EDIT
Anyone may edit any pixel. Draw by hand or upload an image. A pixel’s first edit costs 0.0001 ETH. Each subsequent edit of that pixel costs twice the previous edit.
ONE SHARED CANVAS. ONE MILLION EDITS.
Every pixel
can be changed
until it can’t.
One Million Edits is a shared canvas on Ethereum. Anyone can change any pixel. The millionth edit locks whatever remains, forever.
TRY THE PRACTICE CANVASMake something before it begins.LEARN BY DOING
Try the tools.
Draw by hand or upload an image.
Explore sixteen shades.
Place a pixel by coordinates
Uses the selected shade; adds one pixel to your draft.
THE LIVE WORK
One final image.
A record of people negotiating
a shared surface.
GET INVOLVED
EPOCH
Here time is measured by activity, and an epoch is 100,000 edits. The number of contributors or how long it takes to reach 100,000 edits is irrelevant. The project will contain 10 epochs in total.
DOCUMENT
Each epoch generates an onchain data portrait of the group activity over those 100,000 edits. Participating wallets have 48 hours from close to claim that epoch’s edition.
FINALIZE
The one-millionth edit locks the canvas immediately and permanently. Whatever is on the canvas becomes the final image. All pixels remain in their current state forever.
SYNTHESIZE
After finalization, one edition from each of the 10 epochs can be burned to create a personal record based on the redeeming wallet’s contribution history.
EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IS THE ART.
One Million Edits is a multi-user canvas(MUC). Every contribution, collision, revision, and replacement becomes part of the work. Until the end, the image is provisional: any pixel can be edited by anyone at any moment. The millionth edit ends that instability and locks the canvas forever, permanently sealing whatever it has become. The time from publication to finalization is the artwork as much as the resulting image: a record of people negotiating a shared surface. Social commentary produced by its own participants.
READ THE ARTIST STATEMENT
One Million Edits begins with a shared canvas and a simple condition: Every pixel can be changed until it can't.
Until one million edits, every image is provisional. A drawing can be extended, answered, repaired, covered, or replaced. Participants may collaborate without speaking, recognize one another through repeated edits, or disagree over the same small area. An edit war and an act of care use the same tools, and incur the same cost. Their meaning emerges through the sequence.
Until one million edits, no contribution owns its position. Every edit brings the entire work closer to its end. Defending an image chips away at the clock. Changing a pixel repeatedly makes further changes to that position more expensive. These conditions shape whose decisions remain visible, without making the resulting image a consensus.
The visible canvas and its history tell different stories. An image can disappear from view while the record of making and replacing it remains. What survives is the account of what happened. The histories of erased drawings, abandoned plans, and persistent returns belong to the work as well.
The epochs mark chapters of negotiation. Their editions record collective activity rather than preserve an image. The final personal records describe an individual’s participation within that larger conversation.
The millionth edit ends the possibility of revision. It does not resolve the disagreements that produced the image. It fixes their visible outcome. Where ever it's at, that's where it stays.
What will people choose to protect? What will they spend time changing? Which symbols, jokes, arguments, and absences will remain? The final canvas will show the decisions that happened to survive. The interval before it closes may reveal more: how people share a surface, how they respond to one another, and what those responses say about this moment in time.