Fidenza artist slams knock-off NFT project from ‘honest pirates’ on Solana
SolBlocks admits that while they did pirate the code, their NFTs are not copies of Tyler Hobbs’ Fidenza collection. Tyler Hobbs, the artist behind the popular generative NFT series Fidenza has slammed a Solana-based project for utilizing his code to produce knock-off artworks without his approval. The Fidenza series is a curated drop of 999 NFTs on Art Blocks — an Ethereum-based platform that creates and hosts tokenized computer generated artworks. Hobbs wrote code that generates unique art pieces using the randomized transaction hash of the buyer's transaction as input.Fidenza #313Hobbs....
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Computer scientist turned generative artist Tyler Hobbs writes code artistically, which then creates visual art that has sold for millions.Along with 998 siblings, Fidenza #313 was minted for 0.17 ETH on June 11th, after which it was immediately sold for 0.58 ETH. Just over 10 weeks later, the NFT nicknamed Tulip sold for 1,000 ETH on Opensea $3.3 million at the time.Fidenza is the brainchild of Tyler Hobbs, 34, who quit his computer engineering job to work as a full time artist. He struck ETH when he discovered Art Blocks, an art platform that creates NFTs based on generative art, and....
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