Last week, luck brought me the special chance to mint an Eponym!

Eponym by ART AI is an elegant text-to-art generative algorithm that turns any words or phrases into beautiful pieces of 1/1 art.

How it works:

• You input your own selection of words or phrases
• AI creates art based on your text input
• You decide to either mint that piece or keep regenerating until you find one mint worthy

When I jumped on, mints were in the last 1000 so I was on a mission to find something that I liked but even in a rush, I still managed to find the experience completely exciting and remarkable.

What made Eponym's mint so unique?

All in all, it gave us an individualized minting experience.

• It was a playful activity of discovery
• It was customizable
• I felt like I had control over the final outcome

It's easily the most refreshing minting experience I’ve had so far.

Maybe because this was my first time working with generative art, but even then I managed to have a personalized experience with other minters who now make up the Eponym community.

Conversations post-mint were solely focused on the art and sharing how much fun we had during the experience rather than floor talk or shaming paper hands.

Eponym shows that the minting process can be an art itself—an experience both individualized, shared by a community, and super fun! I believe we shouldn’t settle for anything less. I for sure will be sticking around for Gen 2 for the chance to experience it all over again.

This micro-essay is #002 of ship30for30 challenge.