The Totem Project SOL · 2022—
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The TotemProject

Totem #1 by Sirius Crocodile

An improvised artwork made in public. Every bid changes the image. The last bidder takes the living record home.

Enter the collection

Founded by Sirius Crocodile
Solana · 2022

02 / The collection

Ten living
monuments.

The original Sirius Crocodile Totems established the project’s visual language and its public performance protocol on Solana.

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01 / The living archive

The image
keeps its history.

The final image is only one page. The Totem archive keeps the ground state, every live intervention, and the finished work together.

Totem #1, recorded state 1 of 26
Recorded state01 / 26

The original series · recovered states

Totem #126 remembered states.

Move through the image as the room made it. The archive restores the ground state, every intervention, and the final work that marketplaces usually flatten into a single frame.

Open the complete artwork record →
Ground state

03 / The premise

The work begins
unfinished.
The bidding decides what it becomes.

Every bid adds a block, a mark, a character, or a fragment drawn from the bidder’s public identity. Sirius Crocodile improvises live. Collectors determine the rhythm. No one knows the final image before the auction ends.

The winner receives the resulting work; every participant remains part of its history. What appears to be a digital sculpture is also a social document, written through public on-chain actions.

01Begin empty

The work is revealed as an open ground.

02Bid becomes form

Each collector action changes the image.

03Winner remains

The final state and its history leave together.

03 / How a Totem grows

Try the
auction score.

This reconstruction turns the original Totem Simulator into a lightweight, interactive explanation. Advance the auction to see one image become a sequence.

Totem Simulator—○×
Ground state, simulated Totem state 1

Current auction state

Ground state

Highest bid—
No bids yet01 / 05

The auction opens on an unfinished image. Its next state does not yet exist.

05 / The collaborations

Totem
& Friends.

Twenty artists have carried the protocol into their own visual worlds. Each collaboration has its own artist page and room to breathe.

Enter collaborations
Marculino’s Totem
01

Marculino

Digital sculpture and image-making

Hyblinxx’s Totem
02

Hyblinxx

Degen Poet’s Totem
03

Degen Poet

06 / A living future

From marketplace
to institution.

The next platform will host the performance, preserve every state, and settle ownership across marketplaces and, eventually, chains.

Now / 01

Archive the foundations

Resolve decentralized media and recover historical metadata states from the original Solana mints.

Next / 02

Run the performance here

A chain-aware auction room will publish and preserve each new image while bidding happens live.

Then / 03

Cross the chain boundary

Dedicated chain-native contracts and one shared provenance schema will make the archive network-independent.

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The work is alive while we are here.

Next bid.
Next block.

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