Mint a Prezzie
Minting creates your Failed Prezzy on the Base network and sends it straight to your wallet. You pay the price shown plus a small network fee, and your art appears here as soon as it's done.
The Collection
Twelve of the 10,000, picked by us. Yours comes from the public art order when you mint, so it will be its own kind of disaster.
Every edition is unique. Every edition is regrettable.
Supply: 10,000
Chain: Base
On Your Way Out
Fusion Dance
Fool's Gold · Urban Cowboy · Six-Time Champion
Circus Tent · Cursed Tiki Idol · D'Artagnon
Dunce Cap · Megaphone · D'Artagnon
"Cat" Overlord · Flaming Constitution · Starship Bridge
Cyber Prezzy · Golden Jacket · Devil Horns
Chibi Eyes · Pile o' Rats · Atomic Dreams
True Form · Inmate Orange · Bobblehead
Worm Emperor · Ozymandias · Toy Fighter Jet
Clown · Crusader-in-Chief · The Cutest Rat
Bawling · Foam Finger #1 · D'Artagnon
Numbers shown are art numbers, not token numbers. Which token gets which artwork is set by the starting index drawn before the mint opened.
How to Buy
If you've never bought an NFT before, you need two things: a crypto wallet and a little ETH on the Base network. Setting them up takes a few minutes the first time.
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1. Get a wallet
A crypto wallet is the app that holds your Prezzie and pays for it. Coinbase Wallet and MetaMask both work.
On a phone, install the app, then open in the browser inside the app. On a computer, add the wallet's browser extension and come back to this page.
When you set the wallet up, write down its recovery phrase and keep it somewhere safe. Anyone who has it controls your wallet, so never type it into a website. We will never ask for it.
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2. Put a little ETH on Base
Failed Prezzies are paid for in ETH on Base, a low-fee network. You need enough for the price shown in the mint panel, plus a few cents for network fees.
The simplest way is the Buy button inside Coinbase Wallet or MetaMask: choose ETH and the Base network, and pay with a card or bank account where the app offers it.
If you have a Coinbase account, you can also buy ETH there and send it to your wallet's address. When it asks which network to use, choose Base.
If you already hold ETH on Ethereum or another network, move it to Base with a bridge first. ETH on another network won't show up here for minting.
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3. Mint
Connect your wallet in the mint panel, choose how many you want, tick the box to agree to the Terms of Sale, and confirm in your wallet. Your art appears in the panel as soon as the transaction goes through.
Save the receipt that appears under your art. You can also look it up again any time on the receipt page with your transaction hash.
How the Mint Works
Total
10,000
ERC-721A on Base
Public mint
9,500
Open to everyone
Creator reserve
500
105 before the mint, 395 during it
One price for everyone
The price is set in ETH and shown live in the mint panel above. You pay the price the contract shows when your transaction goes through.
Limits
Up to 10 per transaction and 50 per wallet.
Instant reveal
Your Prezzie's art appears as soon as the transaction confirms. There is no separate reveal later.
What's in the collection
10,000 portraits in total. 11 are one-of-one pieces, each drawn as a single work; the rest are assembled from hand-drawn traits.
How the creator reserve is released
500 of the 10,000 aren't sold. 105 were minted to the creator's wallet in one batch before the mint opened, so their art came from the same random draw as everyone else's. The other 395 are minted during the mint: each time the public count reaches or passes a multiple of 24, one reserve token is minted to the creator's wallet in the same transaction, right after the buyer's tokens. The buyer pays nothing for these.
Which art you get
Tokens are numbered in the order they're minted. The art for every number was fixed before the mint opened, and the Provenance section below explains how anyone can check it.
The Origin
History has produced many great leaders. This collection is not about any of them. It is about a different kind of leader entirely — the kind that arrives tangerine-tinted, improbably coiffed, and absolutely convinced of his own genius despite substantial evidence to the contrary.
The Marmalade Edition is named for the hue. You know the one: somewhere between a traffic cone and a jar left too long in a warm cupboard, a shade that exists in nature primarily as a warning signal.
Failed Prezzies: Marmalade Edition is 10,000 portraits, assembled from hand-drawn traits, of the most colorful occupant of the world's most powerful desk — each one a unique scene, a unique humiliation, a unique slice of a very specific kind of history that we are all, somehow, still living through.
"A Failed Prezzie is forever. Unfortunately."
Provenance
Before the mint opened, all 10,000 images were put in a fixed order and each file was given a SHA-256 fingerprint. The provenance hash below is a fingerprint of that whole ordered list. It is stored in the contract and can't be changed once it is set.
The provenance hash is the SHA-256 of the 10,000 image SHA-256 hashes, written in lowercase hex and joined in art order 0–9999 with no separators.
After the hash was locked, the contract drew a random starting index on-chain. The starting index decides which art number each token number shows.
Why this matters: the art order was locked and published as a hash before anyone minted, and the contract drew the starting point afterwards. So we couldn't arrange the order to keep the best or rarest art for ourselves. The creator's reserve tokens follow the same order as everyone else's.
- Provenance hash
- Published here when the contract is deployed.
- Starting index
- Drawn on-chain before the mint opens.
- Ordered image hash list
- images_sha256.txt
- Contract
- View on Basescan
How to check a token
On the contract's Basescan page, read artIdOf with
the token number; that gives the token's art number. Then compute the SHA-256 of that token's image
file and compare it with the line for that art number in the ordered image hash list.