Larva Labs

Since 2014, @Rhizome has awarded small grants to support the creation of new web-based works. This year, we’re partnering on a new category for the 2026 open call: PERMANENCE.

Digital work can depend on a surprisingly fragile set of conditions, hence why @Rhizome has spent decades thinking about how digital art is best preserved. Maybe permanence is technical? Maybe permanence is material? Maybe permanence depends on a community continuing to care? Or maybe it is something else entirely?

Apply by November 20th at microgrants.rhizome.org
Make something built to endure.

Today we’re launching a new catalog of all our on-chain projects, where you can search and view everything we’ve made in a single, unified interface.

Explore CryptoPunks, Autoglyphs, Meebits, Quines, and our Editioned Works, all with project-specific search and filtering, collector views, source files, and archival materials.

A special thanks to @chipsny for their excellent design and front-end work!

Learn more here: larvalabs.com/writing/2026-1…

In May 2021, twenty thousand generative sculptures launched into the world, each a fully rigged 3D file ready to be rendered, animated, and built upon.

We’ve always loved that Meebits can be visualized in so many ways over a variety of media. Five years on, we’re adding one more way: plotter files for every Meebit, each a set of vector drawing instructions for print or screen.

Signed prints from us will be available through @meebitsnfts.

Happy Birthday, Meebits!

This essay by @NaughtalieStone nails the distinction between art simply owned on a network, compared to art that needs and uses the network as a medium. Feels like we're just at the start of the latter.

10,000 at NODE Foundation has been an incredibly special experience for us.

From the beginning, CryptoPunks was an experiment in digital value and ownership - a new kind of networked art and protocol. CryptoPunks has been shaped over time by the people who hold it, trade it, argue about it, and build culture around it. This exhibition is our clearest attempt to present this thesis in material form and physical space.

We’re deeply grateful to @mickymalka and Becky Kleiner for building a home for CryptoPunks and a space capable of supporting work like this, and for @redbeardnft for facilitating this opportunity with @nodefnd. Thank you @asacurates, @philmohun, @loudsqueakmedia, @q2design, @yungwknd for your curation, creativity, and skills in bringing our nerdiest of visions to life. And of course to @naughtaliestone who worked closely with us to develop the exhibition and bring this all together.

We’re excited for everyone to see it, especially the CryptoPunks community, whose passion for the work has carried this project far beyond anything we could have imagined.

— Matt Hall & John Watkinson (Larva Labs)