Tipsy Turtles · frame 2 of 3

Tipsy Turtles_Chapter 2 Snippet

Their file is a 1.49 MB PNG (2546x1416) pinned on IPFS. What is on Cardano is a pointer to it — ipfs://QmZM9p5Kgqtj… — and a pointer is only as permanent as whoever keeps paying to pin it.

On the right is the same frame redrawn as vector art and written into the minting transaction itself: 9,362 bytes of SVG, no gateway, no pin, no bill.

Tipsy Turtles_Chapter 2 Snippet from IPFS

The gateway did not answer.
That is the entire point of this page.

stored on IPFS
Theirs. Fetched live from c-ipfs-gw.nmkr.io, exactly as their auction site fetches it. On chain there is only the pointer.

the same frame, decoded from the transaction

stored on Cardano
Ours. Decoded from the same base64 string that rides in the transaction below. Nothing was fetched to draw it.

13,695 of 16,384 bytes · 84% of one transaction

Mint it yourself

Open policy, no signature required, no payment output — nobody takes a cut. You pay the network fee and a min-UTxO that stays in your own wallet holding the token. The window closes at the slot below, after which this policy is dead forever.

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policy id	`computing…`
policy script	`{ "type": "before", "slot": 196010382 }` — no signature required, so anyone may mint until that slot
closes	24 Aug 2026 13:04 UTC
asset name	`GHOST<8 hex>` — derived from the UTxO you spend, so every mint is a distinct token
image	`9,362 bytes` of SVG, base64 in CIP-25 metadata
you pay	~0.76 ADA network fee, plus ~1.18 ADA min-UTxO that stays in your wallet
creator takes	nothing — there is no payment address in this transaction

How faithful this one is

Traced from their frame in MY.DRAW, then crushed 110 KB → 9.4 KB so the transaction still fits. Same pose; the outlines are faceted on purpose. The silhouettes were traced from the colour regions of the original and simplified until they fit the budget; the linework was rebuilt. Held beside the original at full size the differences are visible — that is the honest trade for a picture that never needs anything else to survive.

Attribution. Tipsy Turtles own the artwork, the characters and the frames. This is an unaffiliated technical demonstration made to show them what their own work looks like with no IPFS under it — it is not an official Tipsy Turtles release and does not claim to be. Their collection is at tipsyturtles.nmkr.io (policy b2dd37065c35e5d0…) and they are on X. If they would rather this did not exist, it comes down.

Open policy, honestly stated. The policy requires no signature, which is what makes the mint free and permissionless. It also means supply is unlimited and anyone can mint anything under this policy id until the deadline. Do not treat this as a scarce collectible — it is a proof of a storage method.