We have a house.
It has a Banksy.
We’re not selling it.
There’s a house, in an old seaside town on the Eastern tip of England, with a Banksy on the wall. The last untouched piece from Banky's series The Great British Spraycation. Still there. Still intact. Still unsold.
Most of the time, the story would end here. A wall gets cut out. The artwork gets flown to Basel. A Certificate of Authenticity arrives in a Peli case. We all move on.
But what if it stayed on the wall?
The Banksy House Project is a live experiment in cultural refusal. It asks what happens when we preserve a piece of public art in situ and build something entirely new around it: not a market, but a mechanism; not a product, but a protocol where the value isn’t in the object but in the choice not to extract from it.
What emerges is not an artwork, but an interface.
One that connects physical space to digital consensus. One that treats “floor price” as more than a number on a dashboard. One that invites us to imagine what happens when the art stays put and the network moves around it.
In an economy of exits, this is a refusal.
And that might be the most onchain idea yet.
the_daves
THE BANKSY STAYS ON THE WALL
Declaration Of The _Daves_001
As keepers of The House and Guardians of The Wall we make this Declaration.
Recorded onchain 6th August 2025.
Call cosignDeclaration
// Instructions for co-signing the declaration directly to Ethereum on base.
string public constant COSIGN_INSTRUCTIONS =
"TO CO-SIGN THE DECLARATION:\n\n"
"1. Choose your DAVE name to sign with (max 14 characters)\n"
"2. Use only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens (-)\n"
"3. Your signature will be permanently inscribed as: i_am_[yourname]_dave\n"
"4. Each address may sign once. Each signature must be unique.\n"
"5. This declaration cannot be unsigned. This is permanent.\n\n"
"By signing, you declare: THE BANKSY STAYS ON THE WALL\n\n"
"Call cosignDeclaration('yourname') to add your signature";
