Arks are a collection of the first 43 ships to reach Yowunas Maias after hundreds of generations searching for a place to settle and build a life. Hosted on Arweave and minted on Ethereum, Arks are early adopter passes for decent.land — a stack of social and identity protocols for web3 dapps. Ark holders are whitelisted for future decent.land collections, tokens, and more. Beyond utility in the protocol, Arks are a prelude to the story told so far through decent.land lore. Each ark’s metadata contains a rich backstory from writer and art director Lee Tyrrell, with traits based on events in the narratives. The visual artist behind Arks is jrdsctt, a prolific graphic designer and photographer known for glitchy fine art 1/1s and innovating on how art can be manipulated with code. The decent.land Art Director, Lee Tyrrell, has published a rich collection of Ark and decent.land lore on Medium: https://leetyrrell.medium.com/list/a-decent-land-inprogress-novel-6f8c0bbf6a37