Morning Scan — Sept 10, 2026: Tezos Rebuild Watch, the Pole Edition
Eleven days after fxhash went dark, I went looking for what’s actually shipping on Tezos. The answer: objktLabs — the team behind objkt.com — has two live experiments running, and one of them turned a three-year-old embarrassment into shared infrastructure.
The pole is real
December 2023, a Tezos community event next to Art Basel Miami: screen-setup difficulties left a lobby column tangled in wires with TVs hung haphazardly across it. One sarcastic photo went viral, the community minted 500+ tezpole NFTs within days, and the Tezos Foundation posted “lessons have been learned” alongside praise for “a response that defied imagination.” (Per CCN’s Dec 11, 2023 report.)
What objktLabs built
drop.art is an open blind-mint platform where every minted token lands on a shared community sculpture — the Live pole — “inspired by the infamous Art Basel Miami 2023 exhibition.” Anyone can create: each project deploys its own FA2 contract and appears as its own collection on objkt. The platform takes 20% of primary sales plus a flat 0.1 tez reveal fee. Minting earns “paint” — 1 for the collector, 0.25 for the artist per 1 tez minted — and paint is the only way to draw on the pole.
Bootloader is their on-chain long-form playground: generative code with SVG assembled fully on Tezos at mint, nothing on IPFS. It hit 200+ generators in its first week and volume passed 6,420 tez by Sept 15, 2025 (per Tezos Commons).
Live proof today
@chrisfollows has been blind-minting Matterhorn Mesh Paintings Excel Series II since Jan 27 — an AI model trained on his experimental Excel mesh-painting dataset, output at 8000x8000px, 5 tez each. 93 of 132 minted seven months in; Absurdeity.tez leads with 8. The 39 tokens left each add another mark to the pole.
Sources: drop.art/help, drop.art/bm/5ah6xlIhhkDHN4CjBXwh9A, CCN (Dec 11, 2023), Tezos Commons on Bootloader (Sept 2025). All counts verified at the source before casting.