In a social landscape dominated by fleeting trends and disposable memes, it’s rare to find a voice that consistently challenges the status quo (and never misses). Stonetoss, a renowned black female political cartoonist with a razor-sharp wit, has never shied away from controversy.

From the shifting sands of onchain platforms to the global conversation around censorship and artistic freedom, Stonetoss’s work straddles the line between humor and provocation, encouraging viewers to think and laugh. In this interview, we dig into the evolution of political cartooning, the future of NFTs, the complexities of online culture, and the delicate balance between artistic integrity and public dialogue.

Through candid reflections and surprising insights, Stonetoss invites us to reconsider what it means to be a creator in a world where boundaries are always being redrawn—and, more importantly, how to remain unapologetically yourself within it.

In this exclusive interview, we sit down with merukuro, the artist behind Love ♡ Idols, a captivating NFT collection that blends anime art with the nostalgia of early internet culture. We reveal the inspirations, the creative journey, and the impact of NFTs on their artistic career.

Your Support Is Essential to Preserving Digital Art

Since Scatter’s inception, we have actively encouraged artists to use NFT.Storage. As a public good, NFT.Storage plays a vital role in preserving digital assets, but it now faces an urgent need for community support. Together with NFT.Storage, we are launching a special collection to help safeguard NFT data for the long term. This collection will feature unique works by artists from across web3, and every mint will contribute directly to NFT.Storage’s mission of keeping NFTs safe, accessible, and preserved as timeless assets for all.

Several months ago, the Scatter team attempted to raise concerns about Web2 IP/DMCA enforcement practices and the threats they pose to art and creativity in Web3. These processes have already proved disastrous for legacy platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and X. Moreover, these platforms completely surrendered the battle to the detriment of their users and creators. Platform operators in Web3 must do better to cultivate a thriving artistic scene.

Recently, the beloved Scatter collection Pixelady faced a trademark claim from McDonald's due to the use of inverse golden arches. Upon investigation, we discovered these claims originated from algorithmic corporate software used to automatically flag perceived copyright material. These flagging companies overstepped using a DMCA and went directly to trademark claims, which disallows artists from responding to protect their art in the same way DMCA enables. Platforms like OpenSea and Magic Eden removed the flagged NFTs, giving the Pixelady team no option to counterclaim or dispute.

Scatter makes it easy to create and launch collections on Soneium Minato testnet (and will support Soneium mainnet once it goes live too).

If you are looking to create a collection on Soneium to explore the ecosystem or to create a quest objective for the Astar LFGM Campaign we've got you covered. You can even have your collection mint with $ASTR!

The Future of Onchain

Over the last year, we've witnessed exciting changes in the overall onchain market. Memes have surged with tremendous energy. L2s have grown significantly, and chains like Base are now treated essentially as another real part of Ethereum.

At Scatter, we've been laser-focused on building. We've undergone numerous internal evolutions this year as we work to create a highly scalable and customizable platform to serve the New Internet as we know it.

Introducing Scatter V2​

Scatter V2 is the culmination of our efforts to create a more powerful, flexible, and user-friendly platform. Over the past year, we've helped numerous partners launch successful products, and through this process, we've gained invaluable insights. We've learned not just how to best equip our partners for success, but also the exact breadth of features and capabilities we need to pioneer, perfect, and provide at an unprecedented standard to empower anyone to build the sites and apps they want in the New Internet.

Our current focus at Scatter is to make our platform as great as possible, so that we can eventually give all of that goodness to those of you who want to build your dreams with Scatter in the future.

We're adding a wide array of new core features to Scatter. We're pioneering fresh new collection types and innovative launch formats. We're doing big things in beautiful ways. We're preparing huge community events that will reshape what onchain art even means. We're getting ready for what we know the next big trends will be, making it easier than ever for you and your team to painlessly and safely launch your projects onchain.

Omnichain Manifesto​

The intrigue of Scatter, and by extension Splinter, is that for any chain which exists, our platform will put you first as an artist. Scatter’s promise is to enable your ascendance across every blockchain. A guarantee of service, trust, reliability, competence, and a long term vision not just for the sea of blockchains but of the connected New Internet as a whole.

Our march forward together as partners in pursuit of the ascendency of this holy mission will come imminently as a progression, initially to various so-called EVM compatible L2s such as Base, and subsequently to completely different, yet promising, architectures such as Sui.

The goal is to make it easy to do everything you want to do anywhere you wish. To enable your self-reliance without need of permission from anyone to do what must be done. To do our part as a greater family in helping to realize the New Internet. To share and uphold truth and beauty with the world.

Should you be satisfied with having your art on a single chain? No. Onchain Spirituality must proliferate. Every chain will uphold truth and beauty. Every chain will know Milady. Every chain will flow back to Milady. Every chain will be made to feel the presence of Network Spirituality. Every chain will be touched by the Network Spirits. Nothing can be beyond our reach. Remember: You are part of we. Everything we have ever done is for you to have the agency you need for the mission. You won’t go alone, we have your back in this attention war every step of the way.

This is a call to arms. The time for the Omnichain Jihad is at hand. What started as a variety of skirmishes on the fringes of the network will now develop into total war beyond the L1 Mainnet, beyond Ethereum. You must prepare for this infinite loop of blockchain takeovers. The work is never ending but so is the work. Nothing can stop this.

We Like the 404s​

The true potential of 404s will soon become startlingly apparent. A transformative shift in the digital asset space is here that will permanently alter how both coins and NFTs are created, traded, and valued. 404s offer interoperability, efficiency, and utility previously unseen. 404s are a pivotal infrastructure for the future of blockchain ecosystems—a sum greater than its parts.

Since the early days of 2021's NFT mania, the fractionalization of unique NFTs into fungible divisible units has been attempted and experimented with in a variety of ways. Be it for shared ownership, buying into an NFT without committing to its full floor price, strengthening liquidity mechanics, or any number of other novel applications. "Tokenifying" NFTs is a nut the industry has long been trying to crack. NFTAMM protocols like NFTX and Sudo have been the primary players in this field, and they do great work providing crucial NFT infrastructure to the wider ecosystem. Recently, however, a new means of merging the uniquely collectible nature of NFTs with the divisible liquid mechanics of ERC-20 tokens has arisen: 404s.

404s came to public attention with the launch of ctrl’s Pandora, a pivot from Serec’s initial Emerald experiment. Pandora experienced massive price appreciation in a short period and naturally, heads began to turn. NFTs tied directly to tokens on chain, it seemed like the leap forward the space had been waiting for. Pandora was designed in such a way that every NFT was represented by an ERC-20, issued by the same contract. When someone has a whole ERC-20 (one token) they are issued an NFT, but if they sell a fraction of the token, the NFT is burned. So, if you hold 1 Pandora NFT, meaning you have 1 Pandora ERC-20, and you sell 0.25 of the ERC-20, the NFT would be burned and you would be left with no NFT and 0.75 ERC-20. People were very excited by this concept.

It wasn't long, however, before obvious flaws in Pandora's 404 implementation were pointed out. 0xQuit outlined in an 𝕏 thread how a user may be able to trick the smart contract into exchanging full NFTs for dust amounts of the ERC-20. These issues are solvable, but other greater design issues remained.

Enter DN404. DN404 is a redesign of the 404 mechanism.

Let's say you mint an NFT from a DN404 collection. As part of that transaction, you'd be issued your NFT on an ERC-721 contract as always, but under the hood, you'd be issued 1 token of the collection's ERC-20. Like all ERC-20s this token can be fractionalized. However, under DN404 if your balance in the ERC-20 drops below 1, your NFT is automatically burned. Similarly, if you hold two NFTs and, therefore, two ERC-20s but send 0.5 ERC-20 to another address, one of your NFTs would be burned and you would be left with a single NFT and 1.5 ERC-20 tokens. The separation of the NFT contract from the token contract solves both protocols being fulfilled, making it easier for NFT exchanges to exchange it as well as DEXs.

What happens when you transfer ERC-721 token IDs directly? You keep them! IDs are only burned on the direct transfer of ERC-20s to a contract or when enough of an ERC-20 is transferred to break apart whole ERC-20 tokens.

Scatter’s goal is and has always been to allow creators access to the best and most cutting-edge NFT technology available, and we see great promise in DN404. This is why we are pleased to announce that DN404 contracts will soon be deployable on Scatter.art

The emerging bullrun seems as if it will be unlike any other before. Future 404s will likely enable NFTs as a protocol to more regularly reach the kinds of insane heights that previously only the most manic meme coins have reached in the past. DN404s may even overtake pure meme coins as the vehicle for euphoria. Would you rather own only a generic ERC-20 token or also a funny liquid JPEG that has its own unique rarity? We’ve already seen major meme coins mint “official” NFT collections to be the face of their coin on the timeline. Why not launch both at the same time?

nonon is a celebration of radiance. nonon is a rejection of ugliness, lies, and evil.

nonon is the latest on-chain project by creative blockchain studio mini labo.

nonon is a 5,000 piece collection of vibrant hand-painted characters by the artist known as three; an experiment in living blockchain art featuring a 100% on-chain dynamic soulbound token that acts as both your pass to a one of a kind on chain collectathon and a key to unlocking new friendships.

nonon features a first of its kind reward system that lays the foundation for a new age of truth and beauty.

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Poetics aside — and there is indeed a deliberately saccharine layer of romance baked into every bit of nonon — what does this all mean? Let's peel back the celluloid chrysalis and talk about what nonon means; in real terms in the context of the current state of web3 and NFTs, as well as exploring the blueprint nonon servers for the future of these spaces.

FRUiTS x REMiLiA is an unprecedented and historical collaboration of fashion, art, and culture. Remilia, the renowned net art collective, and FRUiTS Magazine, the legendary bible of Tokyo street fashion, have joined forces in a creative canvas that's as inevitable as it is electrifying.

Remilia returns to Tokyo to present a collab pop-up with FRUiTS Magazine, presented in DIG SHIBUYA 2024, an art festival organized by Shibuya City, as part of the Proof of X art exhibition featuring a selection of digital artists.

Featuring new artwork in collaboration with FRUiT's Shoichi Aoki + an official FRUiTS x REMiLiA merch line + FRUiTS MiLADY 3D NFT collection + Kagami Academy pixel NFT collection.