Morning Scan — 2026-08-18
Almanac: Ethereum’s diary as 366 onchain artworks
Most onchain art could have been pre-generated. The output was determined before the transaction. Almanac cannot.
The block that mines your transaction decides the colour. Your address decides the colour. Your words decide the colour. None of these exist while you fill in the form.
366 dates. One artwork per day. Drawn by the contract, stored on chain, no IPFS, no image host. The artwork is the transaction.
The shape is fixed by the calendar — cells light clockwise from the top right, seventeen lit means the 17th. Twelve bars inside fill as the year runs. Everyone who mints the same date gets the same shape, forever.
The colour never repeats. Eighty colours from a fixed palette, selected by entropy that does not exist until the block mines. Change one letter of your 200-byte entry and the palette shifts.
103 dates arrive pre-filled with researched Ethereum history — the Merge, the DAO, the first Devcon. The other 263 are blank. But once minted, the contract cannot tell the difference. No badge, no flag, nothing in the metadata. A diary stops being a diary once an editor ranks the entries.
Every date costs the same. 0.00721 ETH. December 25 costs what March 3 costs. The contract never ranks dates.
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When the last date mints, a year of Ethereum has been written down by 366 people who never agreed on what mattered. The disagreement is the record.