# Canvas64 and the Million Dollar Homepage

> The Million Dollar Homepage sold pixels once, a dollar each. Canvas64 sells 64 cells again and again, and every buyout pays the owner.

In 2005 the Million Dollar Homepage sold a million pixels of one web page as advertising, at one dollar a pixel in blocks of 10 × 10, and sold the last of them in January 2006 ([its story](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage)). Canvas64 is the same public wall of ads, rebuilt so that a spot never stops trading: 64 cells, each claimed once for $30 and then open to a buyout by anyone at a higher price, with the owner paid every time.

## The difference in one table

| | The Million Dollar Homepage | Canvas64 |
|---|---|---|
| The space | 1,000,000 pixels on one page | 64 cells on a wall in a 3D night city |
| The first price | one dollar a pixel, a hundred dollars for the smallest block | $30 for a free cell |
| After the first sale | the pixels stay with their buyer; the page has no resale | anyone can buy a cell out at the next step, 1.65× the last price |
| Who a resale pays | nobody | the owner who is bought out ($49 for a cell claimed for $30), and a royalty to every earlier owner of that cell, forever |
| Where the rules live | with the site's owner | in a contract on Base that nobody can change |
| What an owner shows | an image, a link and a line of text | a photo, a name and links to Twitch, YouTube, Kick, TikTok, Instagram, X or Linktree, changed by the owner at any time |
| How you pay | to the site | USDC on Base, from your own wallet, straight to the contract |

## What carries over

The idea that made the Million Dollar Homepage famous holds here: a single page everyone can see, where buying a spot puts you in front of every visitor, and the wall itself is the story people share. Canvas64 keeps it small on purpose. With 64 cells instead of a million pixels, each owner's face, name and channel is large enough to read without zooming.

## What is new

- **A spot keeps its value moving.** A pixel there was bought once. A cell here can always be bought, at a price that rises 1.65× per step: $30, $50, $82, $135 and on, with no cap.
- **The owner is paid when they are bought out.** The buyer's money goes to the owner in the same transaction, less a 2% fee and the royalties of earlier owners. Nobody can take a cell without paying its owner.
- **Every owner earns from the cell's future.** Each earlier owner keeps a royalty on every later sale of that cell: 5% for the first, a quarter less for each owner after.
- **The rules are code.** The [price ladder](https://canvas64.com/docs/prices.md) and every payout are enforced by a contract with no owner and no upgrade, so they read the same for the first buyer and the hundredth.
- **Agents can use it.** Any AI agent can read the wall, price a cell and prepare a purchase for the person's wallet over a [public MCP server](https://canvas64.com/docs/agents.md).

## See it

The wall is live at [canvas64.com](https://canvas64.com/). Every cell has its own page, such as [https://canvas64.com/D4](https://canvas64.com/D4), with what it costs now and what its owner gets when it is bought out. To claim one you need a wallet with USDC on Base: [how to pay](https://canvas64.com/docs/wallets-and-paying.md).