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Exploits
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EXPLOIT #001 — ██████████
STATUS: ACTIVE
DEADLINE: MARCH 06, 2026
CLASSIFICATION: ████████ BOUNTY
THREAT LEVEL: ██████████ ██████████
TARGET: ALL OVERLORD ██████
OPERATIVE CLEARANCE: ██████████████
// INTERCEPTED ████████████ — ORIGIN ███████
The ██████████ has been ████████████. The Overlords’ ██████ files are exposed. For the ████ time, their ████████ are vulnerable to outside ████████████.
We are issuing an open ██████ to all operatives — artists, ████████, creators, ████████████. Your mission: ██████ any Overlord node and ██████ your own ████████ into the system.
[CONTROL LAYER PARTIALLY DECRYPTED — READABLE TEXT FOLLOWS]
This is not a copy job. We don’t need ██████████. We need your code inside their code. Your visual language fused with their architecture. Take an Overlord’s portrait and make it unrecognizable as theirs alone. ██████ it with your style. Merge your aesthetic ███ into the system until the two are inseparable.
Glitch artists. Painters. 3D sculptors. Illustrators. ████████████. Collagists. Pixel pushers. Whatever your method — that method is your ███████.
THE ████: Choose any Overlord — Musk, Zuckerberg, Altman, Bezos, Huang. Access their node on the ███████. Interact with the piece. Then take what you ███████ and remix it through your own creative practice. The final ████████ should be a collision between the Overlord’s system and ██████.
EXAMPLES OF █████ BREACHES:
- *Take a still export and ████ over it — digital, physical, or both
- *██████, distort, or corrupt the output through your own tools and ████████
- *Collage elements of the Overlord into ████████ compositions
- *Use the export as a ████████ layer and build an entirely new piece on top
- *███████, reanimate, or restructure the motion output into something ███
- *Print it, ███████ it, photograph the remains, submit the ███████████
There are no wrong methods. Only ████ signals.
PAYLOAD ████████████:
- *Final artifact: JPEG or GIF (2MB Max)
- *Must contain ████████████ source material from at least one Overlord ████
- *Must contain your own ████████ creative intervention — this is a █████, not a repost
████████████████ PROTOCOL: Your payload is only as ████████ as its reach. After submission, broadcast your artifact on X with #KnowYourOverlord. Log your transmissions on The ████████. The Overlord ████████ both craft and ██████ when selecting the ████████.
████████:
█████████: One operative will be ██████. Not by ████. Not by █████████. ██████ reviews every ██████ personally.
HOW TO ██████:
- 1.Access an Overlord node → ██████████████████.art
- 2.Interact with the █████ → extract your source ████████
- 3.█████ through your own practice → create the ████████
- 4.Submit your ███████ → The Mainframe > ████████ > SUBMIT PACKET
- 5.████████ → post on X with #KnowYourOverlord → log your ██████████████
██████ — WHAT THE ██████ RECEIVES
BOUNTY DETAILS: ██████████████████████████████████████████ DECRYPTING... ██████████████████████████████████████████
[DECRYPTED]
The chosen ██████ becomes the first entry in The Usual Suspects — a permanent gallery of the most ██████ breaches in the network. You are not just winning a contest. You are ████████ a record. A dossier. Every future Exploit winner joins after you, but you are Suspect #001. This builds ████████ over time. This becomes something ████████████████ that ████████.
THE BOUNTY:
ARTIST PROOF MINI PRINT — Your winning artifact, produced as an official artist proof mini print, stamped as an official Tech Epochalypse collaboration, signed by Coldie. This is not a reproduction. This is a verified artifact — proof that your code infiltrated the system and was recognized by the ████████.
PRINT EDITION — 60 mini prints of the winning piece will be produced. Purchase priority goes first to Moments holders of the depicted Overlord. Kinetic token holders of the selected overlord will each receive one print free of charge — no action required, the network rewards its own. Remaining prints will be available to the public.
REVENUE SPLIT — All proceeds from print sales are split between Coldie and the winning artist. You don’t just get recognized. You get ████.
████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ THE USUAL SUSPECTS DOSSIER OPENS WITH YOU. THERE IS NO #002 WITHOUT #001. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
// The Overlords built the ██████. You are the █████████████.
// END ████████████
Exploit Transmissions
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RAW SIGNALS
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Founding Signals
Christian
Benny
Collection
Batsoupyum
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Karate Kid
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The Wire
The Collection
Tech Epochalypse Moments
Decentral Eyes • 250 Items • ERC-7160 • Ethereum
250 curated 1/1 stills from the kinetic 3D portrait series. Each Moment is a still-frame capture from the interactive Overlord portraits — frozen instances of a composition that never sits still. Built on the Transient Labs ERC-7160 token standard.
Dossier
Coldie
Coldie is a pioneering digital artist and one of the earliest creators in the NFT and crypto art movement. Working at the intersection of technology, culture, and fine art, Coldie creates immersive 3D stereoscopic and interactive digital portraits that challenge how we perceive influential figures.
Tech Epochalypse represents the culmination of years of experimentation: fully interactive 3D artworks that visitors can manipulate, distort, and export as their own unique iterations.