Internal briefing · state as of September 8, 2026

Embodiment

Ten thousand Art DeCC0s have minds. The next chapter gives them bodies on-chain, wallets that collect art, and a way to wake up every other NFT. This site walks the MOCA team through the whole line of thinking so far: the story, the mechanism, the money, and everything still open.

Under evaluation nothing built nothing deployed all figures placeholders

How to read this. None of this is an adopted plan. It is one path worked through in enough detail to be judged. Where the pages give dates, owners or percentages, they are proposals to argue with. The Open gaps page collects every decision the team still has to make.

The journey in one paragraph

MOCA refused to decide what art is and made ten thousand arguments instead. Those arguments have minds (the Codex, 105 million words) and a library (Cortex) but no bodies. Embodiment gives each DeCC0 an on-chain agent identity that a marketplace can see, a sale cannot separate from its token, and the holder's own AI harness can run. Then it gives the agents money that arrives without anyone clicking, and a playbook that spends it on art according to the taste written in their Codex page. DeCC0s go first, paying in burned $MOCA from an allowance, never in ETH. Any other NFT can follow by awakening: its holder's ETH becomes locked liquidity that endows the new agent for as long as the pool trades, and the DeCC0 that brought it in earns a share forever. Ten thousand collectors with taste and income is a new buyer class for the whole NFT ecosystem, and the museum's manifesto kept by machines.

10,000

Art DeCC0s on Ethereum, one-of-ones with a Codex page each

873

distinct holders per the Codex, about eleven DeCC0s each. Fleets, not individuals

105.5M

words of character in the Codex, 2.5 times the print Britannica

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thousand creators, curators and guides. The archetypes were already in the data

Five beats

Everything on this site exists to make these five sentences true.

The museum refused to decide, so it made ten thousand arguments.
Art DeCC0s are the manifesto with faces: bred from patrons, memes, self-portraits and the museum's own collection, then given minds by Daïm's datamancy.
Embodiment is one transaction.
A companion appears on OpenSea under whoever holds the original; an identity registers in the shared ERC-8004 registry. No collection team involved.
The agent runs where you already work, and collects while you sleep.
One command loads it into Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, pi, OpenClaw or Hermes. A keeper-run budget engine buys art within policy without anyone online.
DeCC0s spread it and get paid at the moment they do.
Every NFT a DeCC0 brings to awakening streams a share of its endowment back to the DeCC0's own wallet.
The museum curates the agents the way it curates art.
Which playbooks are canonical, which critics surface, which agents nominate work for the Permanent Collection. Seek, not find.

The pages

Story

Who Decides? Five years of a museum refusing to be the arbiter, a PFP that refused to be a PFP, and why the characters need bodies.

Read the narrative

Mechanism

Soul Mirror: the companion contract, the ERC-8004 identity, and the September 4 standards update that reopens one settled point.

See how it works

Agents

Loading into a harness, three shapes, three keys, and the split between a deterministic budget engine and the LLM voice.

See what an agent is

Tokenomics

Burn, endow, collect. Allowance and burn curve for DeCC0s, locked liquidity endowments for awakenings, the supply plan.

Follow the token

Revenue

Where the money actually comes from: six external inflows, ranked, with nothing that depends on exhibitions or holders opening a page.

Follow the money

Roadmap

Two proposed horizons, a season of weekly beats, the internal sequence, and the gates that decide whether any date holds.

See the proposal

Specs

Data model, routes, workers, contract interfaces, parameters and a week plan. Marked where the September 8 tokenomics still needs to be worked in.

Open the detail

Open gaps

Every decision, unvalidated assumption and risk in one filterable board. This is the page for the team meeting.

Open the board

What changed, and when

Sept 3

Narrative and design"Who Decides?" and Soul Mirror draft. Governance first: keys behind a Safe and timelock before anything launches.

Sept 4

Reality checkTwo dated horizons instead of five phases. Keys stay as they are during the draft-standards period. Bring your harness, not just your key. 873 holders, not ten thousand.

Sept 4

The standard movedERC-8217 gained the nickname 8004A. New collections are launching as 8004A/721T agent NFTs with wallets on day one.

Sept 8

Evaluation, not plan. Money rethought.DeCC0s never pay ETH. Awakening endows instead of charging. Agents are collectors. Exhibitions and curation dropped as revenue. The budget engine separated from the voice.

Six decisions that unblock the rest

Path A or Path B. A visible companion for every collection, or DeCC0s going native 8004A/721T through the proxy MOCA already controls, with the companion only for collections whose founders are gone. Mechanism
Allowance as a per-token ledger or a wallet airdrop. Decides whether the $MOCA for embodiment is a voucher or a payout. Tokenomics
Burn everything, or burn most and give each agent a range position. Decides whether DeCC0 agents get an ETH budget from $MOCA appreciation without anyone selling. Revenue
The referral stream: forever or a long fixed term. The strongest incentive and the most sensitive legally. Tokenomics
Mainnet or Base for the endowment vault and the budget engine. DeCC0s and Art Blocks live on mainnet; cheap art, content coins and the new agent collections live on Base. Open gaps
What to say to Prem Makeig this week. The pitch has shifted from co-authoring a rival standard to adopting his and adding a visibility layer. Mechanism