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For Artists — Start Here

Price Discussion is a generative art platform on Ethereum. You write a script. It's stored on chain, in your own contract, deployed from your own wallet. Every mint draws a new Output from its own hash, and the art renders from Ethereum alone, with no server and no pinning service behind it.

This page is the whole picture in one place: how a release goes, what the terms are, and what you'll need. Every other artist page goes deeper on one part of it.

How: Read this page, try the starter kit, then DM brendonrell on X when you're ready to talk.

The road, start to finish

Six steps from first message to a live Project. Tap NEXT; the pictures are the real app.

STEP 1 OF 6Say hello. Every artist conversation runs through a DM on X to brendonrell. Questions are welcome before anything formal.

A release on PD, start to finish. Reliquary, one of PD's test Projects, is the example.

The terms at a glance

	On PD
Where the art lives	Fully on Ethereum. Your script is stored on chain, and every Output's `tokenURI` renders from chain data alone.
Your contract	Your own ERC-721, deployed from your wallet. Your wallet is its artist address, permanently.
Languages	Plain JavaScript, or p5.js 1.11.13 (stored on chain, frozen at that version).
Script space	Up to 1.5 MB, script and library together.
Supply	22 to 9,999 Outputs.
Price	Fixed, in ETH, set by you. An open, fixed-price mint.
What collectors pay	Your price plus a flat storage fee (0.0007 ETH today) that funds each Output's preview, reveal and records. One total, shown as one price.
Primary	95% of your price to you, paid inside each mint. 5% to PD.
Secondary	5% royalty (EIP-2981): 3% to you, 2% to PD, through your Project's own splitter.
Your own mints	As many as you like, for the storage fee alone.
What you pay	The gas to store your script, from your wallet, once. Nothing else: no listing fee, no monthly fee.
Randomness	`tokenData.hash`, made from the block after each mint, so nobody can see an outcome and undo it.
The drop	Opens the moment you deploy, with a 60-second entry minute. If more people want in than you have Outputs, a verifiable draw decides, at your price.
Traits	Optional, set in your code, with PD's Subtraits layer if you want it. They live in the art on chain, and PD's app shows them; the token's metadata stays a fixed set of facts.
After you deploy	Name, symbol, supply, price, script, language and colorway can never change. Your soundtrack, Looks and Showcase can.
Between releases	60 days, counted from each deployment.

The details behind every row: How PD Works, Writing for the Chain, The Mint Flow and Royalties.

What you'll need

Your script. It reads tokenData.hash and draws the same Output every time for the same hash. No network requests, no Math.random, no clock.
An Ethereum wallet with some ETH, to pay the gas that stores your script. PD Studio estimates it in dollars before you sign, and works on your phone.
A colorway: one hex color that becomes your Project's signature, written into every Output.
A soundtrack: a public YouTube playlist that plays on your Project page. The Studio asks for one before it lets you publish.
A PriceSprite: your Project's little face. You pick its vibe in the Studio; it's permanent.

Coming from Art Blocks or fxhash

Most of what you know carries straight over:

You know	On PD
Art Blocks' `tokenData.hash` and `tokenData.tokenId`	The same object, with the same two names.
fxhash's `$fx.hash` and `$fx.rand()`	`tokenData.hash`. Seed your own generator from it; there's a copy-paste one in Writing for the Chain.
fxhash's `$fx.features({ … })`	`window.$traits = { … }`, plus `window.$subtraits` if you group values. See What are Subtraits?
fxhash's `$fx.preview()`	A capture delay you set in the Studio, 1 to 10 seconds. PD takes the preview picture after it.
A library dependency	p5.js 1.11.13, stored on chain, or plain JavaScript with nothing added.
Your project page on the platform	Your Project page on PD, plus your own contract that anyone can read without PD.

Try it tonight

The PD starter is one HTML file that works like the page Ethereum serves for every Output. Open it in any browser: each reload is a new Output from a fresh hash, and ?hash=0x… pins one. It carries a seeded generator, traits with subtraits, and a canvas that fills any screen. Replace the drawing with yours, then paste the marked part into PD Studio and run test mints there. No wallet and no account needed.