Lifeforms', like any living thing, need regular care in order to thrive. If not properly looked after, the Lifeforms die. By interjecting unexpected dynamics into a smart
contract system, Lifeforms invert the typical logic of ERC-721 tokens, which is to buy, hold, and hope it increases in value, and instead asks the "owner" to become a custodian or caregiver that must be consistently maintained or cared for their to remain ERC-721 tokens.

Sarah Friend is an artist and software developer from Canada and currently based in Berlin, Germany. In 2023, she was a research fellow at Summer of Protocols, led by Venkatesh Rao and the Ethereum Foundation, and in 2022, she was a professor of blockchain art at the Cooper Union. She has exhibited at and worked with MoMA (NYC), Centre Pompidou (Metz), Kunsthaus Zürich, HEK (Basel), Haus der Kunst (Munich), ArtScience Museum (Singapore), bitforms (NYC), Albright Knox Museum (Buffalo), Rhizome (NYC) and KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin) among others.