Editing Cryptograss (section)

==History==
The first project which evolved into a cryptograss tool was [[Revealer]], which was started at the [[EthBarcelona 2023]] hackathon by [[Justin Holmes]], [[R.J. Partington III]], [[Kieran Prasch]], and [[Kuba Hejhal]].  The project was, at that time, designed specifically to release Holmes' debut bluegrass record, [[Vowel Sounds]], and won the [[Gnosis]] prize at the hackathon.

In the following weeks, the group launched chat forums on Discord and Matrix, and held several conference calls leading up the album release.  In addition to the hackathon winners, these calls were joined by [[Skyler Golden]], [[Jakub Vysoky]], and [[Jake Stargel]], the latter of whom coined the term 'cryptograss' during one of the calls.

The Revealer contract - the group's first mainnet contract - was deployed on September 1, 2023, as <small>0xa812137EFf2B368d0B2880A39B609fB60c426850</small> on the ethereum blockchain.  The contract required that 10 eth (at the time, about $38,000) be contributed in order for Vowel Sounds to be released.  This goal was accomplished in almost exactly 8 days.

Subsequently, the calls continued and attention turned toward creating other tools and making those tools available to other musicians.