This tight collective of artists and NFT enthusiasts call themselves the auction house of the future. We are inclined to believe them.
Today, they are launching the first auction on their new V3 smart contract suite, built by Futurescale. It includes self-minting by allow-listed artists, both primary and secondary marketplaces, supporting digital + physical drops.
Take for instance the time they auctioned Michael Arrington's flat in Kiev, transferring ownership to the auction winner via the Ethereum blockchain, planting the flag of First Real Estate NFT.
Or the time artist Jisbar sent a painting into open space, recording its entire journey and return to Earth, whereupon he split it into pieces, framed them in acrylic, and auctioned all them all from a single bespoke interface that allowed placing and monitoring bids on all the parts of a seamless whole.
From extremely rare sneakers to collectible AR-enhanced collectible cards to traditional physical art pieces, Seen Haus has built a reputation for pushing boundaries.
All that experimentation has meant a lot of churn, both in UI and in smart contracts, which have, up until now, have been tweaked and deployed anew for nearly every auction, making it a very high-touch process.
Once they found their niche, they decided to build more manageable contracts that would support both digital or physical auctions, and upon which a curated stable of artists could easily launch auctions in a self-service manner.
This is where Futurescale comes into the picture. We built a new auction house contract suite based on the EIP-2535 Diamond Proxy architecture. And now that their marketplace is live with these new contracts, they've been kind enough to open-source them for anyone to study or use.