Interpretation of the recent Blob Army: BTC NFT full of artistic attributes

Original title: "Blob Army - The Romance of Artists and Developers"

Original source: Bit Square

On the evening of April 10, Bit Square successfully held the "Send Blob" Space event with the Blob Army team. The price of its NFT also reached a new high of 0.0716 BTC on April 11. As of the time of posting, ME's platform data showed that TOTAL VOL had reached 177 BTC. In the past week or two, tweets with #BlobArmy and #SendBlob can often be seen on Twitter, as well as the widespread dissemination of various laser eye images. Let's take a look at how this newly emerged BTC NFT became so popular within a week.

What is Blob Army

BLOB is not a transaction type introduced in Ethereum's EIP4844. A few days ago, the picture of V God's speech at the Hong Kong Web3 Conference was photoshopped with Blob's laser eyes, which is abstract and a bit artistic. BLOB is actually the abbreviation of Bitcoiners Love Bitcoiners. At the same time, in the computer field, BLOB also stands for Binary Large Object. Not only does the name have multiple meanings, its initiators are two OGs of the Ordinals community @Elocremarc and @nurorealm. At the same time, in order to attract outstanding Ordinals ecological participants in the Chinese area to enter BLOB, the project party also tends to choose Ordinals OGs, artists, developers, etc. in the early whitelist allocation. Originally, it wanted to use the Free Mint method for issuance, but later adopted the same free airdrop method as Runestone. Blob takes the hot spots of meme as its starting point, uses red and yellow laser eyes for external output, and also encourages users to create BLOB artworks for dissemination. The characteristics of meme are wide-ranging and very magical.

Blob Technology

Blob's team lineup is very luxurious, including @Elocremarc, the contributor of Ordinals protocol code, @ordinalHO of NFT project Ordinals Gang, and @nurorealm, the OG artist of Ordinals, etc., all of whom are excellent and pure. The project has been planned for nearly a year. Whether it is the JS code base or the collection of special beginning satoshis, you can see the excellent technology of the team. Many technical features of BTC Ordinals are used, such as father-son inscriptions, recursive inscriptions, Delegate, and metadata, etc., to present us with BTC NFTs that integrate multiple technologies.

Blob has four recursive inscriptions in total. The first one is the loading logo when the interface is first opened. The other three recursive inscriptions are all made up of JS code libraries. It is not a GIF, but a digitized and dynamic code. The color and style diversity of the inscription is achieved by reading the metadata and id of the inscription. The shader code can make Blob have a more artistic visual effect, achieving a perfect combination of programming technology and art, which is both abstract and hardcore.

Inscription No. 65906960 is the logo of Loading mentioned earlier; Inscription No. 65166480 is a piece of code, a TypeScript library for processing recursive endpoint data acquisition, defining related functions for extracting data from a specific URL structure, obtaining metadata and indexing; Inscription No. 67207153 is the code for BLOB visual effects, containing shader code snippets for generating various visual effects; Inscription No. 62969441 defines related functions for interacting with recursion to obtain data, mainly to obtain relevant information about inscriptions and specific sats.

Blob NFT Features

According to the inscription code No. 67207153 mentioned above, you can know what kind of properties a Blob has. @blobnw gave a detailed explanation and introduction to Blob:

· art: Create animations that simulate wind effects, and simulate the effect of waves in the wind by changing the vertex positions.

· taffy: Generate energy flow effects, and simulate the visual effect of energy flowing on the surface by dynamically changing the vertex positions.

· twist: Twist effect, twist the vertex position by calculating the distance from the dynamic sphere center, and create more complex dynamic deformation effects.

· compression: Similar to twist, but used to produce compression effects.

· dance: simulates the effect of spheres merging and separating by dynamically adjusting the sphere radius and vertex position, creating a dynamic dance effect.

· electric: generates an electric shock effect, simulating the visual effect of current flowing through the surface by adding random jitter and pulse effects.

· knead: creates an effect similar to kneading or undulation, achieved by periodically changing the vertex position.

· live: combines basic undulating motion with dynamically generated "thorn" effects to simulate a vivid, dynamically changing surface.

· mystery: Generates a mysterious pattern with random noise and color gradients.

· cultural: Simulates visual effects of specific cultural themes by mixing different colors and patterns.

· social: Creates a visual effect that simulates the sheen and dynamic ripple effects in social situations.

· environmental: Generates a visual effect that simulates natural environments such as forests and meadows.

· spiritual: Creates a spiritual or mysterious atmosphere through dynamic patterns and color gradients.

· emotion: Generates a visual effect that simulates emotional fluctuations, expressing different emotions through colors and dynamic patterns.

· mental: Creates a visual effect that simulates thinking activities or psychological states, achieved through complex patterns and color changes.

It is not difficult to understand that when we open this NFT, it is not just a looping animation. When we drag it with the mouse, the Blob will rotate with it, which is very artistic. Unlike when Ordinals first appeared, NFTs did not require much memory. When uploading and casting, they were all small pixel-style files, such as the earliest projects such as BitFrog. Later, after the recursive inscription technology was developed, some non-pixel-style NFTs formed by code began to appear. As more technical gameplay was discovered, Blob also played BTC's NFT in new ways. I believe that this "rolling up" will make the entire Bitcoin ecosystem have a more benign development.

Blob team, community and future

Why do we like the BTC ecosystem and the Ordinals protocol? Whether it is NFT, inscription, or the Runes protocol in the near future, what we care about is fairness, fairness, and fairness, as well as the consensus power of the community.

After the team spent a long time perfecting the entire NFT technology and artistic creation, the founder minted and spent his own Bitcoin to directly airdrop to community users. Users do not need to spend any BTC. The team only rested for one day in six consecutive days during the airdrop period, and happened to need to participate in the NFTNYC2024 event, so we also saw the video. The two co-founders @nurorealm and @Elocremarc engraved Blobs all over New York with mobile phone hotspots, engraved at the Blob immersive art exhibition co-organized with @shillrxyz, engraved in the VIP backstage lounge of @NolchaShows, and continued to engrave under the giant screen full of Blobs in Times Square.

Ordinals OG, artists, developers, etc. are preferred in airdrop distribution to build the community. Members are also promoting it from both artistic and technical perspectives. The huge community power has made "Send Blob" and laser eyes occupy Twitter. With such a team and community, I believe that the gameplay of Blob Army will be more diverse in the future, and it will be more prosperous like the BTC ecosystem!

Let's end the article with what everyone kept saying at the end of Space that day, Blob, Blob, Blob!!!

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