what's Silk Road Not Dead?

Silk Road Not Dead is a Dadaist Net Art project that rescues and immortalizes digital artifacts from the historic Silk Road dark web marketplace. It preserves 3,310 vendor pages—including original images, descriptions, HTML code, and onion links—by embedding them into NFT metadata, transforming clandestine listings into publicly tradeable cultural relics on the blockchain. The collection expands from 420 initial Bitcoin inscriptions to 3,310 Ethereum NFTs, where each piece grants ownership of a specific vendor page from 2013. Collectors access recreated original pages via metadata links on the project's site, emphasizing themes of privacy, free trade, and digital heritage preservation in the public domain.

Silk Road Not Dead free mint of 3,310 on Ethereum scheduled for April 20, 2026.