Matt Lab aka "Balyan"

Panorama Season II: Anthology of Mankind is now open for bids! This season will feature 90 works, curated daily by @DeltaSauce and me. Over the next three months, we’ll explore the evolution of technology, its gifts and its curses, while continuing to expand and evolve the system itself. The ranked auction is now live at season2.panorama.garden and open to everyone.

$PANO is the brush, Panorama is the canvas

One of the most asked questions about Panorama is its on-chainness. How realistic is it to put an extremely wide tableau on-chain? Panorama has a three-step rendering engine. Images can be in these states: 1. Fully on-chain 2. IPFS + Arweave with MURI Protocol 3. Off-chain CDN fallback Metadata is always fully on-chain the moment the work is uploaded. By default, all images start off-chain. The next day, when the tableau is extended and the previous day's image is finalized, the image with the updated right 96px section gets uploaded to IPFS and Arweave. The links are then written on-chain, along with the chunked segment hashes of those images. These hashes let anyone put any segment of Panorama fully on-chain, permissionlessly, without needing permission from the token holder or from me as the creator. So, how realistic is full on-chain storage? The system makes it 100% realistic. It comes down to the will of the collectors and the average gas. Depending on gas, one tableau might cost $5 to $50+ to put on-chain, so collectors can simply wait for the best moment. There's no rush, since the works are already safe with IPFS pinning and Arweave storage. On low-gwei days (like <0.05 gwei), the entire Panorama could go on-chain for less than $1000, which is pretty doable. Panorama is a year-long project, so things are expected to move slowly, but an epic can't be written in a day.