Developer generates anime avatars on a 4GB GPU and mints them as NFTs
11/02/2026 — 11/02, 19:20·1 sources (all)·1 reports (all)
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- The author generated 22 anime avatars on a 4GB GTX 1650 and wrote custom ERC-721 and Seaport listing code in Python to deploy on Base. The p…
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On November 2, 2026, a developer posted on DEV Community about generating 22 anime portraits on a single GTX 1650 with 4GB of VRAM. The same write-up covers building an ERC-721 contract and a Seaport listing layer in Python from scratch and deploying the whole thing on Base. The author is explicit that this is not a show-off piece about the NFTs; the real subject is three bugs that swallowed an entire day, none of which surfaced an error pointing to the actual cause. The first one: on GTX 16-series cards, fp16 silently produces NaN. The first run of 20 images came out completely black, not dim, with a pixel mean of 0.0 and a non-black pixel ratio of 0%. The pipeline was built with StableDiffusionPipeline.from_single_file on a checkpoint file. The failure was resolved by switching to fp32 and offloading modules rather than running them all in VRAM at once. This remains the only published step so far, and no further reports have followed the piece.
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The author generated 22 anime portraits on a GTX 1650 with 4GB of VRAM and wrote the ERC-721 and Seaport listing layer in Python to deploy on Base. The post details three bugs that did not point to their real cause, including fp16 silently producing NaN on GTX 16-series cards and turning 20 images black, fixed only with fp32 plus module offload.
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