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After 30+ hours of printing, the Purple King Chonk is finally complete! Huge thanks to @heavyalien_nft for the original artwork and the @chonksxyz team for releasing such cool traits!

presenting: diy gifs 🧑‍🎨 for a long time i've been super impressed with the gif proliferation of pudgy penguins - they're everywhere & for me, it's a big part of their success with chonks, we want to make all our community creators, and ugc (user-generated content) via gifs & memes is o.p in today's attention economy so, first off, you can now use the playground(.chonks.xyz) & your own chonk to create the below gif simply sign in, tap the 3 button on your keyboard, and then export to gif, or video if you do so, would love to see them in the replies!

@marka_eth 🔥

One Chonk. Every 6.25 minutes. For all of 2026. if you catch yours, screenshot & post it below within your timeslot 📝

@MikeSylphDapps Very cool!

Launching at midnight UTC... A 2026 Chonk Calendar

Introducing The Chonks Ugly Sweater Contest! - Design your own ugly sweater Chonks trait - Free for everyone to participate - Earn ETH when someone mints your sweater Happy holidays from me and @marka_eth! 👉🏻 Go play @ chonks.xyz/ugly-sweaters

@rcrngrtr @chonksxyz 🔥

Sweet Chonk o’ Mine [1/?] 🎩 Meet CHONKSLASH! The first of a small series of chonky art bits I’ve been quietly cooking. Little love letters to @chonksxyz and the guitar gods I grew up worshipping. All made in Chonks Studio :-) Rest of the band arriving every few days 🎸

@MikeSylphDapps @chonksxyz Love this, Mike. Minted!

For @chonksxyz's birthday I've put together a fun art piece + mint for you all: A mosaic of every Chonk as they were at reveal. "Birthday Suits" 😁 Many Chonks have been stripped of traits and relisted naked, so it's nice to look back on how they once were. 🔗👇

A LOOK BACK AT CHONKS' FIRST YEAR Despite a raw set of tools, a bunch of awesome people showed up with skills of all different types to build on top of Chonks in some way. And I think that marks a successful first year and the beginnings of a really powerful brand. I said to @0x113d in a DM shortly after we launched that I was excited to learn more about what we'd built. The first year of Chonks was really all about that. What we shipped this year: - ChonksMarket – A fully onchain marketplace with no external dependencies for buying and selling - Chonks/Traits safely without front running - ChonksMarketV2 – Expanding on that, less fully onchain but more UX-focused - Marketplace UX built for speed, leveraging Base's fast blocktimes, FlashBlocks and more - Special Traits for collecting various NFTs (@basepaint_xyz, Song A Day, @liquidculturefm episode NFTs, Penguitt) - ChonkChess – a fully playable chess game, and Chonks Curated 001 featuring HeavyAlien - ChonkNames – 83,300 ENS subdomains for Chonk backpacks - 2 versions of our Indexer (shout out @doyle126) - An overhaul to Chonks Studio (more on that next year) - Hawk Tuah and the Sleeping Chonks, a threejs version of @beeple's piece, customizable with your Chonks - ChonksFont - A 3D Playground to play with your Chonk - Marfa Traits and first ever meetup in Marfa (I'm sure I'm forgetting a few things) Some things our amazing community shipped: - A ton of amazing artwork and remixes (shout out @heavyalien_nft, @jpegsonbase @0xfilter8, BTChonks to name a few) - We were featured or made appearances in a number of Beeple's Everydays - Chonks Lootboxes by @nix_eth - Chonkenpox by @MikeSylphDapps - @KikflipCo by @EzekielOden - The first 3D Chonk prints (@day25, @jpegsonbase, and @cryptopeng1) - @Penguitt's Year of 2024 piece - @songadaymann's various Chonks song references - @GTSewell and the Marfa Chonks Mobile (this list is far from complete and I'm sorry if I forgot you) - Chonks were also featured in a ton of @basepaint_xyz canvases Floor price Let's address the elephant in the room: floor price. It's down, bad. We're aware. Our goal over time is to deliver value to our holders and our community and that comes from iterating and building things that people want. That iteration takes time. Thank you for your patience and your trust while we build. On Culture It took Punks four years to become really valuable. While I'm not saying Chonks is the next Punks, I bring them up to illustrate that cultural objects and networks need time to work and proliferate. It's really hard to create meaningful, lasting cultural impact when you lead only with money. That was one of the reasons we structured our mint the way we did: an approachable $38, that way, if the price goes down, you're not out too much money, and if the price goes up, we all enjoy that upside together. Pokémon didn't start by selling cards and telling people that certain ones were going to be valuable and that's why you should buy them. They made a card game, a video game, TV shows, movies, and characters that people fell in love with and over time, markets emerged for different objects within that ecosystem. What we've been building is the foundation for that ambition. More is More Every time people tell us to burn Chonks, I push back because Chonks are essentially fungible (aside from their ID) and having more of them allow more people to play in our ecosystem. 83,300 people can each own a Chonk. That's only 0.001% of the world's population or 1 in 98,800 people. Tiny, in the grand scheme of things. Cheap, plentiful NFTs let more people participate and where things get rare and valuable is in the Traits. This hasn't been well explored...yet. We haven't released too many Traits this year but we've done some valuable testing and built tooling to help us ship Traits and collaborations faster. Next year and into the future you'll start to see an economy of Traits proliferate, powered by our upgraded marketplace. Positioning We've started to pivot our positioning to be much friendlier to a general audience. Internally, we call it the Chonks Mullet: LEGO in the front, crypto in the back. It's much easier to explain to someone in an airport that "Chonks are a little friends you can customize, play with in games, and 3D print," than it is to explain to them that "Chonks are a PFP collection, fully on-chain, on @Base." The latter is just too technical and jargon-y. Everyone understands character builders. From PokPok and Club Penguin to Fortnite and FIFA, from Barbie to Legos to Halo: a base character that you can dress up in different ways with special items that you can earn to denote status, experience, or achievement. That's where we're going with Chonks. Lots of Traits in varying rarities: an ecosystem with Traits that are being created, burned, and earned, introduced through collaborations, special on-chain actions, and IRL activations. Positioning it in such a way where enjoyers of IRL culture and enjoyers of crypto culture can all find a home and collect and play and have fun – on Chonks. What's Next? A key piece of Chonks is once your Chonk is all dressed up, it needs somewhere to go, right? With AI making it easy to create new games and experiences and different token models that are being explored, we're excited to dive deeper into those more next year. We're excited to explore @farcaster_xyz mini apps, @LayerZero_Core, and more! All in all, this was a really successful year. We understand that Chonks is a really long-term project, and that's what we're building for. We love this mixture of very technically complex and onchain for those who care, while being fun and approachable for those that just want to dress up a character and make a little bit of art in the Studio or play a game. There are very few NFT projects that are still building. But as a technology, something that enables provable ownership, composability, collaboration, I think we've barely scratched the surface. To date, NFTs have come in very few forms and we're excited to show the world how much fun you can have, with Chonks. Thank for being part of the journey, @backseats_eth and @marka_eth

CHONKS MARKETPLACE UPGRADE ANNOUNCEMENT Today, we will be updating the Chonks Marketplace smart contract to an upgradeable proxy contract. The current marketplace is now paused while we make the change. Existing Listings and Bids will be reset as the new contract has new storage. In future upgrades to that contract, storage will not be reset. If you have a bid locked in the marketplace (about 0.09 ETH is in there), you will be able to reclaim that back via our front end still. As noted in the image below, the base version of the proxy contract will be largely the same as the market that has been live to date, as a safe base starting place while we continue to test the features in Step 2 below. We gave ourselves 1 year from last year's deployment to set the ChonkTraits and ChonksMarkets contracts permanently. Tonight at 7:53p EST, we get locked out of doing those upgrades to our own contract. We did this in the spirit of decentralization. The original version of ChonksMarket was based on the CryptoPunks contract but over time, that's come to feel limiting as users are used to the experience of a market like OpenSea. ChonksMarketV2 will support USDC, WETH bids on Chonks, Traits, and (new!) TraitIndexes (so you can put up a bid to buy a Frog Head Trait and anyone who owns it can fulfill it). We'll also have support for gasless or gas-sponsored interactions. Decentralization is a spectrum and to keep Chonks dynamic, we thought this was the best upgrade path for our ever-important marketplace. If you used the first version of the ChonksMarketplace contract in any way – buys, listings, or bids – we'll have something for you in the new year. We'll let everyone know when the new marketplace is open later today. As always, comments, questions, and feedback are more than welcome. Thanks! Backseats and @marka_eth

@EzekielOden 🔥

Black Friday

"is it possible to show 83,300 3d chonks at the same time?" the moment our incredible mint finished, i've asked myself that question finally - here's the answer: matrix.chonks.xyz and here's how...🧵

@marka_eth @chonksxyz 👀

gm - shipping experiment day!

@MikeSylphDapps Congrats on finally getting in 😂

It's a new day one

@BTChonks @GoldChonks 🔥

"Put Chonks in the hands of the people" - Chonk Chonk Zero

@marka_eth @chonksxyz @backseats_eth 👀

BIG week for chonks incoming 👨‍🍳🔥

@marka_eth @heavyalien_nft @chonksxyz @backseats_eth Always here if you need help 🫡

@jpegsonbase @heavyalien_nft @chonksxyz @backseats_eth i’ll be coming to you for more tips friend

i promised i’d get a 3d printer upon my return from marfa notis of sale today - some things are just meant to be heavy’s chess chonks first mission then…. watch this space