NFT Collection · 2026
Institutional
Glitch
Crypto, blockchain and decentralization are the glitch in the global financial system — a technological and cultural mindshift challenging who controls money, trust and value. Institutional Glitch confronts eleven central banks with the forces questioning the regime they represent.
The glitch is a metaphor for the shift from central actors to decentralized structures — an in-between state in which authority, trust, and value are being renegotiated.
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11 unique worksArchitecture / Single-file, IPFS-pinned
One artwork.
One file.
Each artwork is built as a sovereign, self-contained HTML document. Image data, rendering logic and presentation live inside a single file, minted on Verse and pinned to IPFS. There is no CDN, API, external font, JavaScript package or third-party media dependency that can disappear after minting.
The source image is embedded as a Base64-encoded WebP data URI. At runtime, the browser decodes it into an offscreen canvas and re-encodes the pixels as a quality-1.0 JPEG. That JPEG becomes a Uint8Array; eight bytes between the 10% and 100% offsets of the file are replaced with random values every 16 milliseconds.
Each altered byte array is reconstructed as an in-memory JPEG Blob and decoded concurrently by the browser. The resulting race between valid frames, damaged scan data and the JPEG decoder produces the destructive compression artifacts. Temporary object URLs are revoked immediately after decoding, so the work runs continuously without accumulating external state.
The NFT is therefore not a video, GIF or link to a hosted animation. It is executable media: a compact HTML payload whose image and glitch engine travel together. Once the token HTML is minted on Verse and pinned to IPFS, any standards-compliant browser can reconstruct the work directly from that single file — nothing beyond it is needed to render the piece.
- Artifact
- Single-file HTML
- Runtime
- Native Canvas 2D
- Payload
- Embedded Base64 WebP
- Mutation
- 8 random JPEG bytes / 16 ms
- Dependencies
- None
- Storage
- IPFS, pinned via Verse