# Spectre artists : guidelines *You will find in the document below all the informations related to Spectre protocol and Spectre Dapp as well as informations about the artistic partnership we propose* ## Overview Spectre will be a decentralized and open-source app based on the Ethereum network that allows NFT to be collectively owned. This means that rather than being owned by one person Spectre will allows NFT to be owned by a multitude of people, thus preserving the uniqueness and therefore the aura of each work. One of the main reasons we created Spectre was because with Spectre you no longer need to be rich to access art (you can buy a fraction of an artwork) and by selling directly to the multitude we wish to make the artists less dependent on the whales. To get an in-depth look at how Spectre works and the [reasons](https://twitter.com/spectrexyz/status/1397542264298147843) why we are developing it you can read: 1- Our litepaper : https://spectre.xyz/litepaper 2- An Ultra-litepaper (*recommanded*) : https://hackmd.io/alfrePwVRbG6bM3b4inn3g 3- Our FAQ (WIP): https://wind-eclipse-d11.notion.site/FAQ-56940fc02bd745ceacac5cbf614237bd ## Pre-launch / Partnership Spectre will be permissionless, however for the pre-launch we will features about fifteen artists whose works will be spectralized. To spectralize everyone's work we will use [the grant we received from Balancer](https://twitter.com/spectrexyz/status/1415997866913550340) and spend about 1000 $,2000 $ per artist to mint the first tokens (sERC20 tokens) that represent ownership of your artwork. 95% of this amount, in ETH, goes directly to you, the remaining 5% is placed in a liquidity pool which allows everyone to swap ETH for your artwork tokens (sERC20 tokens). A partial list of the artists we'll work with for the pre-launch can be found in our ["friends gallery"](https://spectre.xyz/) We will accompany you step by step during this process of spectralization during a call, this in order to help you in the definition of the price of your work, the parameters of its fractionalization etc.... We also remain fully available to answer all your questions. ## Timeline => End-Sept/Oct For the launch we are asking each artist to keep an original artwork (this could also be an artwork you own that is already available on another platform) in order to Spectralize it for the pre-launch. Pre-launch which should take late place late september 2021 beginning of october. This date remains relatively imprecise because we are dependent on the duration of the audit but it shouldn't be much later.