praxis is a network where artists own everything. their site, their art, their audience, their income. here's the technology that makes it real.
when you buy art on most platforms, you get a license — permission to access something that still belongs to the platform. they can revoke it, change terms, or shut down.
on praxis, when you collect a work, you get a soulbound token — a permanent, non-transferable credential minted directly to your wallet. it's built on ERC-6909, a minimal multi-token standard. no one can take it away. not even us.
a soulbound token is a credential permanently bound to your identity. you can't sell or transfer it. it's proof that you supported this artist. your collection is a record of what moved you — not a portfolio to flip.
every price is shown in your local currency first. if you don't have enough ETH, add funds instantly with a credit card — no crypto exchange needed.
from your wallet to theirs on Optimism (an Ethereum L2 with ~$0.01 fees). no escrow, no holding period, no middleman wallet.
a soulbound ERC-6909 token is minted to your wallet in the same transaction. it appears in your collection immediately and is verifiable by anyone on Ethereum.
the media lives on IPFS. even if praxis goes offline tomorrow, your credential and the art are still accessible. you own them.
every piece of media is stored on IPFS — a peer-to-peer network where files are addressed by their content hash, not a URL on someone's server.
on the traditional web, platform.com/files/song.mp3 can be deleted, moved, or changed. on IPFS, ipfs://QmX4z8f...a3b7c is the content itself — change a single byte and the address changes. it can't be tampered with, censored, or taken down by any single entity.
praxis runs its own IPFS nodes, but the content lives on the public network. anyone can pin it. there's no single point of failure.
praxis isn't just about buying art. it's about making art together. when you fund a creative project — an album, a film, a show — you're not donating. you're producing.
funders receive a producer credential — a soulbound token that permanently records your role in bringing a work into existence. it's not a receipt. it's a credit. your name is on the work, immutably, forever.
a show, a recording, a film, a workshop. they set a funding goal and optional tiers — different levels of involvement, different credentials.
contribute any amount. when the project hits its goal, funds go directly to the artist. if it doesn't, you can withdraw.
a soulbound token minted to your wallet — permanent, non-transferable proof that you helped produce this work. it's your credit on the project, verifiable by anyone.
artists can also list media with collaborator revenue splits — when someone buys a track with multiple creators, payment is automatically distributed to every collaborator's wallet in the same transaction. no invoicing, no waiting, no trust required.
project tiers can also mint tickets — transferable tokens for shows, screenings, performances. unlike producer credentials, tickets can be resold on the built-in ticket marketplace.
the ticket marketplace (PraxisTicketMarket) handles listing, purchasing, and price updates. sellers withdraw earnings directly — no platform holds funds.
praxis creates an encrypted wallet for you during signup. no browser extension, no crypto knowledge needed. generated in your browser using BIP-39, encrypted with AES-256-GCM. your password never leaves your device.
export your seed phrase anytime from settings. import it into any standard wallet (MetaMask, Rainbow, Rabby). your credentials, collection, and producer credits travel with your keys — not with any platform.
need to add funds? use a credit card directly from the buy flow. want to cash out? the "cash out" button opens peer.xyz, where you can sell ETH for dollars and withdraw to your bank, Venmo, or PayPal.
everything runs on verified smart contracts on Optimism. all source code is public. the purchase function transfers ETH to the artist and mints your credential in a single atomic transaction — there is no step where funds are held by praxis.
a blockchain is a global public computer. code deployed to it runs exactly as written — no company can change it, shut it down, or decide who gets to use it. when praxis mints a credential to your wallet, that credential exists on a computer that no single entity controls.
this matters because every platform that came before made the same promise — we'll take care of your stuff — and every one eventually changed the terms. a blockchain can't change the terms. the code is the terms.
Ethereum is the largest open-source smart contract platform. it has the most developers, the most tooling, and the deepest ecosystem of composable infrastructure. praxis runs on Optimism, an Ethereum L2 that inherits Ethereum's security while keeping fees under a cent.
but the real reason is composability. everything built on Ethereum is open — anyone can read the contracts, build on top of them, fork them, extend them. your praxis credentials are standard ERC-6909 tokens. your tickets are transferable assets on Ethereum. another developer can build a gallery app, a recommendation engine, a royalty splitter — all reading from the same public state. no API keys, no permission, no terms of service.
the artist-audience relationship doesn't belong on any company's servers. it belongs on a public computer that nobody owns and everybody can build on.