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Glossary

The words this platform uses, in the sense it uses them.

Release, drop, mint

  • Release — a work, or a body of work, published under a collection.
  • Drop — a release with a minting window.
  • Fixed-price mint — a drop where every edition costs the same, in the currency the drop names.
  • Studio drop — a drop registered through the studio, with artwork whose parameters are set by the artist.

Auctions

  • English auction — open bidding until the window closes, with the reserve set at deployment.
  • Spotlight auction — a single-lot auction presented as an event, with its own settlement.

Dynamic artworks

A dynamic artwork is minted against a set of parameters — the axes a drop defines. The values a token carries are bound when it is minted; what the preview shows is produced from those values through the mapping the drop recorded.

Collector tier

A tier shown next to a collector's address, computed from on-chain purchases, holdings and tenure.

Custody and certificates

Some works are held in a vault with a defined set of owners and a signing threshold, in which case the artwork page and its certificate name the owners rather than a single address.