Same token.
Eleven renderers.

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01The renderer timeline

Each step below is a setRenderer transaction on the Argonauts contract. The thumbnails are the same token read just before and just after that transaction.

• AUG 26
  V1 · Mint sold out in minutes

  9,999 static pixel portraits: palette, bones, and up to five optional slots (cloak, relic, sight, artifact, crown). Nothing moves.

  

• AUG 31
  V2 · Artifacts get real RendererV2

  The Woodpipe gets redrawn as a proper brown pipe. Vapes get flavor-colored tips, blue for Blueberry Kush and green for Dragon's Breath, and that's when the two vape names show up in the metadata. Alien skulls pick up accent pixels in their own palette color.

  

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• SEP 3
  V3 · Sight color pass RendererV2, redeployed

  Lens colors get reworked. The designer brands start pulling apart (Balenciaga goes hot pink, LV moves to a wraparound bar), regular Glasses get a cleaner blue, and the 3D Glasses frames get reshaped.

  

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• SEP 7
  V4 · Crowns fixed, burning added RendererV5

  This one is mostly plumbing. Crowns sit properly now: band layering is fixed and the Purphat is clipped on Floral skulls. Each artifact gets its own smoke tone. It also adds the death mechanism (setDead, plus a clock contract), which is how 23 Argonauts have since burned.

  

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• SEP 25 · 04:37 UTC
  V5 · "Breath" BreathRenderer

  The first Argonaut ever to move is #5266, the only Golden Fleece, which a.c.k. gave to Adam Weitsman. The contract notes list four stages, Fleece, Bones, Smoke and Sight, and that turns out to be the roadmap for Oct 2.

  

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• SEP 25 · 16:19 UTC
  V6 · Two tokens rewritten RendererV6 · setTraits

  The renderer can now override a token's traits. #8393 and #7920 were the only two Radioactives on Deep Raspberry. #8393 lost its Glasses and moved to Void Charcoal, which made it the only bare Radioactive. #7920 lost its Gold relic and 3D Glasses and gained an Ivory cloak.

  

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• OCT 2 · 00:19 UTC
  V7 · Fashion Week RendererV6, redeployed

  The seven designer sights get fully redesigned. At mint, Dior, Gucci, LV, Versace, Balenciaga, Chanel and Prada all shared one frame in near-identical purples. Now each brand has its own shape and color: Dior is a violet visor, Versace navy, Gucci burgundy, Prada blue, and Chanel lilac. See the full set ↓

  

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• OCT 2 · 17:13 UTC
  V8 · Everything moves RendererV8 + painter

  In one transaction, all 9,999 come alive. Bones breathe, Gold and Silver glint, Radioactive glows, Alien sparks, Coral pulses, and a bee visits the Florals. Pipes and vapes smoke, and lenses get a sheen. Digital Sight turns into a 7×3 screen with 41 shows. 3D Glasses become the only thing you can click. The marketplace image turns into an animated SVG too, so thumbnails move.

  

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• OCT 5
  V9 · A 23-day funeral RendererV9

  #8985 burned on Oct 5 at 16:43 UTC. Eighteen minutes later, a.c.k. shipped a renderer that applies to that one token only. It burns for 23 days, with a new still each day, as fire and rust eat away its 3D Glasses and gold chain. As of today it's about nine days in. The other 22 burned tokens are flat squares of their palette color.

  

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• OCT 7–8
  V10 · Storm RendererV10 + new painter Oct 8

  This was the first upgrade aimed at a palette. The 522 Storm Argonauts take lightning strikes on the head every 4–15 seconds, with a screen flash. The bones react: Bone and Petrified get a blue tide, Coral goes teal, Silver crackles with plasma, Prehistoric scorches and smokes, and a bee on a Floral can get struck out of the air. It's the only way a Petrified ever moves.

  

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• OCT 14 · 02:05 UTC · TODAY
  V11 · Oarsman's Band turns to water new painter + unverified renderer

  Every 1–3 minutes, water spreads down from the band and the whole skeleton turns liquid blue, with drips, bubbles and falling droplets. It holds for about 30 seconds and then drains. It applies to all 1,305 Oarsman's Band holders. The renderer contract isn't verified on Etherscan yet, so this comes from comparing the contract's output before and after.

  

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02Fashion Week, then and now

There are 56 sets of seven Argonauts that are identical except for the designer brand. Here's one complete set, MuseGreen Coral, as it was drawn at mint and as it's drawn today.

03Traits that got the upgrade

Read from the live player code and confirmed by watching tokens run. Counts are living tokens.

04The silent ones

76 living Argonauts have no animated trait at all. They're Petrified, wear no lensed sight, hold no pipe or vape, aren't on Storm, and have no Oarsman's Band or Fleece. They're the only static pieces left in an animated collection. Each of the ones checked returned zero animation frames from the contract.

Burned (23): . Burned tokens render as a flat square of their palette, except #8985 (above).

05Launch vs. now, token by token

Left is the token at mint, or at its first render for tokens minted later. Right is the live player today. Drag the slider to step through every renderer in between. Players start when they scroll into view and loop.