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References

Primary Influences​

  1. Rhea Myers, "Facecoin" (2014). A conceptual artwork implementing a toy blockchain where proof of work is finding faces in hash visualizations. rhea.art/facecoin | Source code

  2. Rhea Myers, "Facecoins" (2023). ERC-721 tokenized edition where genesis block and colors derive from the owner's Ethereum wallet address. rhea.art/facecoins

  3. Rhea Myers, "Facecoin Cash" (2020). Higher-resolution variant of the original Facecoin. rhea.art/2020/02/24/facecoin-cash

  4. Rhea Myers, Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 2011-2021 (2022). Urbanomic / MIT Press. ISBN 9781915103048. Collected anthology of blockchain artworks and essays.

  5. Clovers Network (2019). An Ethereum dApp using proof of search to mine symmetrical Reversi board patterns as NFTs. Created by Billy Rennekamp. github.com/clovers-network

Face Detection​

  1. Viola, P. and Jones, M. (2001). "Rapid Object Detection using a Boosted Cascade of Simple Features." CVPR 2001. The foundational paper for Haar Cascade face detection.

  2. Vora, M. et al. (2024). "Seeing Faces in Things: A Model and Dataset for Pareidolia." ECCV 2024. arxiv.org/abs/2409.16143. The first large-scale study of face detection on pareidolic images, finding that state-of-the-art detectors achieve under 8% AP.

  3. Bazarevsky, V. et al. (2019). "BlazeFace: Sub-millisecond Neural Face Detection on Mobile GPUs." CVPR Workshop on Computer Vision for AR/VR. The MediaPipe/BlazeFace architecture.

  4. Zhang, K. et al. (2016). "Joint Face Detection and Alignment using Multi-task Cascaded Convolutional Networks." IEEE Signal Processing Letters. The MTCNN architecture.

  5. Deng, J. et al. (2020). "RetinaFace: Single-Shot Multi-Level Face Localisation in the Wild." CVPR 2020. State-of-the-art face detection.

  6. Radford, A. et al. (2021). "Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision." ICML 2021. The CLIP model.

Blockchain and Consensus​

  1. Nakamoto, S. (2008). "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System." The original Bitcoin whitepaper establishing proof-of-work consensus.

  2. King, S. (2013). "Primecoin: Cryptocurrency with Prime Number Proof-of-Work." An early example of meaningful proof of work.

  3. Wood, G. (2016). "Polkadot: Vision for a Heterogeneous Multi-Chain Framework." The framework underlying Substrate.

  4. Kwon, J. and Buchman, E. (2019). "Cosmos Whitepaper: A Network of Distributed Ledgers." The Cosmos/Tendermint architecture.

Computer Vision Libraries​

  1. OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library). opencv.org. Provides the Haar Cascade implementation used in Facecoin.

  2. CCV (C-based/Cached/Core Computer Vision). libccv.org. The JavaScript face detection library used in Myers' original Facecoin.

  3. MediaPipe. mediapipe.dev. Google's cross-platform ML solutions, including BlazeFace.

Data Availability and Rollups​

  1. Celestia. The first modular data availability network. celestia.org | docs.celestia.org

  2. Al-Bassam, M. et al. (2019). "LazyLedger: A Distributed Data Availability Ledger With Client-Side Smart Contracts." The original Celestia (LazyLedger) paper.

  3. Sovereign SDK. High-performance sovereign rollup framework in Rust. docs.sovereign.xyz | GitHub

  4. Rollkit. Modular rollup framework for sovereign rollups on Celestia. rollkit.dev | GitHub

  5. Lazybridging. Native ZK-based bridging for Celestia sovereign rollups. Celestia Blog: Lazybridging

Bridging​

  1. Axelar Interchain Amplifier. Cross-chain messaging for Celestia rollups. axelar.network

  2. Wormhole. Cross-chain messaging protocol supporting 30+ chains. wormhole.com

  3. LayerZero. Omnichain interoperability protocol. layerzero.network

NFT Standards​

  1. ERC-721: "Non-Fungible Token Standard." EIP-721. The Ethereum NFT standard.

  2. Metaplex Token Metadata Standard. The Solana NFT metadata standard. docs.metaplex.com