Dalledresses
Or, Better Blockies Through Science
If you’ve ever used an Ethereum wallet such as MetaMask, you’re familiar with blockies. Blockies are those little images that MetaMask shows next to your addresses.
They’re used to help you visually identify an address. The nice thing about blockies is that they are generated in a deterministic manner from the address. No ambiguity; straight up address → image. The image and the address are in a 1-to-1 correspondence.
I’ll stipulate. Blockies are cute.
Blockies on Steroids
Can we do better? The answer, it turns out, my dear friend, is: Yes!
We’re working on a miniDapp as part of our Ethereum Foundation grant from last summer, and this is one of the miniDapps we’re working on.
This very minimal article shows off some of what DalleDresses can do. Stare at these images for a minute. Can you think of a better candidate for an NFT? Our miniDapp will allow the owner of an address to be the only person who can generate the image created from that address to mint the DalleDress.
The rest of the article shows some examples:
Address:
0x0c316b7042b419d07d343f2f4f5bd54ff731183d
unchainedindex.eth
Image:
Address:
0x23749535c3ffedb99d8088907bb5ebb40f1d7b8e
mranderson.eth
Image:
Address:
0x2b888954421b424c5d3d9ce9bb67c9bd47537d12
lefteris.eth
Image:
Address:
0x378698d858029f13f9855c42a6f6668e147ed129
dcinvestor.eth
Image:
Address:
0x3ace674a79c0488b00db7928be3364e7aa443692
lubin.eth
Image:
Address:
0x69e271483c38ed4902a55c3ea8aab9e7cc8617e5
Image:
Address:
0x7616e594f1832d0dc7aad3923967d76fd98416e2
rachelmaddow.eth
Image:
Address:
0x7b47f6810ada09090b41858deea203188ba12805
Image:
Address:
0x997e135e96114c0e84ffc58754552368e4abf329
thewho.eth
Image:
Address:
0xb8c2c29ee19d8307cb7255e1cd9cbde883a267d5
nick.eth
Image:
Address:
0xbfec541d2780398423cdb7d27c1ec8e43f332050
Image:
Address:
0xe8fb6dc8eee8143bdbbd74bc347c34674492e6f0
Image:
Address:
0xf503017d7baf7fbc0fff7492b751025c6a78179b
trueblocks.eth
Image:
Address:
0xfead1803e5e737a68e18472d9ac715f0994cc2be
Image:
Address:
0xffd5170fd1a8118d558e7511e364b24906c4f6b3
Image:
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