What PND is
PND helps artists preserve, auction, and operate their work with more control over the systems around it.
The work, the contract, the auction, and the provenance can all live on Ethereum. PND exists so the layer between an artist and that work (pinning, listing, bidding, settling, viewing) does not have to depend on a single platform staying online.
Why it started
PND started after Foundation announced it was closing.
The work was still there. The contracts were still there. The records were still there. But the main interface artists and collectors used to see, manage, list, delist, and bid on that work was going away.
That made the dependency visible. Artists on Ethereum should not have to rely on a platform existing forever to preserve, manage, sell, or move their work.
What PND has shipped
PND has grown one tool at a time, in response to what artists actually needed.
- Preserve. Pin your own work to IPFS so the media is not tied to any single host.
- Foundation tools. Interact with existing Foundation auction contracts after the original frontend was gone. Delist work where needed.
- Artist-owned auctions. Deploy your own auction contract that you control. Zero platform fees. No upgrade path controlled by PND.
- A bidding frontend. Browse, list, and bid through PND. Each artist also gets a site that reads their auction contract directly.
What PND is not trying to do
PND is not trying to replace every platform.
Platforms can still provide taste, trust, curation, context, distribution, and collector relationships. Those are real and they take work to build.
PND covers the layer underneath that. The pieces that should keep working whether or not any particular platform stays online.
The point
PND exists so artists are not dependent on a platform existing forever to preserve, manage, sell, or move their work.
The project is open source and built in public. It was created by ripe, an artist and developer working onchain.