Waves
Fusing generative art and culture for live events
Why Waves
Live experiences have lost their utility. Tickets disappear, merch is overpriced and disposable, the connections made in a crowd rarely outlast the night, and nothing onchain encapsulates the moment an artist and a room shared. Artists deserve more value for their art, and attendees deserve more than a shirt to remember a show by.
The three Cs
Waves is built around two NFT primitives. A Synth, minted by an attendee at an event, is tied to a token bound account (ERC-6551). A Wave, created by the gen artist for that event, is caught by attendees at the right moment through an Ethereum Attestation Service attestation, then minted into the Synth’s TBA. After the show, attendees use the Waves they collected as color input for a generative art piece printed on apparel through whitelisted art contracts.
The platform
The platform is a suite of PWAs powered by account abstraction. Organizers manage Synths and Waves from a dashboard. Attendees mint Synths and catch Waves from a mobile app at the event. A digital and physical storefront handles after event orders for NFC embedded apparel, with the option to pop up in person for live drops.
What is next
Designing around event time changes the protocol. Waves only make sense if they can be caught in the moment they are released, so the architecture has to assume crowded, unreliable connectivity and a window of minutes, not days. Future work expands Wave properties beyond color into sound (music stems), opens gated features for Synth and Wave holders, and integrates Farcaster and Lens so social actions can mint Waves on their own.