At the heart of Artizen sits a machine that sells ART, the token that grows our endowment for human creativity. The machine never haggles, never runs a promotion, and never takes a meeting. It does one thing: you put dollars in, it hands ART back. And it has one striking habit.
Every 120 days, the price of minting new ART doubles. The schedule was written into the ART revnet at its genesis on September 18, 2025. It has never been adjusted. It never can be.
Nobody decides this. No executive board votes. No DAO proposal squeaks through. Nobody reads market conditions, runs a complex economic model, or tips off insiders. Each doubling is simply the rules of the machine, running exactly as written.
In the stage running as we write this, in late August 2026, the machine issues 625 ART for every dollar it receives. At the next cut, that becomes 312.5. On December 27, 2026, it becomes 156.25. Every 120 days, half as many ART per dollar. Not a price hike anyone announces. A dial that turns itself.
Predictable, reliable, auditable, automated. Artists with projects, Artizen staff, capital allocators: everyone can focus on the mission of funding breakthroughs in human creativity, with incentives that stay aligned because nobody can bend them.
So it is worth breaking down how the machine works and why you might want to feed it.
The vending machine
Think of ART as a digital vending machine. Longtime readers know we have reached for this image before; it keeps being the right one.
You put digital dollars in.
The machine dispenses ART back at the current best rate, minting new tokens or buying them from the market if someone is willing to sell more favorably.
60% of the ART goes to you. 40% flows to the splits that sustain Artizen: the endowment that funds creators, plus operations and safekeeping.
Your dollars stay locked in the machine, backing the value of ART. The only way to get them out is to cash out ART or borrow against it.
Every dollar ever paid in sits there backing the tokens: about $131,000 in USDC on Base as of late August 2026, across 316 holders. You can audit it yourself, live, onchain.
If you have followed our work, you might notice a gap: Artizen’s full endowment holds about $23 million as of late August 2026, while the machine currently holds about $130,000. The gap is worth explaining, because the full endowment is not yet backing ART, and the plan is for it to as the revnet engine matures.
Crypto is in a strange moment as strong AI comes online. Open source smart contract systems that run on their own using blockchains, like revnets, are juicy targets for hackers because the code is open and there is digital money in the system – revnets are only great if they work. The white-hat researchers at Trail of Bits, using Anthropic’s most powerful model, Mythos, discovered a critical vulnerability in the Revnet contract in March of 2026, which has since been fixed and funds safely transfered to the new version.
Right now, a lot of bugs are being discovered across crypto, and it is the only way for these systems to be considered truly safe. When the revnet vulnerability surfaced, we kept the endowment where it was and spent more than three months throwing millions of brilliant AI tokens at the smart contracts to find every bug and vulnerability. Today, we have high confidence in the smart-contract infrastructure the revnet is built on, and the endowment will move into the machine as this confidence continues.
The price rises on a schedule
Bitcoin has 21 million coins and a halving roughly every four years: the same amount of work issues half the coins. The numbers themselves barely matter. The predictability is everything. Everyone knows exactly what is going to happen and can plan how they want to play, with no middleman able to tamper with the game.
Every revnet has its own issuance schedule, and ART’s is easy to hold in your head:
Genesis: 10,000 ART per dollar at launch, halving every 35 days.
Growth: 1,250 ART per dollar starting January 1, 2026, halving every 120 days.
Scale: 10 ART per dollar starting April 20, 2028, halving once a year, forever.
The result: the people who funded ART first, when it was least proven, hold the most ART per dollar contributed.
The schedule can never be adjusted. Not by us. Not by anyone.
The schedule also turns fundraising into seasons with a shot clock. “Fund before the cut and get twice the ART” is true for everyone on equal terms. Every 120 days there is a natural moment to tell the story again, show how far the money has gone, and invite the next cohort in at a price that reflects the risk they are taking versus the risk the last cohort took.
And the machine keeps compounding: Artizen’s platform revenues flow into the revnet as they are generated, so future profits keep funding ART through later stages, growing the value of the network for everyone already inside.
What your ART gets you
Every ART is a censorship-resistant claim on the digital dollars in the machine.
As of late August 2026, 957 million ART are outstanding against roughly $131K, which puts the floor near $0.00014 per ART. In the current stage, the machine is minting new ART at $0.0016; at the next cut, $0.0032. And the floor only rises: every cash-out pays a 10% fee that stays behind, lifting the value of every token that remains.
But a claim on a treasury is only half of it. ART is also fuel inside Artizen.
Holding ART recharges your Boost Points at the start of every Fund Drive, based on the current value of your ART. Boost Points are how you throw weight behind the projects and funds you love and steer money toward them. Donate once, hold, and the machine hands you fresh fuel every single week.
The clock
Here is the mission underneath the mechanism. Artizen exists to fund breakthroughs in human creativity: films, open source tools, living villages, scientific instruments, the weird and wonderful work no committee would ever approve. The endowment is the engine that funds them, and ART is how anyone can grow that engine and own a permanent stake in it, in the same motion.
That is also why we refuse to rush. As we grow, we believe the majority of the endowment’s value will live in the revnet and the ART token. But moving an endowment onchain is like crossing a frozen lake: step gingerly, test the weight, then take another step. We believe over the next 18 to 24 months, ART and the revnet will take center stage.
The machine does not care when you show up. But the schedule does.
Head to artizen.fund and donate to the Endowment in the Fund Drive section. Pay with crypto (your Artizen wallet is the easiest way) and every dollar mints ART at the current rate, plus Boost Points. The earlier in a stage you arrive, the more ART each dollar mints, and the machine treats everyone at the counter exactly the same.
No board meeting will change that. No insider will front-run it. The vending machine simply does what it was built to do.
Predictable. Reliable. Auditable. Automated.
Artizen setting the standard
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