Nate Alex is a pseudonymous early NFT artist recognized in the CryptoPunks Discord community as one of its pioneering builders of on-chain generative art.,In January 2020 he created ChainFaces, an early on-chain generative project of ASCII text faces, and later that year built Squiggly, a project whose Mint That Shit contract let collectors mint their own generative SVG NFTs.,
That contract let other early collectors mint their own first on-chain works, including Guillaume of Zeblocks, who used it to create his debut piece before releasing his own generative series through Art Blocks.In January 2022 he released ChainFaces Arena, a battle game built as a spiritual successor to the original ChainFaces, where collectors could enter their tokens for a share of a crypto prize pool.His Squiggly collection, an edition of 100 on-chain SVG works, has continued to trade for several ETH apiece years after its release.,In January 2025 his work was included in “Art of Punk”, a group exhibition of CryptoPunks-holding artists at the Francisco Carolinum museum in Linz, Austria, and in the virtual world Cryptovoxels, alongside artists such as Justin Aversano and Martin Lukas Ostachowski.,
