what's Terra Nullius?

Terra Nullius is one of the earliest known NFT collections on the Ethereum blockchain, with its V2 edition minted starting August 7, 2015. The collection draws inspiration from literary themes, featuring generative art and text elements such as excerpts from Alice in Wonderland and Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken." Individual NFTs include unique metadata like block claim details and cryptic messages, such as "Alex Becker's Twitter Clues," contributing to its historical intrigue. Rediscovered years later by NFT enthusiasts, Terra Nullius represents a pioneering experiment in on-chain digital collectibles predating more famous projects like CryptoPunks. Hosted on OpenSea, it exemplifies early blockchain art with no associated utility token, focusing purely on scarcity and provenance as non-fungible assets.

Terra Nullius, an algorithmic art project exploring materiality and topographies, released via objktone.