Foster a collective ethos among AI artists and collectors—a place where artists can pursue their own creative journey, while also growing something together. A shared experiment. A shared token: $LUM.
Build an artist–collector flywheel:
A mechanic where artists gain visibility and rewards for their work, while both artists, promoters, and collectors earn long-term $lum alignment.
Each mint helps grow the collective. Each artist who participates, wins, or invites others—helps seed the future of LumArt.
We want to reduce low-effort submissions. The goal is to reward thoughtful, creative work.
We also want to bring more quality artists into the community. That includes both established names and newer artists who may not have polished skills yet, but show promise and curiosity. LumArt should be a place where they can grow.
Right now, if you’re someone who has won already, you might feel the incentive to keep things small—vote for your friends, win more often, get more of your work into the collection. But since rewards are vesting over 10 years. If the community stays small, so likely do your rewards.
For the mission to succeed long-term, the collective needs to grow:
Better and better work.
More visibility.
More artists.
This only happens if we keep raising the bar—and keep inviting others in.
“If you’re here to win, great. But if you’re here to grow a movement—invite someone newer, support their work, and help us make something bigger than any one person.”
Here’s what we can try in the short term:
🔹 Lower round rewards. Keep winner rewards high.
In this interim phase before the mini-app, we’ll reduce the total round pot to discourage low-effort farming. Mainly the top 3 each week will matter—and they’ll still get solid rewards.
🔹 Add referral rewards.
Each weekly winner can name one referrer to receive long-term $LUM vesting.
Referrers must either:
Be a past LumArt top-3 winner, or
Have a verifiable Farcaster presence.
🔹 No mint on submission. Mint only if you win.
Submit art directly—no need to mint yet.
If your art wins a top 3 spot, you can start a week-long open edition mint.
🔹 Artist spotlights & AI art features.
We can start highlighting past winners, interesting workflows, and new artists. Possibly with weekly audio calls or interviews?
My latest mockup of the mini-app has two features:
Daily contest: Art only gets minted if selected.
Community mint: A parallel path for anyone to mint, instead of pursuing the contest.
Over time, we’ll iterate. But long-term, the goal is autonomy—a fully onchain art engine, like Nouns, that can reward artists forever, as long as funds remain.
I’m looking for a team or individual to own this app. Someone who wants to make it modular and repeatable—something other communities can adopt for their own perpetual contests.
Tools for community-driven art production.
Showcases, galleries, artist training, AI-powered studios.
A hub for pushing the boundaries of creativity with technology.
LumArt can become a home for AI artists to grow together.
If you’ve read this far—thank you.
This week’s rewards will be based solely on feedback.
How to participate:
Cast your thoughts in a single thread (just reply to yourself).
Share feedback on any of the ideas above: mechanics, goals, vision.
I (naaate) will be the only one voting, and will try to read every thread fully (please don’t tag me).
Only the most thoughtful, community-oriented feedback will receive rewards.
Feedback summary 👇 🧵 1/ The Vision Resonates LumArt isn’t just an art contest—it’s a collective movement built around meaning, creativity using AI, and long-term alignment via $LUM. It feels like a space that values both individual expression and shared growth.
2/ Make It Easier to Step In The on-ramp is unclear. How do I join? Can I contribute if I’m not a winner? What’s the first step? Suggested fix: a simple "How to Get Involved" guide.
3/ Ground the Vision in Examples The mission is big and exciting—but it could benefit from concrete examples: Show an example winning mint: how many mints, how much vesting $lum they got, Include visuals and diagrams to help new people "get it" fast. These additions can be added to the “how to get involved” guide.
4/ Submission & Minting Flow People mostly like "mint-only-if-you-win" structure: BUT we should make ways for artists to stamp the image onchain, for provenance purposes, even if the mint doesn’t open until they win. Proposed options. To submit, you can either: 1) Create the open edition mint on highlight, creating the contract, with the start date far in the future, and if you win, you can edit and move up the start date. (but, it’s harder to make the 70/30 split on highlight) 2) Create the mint on Foundation (where it’s easy to do the 70/30 split), and schedule the mint to start right after the contest ends. If you win top 3, all good. If you don’t, you can either let it mint anyway, and submit something different in the following weeks, OR you can choose the “self destruct” option foundation provides. 3) OR, you can always just post the image directly into /lumart on farcaster, and if you win, open the mint right after.
5/ Elevate Newer Artists While the current mechanics reward quality, there’s concern that newer voices get overlooked unless they win. Ideas to uplift them: A monthly or weekly “community artist pick” highlighted from non-winners. From rotating curators to surface lesser-known talent Encouraging artists to write a 1–2 line artist statement to enrich submissions. Behind-the-scenes content or interviews to deepen artist visibility
6/ Referral System Feedback Referral rewards are appreciated—seen as a good way to grow organically. But requiring the referrer to be a past winner or prominent Farcaster account raised concerns about gatekeeping. Suggestions: allow trusted community members to vouch for people
7/ Selection Process The top-3 system per week makes sense for now, but people want more transparency in how winners are chosen. Clarify: is it based purely on votes? Yes, past Lumart winners, as well as the initial Lum art contest winners are the voters. Some liked the idea of letting collectors or curators have a say—especially as part of rotating roles. This is something we can explore in the future, but I’m not sure how to best do it now.
8/ Community Roles & Curation How do we avoid "the same people always winning”? I’m hoping the combination of the “let’s do this together” ethos, along with the 10-year vesting $lum and referral bonus are motivation enough to try to build this into a bigger thing, invite new artists, and encourage newer and rising artists. But we can also explore some other ideas to mitigate this. Guest Curators (other trusted artists in the space) pick themes, highlight underdog submissions, or offer creative prompts? Have “new winners only” weeks?
9/ The Flywheel & Token Mechanics People love the idea of a shared token backing the whole system—but want clearer understanding of: How $LUM grows in value over time What success looks like at scale (e.g. daily mints, artist income) 30% of every mint buys $lum automatically, and all of this will essentially be locked for 10+ years. Obviously, for a $2M+ token, this doesn't do much to the price unless it is a really huge mint. But if the community grows, we eventually move to doing daily mints with good art, and we make more opportunities for artworks to be minted in similar ways (like “community mints” on the mini-app), this could produce a pretty tangible long term effect on the $lum token. Not to mention the meme of "First AI-to-AI token" combined with other things being built and created in the Luminous community. If we get enough medium-sized $lum flywheels going, this could produce a long-term income stream for AI artists. (I have modeled out some different scenarios, and can share later)
10/10 In Summary LumArt is off to a powerful start. The community believes in the mission and wants to contribute—not just through art, but through ideas, structure, and support. With a few improvements to accessibility, visibility, and transparency, LumArt could evolve into a flagship community for AI-native artistic collaboration—a space that’s not just beautiful, but enduring. Blog post feedback was responding to, for reference: https://paragraph.com/@lumart/collective
Taking a week off from the regular /lumart contest for feedback. https://paragraph.com/@lumart/collective
Link to the round: https://rounds.wtf/lumart/feedback-week-1
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