Method
Save in public. Build in public.
Every archived work is reachable. Every piece of tooling is built so other preservation operators can point at it, audit it, and reuse it.
About
Building archival tools for blockchain art since 2019.
Hi, I'm Ravonus. I've spent the last several years working on the unsexy half of this space: making sure the art actually stays reachable. Foundation Archive is the clearest version of that work yet.
The short version: too much digital art survives by accident. I'd rather it survive by design.
Maker
Ravonus
I've been writing archival and preservation tools for blockchain art since 2019. That means indexing works, capturing media, replicating it, and trying to keep the retrieval paths alive when the industry underneath moves on. Foundation Archive is the continuation of that work, focused on artists I've been watching for years.
- Based
- Independent
- Focus
- Preservation · Decentralization
- Since
- 2019
- Artist
- ravonus.eth
- Title
- Untitled, 2025
- Cid
- bafyb…c0f1
Track record
A working history of saving media that wasn't supposed to survive.
- 2019Step 1
Started archival tooling for on-chain art
Got pulled into the problem early, when the gap between “minted on-chain” and “actually retrievable” first became obvious. Began writing tools to index, mirror, and hold onto media that no one else was saving on purpose.
- 2020 – 2022Step 2
Shipped preservation pipelines across ecosystems
Built ingestion, metadata crawling, and content-addressed storage flows across multiple chains and marketplaces. Lots of late-night debugging of IPFS pinning, gateway failures, CDN reshuffles, and silent dead links.
- 2023 – 2025Step 3
Focused on resilient media for artists
Kept refining the same idea: the people who care most about a work are usually the best custodians for it. Preservation has to meet them where they are, not just live behind one company's storage bill.
- 2026Step 4
Foundation Archive + the decentralization plan
Foundation Archive is the most direct version of that work so far. Save Foundation art in public now, and build the decentralized service layer that keeps it reachable long after any single host, gateway, or team moves on.
Ethic
Artists stay in control.
The goal isn't to hoard files. It's to keep work reachable on behalf of the people who made it, and support their ability to direct where it goes next.
Bet
Permanence has to be a system.
One host, one gateway, one team: none of those are durable on their own. The long-term answer is a network that carries the work forward even when the current custodians stop paying attention.
What I'm building next
A decentralized preservation layer named agorix.io
Foundation Archive is a live preservation product today. agorix.io is the broader service layer underneath it: a network where demand, storage, verification, and retrieval coordinate so art can outlast any single operator. Read the decentralization page for the plan.
Why me
Seven years of mistakes you don't have to repeat
Pinning that silently fails. Gateways that vanish. Metadata that drifts. Mirrors that look healthy but aren't. Most of the work is the quiet infrastructure underneath. That's what I've been building since 2019.
Want to work together?
If you're an artist, a collector, another preservation operator, or a team working on resilient storage, I'd like to hear from you. The short term is saving more art. The long term is building the network that keeps it reachable.