👋Introduction

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Chainlife tokens are aware, and they change on transfer!

Project overview:

Chainlife tokens: 1024 microcosms of digital life that are interactive, malleable, evolving, and aware.

Chainlife world: a single ever-changing macrocosm that is affected by individual tokens, is collaborative, (also) on-chain, and extendible.

Chainlife forest: (future goal) grow a healthy forest ecosystem (not on-chain) to fight climate change and keep Chainlife carbon negative (project started with 40,000 txn of carbon offsets).

Chainlife project: genesis project of Matto's blockchain interactive NFT platform, Substratum, Chainlife allows new art generating scripts to be added to the tokens and API over time. Currently there are 3 on-chain art scripts: Chainlife (base token), Esoterra (map token), Painting (pattern history).

Chainlife is a project that allows exploration of cellular automata. At the most granular level, it's a collection of 1024 individual generative art NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. The generative scripts are on-chain, and all traits are calculated live in token. They're aware of many pieces of blockchain data, and they change: evolving and maturing in unique ways as they respond to transfers and on-chain customizations that their owners can set. You can see and interact with the smart contract here.

The tokens combine together to form a collaborative and ever-evolving world, formed by grid of 32 x 32 cells. Each cell can exist on any level in this world, ranging from level 0 to level 9999. As tokens 'mature', they gain levels, and as the token gains a level, it's cell in the world grid also gains a level. Additionally, owners can 'level shift' their token by a positive or negative value, thereby changing which level the token exists on.

The Chainlife project has committed to fight climate change. To create a positive environmental impact, the carbon footprint the project would generate at mint-out, has been carbon offset at a 400x multiple. Also, the custom API built for Chainlife is carbon neutral, running on Azure. Finally, it's the artist's hope that they can plant 1024 trees in the USA for this project.

Chainlife is the genesis project of Substratum, an on-chain genart platform committed to fighting climate change and supporting blockchain-interactive NFT projects like no other platform can.

There's a ton of detail and information about this very rich project, and this gitbook will serve as the project's documentation. Please note that it's a work in progress! Continue to the Quickstart Guide, or jump to other areas through the navigation.