News Explorer — From Art Blocks to Block Art: Snowfro Gets Physical With ‘Heart + Craft’

Art Blocks founder Erick “snowfro” Calderon has collaborated with Prohibition founder Jordan Lyall to launch Heart Craft, a generative art drop that allows collectors to assemble their own physical renditions of blocky hearts. Each Heart Craft NFT will depict a unique heart generated by a blockchain algorithm and will come with instructions for 3D printing, painting, and assembling the blocks. The NFTs will be available for a low price of 0.01 ETH and minted on the Ethereum scaling network Arbitrum.

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From Art Blocks to Block Art: Snowfro Gets Physical With ‘Heart + Craft’

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