SuperRare’s first 100 tokens: How the era of multiple editions became a source of scarcity today
Take a walk all the way back to 2018 when SuperRare's first 99 tokens were released into the crypto world.…
Uncovering abandoned multi-million dollar Ethereum projects: The life of an NFT archeologist
A small group of dedicated digital historians spend their days digging through Etherscan, Github, old Reddit threads and forgotten Discord channels to uncover abandoned early NFT projects now worth millions of dollars.…
Confessions of a Crypto Scammer: How one man stole thousands from artists
As the NFT market has grown, hacker attacks have grown with it. Here's the story of how SuperRare found and confronted one of the community's most prolific scammers…
63 YEARS AGO, A NON-FUNGIBLE-TOKEN WAS AN ART-WORLD SENSATION. 4 YEARS AGO, IT WENT ON-CHAIN.
Because in a lot of ways, an artwork has never been just about the physical thing. Any artwork is a token, a token that connects you to an idea: an idea about the long-past empire, an idea about the person who created it, a political idea, or an…
Combating the Disinformation Age with Art and Crypto
Editorial is open for submissions: [email protected] by Jake Johns’ 💎 @bigcomicart Artist Jake Johns’ and the inspirations behind an artistic social media revolution utilizing Blockchain Technology, a.k.a. “Crypto Art”. “Did you look at your phone before you peed this morning, or during midstream?…” asks the question by one of…
The Lost Robbies
This is the story of The Lost Robbies.…
The History of Digital Art for Crypto Explorers
By Dagmar Carnevale Lavezzoli and Jay Bowles at Crysalis 50s: HOW IT ALL STARTED The Origin of Computer Art The very beginning of computer art can be traced back to the 1950s. During that period artists were exploring mechanical devices and analogue computers, creating works that paved the…
Reflections on the Purpose of Contemporary Digital Art
One of the key concepts about artists for me is that it is important to keep in touch with your essence, the true self. This forms the style, lays the message and conveys it to the beholder. I think that I will not be mistaken if I say…
From Duchamp to First Supper-Decentralized Revolution of Cryptoart
The emergence of programmable cryptoart has completely changed the previous Sol-style interactive art creation method and experience method. Automated smart contracts with multi-person participation provide a new interactive method for artistic creation. Thanks to the rich custom functions given by the smart contract and the encrypted key mechanism…
Rethinking the Scarcity of Crypto Art
Cryptoart patrons are always facing a problem when choosing their new collections. The works of their favorite artists will have the difference between single edition and multiples. From the perspective of return on investment, Should we invest in single edition or multiples?…