For Artists — How PD Works
Price Discussion is a filtered — not curated — platform for generative art where the market conversation around a work is treated as part of the work's life. This page is the plain-terms framing; the deeper pages cover submission, the mint flow, and royalties.
The thesis
Secondary market prices as aesthetic discourse. PD filters for generative work where price discovery becomes part of the conceptual frame — not a vehicle for the work, but a contributor to it. The platform's entire surface (Price Story, the Genome, the Tape, Pings) is built to read market movement as a community talking about art.
Every Project on PD passed the filter. There is no permissionless deployment; the gate is enforced off-chain through the submission process, and on-chain through an artist whitelist on the factory contract. But the gate is a quality floor, not a taste-making program — PD does not editorialize the catalog. What rises is the market's call, not the platform's.
What deploying on PD means
Your Project is a separately deployed, immutable ERC-721 contract that you create by calling the factory yourself, from your own wallet. The consequences are worth spelling out:
- The art lives on Ethereum. Your generative script is stored on-chain, and every Output's
tokenURIrenders from chain data alone. No server, no IPFS pin, no platform dependency for the art itself. If PD disappeared tomorrow, your work would keep rendering. - You are the artist on-chain. The deploying wallet is recorded as the Project's immutable artist address — it receives primary proceeds and secondary royalties forever, and no one can change it.
- The terms are permanent. Supply, mint price, and script are fixed at deployment. There is no admin function, no pause, no upgrade path — on your contract or anyone else's.
The economics in one paragraph
Primary: 95% of every mint goes to you, paid in the mint transaction itself — no escrow, no claim step, no platform custody, plus a small flat per-token storage fee that goes to the platform's storage wallet to fund previews, reveals and Fair Draw records. Secondary: every Project signals a 5% royalty via EIP-2981, split 3% to you / 2% to the platform through a per-Project splitter you can withdraw from at any time, permissionlessly. Full detail with contract signatures on the Royalties page.
What PD asks of the work
- Generative, seriously. The script is the artwork. PD stores it on-chain and renders every Output live from its token hash.
- Price Discussion–shaped. Work whose meaning can hold up — or sharpen — when the market's reaction becomes part of its context.
- Edition sizes between 22 and 9,999. Enforced by the factory at deployment.
- One Project at a time. The factory enforces a 60-day cooldown between an artist's deployments, so each Project gets its own air.