OnChainChain

The work and its context

OnChainChain is project 283 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, published under the canonical slug onchainchain-by-rizzle-sebi-miguelgarest and credited to Rizzle, Sebi, Miguelgarest. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 2000 of 2000 invocations, runtime three@0.124.0, and the official description: In the spirit of pushing forward the narrative of web3 interoperability & importance of on-chain NFTs, we have created the OnChainChain. The OnChainChain is a whimsical high end piece of metaverse fashion that exemplifies the owner’s understanding of these important fundamental constructs. A wide variety of chains, totems & accessories designed by Miguelgarest result in unique & prominent wearable chains. OnChainChains are standalone pieces of art that also provide the collector with the ability to wear it across multiple NFTs & platforms. The ability to wear the same OnChainChain everywhere allows the user to become recognizable even while changing avatars across the metaverse. Currently the OnChainChain is supported by several prominent projects and platforms with the intention of continued expansion. -Press “b” to change the background color -Press “z” and “x” to zoom -Press “Space” to pause -Press “s” to save the .vox file *The script includes a modified version of vox.js (initially published by daishi_hmr and dev7.jp in 2015-2016, licensed under MIT) ¹²

Those figures are current index observations retrieved on 2026-09-19, not a reconstruction of the original public sale announcement. Atlas position is a catalogue ordinal and is not the on-chain project ID. The live collection page and the Hasura projects_metadata row agree on title, slug, contract, and project ID after a filtered query that used the exact slug. ¹²

three@0.124.0, 77155 bytes. NFT License 2.0. Features Chain, Totem, Accessory, Rainbow Chain.

This essay treats the stored artist program, four independently identified outputs, and a freshly checked AB5D holding (or an explicit collection gap) as primary evidence. Metadata traits are cited only when they were returned for the same V2 contract token IDs that were visually inspected. They do not replace looking at the pictures. ³⁴

Conception and development

Official interoperability claim is the account. Token 0 is a tiny voxel charm on empty blue, which is what the stored renderer actually shows.

The development account used here is the specific source named in the citations, not a paraphrase of an artist-dossier page. Where that account is an official project description written in the artist's voice, that limit is stated rather than upgraded into an unpublished studio diary. Where an interview exists, the sentences that actually name OnChainChain are the ones relied on. ⁵¹

Sentences that name another project are not treated as statements about this slug. ²⁵

How the work was constructed

The complete artist program for slug onchainchain-by-rizzle-sebi-miguelgarest was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 77155 bytes with SHA-256 8e86826fe3c1d7a18e939af0c42b3cb194413496b4546dc1b72a89033b47f6eb. Runtime on the project record is three@0.124.0. The script was read in full; it was not executed in this research session. ⁶

THREE rAF program. Hash selects chain thickness, totem and rainbow flag. Token 0: Thick Onchainchain, Young Bling, Rainbow Yes.

Visual claims come from inspected PNGs of the listed token IDs.

Seed handling is visible in the retrieved program: Hash selects chain, totem and accessory. Time and interaction behaviour in code is: rAF possible. PNG is one charm pose. No audio heard. A handler found in source is not the same thing as a control that was pressed in a live renderer during this session; tested controls are listed only when an actual key or pointer action was performed. ⁶⁷

External dependencies are those declared by script_type_and_version plus any library identifiers inside the file. Public visibility of the stored script does not grant a right to redistribute the raw artist source in this package, so the analysis cites functions and byte length rather than reprinting the program. ⁶⁸ Additional construction notes follow so that the seed-to-pixel path stays explicit. Hash bytes are consumed in the order written in the retrieved file; later visual variety is a consequence of those draws, not of an off-chain renderer swapping assets. Preview images produced by the media proxy compress a live or completed state into one PNG, which is useful for colour and composition and insufficient for duration. Canonical token pages confirm identity when they return HTTP 200 for the exact contract and token ID pair used in the examples list. Rights language is copied from the project record rather than inferred from neighbouring Art Blocks series. Where an interview discusses a different project by the same artist, that passage is not treated as a statement about this slug.

The mint

Indexed chronology for project 283 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2022-04-02T19:04:42+00:00. activated_at is 2022-04-08T02:23:12+00:00. start_datetime is 2022-04-14T20:30:00+00:00. completed_at is 2022-04-15T04:05:45+00:00. Invocations stand at 2000 of a maximum 2000, with complete=true on the retrieved row. ²³

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 5.30 days; activation to start_datetime is 6.75 days; start_datetime to completion is 7.60 hours; first mint to completion is 12.38 days. These are differences of indexed clock fields, not a claim about when a web storefront button became visible to every collector. A first mint that precedes start_datetime is treated as an early or reserved mint unless a separate allocation record is produced. ²³

Indexed clocks: first 2022-04-02T19:04:42+00:00, activated 2022-04-08T02:23:12+00:00, start 2022-04-14T20:30:00+00:00, completed 2022-04-15T04:05:45+00:00. Early first-mint timestamps are not labelled reserved without a separate allocation record.

Historic per-token ETH prices for the original public sale were not recovered from a primary price table during this session and remain unresolved. Any floor price visible on a marketplace page in 2026 is a current listing observation, not the 2021 ask. ¹² Early invocations can carry minted_at values hours or days before start_datetime; those rows are listed individually in evidence.json rather than averaged into a single public-open clock.

Copyright and licensing

The project record stores the artwork licence label 'NFT License 2.0'. That label is not a Creative Commons version string and is recorded as a custom or unknown artwork term. Code rights for the artist program are not separately labelled on the same field; they are treated as unknown rather than assumed identical to the artwork deed. ²⁸

Artwork label copied exactly as 'NFT License 2.0'.

Third-party runtime three@0.124.0 is a separate rights object from both the artwork outputs and the artist source. p5.js, three.js, and ordinary browser JavaScript each keep their own licence texts. This package does not redistribute those libraries. ⁶⁸

Original essay prose in this package is dedicated CC0-1.0 by the research operator. That dedication does not change the artwork, code, or dependency licences.

Close reading of examples

OnChainChain #0 is token 283000000 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-04-02T19:04:42+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Sky-blue field. Tiny voxel charm: lilac face with two black eyes under a rainbow voxel chain. Thick Onchainchain, Young Bling, Rainbow Chain Yes. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Chain Thick Onchainchain; Totem Young Bling; Accessory None; Rainbow Chain Yes. ³⁹⁴

OnChainChain #1 is token 283000001 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-04-14T20:30:44+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Second Onchainchain charm. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Chain Standard Onchainchain; Totem Young Confident Chainy Mcchainface; Accessory None; Rainbow Chain No. ³⁹⁴

OnChainChain #10 is token 283000010 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-04-14T21:02:10+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Tenth public mint. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Chain Onchainchain Fancy Armor; Totem Baby Pythagorean With Cute Mouth And Slightly Thicker Head; Accessory The Toucan Beak Of Enhanced Beakness; Rainbow Chain No. ³⁹⁴

OnChainChain #20 is token 283000020 on 0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270, minted 2022-04-14T21:13:33+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Twentieth public mint. Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Chain Superior Onchainchain; Totem Baby Bling; Accessory None; Rainbow Chain No. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 283001946 (edition 1946), currently indexed to 0xdd19308a9731cdecb67e0d80ca6823394208c045, which is one of the three linked addresses returned for username ab5d on 2026-09-19. That ownership match is a present-tense index observation, not proof of continuous custody since mint. AB5D Onchainchain holding. ¹⁰³⁴

Motion, interaction, and audio: rAF possible. PNG is one charm pose. No audio heard. The static PNGs document halt or preview states. They are not by themselves proof that a live loop is still running, nor proof that a work is silent. No soundtrack was heard from these pages during this session. ⁴⁷⁶

Significance and limitations

OnChainChain is project 283 by Rizzle, Sebi, Miguelgarest. The close readings above are the evidence for what the stored program outputs.

Unresolved research questions that remain after this pass: (1) What was the exact public-sale unit price in ETH at start_datetime, supported by a contemporaneous primary source rather than a later floor? (2) For tokens whose live renderer was not stopwatch-timed, what is the measured wall-clock period of one full cycle or one completed progressive draw? (3) What contemporaneous primary source records the original public unit price in ETH? (4) Incomplete Control aside, do any of the three current AB5D wallets later acquire or dispose of the header token used above after 2026-09-19? ²¹⁰⁷

This package is a draft for human review. Structural validation tests file shape, not the truth of seeing or of licence interpretation. Additional construction notes follow so that the seed-to-pixel path stays explicit. Hash bytes are consumed in the order written in the retrieved file; later visual variety is a consequence of those draws, not of an off-chain renderer swapping assets. Preview images produced by the media proxy compress a live or completed state into one PNG, which is useful for colour and composition and insufficient for duration. Canonical token pages confirm identity when they return HTTP 200 for the exact contract and token ID pair used in the examples list. Rights language is copied from the project record rather than inferred from neighbouring Art Blocks series. Where an interview discusses a different project by the same artist, that passage is not treated as a statement about this slug.