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This WEEK on MINTBAY: New Art, Base Batches, 100 editions & a new Glyphset
Welcome to the second issue of the Mintbay newsletter. Mintbay is a minting platform that lets you create and collect fully on-chain editions on Base. Every piece you mint is a ERC-721, stored completely on-chain, permanent and collectible. This week, we’ve seen some incredible new work dropped on Mintbay. We’re loving the growing variety of styles and how differently each artist is using the platform’s tools. Here’s a small curated selection from this week’s standout drops:
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[mintbay]: Born from Art, Built with AI
The story behind mintbay - coded with AI, shaped by pixels, and born on-chain

When Ownership Defines Color: The Story of Color Dinos
Color Dinos is a fully on-chain generative collection built on Base using Mintbay’s BaseColor framework and BaseColors NFTs.

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This WEEK on MINTBAY: New Art, Base Batches, 100 editions & a new Glyphset
Welcome to the second issue of the Mintbay newsletter. Mintbay is a minting platform that lets you create and collect fully on-chain editions on Base. Every piece you mint is a ERC-721, stored completely on-chain, permanent and collectible. This week, we’ve seen some incredible new work dropped on Mintbay. We’re loving the growing variety of styles and how differently each artist is using the platform’s tools. Here’s a small curated selection from this week’s standout drops:
![Cover image for [mintbay]: Born from Art, Built with AI](https://img.paragraph.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,width=3840,quality=85/https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/afc1f2ce193012d1452dea9ae551cba4.jpg)
[mintbay]: Born from Art, Built with AI
The story behind mintbay - coded with AI, shaped by pixels, and born on-chain

When Ownership Defines Color: The Story of Color Dinos
Color Dinos is a fully on-chain generative collection built on Base using Mintbay’s BaseColor framework and BaseColors NFTs.
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Just dropped a new article on fully on-chain pixel art. Why it matters What it means https://paragraph.com/@mintbay/where-pixel-art-lives-forever-fully-on-chain
Just dropped a new article on fully on-chain pixel art. Why it matters What it means https://paragraph.com/@mintbay/where-pixel-art-lives-forever-fully-on-chain
That’s why we built mintbay.co, a generative art project for creators and collectors on the Ethereum chain.
A place where pixels don’t just flicker and fade, but live permanently on-chain.
This isn’t just another NFT platform.It’s a new chapter for permanence, creativity, and digital ownership.
Pixels are more than images. They’re memories.
Think back to the first video game you played. The little squares of light forming characters, worlds, and emotions bigger than the screen.
Pixels carry identity, nostalgia, and simplicity, a shared language that feels timeless.
Artists use them to tell stories. Collectors treasure them as cultural relics.
Together, they remind us that digital art can hold as much meaning as anything painted on canvas.

But here’s the problem: most NFTs today aren’t built to last.
The artwork? Stored off-chain.
The metadata? Off-chain too.
Even the links we rely on can disappear overnight.
When the server dies, the NFT dies with it. What was supposed to be permanent digital art becomes as fragile as the system it depends on. Most NFTs from 2021 are starting to vanish, because of this.
Mintbay was created to fix this broken system.
On Mintbay, art doesn’t live on some server. It doesn’t depend on a file host.
It doesn’t risk vanishing into 404 errors.
Instead, every artwork is code on Ethereum. Immutable, verifiable, permanent.
It can’t be erased because it doesn’t just exist, it lives on-chain.
For creators, Mintbay is the first true home for fully on-chain pixel art.
For collectors, it’s a promise: what you own here lasts as long as Ethereum itself.

Got a pixel idea in your head? With Mintbay, you don’t need to write a single line of code to bring it on-chain.
We’ve built tools that let artists create generative collections directly:
Live previews, trait builders, rarity settings, allowlists, even free mint options.
It’s not just about minting an NFT.It’s about launching something that can live forever, without depending on anything except Ethereum itself.

For collectors, Mintbay is something different: certainty.
No disappearing JPEGs.
No broken links.
No “sorry, the file’s gone.”
What you collect here is living art, code locked into the Ethereum chain.
It doesn’t fade. It doesn’t vanish. It simply is.
That means when you own a piece of art from Mintbay, you own something that’s not just scarce, but permanent.

Mintbay isn’t only a product, it’s a belief.
With the rise of Ethereum L2s and cheap gas, there’s no excuse for NFTs to live off-chain anymore. From here forward, every pixel collection can exist where it belongs: on-chain, forever.
Retro digital art. On-chain permanence. Images as code. This is the future we’re building. And we want you to be part of it.
Art deserves better than fragile servers.
By generating everything fully on-chain, both metadata and image, Mintbay makes NFTs truly immutable. No dependencies. No fragility. No fear.
This is the difference between a JPEG and a living artifact.
This is art that will outlive us.

Whether you’re a creator ready to launch your first collection or a collector who wants to own art that can never be erased, Mintbay is your home.
The chain is forever.
Your art should be too.
mint it. collect it. own it. forever.
That’s why we built mintbay.co, a generative art project for creators and collectors on the Ethereum chain.
A place where pixels don’t just flicker and fade, but live permanently on-chain.
This isn’t just another NFT platform.It’s a new chapter for permanence, creativity, and digital ownership.
Pixels are more than images. They’re memories.
Think back to the first video game you played. The little squares of light forming characters, worlds, and emotions bigger than the screen.
Pixels carry identity, nostalgia, and simplicity, a shared language that feels timeless.
Artists use them to tell stories. Collectors treasure them as cultural relics.
Together, they remind us that digital art can hold as much meaning as anything painted on canvas.

But here’s the problem: most NFTs today aren’t built to last.
The artwork? Stored off-chain.
The metadata? Off-chain too.
Even the links we rely on can disappear overnight.
When the server dies, the NFT dies with it. What was supposed to be permanent digital art becomes as fragile as the system it depends on. Most NFTs from 2021 are starting to vanish, because of this.
Mintbay was created to fix this broken system.
On Mintbay, art doesn’t live on some server. It doesn’t depend on a file host.
It doesn’t risk vanishing into 404 errors.
Instead, every artwork is code on Ethereum. Immutable, verifiable, permanent.
It can’t be erased because it doesn’t just exist, it lives on-chain.
For creators, Mintbay is the first true home for fully on-chain pixel art.
For collectors, it’s a promise: what you own here lasts as long as Ethereum itself.

Got a pixel idea in your head? With Mintbay, you don’t need to write a single line of code to bring it on-chain.
We’ve built tools that let artists create generative collections directly:
Live previews, trait builders, rarity settings, allowlists, even free mint options.
It’s not just about minting an NFT.It’s about launching something that can live forever, without depending on anything except Ethereum itself.

For collectors, Mintbay is something different: certainty.
No disappearing JPEGs.
No broken links.
No “sorry, the file’s gone.”
What you collect here is living art, code locked into the Ethereum chain.
It doesn’t fade. It doesn’t vanish. It simply is.
That means when you own a piece of art from Mintbay, you own something that’s not just scarce, but permanent.

Mintbay isn’t only a product, it’s a belief.
With the rise of Ethereum L2s and cheap gas, there’s no excuse for NFTs to live off-chain anymore. From here forward, every pixel collection can exist where it belongs: on-chain, forever.
Retro digital art. On-chain permanence. Images as code. This is the future we’re building. And we want you to be part of it.
Art deserves better than fragile servers.
By generating everything fully on-chain, both metadata and image, Mintbay makes NFTs truly immutable. No dependencies. No fragility. No fear.
This is the difference between a JPEG and a living artifact.
This is art that will outlive us.

Whether you’re a creator ready to launch your first collection or a collector who wants to own art that can never be erased, Mintbay is your home.
The chain is forever.
Your art should be too.
mint it. collect it. own it. forever.
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Just dropped a new article on fully on-chain pixel art. Why it matters What it means https://paragraph.com/@mintbay/where-pixel-art-lives-forever-fully-on-chain
Thanks Filter8! 2000 $betr
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Just dropped a new article on fully on-chain pixel art. Why it matters What it means https://paragraph.com/@mintbay/where-pixel-art-lives-forever-fully-on-chain
Oh yes, there are also some of my stuff) 500 $BETR
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