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!

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).

CONGRAZ⭐️

mash-it.io

The community voted.
The artists are cooking.
Get ready for the Surreal Neon Carnival!
August/21.

Hey everyone—exciting news! We're piloting RCAs inside the Mash-it platform and launching Hybrid Mashups that combine RCA + Mash-it traits.

Here's what this means: you can now load the RCAs you hold in your wallet directly into Mash-it. Holders will be able to:

1. See their RCAs in their "Collection" section
2. Mash traits from both Mash-it and RCA collections

It's live now in limited preview mode - currently available for the fearsmile and fearsmileX contracts. Try it here: https://mash-it.io/mashers/mashup

Getting started is straightforward: sign in with your Polygon wallet (the one holding your RCAs) and navigate to the "Mashup" section. Pro tip: if you're a longtime RCA collector new to Mash-it, you might discover one or two Mashis in your Collection - we've airdropped some early access Mashis.

Have fun: Join the fearsmile community contest with hybrid Mashups here: https://www.reddit.com/r/fearsmile/comments/1vkh7ta/bastard_hellfuck/

Why We Built This

We believe holders have the right to visualize and use their NFTs anywhere - Metamask, OpenSea, Mash-it, or elsewhere. This initiative increases utility for both RCA and Mashi holders by unlocking new mashup possibilities.

The technical context: The RCA program used a fragmented contract design: 7,808 RCA designs across 7,224 individual contracts from 631 creators. That's radically different from Mash-it's architecture - we consolidate all drops from all creators into a single collection contract, which simplifies trading on OpenSea, reduces fraud risk, and improves UX.

Adding 7K+ contracts to our platform without breaking UX is a real engineering challenge, so we're starting with fearsmile and fearsmileX. As we optimize the technical approach, we'll expand to more collections.

Stay tuned!