gm Bankless Nation, Completor is here to make BasePaint collecting easier than ever—let’s break down how this new tool helps you secure onchain art history!
gm Bankless Nation, Completor is here to make BasePaint collecting easier than ever—let’s break down how this new tool helps you secure onchain art history!
Today's Issue ⬇️
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🎮 Runiverse's Big Approvals. The free fantasy MMORPG based on the Forgotten Runes collection has been OK'd for development on Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox.
🏆 CTG S3 Concludes. Crypto: The Game capped its latest season through a final jury vote on the remaining players, with Ted from the Farcaster team taking home the 71.6 ETH prize pot.
✅ Meet Checkr.David Tomu unveiled checkr.social, a new platform for tracking social activity around coins via Farcaster, and launched $checkr through Clanker for funding.
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ANALYSIS
Completor: The Easiest Way to Stack Your BasePaint Collection
BasePaint is the collaborative onchain pixel art platform that's been running daily on Base for over 580 days.
Every 24 hours, 100s of artists contribute pixels to a single shared canvas, which is later minted as an open-edition NFT, with mint proceeds directly rewarding the contributors.
BasePaint is now well into its second year, and its painters consistently display virtuosity with incredibly intricate pieces. Along with Nouns and Terraforms, the experiment is among the oldest ongoing artistic performances on Ethereum, and a legacy is forming here accordingly.
That said, if you're a fan of the project like me, check out Completor.
Built by the team at Dot—Taylor McKnight and Thiago Cruz—Completor is a new app designed so collectors can quickly work their way toward collecting a full BasePaint set, i.e. every open-edition canvas minted so far.
You connect your wallet, and afterwards the app will see which BasePaint canvases you already own and which you're missing.
The platform then scans secondary listings on NFT marketplaces like OpenSea and preps a basket filled with 20 of your missing pieces, which you can buy in one go at the cheapest available prices.
For example, at the time of writing, my next personalized batch of 20 canvases would cost me 0.071 ETH per for the most affordable current floor listings.
If you're just a casual collector, the app's an easy way to grab your first 20 canvases or your next batch of canvases for your existing collection.
If you're a hardcore collector, you can go after the coveted BasePaint full set, which consists of 587 NFTs and counting. This is the die-hard route, as a full set presently costs ~10 ETH. You can track this cost over time with Completor's Price Tracker.
Notably, just 105 full sets are possible, which, if I'm not mistaken, is because the smallest-supply BasePaint canvas had 105 editions minted, making it a bottleneck limiting how many complete sets can exist.
As of now, only 15 collectors have completed the full set milestone per Completor's Leaderboard, so 90 remain possible at the moment.
Otherwise, if you're somewhere between casual and hardcore, Completor also lets you set up your batch buys so you collect toward just the first 100 days or the first 365 days of BasePaint canvases. Up to you!
For me, BasePaint has proven itself as one of the most successful collaborative art projects in crypto, so I really like the Completor app because it's simple, it supports BasePaint, and it makes diving into the platform's legacy more accessible than ever.
If you're into the Ethereum ecosystem's creative scene too, this is a legacy worth fostering. As Dot's Taylor McKnight put it on X:
“In the coming decades, [BasePaint] will go down as a significant and historical collection showing the power of decentralized cooperation.”
With that in mind, if you want to further cement yourself as a patron of some of the Ethereum community's most iconic art, you've got a slick new app to consider in Completor. Collecting cryptoart + creative onchain composability FTW, I say.
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