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0.05555555555555 ETH
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Folia is proud to present Viper 사랑해, a generative and interactive artwork by Billy Rennekamp and Joon Yeon Park — available for mint on Tuesday, July 11th at 6PM UTC on viper.folia.app and mint.fun.
486 unique baby vipers will hatch into the world, ready to "bite" other Ethereum addresses.
When a viper bites another Ethereum address, they grow one length longer and each bitten Ethereum address will be marked by a new soulbound NFT. These NFTs cannot be transferred from the "poisoned" victim's wallets, serving as a permanent bite-mark.
In this way, Viper is a spiritual descendent of Kudzu, the first viral NFT.
Like Kudzu, Viper hacks the canonical transferFrom() function of the NFT contract so that instead of transferring the NFT, a new one is minted in the recipient's wallet — spreading the virus and growing the vine.
In Kudzu, this hack is totalizing — NO ONE can move their NFT from their wallet.
However in Viper, there is an exception: owners can transfer or sell their viper NFT using third-party contracts (like OpenSea).
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Billy Rennekamp is an artist and programmer from Louisville, KY living in Berlin, Germany. He is a co-founder of Folia, and founder of Clovers Network. He has contributed to various Ethereum EIPs, Gnosis, and previously served as the Cosmos Hub Lead and Funding Manager at Interchain Foundation.
Joon Yeon Park is an artist from Seoul, South Korea living in Berlin, Germany. Her work draws on a longstanding practice of appropriation and a deep-seated appreciation for clip art. She graduated Meisterschüler from Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule, Frankfurt and has a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York City.
