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Pixel Devs — Developer DAO derivative NFT on Polygon
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Developer DAO's community-built derivative NFT collection — a pixel-art rendering of the original Devs for Revolution genesis NFT, mintable on Polygon by genesis holders. 8,000-supply, 1:1 with the genesis collection, launched 22 February 2022 from an open-source monorepo at pixel-devs.developerdao.com.
Open-source contributor on Developer DAO's Pixel Devs / derivatives project across late 2021 and early 2022 — the lead-up to the Polygon mainnet mint and the post-launch UkraineDAO charity-mint plan. Credited in the upstream README under the all-contributors specification.
- Migrated the Hardhat contract toolchain to TypeScript with TypeChain-generated PixelAvatars bindings so deploy scripts, tests, and the rest of the project consume one source of truth at compile time.
- Refactored the legacy ~1,800-line contract into a focused PixelAvatars.sol implementation behind the OpenZeppelin upgradeable proxy, and authored the first end-to-end TypeScript test spec exercising the mint signature verification path.
- Modernised the Solidity toolchain — bumped to ^0.8.9, integrated solhint + prettier with prettier-plugin-solidity, and applied a repo-wide style pass that turned lint into a CI gate.
- Reordered the PixelAvatars contract to match the official Solidity style guide's order-of-functions so the mint surface reads in the order auditors and new contributors expect.
- Brought Vue Router into the trait previewer with a useRouteParameterSync composable so a holder can drop a deep link to their pixel avatar into Discord and have the recipient land on the same preview.
- Prototyped EIP-2981 secondary-market royalties on the upgradeable contract via a new @eip2981 contract namespace, scoped against the Developer DAO for Ukraine charity-mint plan that routed proceeds to UkraineDAO.
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Coverage & write-ups
- Launching Pixel Devs NFT on Polygon
- Launching Pixel Devs NFT on Polygon (author's mirror)
- Probably Nothing #12 — Developer DAO newsletter covering Pixel Devs launch
- Developer DAO for Ukraine — derivatives tech built on Pixel Devs infrastructure
- Probably Nothing #9 — Early preview of Pixel Avatars derivative project
- How we launched Pixel Dev NFT on Polygon — Rasmus Nielsen talk at web3con