SLOPWARE installs 64 random bytes as Ethereum programs: 68 exist, only one runs
bushibuilds · x · 2026-10-08
SLOPWARE is an experimental art project that deploys 64 uniformly random bytes onto Ethereum as executable EVM bytecode—no interpretation, filtering, or correction. "The art is whatever happens next."
The team first traced 1 million such programs on a private Ethereum copy: about 1 in 5 survives its first instruction, with survival odds shrinking by that factor at every step. Roughly 1 in 10,000 does anything resembling behavior—5 wrote persistent data to storage, 17 executed CREATE or CREATE2 without producing child contracts, and a few answered differently to money or data sent to them. Programs die for two main reasons: the byte isn't an instruction, or the instruction reaches for something not on the stack.
Of the 68 programs installed so far, 67 crash; only #63 runs—and it does nothing.
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