We want to make creating on Nervos easy again. DOB Studio needs testers this weekend (starts July 4, 48h).
Nervos used to have a real creator scene. People like Bubble Machine and Webstep Legacy, among others, made things worth looking at and gave the ecosystem a pulse. Then a lot of them went quiet. Not because they stopped caring, but because the easy way to turn their art into something on-chain slowly disappeared, and making a collection went back to being a job for developers.
Nervos Nation and others tried to keep the door open with their ImagiNation marketplace. But still, nothing showed up that a painter or an illustrator with no coding background could just sit down and use.
So we built DOB Studio, (originally Spore Studio). It is a place to make Digital Objects on CKB without writing a single line of code. You design your work in the browser and publish it on-chain yourself, with your own wallet. We never hold your keys, and we can never touch what you make.
What you can make
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Generative collections. Upload your layers (backgrounds, bodies, hats, whatever you draw), set how common each one should be, and the studio builds a whole set of unique pieces from them. A PFP-style drop, without code.
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Cards and badges. Certificates, tickets, memberships, passes. Pick your fields, style the card, publish. No picture needed, so they cost almost nothing.
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Finished art. Already have the artwork? Put it on-chain as it is, one piece or a whole set.
How it works, and what it costs
Everything lives on Nervos itself. Each piece carries its own data on-chain, so it looks the same in any wallet or marketplace, and once it is minted it sits on CKB under your own wallet, safe even if our studio goes offline. Your wallet signs every action, we never sign for you. There is a studio server doing the work behind the scenes (it prepares your collection, runs your drop, and draws the previews), but it never stands between you and your coins or your art.
On Nervos you lock up CKB for the space your art takes, charged by the byte. Small pieces can go inline as a deposit you get back if you ever melt them. Full-resolution images go to CKBFS, where the file rides inside the transaction and only a small flat cell, is locked no matter how big the file is, and the studio packs a whole collection into as few of those cells as fit, so one deposit and one signature cover many images instead of paying for each one. It is not magic: network fees are small but real, and a CKBFS deposit is permanent, so the app always shows you the cost next to each image and asks you to confirm before anything you cannot undo. For this test it is all testnet coins, so nothing costs anything real.
When you open a drop, the full list of pieces is fingerprinted on-chain before the first sale. After that the contract only lets buyers mint the first piece, then the second, and so on, so once a drop is live nobody, not even you, can add, swap, reorder, reprice, or double-sell a piece. The price goes straight to your wallet and we take no cut. The contract turns away anyone trying to mint past the supply, underpay, mint twice, or grab a piece reserved for someone else, and a busy drop can run in up to sixteen parallel lanes so a crowd does not get stuck. And it will read any DOB on CKB, not only the ones made here.
We think a tool like this should be simple enough that a five-year-old could follow it. We are not going to pretend we are there yet. That is a hard bar to clear, and it is exactly why we want real people in front of it before anyone relies on it.
The test
It runs for 48 hours, starting Friday, July 4 at 23:59 Lisbon time (UTC+1, so 22:59 UTC), and ending Sunday, July 6 at 23:59. It is at dobstudio (dot) lusocryptolabs (dot) com. Everything runs on the Nervos testnet, so it is all practice coins, with a free faucet linked inside the app. Nothing real is spent.
How to join
Open the link, click Apply to be a tester, connect a wallet, and leave an email so we can reach you. You are in on the spot, no waiting and no approval queue. First come, first served, 100 spots. When they are gone, they are gone.
If you do not have a wallet yet, JoyID is the easy one. It signs you in with Face ID or a fingerprint, no seed phrase, about a minute. You need a wallet because that is what actually mints your art and keeps it yours.
What we are asking
Make something in each of the three flows. Open a drop and have a friend collect from it. Melt a piece and watch the deposit come back. Try it with a couple of different wallets. And if you are the technical sort, try to break the drop contract: go over the supply, underpay, mint twice, claim a reserved piece. It should refuse. Tell us if it does not.
Most of all, tell us where you got confused, where you got stuck, what felt clumsy or unclear. That is the whole point. We cannot see our own tool with fresh eyes, and you can.
This is testnet, and it has not been audited yet. That is exactly why we test before anything touches mainnet. Your wallet is your identity here, and the email is only so we can reach you during the test.
We built this because we want to see art made on Nervos again, and we think the one thing that was missing was a tool simple enough to actually use.
Come help us find out if we got close.