What is fxhash? A Beginner’s Guide

Digital art continues to be one of the best and most popular use cases for NFTs. The technology has enabled artists to sell their digital works online to a global collector base for the first time ever. Generative art in particular has experienced a massive boom over the past couple of years. While the genre has <a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/max-bense-gustav-metzger-generative-art-1202674265/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">been around for decades</a>, it didn’t reach any level of mainstream interest until the advent of NFTs. <a href="https://medium.com/coinmonks/what-is-art-blocks-a-beginners-guide-62167e06be7d" rel="noopener">Art Blocks</a> has long been the leading platform for the best artists to launch their generative projects. As highly curated as it is, and having been built on Ethereum, it’s also left a gap in the market for other platforms with alternative approaches. The best example of this is <a href="https://www.fxhash.xyz/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">fxhash</a>. Just before we jump into what makes fxhash so interesting though, here’s a quick primer on generative art. <h1>What is generative art?</h1> The art you can buy on fxhash and Art Blocks is what’s called generative. Generative art is a huge and fascinating topic in and of itself and I won’t attempt to define and explain all its nuances here. If you’re interested in that, check out <a href="https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/what-is-generative-art" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">this article</a>. In the context of fxhash, you can simply think of generative art as digital art that’s created by an algorithm. Rather than creating a piece of art by hand or with an illustration software, the artist writes a piece of code that can then automatically generate a digital artwork. <a href="https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/what-is-fxhash-a-beginners-guide-2ee4d99c52f3">Learn More</a>