became a creative outlet, first through audiovisual websites and then through more elaborate fictional environments. This account gives useful context for a work combining financial rhetoric with an executable spectacle. It does not establish the date of CryptoGodKing's first sketch or identify an earlier version of its algorithm. [^S04]\n\nThe same interview relates generative art to rule-based conceptual practice: the artist defines a structure within which individual outcomes differ. Pikelny discusses value and comparison particularly through Fake Internet Money. That later testimony helps explain his interest in authored systems, but it should not be transplanted into CryptoGodKing as a project-specific development history. The two works deserve separate accounts even where their questions about value overlap. [^S04]\n\nThe artist's CryptoGodKing website presents the work through a deliberately inflated devotional address. It also advertises Space, arrow-key and Enter interactions, including a flashing mode. The deployed Art Blocks script inspected here has a narrower keyboard handler: Space toggles sound. Its mouse-wheel handler changes scale. The website therefore supplies evidence of the artist's presentation, while the token program supplies evidence of this edition's implemented controls. Conflating them would give a visitor misleading instructions. [^S03] [^S02]"
    },
    {
      "id": "construction",
      "heading": "How the work was constructed",
      "bodyMarkdown": "The full indexed program is 7,084 characters long and uses p5.js 1.0.0. Its compact names make it less immediately readable, but the major decisions remain traceable. One helper reads successive groups of hexadecimal characters from the token hash and converts them into bounded numerical values. A separate generator uses a hash-derived seed and bitwise shifts to produce further choices. These mechanisms determine a configuration before the drawing loop repeatedly renders it. [^S02]\n\nPalette selection establishes two principal colours. Available treatments include a muted ground with a dark saturated foreground, vivid colour against black, complementary hues, and black-and-white alternatives. The program does not choose a new palette on every frame. This economy makes the interaction of line and ground unusually important: a dense intersection can become a dark mass in one edition and a luminous mesh in another. Code thresholds establish possible branches, not audited frequencies across the 180 minted works. [^S02] [^S05] [^S07]\n\nThe central emblem is assembled from optional parts. These include an upright or inverted triangle, an eye or alternative eye orientation, circular components above or below the centre, and a pupil. Several drawing passes use different stroke widths, alternating the two colours. The resulting bands can resemble nested outlines or cut-outs. What looks like a complicated insignia is therefore built by repeatedly drawing a relatively small collection of geometric functions. [^S02]\n\nThe background has distinct procedural families. One layers concentric circles, triangles and cross-like lines. Another draws stacks of arcs around three locations related by triangular geometry. A further family constructs paired curved bundles through trigonometric calculations. The script also permits a configuration without these background families. These are different ways to organise the field, rather than interchangeable textures placed behind a finished symbol. [^S02]\n\nIn the arc family, radius increases from one stroke to the next. Parameters adjust the beginning and end of each arc, sometimes differently across the stack. Additional flags make those angles depend on a frame counter. A thin second pass can cut a background-coloured line through the foreground stroke. Together these rules explain the difference between broad fan-like sectors, open circular structures and tightly crossing meshes visible in the examples. [^S02] [^S05] [^S06] [^S07]\n\nMotion is conditional. Certain branches alter angles over successive frames; others send rings outward or pulse curved forms through a sine calculation. Simply having a continuous drawing loop does not guarantee visible animation in every token. Editions #0 and #1 visibly changed during inspection, whereas #10 and #20 retained the configurations seen in their separated observations. That limited observation is not a timing audit of every edition, but it prevents the generic label “animated” from replacing actual inspection. [^S02] [^S05] [^S06] [^S07] [^S08]\n\nThe program's internal frame counter also matters for preservation. Where it drives motion, speed depends on the progression of rendered frames rather than solely on elapsed wall-clock time. A faster or slower execution environment can affect the experience. Canvas dimensions determine the initial scale, and the mouse wheel subsequently changes that scale. The token hash alone consequently does not describe every visible viewing state. [^S02]\n\nSound is generated rather than loaded from a recording. On the first Space interaction, the program creates four sine-wave oscillators with separate audio contexts. A base frequency, a selected frequency ratio and small offsets define their pitches. Gain ramps raise or lower their level; toggling off does not destroy the oscillators. These are findings from the code, not a claim to have heard and evaluated the resulting sound. Browser audio policy and device playback remain separate runtime questions. [^S02]\n\nThe image does not depend on audio callbacks for its drawing loop. This makes it possible to inspect its visual behaviour independently, while preserving the original Space control in the embedded renderer. The archive should keep that distinction visible: an accurate description of an oscillator arrangement is useful evidence, but it is not a listening report. [^S02]"
    },
    {
      "id": "mint",
      "heading": "The mint",
      "bodyMarkdown": "The official collection page gives 11 April 2021 as the release date. The index records an earlier first mint on 4 April at 21:58:58, activation on 9 April at 21:48:20, and the second mint and scheduled start on 11 April at 17:01:10. Completion is recorded on 24 May at 09:24:14. These fields describe different events. The earlier first token should not silently replace the public release date, and activation should not be treated as proof of the first purchase. Full timestamps are retained in the evidence record. [^S01]\n\nThe current index reports 180 invocations and a maximum of 180, with a price setting of 0.0666 ETH. That is an observed configuration, not independent proof of the opening price, an unchanged minting policy, or the amount paid for every token. The announcement-era maximum and the division between public purchases and artist or administrative allocations have not been established here. An exact public sellout duration would require that additional transaction history. [^S01]\n\nThe distinction is especially useful for this work because financial language is part of its performance. Feature labels invoking burden, interest or inflation belong to the artwork's descriptive vocabulary. They do not establish an investment return. A factual mint history must remain separate from the extravagant promises voiced by the fictional deity. [^S01] [^S03] [^S05]"
    },
    {
      "id": "rights",
      "heading": "Copyright and licensing",
      "bodyMarkdown": "The current artist-set artwork label is CC BY-NC 4.0. The index does not supply a terms URL, so the corresponding Creative Commons deed is linked separately. Its permissions include sharing and adaptation under attribution and noncommercial conditions, with changes indicated. The observed label does not establish a complete history of earlier terms or a separate grant for every component of the rendering environment. [^S01] [^S09]\n\nThe p5.js 1.0.0 repository includes LGPL version 2.1. That is a dependency licence, distinct from rights in Pikelny's program and the generated artwork. No separate artist-code reuse grant was identified in the inspected material. The original program was analysed without republishing a copy as essay source. AB5D's CC0 dedication applies to this original prose; it does not replace the artwork's licence. [^S02] [^S10]"
    },
    {
      "id": "examples",
      "heading": "Close reading of four outputs",
      "bodyMarkdown": "The comparison uses editions 0, 1, 10 and 20, selected before visual inspection as a small early-edition group. Their full token identifiers are 44000000, 44000001, 44000010 and 44000020 on Ethereum contract 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270. Each original renderer was viewed, with separated observations used to distinguish visible change from a single still. This is a close-reading sample, not a representative survey or a rarity ranking. [^S05] [^S06] [^S07] [^S08]\n\nIn #0, a sharp yellow-green ground supports black arcs spreading from three centres. Their intersections become so dense that the central emblem appears to be cut out of a dark cloud. Multiple outlines give the triangle and circular components a vibrating thickness, while the small pupil holds the eye at the middle. The surrounding bands changed between observations, opening and closing passages through the field. The emblem's apparent stability becomes more forceful because the space around it refuses to settle. [^S05]\n\nEdition #1 replaces that intensity with a dusty pink-grey ground and fine dark purple lines. The central triangle points downward. At one observed moment, three broad sectors occupied the corners while leaving substantial open ground around the emblem. Later, overlapping arcs filled most of the field, turning the central eye from an isolated sign into an interruption in a mesh. That change is more than ornament in motion: it alters the relationship between the symbol and the space that seems to authorise it. [^S06]\n\nEdition #10 uses bright violet lines against black. Its densely crossing arcs remain visibly separate over much of the image, producing a network rather than #0's comparatively solid dark mass. The central triangle is heavy and black, and its pupil reads as a small dark interruption in the violet activity. The two inspected states held the same configuration. Its tension comes from the simultaneous density of the pattern and firmness of the central form, without requiring an observed transformation. [^S07]\n\nEdition #20 is more vertically concentrated. Magenta curves sit on a vivid green ground, rising and falling in a column through the central triangle. Near the middle, their crossings widen into a pointed horizontal mesh; above and below, individual curved strokes remain distinct. The emblem has broad bands and a clear circular pupil. Unlike #1's expanding occupation of the whole screen, this configuration leaves wide lateral areas relatively empty. Its strongest pressure is along the vertical axis. [^S08]\n\nThe comparison shows why colour names alone are insufficient. #0 and #20 both use insistent green grounds, but their spatial organisations differ substantially. One spreads through broad revolving arc structures; the other concentrates around a curved vertical column. Likewise, #1's fine lines and #10's luminous network can produce different kinds of visual weight. The series' identity survives through a shared geometric grammar, while each arrangement changes how the central sign commands attention. [^S05] [^S06] [^S07] [^S08]"
    },
    {
      "id": "significance",
      "heading": "Significance and limitations",
      "bodyMarkdown": "CryptoGodKing makes a convincing object of devotion while exposing the simplicity of its manufacture. Its eye and triangle can seem authoritative, ridiculous or hypnotic depending on the field around them and the time spent looking. The financial fiction gives those shifts a particular setting: the collector encounters an individual incarnation of a system that announces its own grandeur. The visual achievement is that the joke does not exhaust the image. Its balance of emblem, repetition and perceptual interference remains available to close attention. [^S02] [^S03] [^S05] [^S06]\n\nThe work also demonstrates why a series essay needs more than a screenshot and a feature list. Static and changing configurations coexist, the original controls differ from an artist-hosted presentation, and the sound procedure requires a separate account from visual observation. Preserving those distinctions gives the reader a more exact encounter with the work and leaves future researchers clear questions to resolve. [^S02] [^S03]\n\nUnresolved research questions:\n\n- Recover dated development material and establish the relationship between the artist-hosted version and the deployed token program.\n- Verify launch-era price, edition announcements and the classification of public, artist and administrative mints.\n- Conduct and document an actual listening test, including browser audio activation and the four-oscillator interaction.\n- Compare the indexed script with a pinned chain retrieval and test frame-dependent motion across rendering environments.\n- Establish any separate artist-code licence and earlier artwork terms."
    }
  ],
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      "tokenId": "44000000",
      "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/44000000",
      "sourceIds": [
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      ],
      "selectionNote": "Preselected editions 0, 1, 10 and 20; small early-edition comparison, not representative sampling.",
      "observationNote": "Lime ground,black moving three-centre arcs,multiple outlined central eye/triangle/circles.",
      "previewUrl": "https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/44000000.png",
      "indexedFeatures": {
        "Eye": "Infinite Gaze",
        "Body": "Present",
        "Pupil": "Present",
        "Background": "Archs",
        "Monolithic": false,
        "Three Jewels": true,
        "Color Spectrum": "Luminous",
        "Financial Burden": "4.6",
        "Karmic Interest Rate": 316,
        "Cosmic Inflation Rate": "44.5"
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      "chainId": 1,
      "contract": "0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270",
      "tokenId": "44000001",
      "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/44000001",
      "sourceIds": [
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      ],
      "selectionNote": "Preselected editions 0, 1, 10 and 20; small early-edition comparison, not representative sampling.",
      "observationNote": "Muted pink-grey ground,purple inverted triangle;separated sectors later dense overlapping moving arcs.",
      "previewUrl": "https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/44000001.png",
      "indexedFeatures": {
        "Eye": "Eye of Providence",
        "Body": "False Profit",
        "Pupil": "Present",
        "Background": "Archs",
        "Monolithic": false,
        "Three Jewels": true,
        "Color Spectrum": "Matte",
        "5D Time Dilation": true,
        "Financial Burden": "3.6",
        "Karmic Interest Rate": 17,
        "Cosmic Inflation Rate": "3.5"
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      "mintedAt": "2021-04-11T17:01:10+00:00",
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      "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/44000010",
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      "selectionNote": "Preselected editions 0, 1, 10 and 20; small early-edition comparison, not representative sampling.",
      "observationNote": "Blackground,violet mesh,heavy black central triangle;unchanged in separated observations.",
      "previewUrl": "https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/44000010.png",
      "indexedFeatures": {
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        "Monolithic": true,
        "Three Jewels": true,
        "Color Spectrum": "Shadow",
        "Financial Burden": "3.4",
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      "observationNote": "Green ground,magenta vertical curved column and central horizontal mesh;unchanged in separated observations.",
      "previewUrl": "https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/44000020.png",
      "indexedFeatures": {
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        "Color Spectrum": "Neon",
        "Heaven and Earth": false,
        "Vestigial Vessel": true,
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    "operator": "Phil (@maxand98), commissioning user",
    "agent": "OpenAI Codex",
    "model": "gpt-6-astra",
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    "tools": [
      "Art Blocks Hasura GraphQL",
      "Web source reading",
      "Static original-script inspection",
      "Canonical live-renderer visual inspection"
    ],
    "humanEditorialInvolvement": "Commissioned by Phil; website publication authorized by Phil on 2026-09-17. No claim of line-by-line human fact checking.",
    "originalProseLicense": "CC0-1.0",
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      "usageSummary": "across CryptoGodKing research and drafting, plus final Origami Dream presentation checks.",
      "usageDetail": "Measured shared interval including cached input. Work covered by preceding shared intervals is not counted again here. This is not an isolated per-essay cost. Later deployment excluded.",
      "accounting": "Cached input is included in input tokens; reasoning output is included in output tokens. Total is input plus output.",
      "source": "Local Codex session cumulative telemetry difference between recorded boundaries",
      "baselineAt": "2026-09-17T16:58:48.849Z",
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    "mintDate": "2021-04-04T21:58:58+00:00",
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        "Background": "Divinity",
        "Monolithic": false,
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        "Heaven and Earth": false,
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      },
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      "canonicalUrl": "https://www.artblocks.io/token/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/44000071",
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      "copyrightStatus": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
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