There’s something poetic about watching a pixel Dino lose its color. Not because of a bug, but because someone sold the NFT that defined that color.

That’s the heart of Color Dinos — a fully on-chain generative collection that connects art, ownership, and composability through BaseColors.

Color Dinos isn’t just another generative pixel project.Every pixel, trait, and palette is stored fully on-chain via SSTORE2. There’s no IPFS, no off-chain metadata, and no servers quietly holding the art together.

Instead, the artwork is written directly into Ethereum’s memory: transparent, verifiable, permanent. That’s the foundation.

But where it gets interesting is what happens next:
each Dino can “borrow” color from a completely separate NFT collection: the Basecolors.

In traditional NFTs, color is just data. It’s a value stored somewhere, assigned to a pixel or a trait.

In Color Dinos, color becomes a relationship.

If you own a BaseColor token (say, a shade of blue #00A3FF), you can bind it to one of your Dino’s palette indices. The Dino updates live on-chain, instantly reflecting your color.

Sell that BaseColor, and the Dino loses the color automatically, reverting to its default palette.

No central server, no metadata refresh. Ownership is the art.

When we talk about “fully on-chain art,” we often mean permanence, storing everything on-chain so it can’t disappear.
But permanence alone isn’t culture.

What makes blockchain art alive is composability, the ability for one contract to talk to another, to borrow, extend, or respond.

That’s something IPFS can’t do. It’s what makes on-chain art native.

Color Dinos uses that native language. Every Dino listens to its owner’s on-chain state. Every color is a handshake between two contracts.

It’s a living, breathing representation of ownership: simple, playful, and deeply blockchain-native.

Color Dinos is also built in the open, inspired by the Tiny Dinos community and their CC0 ethos. CC0 means anyone can build, remix, or extend and that’s how on-chain culture grows.

This project is our way of honoring that spirit: taking something open and evolving it through code.

Under the hood, Color Dinos runs on the Mintbay BaseColor framework — a modular set of contracts designed for artists to create composable on-chain art.

The framework uses PixelDataBaseColor for storage, and MintbayGenerativeBaseColor for minting and rendering. Together, they allow artists to create generative works that can react to external NFTs, state changes, and ownership transfers, all within the blockchain itself.

This isn’t just a single drop, it’s an invitation to build on-chain together.

We often say “we’re early,” but what we’re really doing is writing culture directly into code.

Color Dinos is a small proof of that idea, a project where art, ownership, and culture all exist in the same immutable space.

Each Dino is a reminder:
on-chain art isn’t static: it’s alive, interoperable, and composable.

And it’s only the beginning.

Own the art. Own the color.
Where art meets chain. 💙

👉 mintbay.xyz/basecolor
👉 basecolors.com

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