Genesis

The work in context

Genesis presents AI images arranged into a visual narrative. The release’s artistic unit is therefore both the individual image and the relationship between images. Appearing alongside Brain Loops and podGANs on launch day, it established storytelling and selection as central to BrainDrops from the outset. [1]

Construction and process

In her Museum of Crypto Art interview, Silver describes the BrainDrops work as made with visual cues rather than text prompts. Her account complicates the assumption that early AI collections were simply text-to-image prompting. This is artist testimony about process, not a recovered training dataset or model checkpoint. [1][2][3]

Release and mint

The official catalogue dates this release to 2021-11-15. At the 2026-10-13 check, the platform reported 500 minted works against a maximum of 500. Those equal figures establish the platform’s reported count, not how quickly the edition sold or who performed the mints. [1]

Launch price, presale conditions, mint duration and realised proceeds are not established in this dossier’s evidence. No current market price is substituted for a historical mint price. [1]

Token and preservation

This release uses the shared BrainDrops Ethereum contract. Its official project identifier is 3; the archive matches token IDs to projects and checks ownership at a fixed block. The contract record, token metadata and displayed media are separate parts of the object. [4][5]

BD5D stores optimised still previews, and preserves original media links in its catalogue. The evidence assembled here does not establish that the generative model, its training data, or the full-resolution artwork bytes execute or reside on Ethereum.

Official project and original presentation · Catalogue record

Rights record

Series-specific licence: not established. No explicit licence grant has been verified in the sources cited for this dossier. BD5D does not label the work CC0 or assign commercial rights from token ownership. The paper or software associated with a project may have its own licence; that is a separate record from the artwork.