CORPUS is a small experiment in collective dynamics: it resonates with its holder's in ways that are meant to mark sustenance of human social activity. CORPUS draws fuel from the token and from the engagement around it. Trading supplies metabolic pressure; holders and LENS custodians introduce directed influence; collective gestures such as gm() briefly intensify the whole system. In important ways CORPUS is not depicting a token but remains exposed to a corporal human collective continuously composed by its own conditions.

The chain is perfect place for such experiments. CORPUS is an ERC-20 "Liquid Edition" on SuperRare. Liquid Editions are works that take market activity as conceptual material. We tend to think of ERC-20 tokens as grand instruments of DeFi. But they carry a more complex history: They are also part of Ethereum's long story as a substrate for social coordination. CORPUS visualizes a dynamic object that undulates under this more social reading of the token.

This is because an ERC-20 can approximate an institution. That may sound odd, but this idea has history on chain. Despite an ERC-20's precise market mechanics, it can reflect human arrangement. Such arrangements are assembled by agreement, shaped by participation, liable to drift. Sometimes such arrangements can resemble something with sharp edges, corners, crystals, or other stable-seeming forms. Other times, those forms loosen and move. CORPUS treats that instability as a living visual condition. Body, corporation.

Tokens have long served as the material of (unfortunately often temporary) collective sculptures: memberships, DAOs, treasuries, communities, and other temporary architectures of coordination. Here the token is not merely depicted by the image. It becomes one of the image's conditions of existence. Its distribution, market, liquidity, and movement are translated into changes of scale, cohesion, structure, energy, and surface.

Collective governance, in DAOs especially, can be quite challenging. The collective once famously bearing the name "The DAO" still echoes its own token and contract participation on chain. CORPUS emanates a visual representation of holder participation.

CORPUS is partly inspired by many projects especially those resonating in some way or another with "the chain," an Intimate Systems, as it seems so well suited to these curious experiments that cut across biological and social and technical domains. I am inspired by many projects and like to share those I think of when creating. For CORPUS, these include ONE, Lifeforms, Entropy, the projects from esteemed colleagues in SuperRare's Intimate Systems and more including dynamic The Mesh from sometime ago.

The renderer reads the Liquid Edition's live market state and translates it into four forces. Each governs a distinct aspect of the corpus. Nothing here is authored by hand — the body is whatever the collective's market and participation make it.

• SizeGrows as the launch supply is claimed off the curve. An untouched corpus is a tiny seed; a fully claimed one nearly fills the frame. Early buyers see the fastest, most visible growth. The body swells quickly with the first arrivals, then eases as it matures.
• CohesionFollows pool liquidity and price position. Deeper liquidity binds the body into a richer, more detailed surface; thin or absent liquidity lets it dissolve toward a featureless ball. Cohesion also drives how finely the underlying fractals resolve. A well-capitalized corpus is literally more intricate.
• StructureTracks where price sits within the liquidity range. It bends the body between organic, bulbous growth and rigid, crystalline scaffolding: the visual difference between a soft collective and a hardened one.
• EnergyReflects the market's agitation and where price wanders relative to its range. It fuels rotation and chromatic intensity: a restless market spins hotter and brighter; a settled one cools and slows.

In its earliest moments, before any supply is claimed, the CORPUS object barely exists at all: a dark, near-formless void. It emerges into legible form only as participation begins.

Alongside the market's metabolic dynamics is a council of four LENS tokens (ERC-721 1/1s). Each LENS is bound to one of the four forces, SIZE, COHESION, STRUCTURE, and ENERGY. The holder of a LENS token can wield it to bend the collective's body along that single axis.

Each LENS also renders as its own still emblem: its instrument, caricaturing the one force it governs, with a live readout of that force's current value overlaid in the piece.

Summoning influence with influence(tokenId)

A LENS owner can call influence on the renderer to push their governed force. The strength of the push is drawn from the caller's own CORPUS balance at the moment of the call: the more of the collective you hold, the more influence you have. The influence then decays back to whatever the market dictates over a fixed window (currently one hour).

Note on accumulation: Influence scales with your balance but saturates at the top of each force's range. At most, roughly 10,000 CORPUS will drive a force from nothing to its ceiling; a force the market has already lifted reaches that ceiling with far less. Beyond the point of saturation, additional holdings have no further visual effect.

Only the current holder of a given LENS can call influence for it, and only a caller with a non-zero CORPUS balance.

Why "oligarch"? "Governed by the few." It is meant to be playful for the CORPUS LENS tokens. But I use it with intentional semantics: The organic qualities of emergent human collectives often, and perhaps even inevitably, involve uneven distributions of powers.

gm is a shared morning greeting turned into a coordination ritual. Like many cheesy things, it has stuck in our wonderfully curious part of the universe. Any holder of CORPUS can call gm() on the renderer to join the current "episode." Each gm episode is a short, fixed window (currently fifteen minutes); the first gm after a quiet stretch opens a new one.

When you join, your CORPUS balance is added to the episode's running total. The larger the collective balance assembled within the window, the more the whole corpus intensifies. This will present as a brief, shared bloom of energy and agitation across the entire body that everyone can see at once. As the window elapses, the effect fades and the body returns to its ordinary market-driven state.

Each address can join a given episode only once, and only holders may join. gm is not directed at any single force. It is a collective act that lifts the CORPUS body as a whole and potentially in a chaotic regime. A way for members of the community to make their presence felt.

All of these gestures are on-chain transactions you can send from the dashboard. It reads the deployed renderer and Liquid Edition contract live, shows the four forces and the current market state, and lets you connect a wallet to act.

• Trade the CORPUS Liquid Edition on SuperRare to supply metabolic pressure and claim supply off the curve — this is what grows and coheres the body over time.
• Influence a force from the dashboard's oligarch panel if you hold one of the four LENS tokens.
• Say gm from the dashboard's gm panel to join the current episode and lift the corpus with the collective.

You will need a wallet connected to the Sepolia network to send any transaction. Reads are live and require no wallet. Please also note the caveats above.