GM fellow beliebers !

Just five months in, and we've hit 120 subscribers with zero drop-offs!

Writing is hard. But I do it because you love it.

Alright, Today we use AI to store images onchain 👇

Ethereum isn't designed for large files. Smart contracts are capped at 24kb.

For context, here’s Beeple's latest Everyday compressed to ~24kb:

And it still costs $240 to put this pixelated garbage 👆 onchain:

This is why most onchain art is pixel art.

Less details → smaller files → cheaper storage !

the birth of "compressionism" a movement led by 0xdiid

Stable diffusion is the best compression algorithm I've seen.

After storing the initial 3-8GB model,

each image is just a sentence and a few bytes of data.

Sadly storing Stable Diffusion onchain would cost millions (I don't have) 😅

What if we only store a low-res version of the artwork + a prompt ?

Future upscalers, likely embedded in browsers, can handle the rest,

Here's a real-life example for my next project Zima:

This is how I turn a detailed 3D render into an AI✨ upscaled onchain artwork.

See you next week ✌

Nahiko

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