Four thousand four hundred and forty-four folios are drawn, struck and sealed. They open one week after the mint. Not before, and not for us either.
The mint opens on OpenSea the day Arc is listed there.
Matins is the office sung in the dark before dawn, the watch kept until the light arrives. Four thousand four hundred and forty-four engravings, struck on parchment to mark the first light of Arc.
Arc was built for money that moves: settlement, payments, institutions. It is not a chain that expects art.
That is exactly why its first light deserves a record.
Every consequential beginning has been recorded by hand. Not announced, not posted. Recorded, by someone who sat with it long enough to draw it. A ledger opening, a charter signed, a gate raised: somebody inked the moment onto a sheet and the sheet outlived everyone involved.
Matins is that sheet. It does not explain Arc and it does not promise anything about it. It marks the hour, the way the office that gives the collection its name marks the hour before dawn, sung in the dark by the same hands that copied manuscripts by candlelight.
Matins is sung, so there is music here. Nothing starts on its own and nothing follows you around: press a line and it plays, keep reading and it keeps playing.
Performed by the Musopen Symphony Orchestra and released into the public domain. Nothing here is licensed from anyone, and nothing here is borrowed. Same rule as the plates: you can check where it came from.
The work is an artifact, not a campaign. It carries a date, a number and a hand, and nothing it cannot keep.
No diffusion model touched this collection. Every line is a computed pen stroke, every sheet of parchment a stack of filters. It is generative art in the older sense: rules that draw, not a model that guesses.
The people who show up on day one of a network rarely have anything to show for it afterwards. A folio is a durable, transferable mark of having been present at the opening.
The generator is deterministic: a folio number in, the same drawing out, forever. Once the collection is revealed, the source that draws it is published, so anyone can verify their plate was never touched by hand.
A folio should open something, not only exist. Businesses can offer holders whatever they choose, and every arrangement is listed here in the open with a link to whoever made it. The first are being arranged now, and none of them gets named before it is signed.
A drawn line is never straight and never uniform. So each contour here is traced twice at different weights and opacities, the way a real nib re-inks a line, over control points that wander. The whole plate then passes through a turbulence field that warps it the way a hand warps a ruler.
The parchment is built the same way. Mottling, fibres, foxing spots, the crease of a folded sheet, a torn deckle edge: all of it is generated, none of it photographed. Shading is done in broken hatch strokes, the way an engraver shades: thousands of short cuts, never a gradient.
| Trait | Values |
|---|---|
| Parchment | Vellum · Aged Vellum · Scorched · Sea-Stained · Palimpsest |
| Ink | Iron Gall · Sepia · Oak Brown · Verdigris · Cinnabar |
| Form | Stone Gate · Aqueduct · Broken Arch · Twin Arc · Celestial Bow |
| Sky | Hatched Dawn · Crosshatch Night · Gathering Storm · Open Sky · Eclipse |
| Luminary | Sun in Splendour · Waning Moon · Comet · Twin Stars · None |
| Border | Double Rule · Key Pattern · Vine · Plain Rule |
| Seal | Crimson Wax · Black Wax · Gold Leaf · Unsealed |
| Marginalia | Scribed Notes · Cipher Column · Corner Sketch · Bare Margin |
| Condition | Clean · Light Foxing · Heavy Foxing · Water Damage |
| Hand | Master Hand · Journeyman · Hurried Hand |
Hand is the one that changes how a folio is drawn rather than what it contains. A Master Hand keeps a steady line; a Hurried Hand wavers. Same pen, different discipline.
Arc settles gas in USDC, so USDC is simply the price. No approvals, no wrapped token, one transaction.
| Stage | Folios | Price | Per wallet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team | 111 | Free | Owner |
| GTD allowlist | 1,333 | Free | Allocated |
| FCFS allowlist | 2,000 | 3 USDC | 2 |
| Public | 1,000 | 5 USDC | 5 |
| Total | 4,444 |
Anything the allowlist stages leave unminted rolls forward into the public stage. Nothing is burned and the supply never rises.
Nowhere else, and never early. Any address posted before mint day is a fake, whoever posted it and however official the account looks. Check it here, on this page, and nowhere else. We will never send it to you in a message.
Every folio mints sealed: the same folded sheet, held shut by wax, with the engraving on the other side faintly soaking through the parchment. One week after the mint closes, the seals break and all 4,444 plates take their form.
The full collection is pinned to IPFS before a single folio is minted, so the art is public from the start. What stays unknown is the mapping, which token holds which folio, and that is fixed by an offset published at the reveal.
Nothing is drawn after the fact and nothing is chosen by us. The generator ran once, the sheets exist, and the week is just the wait.
A holder can give up a folio and receive the same plate struck on real parchment, by hand, posted anywhere at no cost. The sheet carries the number the folio had on chain, so the record and the object agree.
It is an exchange rather than a bonus. The token is destroyed and cannot come back, which is what makes the sheet worth having: one plate, one copy, and the on-chain supply falls by one every time somebody does it.
The burn address, the steps, and the form that tells us where to post it.
The collection is finished: 4,444 plates drawn, the sealed folio struck, the traits fixed. Allowlist applications open. Nothing is minted and no date is set.
The mint opens on OpenSea once Arc is supported there, and not before. Team, GTD, FCFS, then public. The schedule is announced when the day is real. we would rather be late than announce a date we do not control.
One week after the mint closes, the seals break. Every folio resolves to its plate and the trait distribution becomes public in full.
The generator is open-sourced so every plate can be reproduced from its number and verified as untouched. A small printed edition follows, struck on real paper for holders of the rarest forms.
There is no token, no staking and no second collection on this roadmap. If that changes it will be because holders asked for it, not because a roadmap promised it.
Businesses can offer holders whatever they choose. A discount, an upgrade, an item, entry to something. The first is close: a stay, at a substantial discount, honoured by showing the folio at the desk. It gets named here with a link the day it is signed. Announcing a partnership before that is how you end up retracting one.
It is open to any kind of business, anywhere: a hotel, a shop, a restaurant, a studio, a service, an online store. No fee passes in either direction. We announce the partnership, list the business here with a link, and enter it in the register.
Fill the charter in, sign it, and send it to info@voussori.art. Every one is read and answered.
An arch is built from both haunches upward, and it holds nothing until the last stone drops into the crown. Keep an office and a voussoir is set. Keep all four and the keystone falls. That is your mark, and it travels with your application.
Follow @voussoriart and turn notifications on. The mint date arrives there first.
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Quote the notice and say something of your own. A scribe's copy is never identical. Your mark travels with it, so anyone who applies from your quote is counted to you. Compose
Leave your mark below in the replies. Each scribe who applies through it is counted to you.
Offices are kept on your honour and stored in this browser. They travel with your application below, and they are checked against X before an allowlist spot is granted, and an unkept office found later simply voids the application.
Entries arriving on each mark. This is the order the 1,333 GTD folios are given out in.
GTD is a guaranteed allocation: 1,333 folios, free, reserved against your address and held until its stage closes. Places are ordered by how many entries arrive on your mark, so this is the list you climb by bringing people in.
FCFS is 2,000 folios at 3 USDC, first come first served among approved addresses, two per wallet. Referrals count for nothing here on purpose: someone who brought no one is judged on their entry alone. Being approved does not guarantee a folio. It guarantees you a place in the queue.
Entries are read by a person. There is no required background: someone who found Arc this week counts the same as someone building on it since testnet, and a first NFT counts the same as a hundredth. What does not count is an empty answer, or one a machine wrote.
Because it is not ours to set. The mint runs on OpenSea, and OpenSea does not support Arc yet. The collection is finished and waiting; the schedule is published the day that changes. We would rather hold than announce a date that depends on somebody else's roadmap. When it moves, it will be announced on @voussoriart first.
No. No diffusion model, no image generator, no prompt. The drawing is produced by a program that computes pen strokes: jittered control points, doubled contours, broken hatch shading. It generates the parchment as layered filters. The same folio number always produces the same plate, and the source will be published so that can be verified.
5 USDC public, 3 USDC for FCFS, free for GTD. Arc settles gas in USDC, so USDC is the native currency of the chain, so there is no approval step and no wrapped token involved. One transaction.
Nothing you need to do. Every folio shows the same sealed sheet until one week after the mint closes, then all 4,444 resolve to their plates at once. The art is already pinned and public before the mint. Only the mapping between token and folio is withheld, and it is fixed by an offset published at the reveal.
Two different ways, on purpose. GTD is ordered by referrals: the 1,333 places go down the standings, most entries brought first. FCFS ignores referrals entirely and is read by a person, so someone who brought nobody is judged on their entry alone. That is deliberate. If everything ran on referrals then only people who already have an audience could get in, and arriving at Arc after mainnet, or buying a first NFT, would count against you. It does not.
5%, declared on-chain through ERC-2981 so every marketplace reads the same number.