# Feral File Status

Every work we've published, and whether it still works — checked from the
outside, the way a collector's wallet or browser fetches art. Generated
2026-08-05 23:48 UTC. Canonical URL: https://status.feralfile.com
Machine-readable summary: https://status.feralfile.com/data/status.json

## What a published work is

A work published on Feral File is a chain of references: a token on a
blockchain points to a smart contract, the contract points to metadata, the
metadata points to the files of the artwork, and those files run in a browser
or on an Art Computer. Some works also read data from their contract while
they run. A work is alive when every link in that chain answers.

Each link has a keeper. The blockchain keeps the token, the contract, and
anything stored on chain. Content-addressed files can be kept by anyone who
cares to pin them. Anything neither on chain nor content-addressed depends
on whichever server hosts it — for most works here ours, for six a
third-party platform. The fewer links that require our servers, the less a
work's availability depends on Feral File.

One limit, widely misunderstood: publishing a file on IPFS does not ensure
anyone else holds a copy. A work stays available only while someone,
somewhere, keeps one. What content addressing adds is that every copy is
equal and verifiable — a collector's copy counts exactly as much as ours,
and none can be altered without detection. When this page publishes a work's
content address, holding a byte-identical copy of its tested media is one
command for any collector, museum, or archive: ipfs pin add <address>. That
preserves the files this page tested — not yet the metadata path or the
work's rendering.

## Works, by what their media depends on

1. Resolve without Feral File: 17,563 works (every content-addressed media file answered the 20260803 HEAD probe on ipfs.io; who holds the copies is not measured)
2. Should resolve without us, but currently fail on public gateways: 184 works (HLS video: master playlists answered, stream files failed on every gateway tested; stream files reachable only from our CDN)
3. Published media references depend entirely on Feral File:
   4,959 Bitmark-era works across
   215 series, in the
   17 of 18 Bitmark-era exhibitions with at
   least one unmigrated work (as of 2026-08-05); their published
   references point only to cdn.feralfileassets.com. Byte-verified archival
   copies exist for every series as of 2026-08-04 (pin manifest under
   Data); the references themselves are not yet updated. Ownership records
   are archived and independently anchored — data on IPFS, Merkle root on
   Ethereum, timestamp on Bitcoin
   (https://github.com/bitmark-inc/bitmarkd/wiki/bitmark-archive) — though
   the archive too stays available only while someone retains it. Plus 17,255 works on Ethereum and Tezos whose media likewise lives only on our CDN (discovered 20260803); they follow the same remediation path. A further 6 works depend on a third-party platform instead of us — different dependency, different owner.
   Last reference probe 2026-08-05: 215 of
   215 series answered (one probe per series entry file;
   editions share files). Reference-phase remediation target 2026-11-01;
   exceptions will name the work, reason, responsible person, and review
   date. Archival-copy phase completed 2026-08-04: all 215 series have byte-verified content-addressed copies (398 GB; addresses in https://status.feralfile.com/data/pin_manifest_2026-08-04.csv).

## Every exhibition (oldest first)

| Started | Exhibition | Works | Resolve without us | Failing gateways | Depend on us |
|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 2021-03-24 | Social Codes | 760 | 392 | 0 | 368 |
| 2021-05-21 | The Bardo: Unpacking the Real | 1,407 | 568 | 0 | 839 |
| 2021-06-29 | Fragments of a Hologram Rose | 858 | 504 | 0 | 354 |
| 2021-08-10 | The Long Cut | 532 | 292 | 0 | 240 |
| 2021-09-09 | Instructions Follow | 912 | 498 | 0 | 413 |
| 2021-09-23 | P1×3L | 310 | 145 | 0 | 165 |
| 2021-10-06 | Reflections in the Water | 1,068 | 599 | 0 | 469 |
| 2021-10-26 | Polyarrythmia | 819 | 386 | 0 | 433 |
| 2021-11-19 | Unsupervised | 6,191 | 1,226 | 0 | 4,965 |
| 2021-11-30 | –GRAPH | 186 | 86 | 0 | 100 |
| 2021-12-16 | For Your Eyes Only | 1,508 | 581 | 0 | 927 |
| 2022-01-20 | Field Guide | 1,009 | 629 | 0 | 380 |
| 2022-02-24 | Primordium | 177 | 68 | 0 | 109 |
| 2022-03-25 | Infinite Entropy | 50 | 9 | 0 | 41 |
| 2022-05-20 | Ten Whistlegraphs | 70 | 39 | 0 | 26 |
| 2022-05-23 | On Screen Presence | 515 | 213 | 42 | 260 |
| 2022-06-15 | WETWARE | 891 | 155 | 0 | 736 |
| 2022-07-28 | gämma | 33 | 33 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022-08-25 | Doppelganger | 707 | 707 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022-09-14 | Ecotone | 1,208 | 1,208 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022-09-28 | Harbingers | 574 | 574 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022-10-20 | Simulation Sketchbook: Works in Process | 1,111 | 1,111 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022-11-10 | Gray Matter | 171 | 0 | 0 | 171 |
| 2022-11-29 | Peer to Peer | 746 | 135 | 0 | 611 |
| 2022-12-14 | BOOM TOWN | 182 | 0 | 0 | 182 |
| 2023-02-02 | I KNOW – On the aesthetic of truth | 669 | 0 | 0 | 669 |
| 2023-02-16 | Material Wonderland | 108 | 0 | 0 | 108 |
| 2023-03-07 | Chain Reaction | 600 | 0 | 0 | 600 |
| 2023-03-23 | LeeMullican.PCX | 276 | 276 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-04-06 | FeralVerse | 710 | 568 | 142 | 0 |
| 2023-04-20 | BLOOMCORE | 55 | 55 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-05-18 | COLORS OF NOISE | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-06-12 | In/Visible | 610 | 610 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-06-28 | The Experiment | 209 | 209 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-07-25 | N=12 | 1,728 | 1,728 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-08-24 | In Medias Res | 297 | 297 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-10-19 | Truth | 896 | 896 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-11-16 | +GRAPH | 180 | 180 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-03-14 | SOUND MACHINES | 451 | 451 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-04-25 | One to Zero | 208 | 208 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-06-18 | crystalline work | 9,048 | 0 | 0 | 9,048 |
| 2024-07-23 | CRAWL | 543 | 543 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-10-02 | 流れのパターン / Patterns of Flow | 650 | 650 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-12-10 | E-volved Formulae | 23 | 23 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-06-24 | Console Spirituality | 165 | 165 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-08-26 | Net Evil | 380 | 380 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-11-21 | StarQuest | 111 | 111 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-03-10 | Ex Nihilo | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |

## Bitmark-era exhibitions

| Exhibition | Works | Not yet migrated | On Ethereum | On Tezos |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| The Experiment | 209 | 0 | 209 | 0 |
| WETWARE | 891 | 714 | 54 | 123 |
| On Screen Presence | 515 | 179 | 336 | 0 |
| Ten Whistlegraphs | 70 | 25 | 45 | 0 |
| Infinite Entropy | 50 | 26 | 24 | 0 |
| Primordium | 177 | 69 | 108 | 0 |
| Field Guide | 1,010 | 129 | 635 | 246 |
| For Your Eyes Only | 1,508 | 803 | 705 | 0 |
| –GRAPH | 186 | 11 | 175 | 0 |
| Unsupervised | 5,916 | 655 | 5,261 | 0 |
| Polyarrythmia | 819 | 405 | 414 | 0 |
| Reflections in the Water | 1,068 | 353 | 382 | 333 |
| P1×3L | 310 | 81 | 229 | 0 |
| Instructions Follow | 912 | 362 | 550 | 0 |
| The Long Cut | 532 | 161 | 371 | 0 |
| Fragments of a Hologram Rose | 858 | 208 | 650 | 0 |
| The Bardo: Unpacking the Real | 1,407 | 688 | 719 | 0 |
| Social Codes | 760 | 90 | 670 | 0 |

## What we check, and what we don't yet

A work RESOLVES when every reference in its chain can be fetched from public
infrastructure. These checks currently measure the ARTWORK FILES: every file
of every edition is requested over the public gateways wallets and browsers
use. A file counts as resolving only when a public gateway serves it — our
own infrastructure answering is not enough.

Not yet measured: the METADATA LINK (whether each token's on-chain reference
is itself content-addressed), and whether a work PLAYS (what resolves also
renders as the artist intended). On-chain data is not probed: it survives
with the chain itself. The page is regenerated from the raw data on every
update.

## The Feral File Archive

Registry on Ethereum: 0x9aF574cafe2C14161DEC1eAC11F7F2c281fCa34e (FeralFileArchiveRegistry, source-verified; owned by Feral File's 2-of-3 custody Safe 0xA741D850B8B4e684c6F78e9615BD5b33B37AcFcF; owner can only append manifest versions, prior versions immutable in contract storage, no upgrade or destruction path). Current manifest: bafkreichag5umurwbrldem6estvstngdxfcyja5w4jnk7k65thxlteceky (version 1, published 2026-08-05). Ethereum records which manifest is current; the manifest and copies stay available only while pinned. The works' own token references do not yet point at these copies.

## Check a work you own

The page at https://status.feralfile.com has a per-work lookup: paste a token ID (Ethereum,
Tezos, or 64-char Bitmark ID) and see that work's file-by-file state and,
for Bitmark-era works, its archival copy address. The same data is in
data/work_index.json + data/works/ (sharded JSON, documented in the repo).

## Data

- https://status.feralfile.com/data/status.json — every number on this page, structured
- https://status.feralfile.com/data/pin_manifest_2026-08-04.csv — archival copies: series → CID
- https://status.feralfile.com/data/census/token_census_20260803T182523Z.csv.gz — the full probe, one row per file
- Bitmark enumeration + per-series probes + exhibition totals: named at https://status.feralfile.com/#data
- https://status.feralfile.com/feed.xml (RSS, one entry per update)

## Updates

- **2026-08-05 — The Feral File Archive is anchored on Ethereum.** The Archive's manifest — every archival copy's address, for all 215 Bitmark-era series, a2p (the 2019-2020 artist-to-artist exchange Feral File grew out of; 144 works across two generations), and the Bitmark blockchain itself — is now recorded on Ethereum in the FeralFileArchiveRegistry at 0x9aF574cafe2C14161DEC1eAC11F7F2c281fCa34e, owned by Feral File's 2-of-3 custody Safe. For the archived collections, the registry on Ethereum points to their IPFS manifest with no Feral File server in the path; the works' own token references do not yet point at these copies — that reference phase is open. The registry keeps its full version history in contract storage, following the pattern set when the Bitmark blockchain was retired: root on Ethereum, data on IPFS.
- **2026-08-04 — Every Bitmark-era series now has a verified content-addressed copy.** All 215 series — 398 GB, every file of every work whose only copy lived on our CDN — have been added to IPFS and verified byte-for-byte against the originals. The addresses are published in the pin manifest beside this page, so any collector, museum, or archive can hold a copy of any work with one command. The works' own references still point at our CDN; linking them to these copies is the next step.
- **2026-08-03 — First full census of Ethereum and Tezos works.** Every file of every edition — 35,008 works, 106,392 files — was fetched through the public gateways wallets and browsers use. 17,563 works have all media content-addressed and resolving on ipfs.io. 184 works have content-addressed media that currently fails on a public gateway. 17,255 works' media was reachable only from our CDN, and 6 works depended on a third-party platform (figures corrected 2026-08-05 from the first published 17,261); they join the Bitmark-era works on the remediation path. These checks measure the artwork files; the metadata link and rendering are not yet measured.
- **2026-08-03 — Works that depend entirely on us, enumerated.** Published the complete list of works whose only copy sits behind Feral File's own servers: 4,959 works across 215 series in 17 exhibitions, all minted on the Bitmark blockchain before Feral File moved to Ethereum and Tezos. Every series' media was checked and currently resolves. Remediation — a content-addressed copy for every work, so each resolves independently of us — is targeted within 2 to 3 months. The full census of Ethereum and Tezos works is running and publishes here when it completes.