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Founder & Managing Partner @hivemindcap . @Citi and @Cambridge_Uni alum. Open internet maxi. Generative art admirer. Not investment advice.
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With immense honor, my wife Eva and I are beyond thrilled to announce our recent donation of Chris Burden's Path to Xanadu to
@LACMA
, now part of the museum’s permanent collection! (1/2)
Learn more in LACMA’s announcement below:
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1 billion transactions and 0 downtime. Let that sink in.
@Algorand
1 BILLION TRANSACTIONS!
"The
@algorand
#blockchain
has just processed its one billionth transaction thanks to a period of sustained high load and the network behaved smoothly, as it is built for" -
@GaryMalouf
, Head of Engineering.
$ALGO fam, stay tuned for a surprise soon 👀
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= Napster acquired by Hivemind and Algorand =
1) Dear friends, we are excited to share that we've taken
@napster
private, and to bring the iconic music brand to the new era of open internet. More exciting news to come but here’s a quick thread to share our project with you all:
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One of the most interesting and disruptive areas in web3 is consumer marketplace. If you are building the next-gen Uber, Airbnb, Ticketmaster or Doordash on chain, we’d love to hear from you and let’s do it together.
@HivemindCap
#Web3
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You probably saw this chart before, but just stare at it again. And yes this is on a log scale, if you know what that means.
#crypto
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Fine. We will build a consumer marketplace on blockchain ourselves. Starting with Gaming.
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As unsexy as it sounds, one of our key missions
@HivemindCap
is to accelerate institutional recognition, adoption and participation in digital asset ecosystem. Like it or not, institutional investors is the reason we go 10x from here. Get ready.
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The next paradigm shift is when we go from a platform based economy to a protocol based economy. In 10 years, it’s more likely we see a trillion dollar network than a trillion dollar company.
#crypto
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You can never have enough Fidenza.
Welcome
#929
to the
@HivemindCap
Digital Culture Fund.
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The easy part is buying a Ringer. The hard part is figuring out how to arrange them in a 3x3 grid!
Thanks to
@dmitricherniak
for helping with all the stunning fine prints in the last few months. Simply put, they are perfect and gorgeous IRL, and hope all the hand-signings are
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An absolute pleasure to have collected this truly stunning piece of 'Memories of Qilin
#694
' by
@emilyxxie
from
@Sothebys
latest Contemporary Art auction!
I could have told you the artwork is unique given its Starry Night provenance; or it's one of the only 24 'Flock'
#AuctionUpdate
: Selected by Karlie Kloss for our NY Contemporary Curated Auction, ‘Memories of Qilin
#694
’ by
@emilyxxie
has achieved $35,560, 5X the high estimate.
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I am hosting a superstar panel at
@Algorand
's
@DecipherEvent
to talk about
#Fandom
Economy with
@NicholasDRL
(CEO of
@DroneRaceLeague
),
@sammathews
(CEO of
@FNATIC
),
@andreabonac
(co-founder of
@AoristArt
) and
@vlasso
(CEO of
@napster
). Creator Economy's Oscar! 12d count down!
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All tokens are useless if the only utility it has is to get you more tokens.
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I lived in China for 18 years, Europe another 15 and last few in US. Not posting this to reveal my age, nor to comment different political regimes. Just to say blockchain brought a different dimension of freedom to my life, and freedom is what we should treasure the most.
#crypto
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Words can’t possibly describe my excitement right now for finally unveil Hivemind Digital Culture Fund today to the public, after almost a year of hard-work and preparation - to dedicate capital and resources to move forward the digital culture and generative art movement, and to
Today, we introduce the Hivemind Digital Culture Fund: A curated collection of generative art and digital culture that is emblematic of the rising digital art movement. 🖼️
Propelled by blockchain technology, we believe digital art is on the brink of a renaissance.
Blockchain
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The waiting is almost over! Introducing Project Drone Galaxy, THE drone racing game in metaverse. Produced by
@xPlaygroundLabs
, powered by
@Algorand
. ⌛️⏳
Drone racing in the metaverse⁉️
Project Drone Galaxy is coming soon. 👀
Join our Discord to claim a digital drone for the game now:
@Algorand
@xPlaygroundLabs
#ProjectDroneGalaxy
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👇👇👇 read this and I will share more.
BREAKING:
@HivemindCap
and
@Algorand
today announced the acquisition of
@Napster
, to once again revolutionize the music industry by bringing blockchain and Web3 to artists and fans. Music industry veteran Emmy Lovell has been named interim CEO. Stay tuned for further details.
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The silver lining of all these is: for those who thought “L1 war is over” and “crypto ecosystems are now complete”, well it might be just getting started. For those who screwed up, it’s your second shot; and for talents who are just joining, it’s a great time to build.
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GM. Some new art works I’ve added to my personal collection lately. I am extremely proud to keep supporting some of the most amazing talents in the digital art space, and absolutely no bear market will stop me from doing so.
“invade 01” by Kjetil Golid
@kGolid
“studio 2” by
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GM. Everyone can buy digital jpegs, that's easy. You just need money.
It's that while everyone else are selling and giving up on digital culture, and you keep buying, that is hard. You need money and conviction.
Then it comes a time you have to decide to sell if at all, that is
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Another Monday, another “Anything Goes”.
Thrilled to add
@tylerxhobbs
’ Fidenza
#90
to the Hivemind Digital Culture Fund!
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One of the hardest things in life is to stay focused. This is particularly true in crypto. There are just way too many distractions in this space, that dilute your attention and energy. Know where you want to be in 5 years, stay in the lane, and you will achieve something big.
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Zero-sum mentality is a sign of late stage industry. We are not in that growth stage, so don’t behave like one.
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GM. Spending my Monday morning in the office, unpacking grail art….
“Inner Love” by Tomas Sanchez
@TomasSanchezSt
“Harbor Scene
#2
” by Tyler Hobbs
@tylerxhobbs
“Ringers” by Dmitri Cherniak
@dmitricherniak
“CryptoPunks” by Larva Labs
@larvalabs
“Winds of Yamanawa” by Refik
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GM to another amazing news!
@droneraceleague
is the most innovative, inclusive and high-tech sport, and it’s made for the metaverse. Excited for
@xPlaygroundLabs
to develop the first
#P2E
sports game with
#DRL
on
@Algorand
, where players can now race drones for
#crypto
and
#NFTs
!
Breaking news from
#CES2022
: DRL and
@xPlaygroundLabs
, a play-to-earn gaming affiliate of
@HivemindCap
, are bringing drone racing to the Metaverse. The very first
#P2E
crypto sports game on
@Algorand
’s blockchain will make your time gaming worthwhile 👀
#DRLxPlaygroundLabs
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GM. Delighted to add Spiral Forms from
@emilyxxie
to my personal collection!
I am amazed by Emily’s ability to constantly harness new technologies as her creating tools, while maintaining a distinctive yet consistent artistic style. Her textile-influenced and folklore-inspired
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GM. We have been busy.
CryptoPunks
#4253
,
#4558
,
#4978
and
#2758
now join
@HivemindCap
Digital Culture Fund.
You feel the vibe? 🙌
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Civilisation moves forward because there are optimists. Cheers to those and happy holidays.
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Build a business model predicated on market becoming Bigger, not market going Higher.
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GM. Welcome triple "Flowers" Wind of Yawanawa
#487
,
#989
and
#701
into the
@HivemindCap
Digital Culture Fund! 🧹🧹🧹
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The next 18-month is the best time to hire talents ahead of the next cycle. And for those talents, the next-18month is the best time to be in the right seat of the right sector for the next decade. Buckle up.
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Vera Molnar, Quatre éléments distribués au hasard, 1959 (left)
Larva Labs, Autoglyph
#34
, 2019 (right)
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Contrarian view: in the next 12month, we will see MORE (rather than less) institutional adoption/interests in
#crypto
as distressed opportunities start to attract cross-over buying interests from main-stream PE/hedge funds who care less about web3 but search for structural beta.
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Cryptopunk
#491
is now in
@HivemindCap
Digital Culture Fund.
Congratulations to another successful
@Sothebys
Digital Art Day Sale!
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@HivemindCap
is thrilled to support
@muneeb
and JP Singh to build Trust Machines and help “convert bitcoin’s trillion-dollar value into more productive capital and grow an economy of bitcoin applications!”
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With Matt Deslauriers
@mattdesl
at Gazelli Art House London
@GAZELL_iO
for the “Awaken, Metamagical Hands” exhibition. Highly recommend if you are in town!
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More art hanging in the
@HivemindCap
office today 🔨⚒️🛠️🖼️
Harbor Scene by
@tylerxhobbs
Fidenza
#943
by
@tylerxhobbs
Ringers
#14
by
@dmitricherniak
Ringers
#962
: The LACMA Iterations by
@dmitricherniak
Crystalized Pikachu by
@DanielArsham
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1/2 ⭐️ HIRING 🌟 best job in the world:
@HivemindCap
is looking for a top talent to join our investment team to focus on the NFT space. Apply below 👇
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GM - music streaming should be where the experience starts, not where it ends. If you’d like to contribute to building an exciting “Music-All-in-One” platform on web3, reach out to napster
@hivemindcapital
.co
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GM. Cryptopunks Wall in progress 🔨⚒️🛠️
All cryptopunks are welcomed to stop by our office and hang out!
Huge shout out to our senior marketing manager
@madisonmariani_
and office manager Allie for making our work place a paradise…
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(1/2) I am beyond thrilled to unveil Playground Labs today.
To enable more participation of the P2E community, game devs and crypto investors, we believe it’s critical to focus on building the infrastructure layer of the ecosystem, right out of the gate.
(1/4) Today I'm ecstatic to announce Playground Labs, a project dedicated to building the infrastructure of the gaming metaverse.
@xPlaygroundLabs
#blockchain
#metaverse
#playtoearn
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Don’t try to institutionalize crypto community, but to bring institutions to the crypto space. Big difference.
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I think it’s criminal that human beings have to pay to listen to music; and it’s equally criminal artists get paid close to nothing to product one.
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Crypto is one of those rare spaces where the longer view you take, the simpler the trade becomes. 95% people have a consensus if we are higher in 5 years because you are betting on a technology; more debatable in a year because you are betting on a cycle; and if anyone tells you
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7) Finally, volatile market and uncertain times often bring exciting opportunities. At Hivemind, we believe in developing deep thesis and building enduring value.
Keep your heads down and continue to build. WAGMI.
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Hello world 👋
A Stunning Moment!
Seven grail artworks have been purchased by an anon collector from Sotheby's (Starry Night collection) for undisclosed sum.
"It’s a real collectors’ market with strong convictions and a growing appetite for historic and blue chip works." -
@michaelbouhanna
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Super stoked about
@HivemindCap
’s strategic investment and partnership with
@FNATIC
, one of the most iconic and global
#esports
brands. Together, we will bring hundreds of millions of gamers and fans to web3!
Read full announcement 👇 and stay tuned for more exciting updates!
BREAKING:
@HivemindCap
announces strategic investment and partnership with esports giant
@FNATIC
Hivemind is thrilled to announce our strategic partnership and investment with leading esports brand Fnatic to further support their movement into
#Web3
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Putting a starting bid on this bad boy. If you own grail punk or digital art,
@HivemindCap
is here to chat.
Punk 9368 has a new bid of 300 ETH ($686,343.02 USD) placed by 0x8d3ae3.
#cryptopunks
#ethereum
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there’s a huge valuation disconnection right now among public company, public tech company, private tech company, and private “web3” tech company. Not saying anything, just stating a fact.
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What happened in our industry today is fundamentally contradicting with what the whole community is looking to build. It’s a sad day.
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QQL
#308
and
#309
created by
@tylerxhobbs
joins
@HivemindCap
Digital Culture Fund, following the successful auction earlier today from
@museumartlight
@iconic__culture
and
@AOTMgallery
.
I can't stress enough the importance of QQL within Tyler's creating universe, let alone
The history of art making has always been tied to the history of technological developments. Computers are such an amazing and central technology in our lives that it feels crucial to me that we make and show artwork that focuses on computers and our relationship with them.
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Excited to unveil Fidenza
#718
by
@tylerxhobbs
as part of the Hivemind Digital Culture Fund collection - the only Micro & Sharp Angle piece within the whole Fidenza collection and acquired from the Starry Night collection.
Read below the curation thesis from our team and stay
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And Grifters never looked back since.
📣 We just added 11 Grifters from
@XCOPYART
to the Digital Culture Fund Collection!
Grifters is XCOPY’s only generative series and includes 666 works.
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4) “Proforma revenues from the Napster streaming service and Melody VR service combined totalled $96 million in 2020 and during January 2021 generated monthly revenues of c. $8m.”
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One of the most “overlooked” collections with historical significance.
@refikanadol
/📣 We just added 12 Synthetic Dreams by
@refikanadol
to the Digital Culture Fund Collection!
Created in collaboration with Google, Synthetic Dreams is the first-ever NFT collection with Quantum Computation datasets.
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GM. First principles for launching
@HivemindCap
Digital Culture Fund:
New technology drives new wealth creation, new wealth creation drives new art movement.
Welcome to the era of digital native art and culture.
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2) First, for those of you who don’t know Napster, it’s the music OG peer-to-peer service pioneer founded in 1999, with web3 DNA before the web1 era. This year the brand celebrates its 23rd birthday. Napster has had an eventful history and yes, it is still very much alive.
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6) So how does Napster interact with other web3 music projects? We strive to build a collaborative music universe and Napster will partner up with many emerging projects to collectively build an ecosystem truly amazing.
Reach out to join our project: napster
@hivemindcapital
.co
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3) As a matter of fact, not only it is alive, unlike many other crypto projects or web2 throwbacks, Napster actually is a mature public-listed company before the acquisition, with real revenue and user base. What does that mean?
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Urban Light (2008), assemblage sculpture (left)
Metropolis II (2011), kinetic sculpture (middle)
Path to Xanadu (2024), NFT (right)
All by Chris Burden, now part of
@LACMA
permanent collection.
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@muneeb
@BillAckman
This is very well articulated by
@muneeb
. The most important take-away here is that: contrary to the conventional impressions, steady state (once most of
#Bitcoin
are mined), Bitcoin and its adjacent ecosystem (L2, scaling, privacy etc) actually provides the MOST ENERGY EFFICIENT
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5) At Hivemind, we believe Music x Web3 is one of the most exciting spaces, and we want to revolutionize how artists/fans create contents, share experience and be rewarded properly. The new Napster will be a music-all-in-one platform for the community. Stay tuned for more details
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Sorry, I meant quintuple!
Two more flower-origin Winds of Yawanawa
#103
and
#638
by
@refikanadol
join
@HivemindCap
Digital Culture Fund.
GM. Welcome triple "Flowers" Wind of Yawanawa
#487
,
#989
and
#701
into the
@HivemindCap
Digital Culture Fund! 🧹🧹🧹
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When you see an amazing artist collecting art of another amazing artist, that’s a GM right there!
Memories of Qilin
#396
by
@emilyxxie
added to my collection
Myth is my favorite place to find true things about other humans. Lovers of myth I often find the most in. I’ve enjoyed watching Emily’s unfold so far and very much look forward to seeing where it goes next.
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Following the official launch of the Hivemind Digital Culture Fund last week, we are starting a month-long fun campaign to unveil some of the cornerstone artworks we have thoughtfully collected and curated discreetly over the last 9months, starting from today!
And I can’t think
1/ We are proud to reveal Return Zero [Blue] by
@tylerxhobbs
, acquired from
@ArtOnInternet
, as part of the Digital Culture Fund Collection!
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Our faith in the industry is entirely unshaken. 💙
For
@SamPeurifoy
, partner at crypto venture capital firm Hivemind, the FTX collapse could help wash out “the garbage” that’s flocked to the crypto space during the market frenzy of the past two years. “My faith in the industry is entirely unshaken,” he said. 💙
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One of the my favorite and most talented artists in the space. Congratulations
@emilyxxie
,
@BobLoukas
and everyone involved!
Congrats
@BobLoukas
––thrilled to see these works added to your collection. I deeply appreciate your support as a dedicated collector of my art, and am excited to see some of the pieces displayed in the new space the next time I'm at
@Station3NYC
. 🗽
We're grateful for all of the
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GM. It’s a very Windy Wednesday!
Winds of Yawanawa by
@refikanadol
, curated by
@HivemindCap
Digital Culture Fund.
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GM. Who is going to Marfa this year? 🙋♂️🙋♀️
We are officially less than 90 DAYS away from our 4th annual Art Blocks Marfa Weekend, which runs November 14-17!
RSVP here for the best event of the year!
If you've already RSVP'd, here's your reminder to book travel and accommodations 😎
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GM. Blockchain offers digital artists one unique superpower that people rarely realized or talked about to date: it can be deployed thoughtfully to programmatically reduce artists’ past oversupplied artworks. This is important. 1/5 🧵
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Excited to lead
@SpaceandTimeDB
new funding round with our friends at
@hiFramework
@FactionVC
@Arrington_Cap
and many other great investors, and to back
@holiday_nate
and
@chiefbuidl
to build the next generation of compute infrastructure! 🎉
1/ Thrilled to announce that Hivemind is co-leading a $20M Series A Funding Round for
@SpaceandTimeDB
, a verifiable compute layer for AI x Blockchain, alongside
@hiFramework
,
@FactionVC
, and
@Arrington_Cap
🚀
Blockchain technology is redefining how we establish trust in data,
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Thrilled to reveal “A Slight Lack of Symmetry Can Cause So Much Pain” by the one and only
@dmitricherniak
as part of the Hivemind Digital Culture Fund, acquired from the Starry Night collection. Read our curation thesis below.
1/ We are proud to reveal two of the four editions of A Slight Lack of Symmetry Can Cause So Much Pain, by
@dmitricherniak
, as part of the Digital Culture Fund Collection!
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