What FingerprintsDAO does

FingerprintsDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York, operating as a global community and platform for blockchain art. The DAO's core offering is The Fingerprints Collection, a curated portfolio of 16+ seminal NFT collections assembled by a dedicated curation committee, including Autoglyphs by Larva Labs (the first on-chain generative art on Ethereum), Terraforms by Mathcastles, Bitchcoin by Sarah Meyohas, DEAFBEEF works, Mutant Garden Seeder, and Loot. Membership and governance rights are distributed through two instruments: $PRINTS (ERC-20 token, contract 0x4dd28568D05f09b02220b09C2cb307bFd837cb95), requiring a 5,000-token minimum, and Voxelglyph (ERC-721 NFT), available on OpenSea and other marketplaces.

The underlying technology stack runs on Ethereum using established NFT token standards (ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-998) and integrates with Snapshot for off-chain gasless governance voting, Uniswap and CoW Swap for $PRINTS liquidity, and OpenSea for Voxelglyph trading. On-chain voting via Snapshot is the primary governance mechanism, where members submit proposals and vote on collective decisions affecting the shared treasury and collection strategy. Distribution is entirely self-serve: prospective members acquire governance tokens on decentralized exchanges or NFT marketplaces at free-floating prices, with no onboarding fees flowing to the DAO itself. The organization markets via Discord, Twitter, and Snapshot channels.

FingerprintsDAO employs 1-10 people and is governed as a community-owned entity rather than a traditional corporation, with no publicly disclosed revenue. Strategic capital events in 2021 brought in tier-1 crypto investors including a16z crypto, Union Square Ventures, Variant, Betaworks, ConsenSys Mesh, The LAO, 2TM, and Triblock, funding the DAO's shared treasury and continued collection curation. The organization targets two primary personas: digital art collectors seeking curated exposure to foundational blockchain artworks, and active governance participants who vote on proposals. Customer acquisition is global and entirely organic via the public token markets, with no traditional sales motion.

Name

FingerprintsDAO

Website

https://fingerprintsdao.xyz

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

FingerprintsDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization (2021, New York) that curates a portfolio of 16+ seminal blockchain art NFTs and governs itself through $PRINTS and Voxelglyph tokens. It serves global digital art collectors and DAO governance participants with a community-led, self-serve membership model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

NFT Art Curation & DAO Governance

NAICS

Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (712), Libraries and Archives (51921)

akta.pro primary industry

Art & 1/1 Digital Art NFT Marketplaces (FSADANAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Coordination & Contributor Management (tasks, bounties, roles) (FSAPAHAD)

Keywords

• Blockchain art curation
• NFT collection governance
• DAO membership tokens
• On-chain generative art
• Decentralized art community

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. NFT Collection Curation: The DAO assembles and curates a collection of highly prized NFTs through its curation committee. Members benefit from exposure to the collection's value appreciation and access to artists and collectors at the forefront of blockchain art.
2. Governance Token Trading: $PRINTS tokens and Voxelglyph NFTs are free-floating assets traded on secondary markets (Uniswap, OpenSea, CoW Swap). Their value is tied to the collection, creating indirect economic exposure for holders.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

FingerprintsDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization that curates and holds a collection of seminal blockchain-based NFT artworks, including pioneering on-chain generative art such as Autoglyphs, Terraforms, DEAFBEEF works, and others. Membership is granted through acquisition of at least 5,000 $PRINTS governance tokens or 1 Voxelglyph NFT, providing access to the curated collection, artists, curators, and DAO governance via proposals and voting.

Product overview

FingerprintsDAO is a global community and platform for blockchain digital art, operating as a decentralized autonomous organization with a shared treasury and curated NFT collection. The core offering consists of The Fingerprints Collection—a portfolio of 16+ seminal NFT collections including Autoglyphs, Terraforms, Mutant Garden Seeder, Loot, and DEAFBEEF works. Members participate through $PRINTS governance tokens or Voxelglyph NFTs, gaining exposure to the collection, access to artists and curators, and voting rights in governance. The platform focuses on artworks that innovatively utilize blockchain as an artistic medium, particularly generative and on-chain art.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Voxelglyph: Governance token and membership NFT of the DAO. Users can acquire Voxelglyph through OpenSea or other NFT marketplaces to become members.
• $PRINTS

Products and services

• The Fingerprints Collection A curated NFT collection platform containing seminal blockchain art works assembled by the DAO's curation committee, including 16+ distinct collections such as Autoglyphs, Terraforms, Bitchcoin, DEAFBEEF, Mutant Garden Seeder, and Loot. Held for the benefit of DAO members.
• $PRINTS Governance Token ERC-20 governance token required for FingerprintsDAO membership (minimum 5,000 tokens). Holders can participate in DAO governance through proposals and voting on Snapshot. Acquired via Uniswap pools or CoW Swap.
• Voxelglyph Membership NFT ERC-721 NFT token serving as alternative membership requirement (1 Voxelglyph required) for the DAO. Available through OpenSea and other NFT marketplaces with prices tied to the value of the collection.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Folia (Mutant Garden Seeder)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Mutant Garden Seeder by Harm van den Dorpel was released in collaboration with Folia in 2021. The collection consists of 512+1 unique generative Ethereum NFTs, where one mutant was minted per block number with transaction hashes used as seeds for deterministic random functions.
• Larva LabscoreOthersLarva Labs created Autoglyphs (considered the first on-chain generative art collection, 512 pieces created in 2019) and Protoglyph (the predecessor to Autoglyphs, an early generative experiment from 2018 with 77 editions released in 2022 by PROOF). Both works are held in the Fingerprints Collection.
• MathcastlescoreOthersMathcastles created Terraforms, a collection of 9,906 generative ASCII art NFTs representing parcels of land on a 20-level structure known as the 'hypercastle'. The collection is an advanced experiment in purely on-chain metaverse creation held in the Fingerprints Collection.
• Sarah MeyohascoreOthersSarah Meyohas created Bitchcoin in 2015 (predating Ethereum, forked from Bitcoin), backed by photography. In 2021, Bitchcoins were migrated to Ethereum, backed by petals from her 2017 work Cloud of Petals. 3,291 Bitchcoins are backed by hand-picked rose petals (proof of work).
• Harm van den DorpelcoreOthersArtist who created Mutant Garden Seeder in collaboration with Folia (2021). The work consists of 512+1 unique generative Ethereum NFTs where mutants evolve over time by themselves, functioning as a Turing-complete machine.
• DeafbeefcoreOthersArtist whose self-contained works (DEAFBEEF Vol. 1 Series 0-5 and DEAFBEEF Vol. 2 Series 0-1) are written in C code that directly outputs raw numerical data encodable to audiovisual media. The works require no externalities beyond Ethereum's C compiler dependency.
• 0xDEAFBEEFminorOthersCreator of Holly + Angular, a work where procedural synthesis meets AI synthesis as generative pitch envelopes control the Holly+ vocal model to produce glissando and staccato passages.
• Figure31 and 0xmonsminorOthersCreators of SALT V4, a set of 180 time-based artworks where each token showcases one photo daily, cycling through the entire collection over 180 days. No token holder owns any specific image—they own and share all of them.
• Mitchell F. ChancoreOthersArtist who created Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility (digital reproduction of Yves Klein's 1962 work) and The Boys of Summer (digital game artwork and generative PFP collection investigating quantification of self).
• Rhea MyerscoreOthersArtist who created Certificate of Inauthenticity (3D printable models of canonical art history objects with cryptographic certainty of inauthenticity) and Tokens Equal Text (edition of 32 composable ERC-998 tokens with descriptive texts encoded as ID numbers).
• Steve PikelnyminorOthersArtist who created Negative Value Certificates, works 'backed by loss' with each certificate claiming -0.09937734 ETH par value due to public exposure of a private key.
• DomcoreOthersCreator of Loot (for Adventurers), released in 2021 and comprised of 7,779 lists of randomized adventurer gear generated and stored on-chain. An open, permissionless, and composable crypto-native experiment in world-building.
• PROOFminorOthersOrganization that released the Protoglyph by Larva Labs in 2022 (77 editions). The Protoglyph was the predecessor to Autoglyphs, an early generative experiment dating back to 2018.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Foundation: Foundation is a curated NFT marketplace focused on digital art, serving the same artist and collector ecosystem that Fingerprints operates within.
• PleasrDAO: PleasrDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization that pools capital to acquire culturally significant NFTs. It is the most direct comparable to FingerprintsDAO in terms of model, structure, and target assets.
• FlamingoDAO: FlamingoDAO is one of the earliest collector DAOs focused on high-value NFTs and blockchain art, sharing FingerprintsDAO's thesis of collective ownership of curated digital art.
• Art Blocks: Art Blocks is the leading platform for generative on-chain art, including works by Larva Labs and other artists in Fingerprints' collection. It serves the same artist and collector base focused on algorithmic art.
• PROOF: PROOF is a web3 media and community company behind Moonbirds and other NFT collections. It released Protoglyph (held in Fingerprints' collection) and serves an overlapping collector community.
• SuperRare: SuperRare is a curated NFT art marketplace with a strong focus on single-edition digital artworks. It overlaps directly with Fingerprints' artist base and collector audience.
• JPG (jpegged): JPG is a curated NFT marketplace and discovery platform for high-end digital art collectors, directly competing for the same premium collector segment Fingerprints serves.

Broad incumbents

• OpenSea: OpenSea is the largest general NFT marketplace and serves as Fingerprints' primary distribution venue for Voxelglyph membership NFTs. It is a broader incumbent that hosts much of the same content Fingerprints curates.
• Nifty Gateway: Nifty Gateway is a curated NFT art platform owned by Gemini that hosts high-profile generative and digital art drops. It serves an overlapping collector base for blockchain art.

Emerging players

• Forward Industries: Forward Industries is a newer NFT gallery and marketplace focused on generative and on-chain art, positioning itself as a curator-led platform in the same space Fingerprints occupies.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/FingerprintsDAO
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fingerprints-dao

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors8 records

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M&A

Investments

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