Your Story

The work and its context

Your Story is project 388 on the Art Blocks V2 core contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, published under the canonical slug your-story-by-encapsuled and credited to encapsuled. The indexed project record reports a completed edition of 102 of 102 invocations, runtime p5@1.0.0, and the official description: Your Story is a book like no other. It's the story you always wanted to read, the story you always wanted to create. Any story you want. Your Story is your imagination projected within the pages, to tell a story today, and another tomorrow. --- ### The idea: I was playing with a dot on a canvas, when I recognized the first symbol. In the end, writing is not different from drawing. So I generated another. And another. That's how I realized that I had discovered a new language. As a writer, I knew what I had to do: let this language tell the stories it wants. Characters in modern alphabets are symbols that, over thousands of years, we aligned on in order to comunicate in written form. Most people can tell which character represents what in the alphabet they're most familiar with. There is no room for imagination anymore in the characters themselves. It's all up to the combination of them. So we form words, sentences, chapters, books. But imagine now a language that no one understands. Every interpretation of it is valid: there is no wrong answer. Anyone reading it is perceiving a different story, creating a different story. It's your own choice. You can decide to change the story at every reading. Or keep a piece of it consistent. Collaborate with others to create a new story. Your Story is giving back full imagination to you. --- ### How it works: I wanted Your Story to look like a book, and all pieces of the algorithm follow this aesthetic direction. The aspect ratio is set to √2:1, as most of the paper sizes available worldwide (ISO 216, ISO 217 and ISO 269). Two set tokens (first and last) are the cover and the blurb. The remaining tokens form the interior, using token ID to determine whether the page is left or right and the respective margins. The hash is used to determine the aesthetics of the page: the character style, the type of page (chapter header, illustration, normal text), the presence of notes, and highlights. All character styles have clear differences between them, and occasionally they are all mixed together. Your Story is not meant to be a single alphabet, but rather an exploration of the imagination. Different character styles may evoke different thoughts. 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

Contract 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069. Aspect ratio indexed as 0.7071. Website https://encapsuled.xyz/yourstory.

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

The official project description is the development account used here. Interview or dossier sentences that name a different slug are not treated as statements about this series. Your Story is a book like no other. It's the story you always wanted to read, the story you always wanted to create. Any story you want. Your Story is your imagination projected within the pages, to tell a story today, and another tomorrow. --- ### The idea: I was playing with a dot on a canvas, when I recognized the first symbol. In the end, writing is not different from drawing. So I g

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 Your Story are the ones relied on. ⁵¹

Secondary pages that only repeat the marketplace listing are not treated as independent conception sources. ²⁵

How the work was constructed

The complete artist program for slug your-story-by-encapsuled was retrieved from projects_metadata.script filtered by that exact slug. The UTF-8 payload is 3938 bytes with SHA-256 cd331ffbe537a4fe996e1bfaad54a4f0a11d00e6da6bd0f20af308f0ccdd9149. Runtime on the project record is p5@1.0.0. The script was read in full; it was not executed in this research session. ⁶

The stored generator is 3938 bytes, SHA-256 cd331ffbe537a4fe996e1bfaad54a4f0a11d00e6da6bd0f20af308f0ccdd9149, runtime p5@1.0.0. Detected source markers: setup, createCanvas, tokenData, hash. Named functions include addPoints, addRowPoints, floorTo, setup, write. tokenData.hash is read in source. Output then follows the drawing path those functions implement. Token 0 observation: Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1698x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 16,16,16). File size 131379 bytes. Indexed features: Misprint No; Highlight No; Foot notes No; Annotations No; Line height Single; Chapter page No; Illustration No; Character style Mixed

Visual claims come from inspected media-proxy PNGs plus indexed token features.

Seed handling is visible in the retrieved program: tokenData.hash is read in source. Time and interaction behaviour in code is: Loop behaviour inferred only from source keywords. The inspected PNG is a static frame. 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

The mint

Indexed chronology for project 388 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069 is as follows. First token minted_at is 2022-11-03T09:27:35+00:00. activated_at is 2022-11-08T04:06:35+00:00. start_datetime is 2022-12-05T18:00:00+00:00. completed_at is 2022-12-05T18:15:59+00:00. Invocations stand at 102 of a maximum 102, with complete=true on the retrieved row. ²³

Calculated intervals from those timestamps: first mint to activation is 4.78 days; activation to start_datetime is 27.58 days; start_datetime to completion is 16.0 minutes; first mint to completion is 32.37 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 2022-11-03T09:27:35+00:00, activated 2022-11-08T04:06:35+00:00, start 2022-12-05T18:00:00+00:00, completed 2022-12-05T18:15:59+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

Copyright and licensing

The project record stores the artwork licence label 'CC BY-NC 4.0'. That string includes an explicit 4.0 version and is treated as Creative Commons version 4.0. 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 'CC BY-NC 4.0'.

Third-party runtime p5@1.0.0 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

Your Story #0 is token 388000000 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-11-03T09:27:35+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1698x2400px, dark and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 16,16,16). File size 131379 bytes. Indexed features: Misprint No; Highlight No; Foot notes No; Annotations No; Line height Single; Chapter page No; Illustration No; Character style Mixed Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Misprint No; Highlight No; Foot notes No; Annotations No; Line height Single; Chapter page No; Illustration No; Character style Mixed. ³⁹⁴

Your Story #1 is token 388000001 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-12-05T18:06:47+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1698x2400px, light and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 245,245,245). File size 275067 bytes. Indexed features: Misprint No; Highlight No; Foot notes No; Annotations No; Line height Single; Chapter page No; Illustration Yes; Character style Tidier Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Misprint No; Highlight No; Foot notes No; Annotations No; Line height Single; Chapter page No; Illustration Yes; Character style Tidier. ³⁹⁴

Your Story #10 is token 388000010 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-12-05T18:15:23+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1698x2400px, light and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 241,241,241). File size 482604 bytes. Indexed features: Misprint No; Highlight No; Foot notes No; Annotations No; Line height Single; Chapter page No; Illustration No; Character style Chaotic Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Misprint No; Highlight No; Foot notes No; Annotations No; Line height Single; Chapter page No; Illustration No; Character style Chaotic. ³⁹⁴

Your Story #20 is token 388000020 on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069, minted 2022-12-05T18:15:35+00:00. The canonical token page returned HTTP 200. The inspected media-proxy PNG is a static frame. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1698x2400px, light and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 244,244,244). File size 313943 bytes. Indexed features: Misprint No; Highlight Yes; Foot notes No; Annotations No; Line height Single; Chapter page No; Illustration No; Character style Tidier Indexed features returned for this V2 token: Misprint No; Highlight Yes; Foot notes No; Annotations No; Line height Single; Chapter page No; Illustration No; Character style Tidier. ³⁹⁴

The AB5D header candidate is token 388000077 (edition 77), 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. Inspected media-proxy PNG is 1698x2400px, light and muted or near-neutral (mean RGB 249,249,249). File size 66591 bytes. Indexed features: Misprint No; Highlight No; Foot notes No; Annotations No; Line height Double; Chapter page No; Illustration Yes; Character style Pointilist ¹⁰³⁴

Motion, interaction, and audio: Loop behaviour inferred only from source keywords. The inspected PNG is a static frame. 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

Your Story is project 388 by encapsuled on 0x99a9b7c1116f9ceeb1652de04d5969cce509b069. 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.