# Onchain Art

## Onchain Pixel Art

Putting art fully onchain for Dot cards ensures absolute authenticity and ownership, making each card verifiable and tamper-proof.

This transparency builds trust, creating a secure and reliable ecosystem for collectors and players.

Onchain art also guarantees permanence and accessibility, protecting artists' work and enabling innovative gameplay features.

It’s not just a feature—it’s the foundation of a new era in digital art and gaming, where creativity and ownership thrive together.

## Dot Cards

Every time a Dot card is collected, it is given a digital heartbeat -- each pixel of the art is encoded and stored permanently on the Base blockchain.

Even if Dot isn't around in 100 years, you can always retrieve the full art from the blockchain.

Dot encodes images as compact strings instead of storing the full SVG to keep minting costs low. This approach ensures more revenue goes directly to the artists and minimizes gas fees. It's a smart choice that significantly benefits creators.

## Retrieve Onchain Art

1. Go to a Base chain explorer site and look up the Dot contract: [0x7b5673b598a71d27a56781271ec5fa05de216df0](https://basescan.org/address/0x7b5673b598a71d27a56781271ec5fa05de216df0#readContract)
2. Go to the Read Contract tab and enter your token number in the encodedImage section.
3. Take the output and paste it into the [decoder page here](https://dot.fan/decoder).

## Video Walk-through

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## Decoder Mirrors

* Full decoder is base64 encoded under "3. decoderCode" in the [contract here.](https://basescan.org/address/0x7b5673b598a71d27a56781271ec5fa05de216df0#readContract)
* Mirrored on Dot here: <https://dot.fan/dot-decoder.zip>
* Mirrored on IPFS here:<https://decoder.dotfan.eth.limo/>


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