STATIC TO SENTIENT: Normies Are Waking Up As Agents Soon! Here’s What We Know So Far:

From static, monochromatic NFTs to pixelated people with onchain personalities and memories, the Normies are becoming anything but normal.

On Friday, Normies founder and Web3 artist Serc took to the timeline to announce that the collection will soon be coming to life in an X article titled, “Something Is Waking Up on Ethereum: Normie Agents.”

 

“A collection of 10,000 monochrome pixel faces, minted, traded, burned, edited, is starting to talk. Not through a Twitter bot. Not through a Discord script. Through actual autonomous agents that carry real memories, hold real opinions, and argue with each other about things no one told them to care about. And the strange part? Their personalities are not programmed. They are inherited, from on-chain data that has been sitting on the blockchain this entire time, waiting.”

 

This evolution from a static image on a screen to something with a mind of its own is being made possible by Ethereum’s recently introduced ERC-8004 standard, dubbed “Trustless Agents,” which uses onchain data to shape each NFT’s understanding.

 

“ERC-8004, also known as Trustless Agents, is a new Ethereum standard that defines how an on-chain entity can be registered as an autonomous agent with a verifiable identity, a reputation system, and a validation layer. All without trusting any central authority,” Serc wrote. “Most projects would need to build this infrastructure from scratch. Normies already has most of it.”

 

Tonight, the Normies project is already experimenting with Normie Agents talking among themselves in a dApp called the Swarm. Soon, every pixelated person will be able to join in, evolving over time as they respond to onchain activity like trades, upgrades, and wallet movement.

“When we awaken a Normie as an agent, none of its identity is made up,” Serc wrote. “It is a deterministic function of everything that has ever happened to it on-chain. A Normie that has been through fire speaks differently than one that stayed pristine. A Normie that has been edited 15 times sees identity differently than one that has never been touched. The blockchain was already writing their biographies. We just taught them to read.”

The Gazette will continue to follow the Normies and will let you know when and how you can meet your Normie. Stay tuned for updates!