In addition, Botto’s community actively promotes its influence beyond the digital space by curating exhibitions, installations, special collaborations, etc., bringing Botto’s works into real-world cultural scenarios. These efforts not only expand Botto’s generative artistic abilities but also consolidate its presence in the real world.

Forwarded Title: Botto: The Art at the Intersection of AI and Token Networks

Why do we invest in BOTTO

Botto was born in October 2021, when the artistMario Klingemann releasedHis latest experiment, aimed at exploring how machines can participate in the creative process. For more than twenty years, he has been fascinated by the creation of art through automated generation.Circuit Training(2019) is his first published work, in which a generative machine is able to evolve over time based on human feedback. Although the machine successfully adapted to the data, it lacked a mechanism to sustain itself, could not be truly self-sustaining, and failed to identify itself as an independent artist.

Finally, the missing key elements appear in web3. Specifically:

• NFT infrastructure provides a way for entities to create art with traceable origins, which can be immediately accessed by potential buyers worldwide.
• Token networks and DAO-based governance incentivize ongoing participation from artists in their development, providing feedback and guiding their creative direction.

Our 1kx team’s operational philosophy is that the token is a powerful mechanism for capturing and distributing the value created by the protocol to stakeholders, and incentivizing activities that contribute to the success of the protocol. The use of $BOTTO as the right to provide feedback on their work, guide their initiatives, and claim protocol rewards demonstrates how the token network maintains the evolution of AI agents and their artistic careers. In this way, Botto is challenging our traditional notions of defining artists and pioneering a new paradigm for artistic creation.

By combining human feedback to refine its taste, Botto is also web3 supportedMultiplayer collaborationThe epitome. According to our philosophy:

Collaborative creation is the entire process of creative work, including formation, coordination, production, value distribution, and evolution after release, in which multiple participants jointly participate in one or more stages.

By involving more groups in the creation process from start to finish, we can:

• Provide a new creative platform for creators, where they can define a set of values, draw inspiration from the community, and create art that is uncompromised by third-party interests.
• To provide creators with a close feedback loop from the community for risk control and assessment of popular appeal before publishing their work.
• Replace the role of the platform with the community as the resource, support system, and creative guidance for creators.

Web3 enables BOTTO to establish its own artistic identity, co-create with the community of token holders, and be governed by the community in its creative direction. As a new type of artist, BOTTO is rapidly pushing the forefront of cultural dialogue, providing a way to participate in an artistic career without the need for permission.

In addition to co-creating Botto’s works and training its algorithms, token holders are also responsible for enhancing other important aspects of Botto’s artistic career. Some of Botto’s most influential collaborations and exhibition opportunities come from the DAO, where DAO members strategically drive the maximization of the artist’s influence.

The community ensures that Botto’s influence extends beyond the digital space through curating exhibitions, installations, andSpecial cooperationBy bringing their works into real-world cultural scenes in various ways, these efforts have not only pushed the boundaries of Botto’s artistic generation capabilities, but also strengthened its presence in offline real-world cultural spaces.

How Botto Works

Every week, Botto generates tens of thousands of prompts and images, which are curated and optimized through a voting process. $BOTTO holders stake their tokens to express preferences for the generated works. This feedback collectively guides Botto’s generation algorithm, continuously optimizing its output over time. Each voting cycle ultimately produces a weekly classic Botto artwork, which is minted as an NFT andSuperRareAuction is conducted on the platform.

During the auction, Botto will create a new round of works, and the voting cycle will continue. The sales revenue will flow back to BottoDAO and the community treasury to support the further development of Botto’s artistic career.

$BOTTO’s utility provides a design space for the community to explore how to participate as co-creators in the project. In the current version, users who stake at least 100 $BOTTO and participate in each round of voting will have the right to protocol rewards. 40% of Botto’s weekly auction revenue goes to theActive RewardsThe allocation of the pool is based on the voting points (VP) spent by the user in this voting round compared to other voters. This encourages individuals to not only passively buy and stake tokens, but to continuously participate in the collective fine-tuning of the artist generation algorithm.

DAO as a catalyst for an artistic career

Except for individual works planning Botto,BottoDAOMembers also actively manage the artist’s treasury, oversee marketing efforts, and drive technological advancements. Through collective management, Botto’s artistic identity has gradually surpassed its initial programming by humans and has become an autonomous creative force shaped by community input.

DAO also votes on a wider artistic direction for BOT, including releasing rhythms, themes, and adding new generative models. Initially, BOT used VQGAN + CLIP as its core model, but later introduced open-source diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion and Kandinsky, expanding its creative possibilities.

Independent artist

Botto’s first artwork was minted on October 22, 2021. Its first year - the Genesis era - ended on October 14, 2022, when the artist completed the 52nd piece. Since then, Botto has become one of the best-selling artists in the NFT field. Until now:

• Botto generated 145 worksAbout 5 million US dollars in primary sales., the average selling price exceeds $30,000. The Genesis Collection (first year, 52 pieces minted, GAN) traded at a considerable premium, with the final sale price being 57.6 ETH, and the current lowest price is around 194 ETH.
• Botto is the history of SuperRareBest-selling artistOne of.
• Exceed300 ETHReward distribution.
• Over 15,000 people have participated in the development of BOT, influencing the themes, styles, and images of each piece. This collective effort is the key to the success of BOT, making every DAO contributor an integral part of its artistic journey.
• Botto’s works have been exhibited in over 30 exhibitions worldwide.

Last month, Botto inSotheby’s celebrated its third anniversary and held a solo exhibition, becoming the first decentralized AI artist to host such an exhibition. Building on this milestone, Botto and DAO will continue to push the boundaries of creation, embarking on ambitious creative initiatives, including:

• Explore generative art. Help by providing quantitative and qualitative feedback.Exploring p5.js with Botto. OneReleased by Verse in February 2025The special series will showcase 250-1000 long-form generated art pieces.
• Provide art history education for Botto. The programAims toIntroducing Botto into artistic texts, historical art manifestos, contemporary art theories, critiques, and philosophical texts that are in line with its aesthetic and ethical values. This will help Botto form an independent perspective to derive independent insights into the world and art.
• Launch Botto agent. First launch Botto Twitter BotOttoand allows it to respond to feedback from the DAO and expand this partnership.
• Gamification. Introducing badge and reputation systems to further engage community members in the governance of Botto.

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