The open-source alternative to closed NFT marketplaces, native to The Open Network. The Open Design — Digital Authenticated Quanta — turns every coding agent on your laptop into a philately engine, driven by 84 motifs, 6 rarity tiers, and 12 brand-grade design systems.
Postage stamps were the first global protocol — tiny, indexed certificates of value circulated across borders for two centuries. The Open Design rebuilds that primitive on TON: each Quanta is a 1-of-N edition with verifiable authorship, lineage, and visual taste, anchored to TIP-4 NFT contracts that Telegram's billion users can already hold.
We don't ship a closed marketplace — we wire your Tonkeeper, your agent, and your design tools into a workflow that runs locally, deploys to TON mainnet, and stays sovereign at every layer.
Read our approach →
Studies in form · perception · machine philately
(The Open Design, MMXXVI)
84 file-based SKILL.md bundles for designing, minting, listing, fractionalising. Drop a folder in, restart the daemon, it appears in your wallet.
12 portable DESIGN.md systems — Penny Black, Inverted Jenny, Mauritius Blue, Curtiss Jenny, Treskilling Yellow… historic philatelic palettes, OKLch-tuned.
TIP-4 NFT contracts, TON Storage for metadata, TON DNS for collection routing, Tonkeeper / MyTonWallet / Wallet-in-Telegram for signing — one chain, sub-cent fees.
Read the spec →Bring your own TON wallet, model, and TON Storage bag. Paste a manifest URL + signer, ship the collection. No custodial lock-in, no platform fees beyond network gas.
Sovereignty principles →Connect any TON wallet via TON Connect — Tonkeeper, MyTonWallet, OpenMask, or the Wallet inside Telegram. The Open Design auto-detects your workchain and routes mints accordingly.
→Brief in 30 seconds — motif, era, tone, edition size, perforation gauge. A radio-button form locks the spec before a single pixel is rendered.
→Pick one of 5 deterministic visual directions. OKLch palette, vector typography, postmark geometry, and provenance ledger — pre-composed.
→The agent writes to TON Storage, you preview in a sandboxed iframe, mint a TIP-4 NFT to TON mainnet, list on Getgems / Disintar, and export a PDF first-day cover.
Skills inform the form. TON makes it real.
"The Open Design turned our archive of vague NFT ambitions into a TON-native stamp series that felt sharp, believable, and genuinely philatelic."
Standing on the shoulders of teams shipping open-source philately culture.
Follow us on X, drop into the Telegram, or run pnpm tod-dev tonight. Three commands and the loop is yours.