Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin introduced a new image compression mode called Token for Image Tokenizer (TiTok) on the decentralized social media platform Farcaster, and said that 320 bits is basically a hash value. Small enough for every user to be on the chain. It is reported that TiTok, developed by researchers at ByteDance and the Technical University of Munich, can compress images into 32 small data blocks (bits) without loss of quality. According to the TiTok research paper, advanced artificial intelligence (AI) image compression enables TiTok to compress 256x256 pixel images into 32 discrete tags.