About PND

Why PND exists

When Foundation shut down its marketplace, many artists still had work connected to Foundation contracts.

The work was still there. The auctions were still there. The records were still there. But the main interface people used to see, manage, list, delist, and bid on that work was gone.

That made the weak point obvious.

Artists on Ethereum should not have to depend on a platform existing forever to preserve their media, manage their work, or sell through contracts that are already onchain.

So PND started as a practical response.

First, it helped artists pin their own work to IPFS.

Then it helped artists view and access work that had been tied to Foundation.

Then it added tools for interacting with Foundation auctions after the original frontend was gone.

Then it added delisting.

Then it added artist owned auction contracts.

Then it added a way for artists to create their own auction sites around those contracts.

The project kept growing because the problem was bigger than one platform.

What PND does

PND helps artists run their own auctions, contracts, and sites on Ethereum.

Artists can use PND to preserve media, view supported work, interact with existing auction contracts, delist from old auction contracts, deploy their own auction contract, list work for sale, and share a dedicated site around their work.

Collectors can use PND to view artist profiles, browse listed works, and bid directly through the relevant contracts.

The goal is practical access.

If the work exists on Ethereum, artists and collectors should be able to reach it.

Artist owned auctions

PND lets artists deploy their own auction contract.

Each auction contract belongs to the artist who deploys it. It has zero platform fees. It has no upgrade path controlled by PND. It exists as a simple selling layer for the artist’s work.

PND can provide the frontend, but the contract does not depend on PND as the only way in.

Other people can build on top of these contracts too.

That matters because artists should not be trapped inside one interface, one company, or one point of failure.

Why zero fees

The PND auction contracts have zero platform fees.

That choice is specific to the auction infrastructure PND provides. Platforms can still create real value through taste, trust, curation, audience, collector relationships, and context.

When artists bring the audience, context, collectors, and demand, they should be able to sell their work without paying a toll.

PND gives artists that option.

The bigger idea

Ethereum gives artists the ability to own more of the system around their work.

• The media.
• The metadata.
• The contract.
• The auction.
• The provenance.
• The collector relationship.
• The site where people encounter the work.

PND exists to make that ownership usable.

Every artist does not need to become a developer. Every artist does not need custom infrastructure for every project.

Artists should have the option.

• More capability means more freedom.
• More understanding means fewer dependencies.
• More artist owned infrastructure means the work has more ways to survive.

Current status

PND is active, evolving, and open source.

Some tools are polished. Some are early. The project is being built in public because the needs are real, the surface area is large, and the best version should be shaped by the artists who use it.

PND began with a specific platform going away.

The larger goal is to make artist owned infrastructure normal.