# [mintbay]: Born from Art, Built with AI

*The story behind mintbay - coded with AI, shaped by pixels, and born on-chain*

By [Mintbay](https://paragraph.com/@mintbay) · 2025-04-23

ai, nft, base, pixel, art, buildonbase, mintbay, filter8

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Hello I'm [filter8](https://filter8.xyz/) a on-chain pixel artist and the founder behind mintbay. An Artist-built platform for fully on-chain pixel art on [base](https://www.base.org/).

  

For years, I thought creating a platform meant finding a dev, learning to program, or just waiting. But in 2025, something changed:  
**AI gave me the possibility to build my dream.**

That’s how [**mintbay**](https://www.mintbay.co/) was born.

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### A Platform for Artists & Collectors. Built by One

Mintbay isn’t the result of a startup, VC funding, or a dev team.  
It’s the result of a pixel artist with a big idea and an AI assistant.

I used AI to help me:

*   Write and deploy smart contracts
    
*   Set up Hardhat, Vercel, GitHub
    
*   Build the front end
    
*   Build a farcaster frame
    
*   set up an image server
    
*   Build a marketplace
    
*   Build an editor
    
*   Structure metadata, optimize SVG storage
    
*   Even write this newsletter you’re reading now, because I am not a native english speaker
    

I didn’t know any of this before. But every prompt, every line of code, became a collaboration **between my artistic vision and AI’s generative ability.**

MintBay is the proof and example that **the next wave of builders will come from creative people** willing to put in the work and learn and use new technology.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/18080beb5b8a5a280fc353aee6caf944.png)

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### Why On-Chain? Why Pixels? Why Base?

My medium has always been minimal.  
**9x9 pixel canvases. Pure color. Glyphs. Emotional reduction:**  
with pixels as the most distilled form of a digital image.

But when I entered web3, I discovered something deeper:  
**storage as a constraint.** The blockchain limits how much you can store—but within that constraint. I found a new kind of creativity.

MintBay is a **fully on-chain platform**.  
Every piece of art is saved as code—directly on-chain—making it truly web3-native: **decentralized, immutable, and permanent**, as long as Base is running.

And [Base](https://www.base.org/) was the perfect foundation with its **builder ethos, accessible tools, and low fees**.

  

[![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/93bb75af259cd23e95ce53aeaa1a6f23.webp)](https://www.mintbay.co/token/0xe877d9e5d3ff906a189f68543659f8559afd636d )

[8bit Study #1](https://www.mintbay.co/token/0xe877d9e5d3ff906a189f68543659f8559afd636d )

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### What AI Makes Possible

This isn’t just a story about art.  
It’s a story about **possibility**.

AI is not here to replace artists. It’s here to **amplify** them.  
It turned me into a founder, a coder, a creator of tools and not just tokens.

I didn’t need to know everything. I just needed to start with a vision.  
Mintbay is the result.

A platform for creators. A bay for collectors. Fully on-chain.  
And most importantly: **built from a spark, not a spec sheet.**

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Welcome to mintbay!  
  
An Artist-built platform for fully on-chain pixel art on [@base](https://twitter.com/base).  
  
mint it. collect it. own it. forever.  
  
This is your guide to what makes it special ![👇](https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f447.png)

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17:46 • 18. Apr. 2025

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Whether you're here to launch your first collection, explore on-chain pixel art, or just see what the future looks like. It’s all happening here.

Welcome to \[mintbay\].  
Built with pixels. Powered by AI.

mint it. collect it. own it. forever.

→ [Explore the platform](https://www.mintbay.co)

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*Originally published on [Mintbay](https://paragraph.com/@mintbay/mintbay-born-from-art-built-with-ai)*