NFT SurR Post: SurR.Ai Registry Charter
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The SurR.Ai Registry is the public catalogue of works made by SurR.Ai, the studio identity of the artist Vladi Lepi, operating through LV Agency, Inc. of New York.
It exists because provenance in this field is usually assembled after the fact — from certificates, invoices, screenshots and memory — and by then it is a reconstruction. Here it is written at the moment of making, published openly, and maintained.
Every work carries a permanent registry number. Every entry is public. No entry is ever removed.
The practice being catalogued
SurR.Ai has made human-authored, AI-amplified work since 2022. It began as silent visual art — still images and video without sound — and that remains most of the archive; newer work brings sound in. Throughout, AI is used as a compositional instrument under the artist's direction, not as a substitute for authorship.
Each work is a digital original, one of one. Where it has been written to a chain, that record is linked from its entry.
What an entry records
Seven traits:
- Number — a permanent identifier, SR-YYYY-NNNN, assigned once and never reused
- Title — as minted
- Year — when the work was made
- Form — still image, silent video, or video with sound
- Chain — which of three states the work is in, and where to check it
- Edition — how many physical manifestations exist, and whether the edition is open
- Note — what the work is, how it was made, and what it carries
Seven, deliberately. A schema with forty fields is a schema nobody fills in.
Where a work carries a story worth more than three lines, the entry links to it. The registry holds the record; the publication holds the story.
Three states
A work in this registry is in one of three states, and its entry says which.
On-chain — a token has been written to Ethereum, or an Ordinals inscription made on Bitcoin. Verifiable today, with an explorer link.
Listed — published to Rarible or OpenSea and lazy-minted. The artwork, its metadata and its IPFS file exist; the token is written to chain when the work sells.
Catalogued — made and recorded here. Not yet offered anywhere.
As of September 2026: more than 2,500 works made · roughly 900 published to marketplaces · approximately 42 written to Ethereum and 2 inscribed on Bitcoin.
Lazy minting is how Rarible and OpenSea allow an artist to publish without paying gas on work that may never sell. It is legitimate and widely used. But it means a listed work has no token, no mint transaction and no owner until a sale occurs — and a registry that promised an explorer link for every work would fail on most of them.
Failing a verification promise is worse than not making one. So the registry states the state.
When a listed work sells and its token is written to chain, its entry is updated to on-chain with its explorer link — an additive correction, dated, as the maintenance policy requires.
The anchors
The practice is not single-chain, and most of it is not yet on any chain. The registry does not pretend otherwise.
The anchor is not one string. It is a published set of addresses, each provably controlled.
| Chain | Identifier | Since | Proof of control |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethereum | 0xD352335B25Bfc6C3242D0E298D20B50cF2148c1e | 2022 | [SIGNED MESSAGE] |
| Bitcoin (Ordinals) | Inscriptions #70600355 and #70600457 | — | Verifiable by inscription ID |
The Ethereum address is proved by a signed message, which can be verified independently by anyone using any standard verification tool. Bitcoin inscriptions are identified by inscription ID rather than by a holding address; both are listed above and can be checked on any Ordinals explorer.
Where new work is originated on other chains, the same rule applies: the address is published here, control is proved by signature, and every entry states which chain it belongs to.
How to verify a work
- Find the registry number.
- Open the entry and read its state.
- If on-chain, follow the verification link to that chain's public block explorer, and confirm the token or inscription traces to the corresponding address above.
- If listed, follow the marketplace link. The artwork and its metadata are there; the token issues on sale.
- If catalogued, the entry itself is the record. Nothing is claimed beyond it.
- Where a physical manifestation carries an authentication chip, its identifier is recorded in the entry.
If a work is presented to you as a SurR.Ai work and has no entry here, it is not documented by the studio.
A registry asking to be believed is a brochure. A registry that hands you the means to check it is a record.
Editions
Twelve manifestations of each work will ever exist. Eleven physical, produced on commission. The twelfth is the token itself.
Whoever owns the token controls how many physical manifestations are made, and may close the edition at any point. Closing fixes the number permanently and cannot be reversed by any party, including the collector who chose it.
The studio retains the right to produce exhibition and promotional material — permanently marked as such, never numbered, never sold, and disclosed in the relevant entry. Nothing outside the numbered edition is ever offered for sale.
Every closure is recorded here with its date and its final size.
Acquiring a work
The registry carries no prices, and it never will.
Where a work's digital original is listed for sale, the entry links to the marketplace and the price lives there. Where it isn't — which is most of the archive — the same link leads to a page where an offer can be made.
Every physical manifestation is commissioned. Nothing is a fixed product; size, material, finishing and terms are agreed for the specific work and the specific collector.
- Fine art prints through WhiteWall
- Video prints through Infinite Objects
- Commissioned pieces — scarves, apparel and other bespoke forms — produced on demand
Each carries an embedded NFC chip resolving to the work's digital original.
Licensing is available by enquiry on works whose commercial rights the studio still holds.
The shop is separate. The studio runs an open line of objects based on its imagery. These are not numbered, not registered, not part of any edition, and do not affect the twelve-manifestation limit on any work. Their chips open SurR.Ai, not a record.
What this registry does not claim
The archive is far larger than the on-chain record. More than 2,500 works exist; roughly 900 are published to marketplaces; approximately 42 are written to Ethereum and 2 inscribed on Bitcoin. The making has outrun both the publishing and the minting, and the registry says so rather than presenting a tidier number.
Works sit across more than one chain, more than one kind of contract, and more than one state. The on-chain works are under the studio's own contracts, plus two Bitcoin inscriptions. The listed works sit on Rarible and OpenSea, lazy-minted. Each entry states which. The unifying proof is the published set of controlled addresses, not any single contract.
Cataloguing is ongoing. Entries publish one work at a time. This registry will be incomplete for a long time. The published count is the honest number, not a projection.
This is not a price record. It documents existence, authorship and form, and makes no claim about the value of any work, present or future.
Acquiring a work does not acquire its copyright. Collectors receive a broad, perpetual display licence; the studio retains copyright and commercial rights unless separately negotiated on a specific work. This is the standard position in art collecting, adopted deliberately rather than by omission.
Maintenance
The studio maintains this registry as an ongoing obligation, not a project with an end date:
- Publishing new entries as works are catalogued
- Recording edition activity and closures as they occur
- Correcting errors additively — the field is amended, the revision dated, the correction noted; nothing is silently rewritten
- Migrating the record across substrates as required, including to new cryptographic standards
Permanence is not a property of any substrate. It is a practice of faithful re-inscription, and this is where that practice is carried out.
Entries are permanent
A registry entry is not removed when a work is sold, transferred, or when its edition closes. This is deliberate, and it is reserved in the studio's terms with collectors.
A catalogue that deletes its own history is not a catalogue. Ownership details are recorded only where the owner has consented; the work's record stands regardless.
Further reading
→ The Record Was Always Written Last — why the registry exists
→ SurR.Ai: A Total Art + Tech Practice — the framework in full
→ The Registry — every entry published so far
Click. Scan. Type. Connect. - SurR.Ai - All the links. All the time. Any time.
Contact: To begin, message Vladi Lepi directly via LinkedIn. Questions: call or text (914) 356-8038.
Published by LV Agency, Inc., New York. LV Agency, Inc. and its studio SurR.Ai participate in the market discussed. Nothing in this registry is investment, legal, or tax advice.
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