r/avatartrading

Hey everyone,

This Friday, August 21, we are launching our special drop: "Surreal Neon Carnival: Horror & Whimsy"!

• Timetable: Supply, price, and exact drop times will be released tomorrow (tentative).
• Airdrop: Holders of at least 1 Mashi from this drop will be airdropped 1 Mashi-it comic featuring the official drop promo banners.
• Mashup Tournament: We’re hosting a special Mashup tournament (rules coming soon) featuring Queen Avaritia.

Get ready!

And I always will♥️

Remember how much love you have for others, and give it to yourself too🥰 it’s beautiful!

I’m starting to do it lately, for the very first time in my life, and I can tell you with tears in my eyes that I feel so happy to be alive🥹

Thank you so much for existing. You make everything better.

You guys definitely saved my life in several ways. I can’t even begin to tell you how much you all mean to me.

So from the bottom of this huge and tattered heart…

I love you♥️

Hi people it's my 3rd cake day and the day I started the reddit I made a promise to buy a avatar in my 3rd cake day as a symbol of good times I had in here

Today I tried to find the marketplace but find out it's gone...

So are they really gone and I can't get one or there is another way to obtain them

Thx in advance :D

Love you guys

Guys, about loading RCAs into Mash-it.

You know we have a pilot running with fearsmile RCAs, but there are technical challenges to rolling out the pilot, and many collectors and artists have asked questions about potential risks involving IP that could put Mash-it or the artists at risk.

I performed a thorough assessment, first using Fable 5 (Anthropic's frontier model, banned by the Trump administration due to "national security risks"), and then talking to a colleague who has an LMM in the US and works for a top-tier legal firm in Brazil.

To begin with, loading and displaying RCAs on the Mash-it platform is not a risk at all. These are NFTs owned by the people who minted or purchased them, and everyone already interacts with all the RCAs they hold outside of Reddit—in their wallets (e.g., MetaMask, Base, etc.) and on OpenSea—ever since the launch of the RCA program.

The key question was related to allowing hybrid mashups with Mashis, since this could be interpreted as a "derivative work."

For the artists, it seems there is very low to no risk. If you are Goya and a century later someone buys your drawings and paints on top of them with watercolor (this actually happened), it is nonsense to blame Goya for this "derivative work."

The key issue was with Mash-it, our subreddit, and my personal Reddit profile.

BUT... After a long assessment, apparently this is not an issue, because "the unit of the work, as Reddit itself structures it, is the trait." To the point that Reddit has open endpoints that can be accessed by anyone—Reddit's avatar system was architected as a layer compositor from day one. i.redd.it/snoovatar/snoo_assets/{id}.svg is Reddit's own asset pipeline, serving the same files their own avatar builder consumes.

Notice that there is a chance Reddit might take action. The worst-case scenario would be shutting down the Mash-it subreddit or banning my profile. Could they ask our service providers (cloud, crypto APIs, pinning services) to ban us? Although they probably don't have any legal basis, in theory, yes. But qudot.app being live is a decent precedent against any of this. Frankly, I think they simply don't care and wont spend time/resources of their legal team.

Having said that, knowing that the risk is greater than zero, we will open a vote to the community. This will be shared in our Discord: https://discord.gg/RgDvpR8EY

Our approach has always been to be a close partner to our artists: we will always ask for their approval.

For now, additionally to fearsmile, we have the green light from Hammer and Rojom (for part of his RCA collections).

Love you guys!

My shop is still running!

🛍️ AlekBan.myshopify.com

Check out my goodies♥️

https://opensea.io/TheBricksGuy

New collection!