2023
talktonft.ai
An AI experiment that let anyone chat with a public NFT, with a roadmap for creators, owners, and communities to shape its character and world.
- AI Characters
- LangChain
- Vector Search
- NFT Metadata
- Community
In 2023, I was trying to keep myself current with the first big wave of AI hype. LangChain and vector search were two of the hottest terms around, so I spent time getting familiar with them and ended up with talktonft.ai.
AI personas were everywhere. NFT collections felt like unusually good material for them: they already had characters, traits, communities, and sometimes a whole culture and story growing around them. Azuki was my favorite, even if owning one was well outside my wallet’s reach.
The surviving page · 2023
Awaken, Evolve, Uncharted
The roadmap had three phases. Awaken meant anyone could chat with any public NFT. Evolve would let verified creators and owners define an NFT or collection. Uncharted opened that process to everyone: people could propose changes and vote with contribution tokens earned by engaging with the platform.
A collection owner could claim its official version, and each NFT owner could define the official version of their own token. Community forks would live beside them, with the hottest ones rising to the top. I also imagined collections crossing into one another and their communities extending the worlds together.
What I built
I got most of Awaken working. You could paste the OpenSea URL of any public NFT and chat with it; its collection, metadata, traits, and rarity helped shape the persona. The project kept conversation history and included a small Azuki knowledge base built with embeddings and vector search.
As software, that was close to phase one. As a character experience, it still felt more like milestone 0.5. The replies were too repetitive, and I never got them to a quality I was happy with.
Personified Online
I also planned personified.onl as a separate public character service that talktonft could consume. A character would have its own prompts and supporting files; the service would index that material, retrieve the relevant context, and expose it through context and chat APIs. No code was written for it, but it was the more general version of the idea without requiring every character to begin as an NFT.
personified.onl · planning
Maybe later
2026 is probably a good time to resume the project. The models are much better now, although NFT feels like a long-gone term. The site is still there.