Somewhere in Belarus, a young boy grew up with signs of cracked walls, in a cold streets, and headphones full of hip hop. Before galleries came, before collectors knew his name, he was just another kid staring at graffiti in magazines, trying to understand how paint on concrete could have a feeling of being alive. ➟ He started drawing letters first. Raw graffiti forms. Sharp edges. Rebellion. But somewhere between the spray cans and the sketchbooks, the characters started appearing to him, and it became a moment of realization Strange creatures. Souls with emotion. Faces carrying silence, curiosity, and wonder. ➠ That boy was Dima Kashtalyan. Long before Web3 would ever know his name, Dima lived many different lives just to survive. He studied engineering. Worked in a car factory. Worked construction sites. Worked as a sales manager. Worked real estate jobs. ➜ Different uniforms, Different cities, Different moments . But through every stage of life, the art stayed alive. Late nights, Sketchbooks,Walls, Murals. Personal worlds anybody and I dare say nobody fully understood yet. ➟ He wasn’t chasing trends He was building a universe slowly and it's piece by piece and of course with his own hands. Over time, that universe became The Beaks. Not just about characters. Not just about illustrations. But a living mythology. Every Beak carries a story. Every line feels hand-carved from memory. Every dotwork detail feels obsessive, human, emotions. ➠ And unlike the flood of AI-generated collections entering the space, Dima’s work carries something impossible to fake: A perfect picture of experience. More than 20 years of it. His art crossed borders long before crypto even noticed him. It lived inside galleries, magazines, murals, and international exhibitions. His work was published by giants like The New York Times, Harper’s, and MIT. He exhibited at Art Nou Gallery in Barcelona after becoming winner of the second international Fomenar competition. He participated in Seoul Illustration Fair. He brought his work to Art Taipei 2025. And across urban environments and mural festivals, his art transformed walls into emotional architecture. ➜ Yet despite all of this, Web3 remained something he watched quietly from the outside. Until now. And maybe that’s what makes this moment very special. Because this isn’t another rushed NFT project built from hype and artificial scarcity. ➟ Mint Details Supply: 1,111 Artist: @DKashtalyan Collection: THE BEAKS Mint Date: TBA Marketplace: @opensea ➠ This is a real artist entering the space with decades of scars, craftsmanship, identity, and a solid vision behind him. For Dima, Web3 feels less like a trend and more like an open gate. The Beaks feels like the result of an entire lifetime converging into one signal. That young graffiti kid from Belarus. The worker. The engineer. The mural artist. The illustrator. The dreamer. All reconstructed into one solid universe. ➜ And now, the world finally gets to enter it. It's a moment for me to remember that I'll always survive. With love, Immaculate .A. Adedamola✧❤️ @DKashtalyan @thebeaksart