Secured the ONE. Thank you
@beeple
for the visionary innovation, amazing new energy and hilarious positive vibes that you've brought to both crypto and art. gn
Look around crypto right now. Who’s left are only OGs, crypto natives, true believers in self-sovereign wealth & decentralization of power & opportunity on the Internet. Only real ones left building real things.
The Monument Game represents everything we love about this new cohort of on-chain digital art. A Supernova artist whose career trajectory has been meteoric & accelerated by his generous support of psychedelic science. A crypto-native game that expands the community in a
1/15 A year ago in the back of a
@MAPS
fundraiser, I won
@beeple
’s HUMAN ONE at
@ChristiesInc
. To say this changed my life is a hilarious understatement.
5 lessons from a year of being hurdled face-first into the art world & stewarding an iconic work of 21st-century culture.🧵👇
Anyone saying NFTs are dead just needs to be reminded that an NFT is currently featured at the MoMA (and breaking records) as well as M+…both exhibitions have been extended due to popular demand. wagmi
Microsoft didn't win search, Google didn't win social, and Facebook won't win Metaverse.
The scrappy youth movement always wins in tech and Web3 is where the cool kids are. Do the math.
We are very honoured to be donating
@refikanadol
’s iconic Unsupervised Machine Hallucinations - MoMA to the
@MuseumModernArt
’s permanent collection.
@pablorfraile
& I decided early on that this work belongs in the MoMA, to be shared with the massive crowds that have come to be
We’re thrilled to announce that
@refikanadol
’s Unsupervised has come full circle. After what was undoubtedly a record-breaking exhibition in many ways, Refik’s landmark artwork will enter
@MuseumModernArt
's permanent collection.
Hey
@cryptopunksnfts
, another Punk has found a home at a major global museum!🙌 The legendary
@beeple
kindly added Punk 9092 to his EPIC update of HUMAN ONE here at
@mplusmuseum
. It is a mind blowing new visual for this work!! 🤯🤩
cc:
@NonFungibleNoah
One of the most powerful things about crypto is rapid capital formation among friends. I’m so excited to share that joining us in the acquisition of
@SamSpratt
’s The Monument Game is an all-star group - the Gran Signore
@CozomoMedici
, the super creative
@gmoneyNFT
& the brilliant
I am very touched & sincerely honoured to be included in the
@artnews
Top 200 Collectors list.
Truly, the most amazing part about my journey into the art world has been the opportunity to learn from the extraordinary individuals that are on this list. It is humbling to be named
“Here in San Carlos the radio is always talking about Axie and the price of SLP...
SLP is accepted in, I think, about 30% of shops in my city...
We just pay instantly with Ronin-Ronin transfers to the vendor's wallets on our phones"
@BlackpoolHQ
-
My dream when I bought HUMAN ONE was that it would one day update in front of a handful of museum-goers, surprising & delighting the room. I don't think I ever imagined that an entire event at a hallowed institution like
@crystalbridges
would come together around an update! I am
excited for the debut of UPDATE FOUR of HUMAN ONE at Crystal Bridges next week!!!
Come view the artwork change LIVE at 8:30pm on Thursday 9/21!!!
This a continuously evolving artwork and we’re excited for the first time to have this update debut live.
With traditional
Huge props to
@beeple
for designing thoughtful puzzles into each iteration of HUMAN ONE & congrats to
@noohp_
for decoding the cypher in Chapter 4, thereby unlocking one of my favourite Everydays of all time for both of us.🙌
I wish more artworks had an evolving story like H1.
DAMN!!!
@noohp_
is a BEAST!!! huge congrats on solving the puzzle for HUMAN ONE: CHAPTER 4 !!!! 🥳
this person had to decode clues from multiple overlapping morse code audio signals / barely visible visual signals, tiny distorted QR codes that translated to other
We feel very honoured to work with
@crystalbridges
for the American debut of HUMAN ONE. The
@1OF1_art
team always knew that Crystal Bridges would be the ideal partner for
@beeple
's American museum premier. We wanted to embrace the American-heartland roots that are the foundation
Congratulations to the great
@refikanadol
on opening the Unsupervised Machine Hallucinations - MoMA exhibition at
@MuseumModernArt
!
Thank you so much to the entire MoMA team for making this possible & for your wonderful leadership supporting digital art! An incredible moment!
My friend & co-owner of this work
@pablorfraile
& I have been absolutely blown away by the reception for Unsupervised Machine Hallucinations - MoMA. The awe we feel in front of this seminal piece of art is matched by the awe of witnessing the remarkably thoughtful execution by
Dear friends, Unsupersived at MoMA is still getting beautiful reactions! I don’t have words for this unique experience in my life. Deeply grateful to the museum audience, our collectors, and anyone who is a part of this unforgettable journey. Thank you!
The transition to Chapter 4 of HUMAN ONE felt surreal, as the crowd quieted in the hallowed halls of
@crystalbridges
& took the moment in silent surprise.
I have great nostalgia for the future, when it’s normal for art to update & evolve like this.
I want to thank everyone
I was excited to so many friends this week at
#Devcon5
. However, I decided to put family first and go home to my beautiful girls.
Does anyone want my Devcon ticket? It's free for a Dev, student or young entrepreneur working on cool stuff.
Congratulations to the master of digital art
@beeple
on completing 6000 Everydays!! We were reminded at
@crystalbridges
that what makes
@beeple
so inspiring is that he just puts one foot in front of the other, getting a bit better every single day no matter what’s happening or
Continuing to accumulate the
@SkyMavisHQ
ecosystem, especially $RON.
Some of my best investments ever were doubling down on exceptionally talented teams/communities during a bump in the road:
ETH post DAO hack
DOT post wallet bug
RGT post treasury hack
RON/AXS have huge upside.
2/15
1) Digital art doesn't yet occupy its rightful place in art canon. Digital artists still don't have the recognition they deserve among contemporary Masters. As a community we must continue to work to place digital art into major institutions
Museums are cultural gatekeepers.
Stopped by
@MuseumModernArt
this week to see some friends & take in
@refikanadol
’s Machine Hallucinations- MoMA one last time before the end of its incredible run. Sooo grateful to everyone who poured their soul into this work. So many people came together to capture cultural
.
@Beeple
's space is like a weird mix of Warhol's studio & Bell Labs in their respective primes. He composed a wild combination of engineers & creatives, building next-gen art with space-age tooling. It will change the way we think about digital art. I can't wait to see it live.🤩
An NFT Art Museum will be a unicorn by the end of the year. If it allows for lending/yielding, shared ownership & passive income opportunities, it will be a decacorn. Who is best positioned to make this happen?
I'd pay a considerable subscription fee for an aggregator that brought my Twitter, Telegram, Signal, Riot, WhatsApp, Status & Reddit (the "crypto-social universe") under one roof. If it allowed me to send/receive crypto micro-payments across all of these apps, that'd be 👌🙌.
If you ever get worried about whether crypto will find a use-case, just go to your bank and send an international remittance. You will leave so enraged that you'll want to get back to building the future of finance right away.
1/7 I will be gradually off-boarding from
@web3foundation
to focus on investing & specifically DAOs. I want to thank
@gavofyork
& the whole Web3 team for their trust & support. I am really proud of the progress that the team undertook over the last year.
1/2 Congrats to my partner
@DeanEigenmann
on the $ENS drop. While he &
@nicksdjohnson
never intended to build ENS for their own wealth, it is befitting & just that they do well as they've added so much value to the entire space. We're all grateful.
Months ago, the most badass Curator in the game (& an amazing artist)
@maaham_n
put me on to the incredible
@wlopwangling
& his Ghost Blade series. We've been trying to get his work ever since. I'm so glad that he decided to join
@SuperRare
& let us bring his SR genisis work home
HUMAN ONE has been updated by
@beeple
to show the Explorer, adorned in
#Ukraine
's colours, walking through a war zone.
Also, we'll have an update soon on the HUMAN ONE's first stop on our planet. It's going to be really wild. I'm very excited to share...
Keep seeing myopic commentary like "DEFI is going to end poorly like ICOs". WTF
ICOs were the most compelling fundraising innovation we've seen in decades
Amazing projects were funded
>10,000 new millionaires minted
Multiple new industries were created
We hope Defi goes as well
Being here at
#Devcon4
feels more like a family reunion than a conference. This community has been through so much together, but the vibe among the Ethereum OGs always remains positive, ambitious & technology-focused.
These are the crowds at the
@MuseumModernArt
2 MONTHS after the opening of
@refikanadol
’s Unsupervised Machine Hallucinations- MoMA.🤯🤩
If global museums have any doubt what will bring people back, it’s very obviously this generation of innovative digital art.
cc:
@pablorfraile
Gm from MoMA! Deeply grateful for your love, interest and truly exciting discusions about the impact of AI in art making! Please read my last interview on MoMA Magazine:
1/3 I've been amazed by both the art & thoughtful game theory of
@HouseofWarlords
We observe new game mechanics & storyline opportunities enabled through
#Seppuku
(selective-trait burning). This will drive deflation in the collection & enable evolution in each characters' journey
You guys understand that if
@dfinity
works, it could render most of the space nearly obsolete overnight?
Unbounded computation 🤯
If you consider yourself a pro in the space, it's sink-the-boat risk to not have exposure there
t-1month till game time 🙌
@JohnLilic
@dominic_w
1/4 We’re very honoured & grateful to announce that
@mplusmuseum
will open the exhibition of HUMAN ONE on Dec 9th. M+ is a central figure in shaping 21st-century art & culture.
@beeple
& I are very excited to share HUMAN ONE with the world from Hong Kong!
Every time I read the Medici Minutes by the Gran Signore,
@CozomoMedici
, I am blown away. It is the best newsletter in the digital art & NFT space by far. As nourishing as the mangos in the Villa gardens.
ICOs will have a renaissance that will dwarf the first wave. The reality is that rapid capital formation from a distributed global community is a fundamentally important use case of crypto. The truth will prevail in the end.
𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗵𝗶 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀 𝗖𝗘𝗢 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗜𝗖𝗢𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻
Launching tokens and raising funds is arguably crypto’s killer use case. And it all began with ICOs. With them, anyone could contribute to a founder’s dream.
It didn’t matter where you worked,
3/15 Spending time to meet with institutions to walk through the thesis of how digital scarcity (NFTs) has caused a catalytic moment for digital art is necessary & important work that leaders in the space must share together. We can only rewrite art canon together as a community.
I've never imagined of becoming a maximalist, but I could maybe get up for being a
#Ronin
maxi.😜
Ronin has won gaming & mobile transacting by a country mile & has more real-world daily users than almost all other chains combined.
@AxieInfinity
@YieldGuild
This what we came for.
1/4 In 2015-17 we used to pitch a vision to investors where core devs would be paid like sports superstars with crazy demand for their services, thus justifying ICO valuations.
As I've said many times, core dev comp is a literal tragedy, especially while others are getting rich.
April 16th will be
@scrptdfntsy
’s coming out party as the defining digital art curator on the planet.
@1OF1_art
& our partners are ecstatic to present
@SamSpratt
to the Art world during the Venice Biennale. This exhibition will change how we think about painting on a digital
My Squiggle, my signature
1/5
@ArtOnBlockchain
's Squiggles are iconic. I deeply resonated with Snowfro's founding statement “This is my signature as an artist”
I kindly posit to the Squiggle community to consider using your own Squiggle as YOUR signature.
4/15
2) Mentors are a wonderful way to fast-track your learning trajectory. The art world is filled with really inspiring, thoughtful people who are very generous with their wisdom. I am so deeply grateful for the amazing mentors who have helped
@Beeple
& I on this journey...
Many founders are currently learning the hard way that raising venture capital is your liability, not your asset.
If you raised X, you owe someone >10X. The higher the raise, the greater that burden.
The bar is 100mil/week. If ETH ETFs take in 100mil in net new inflows per week, the whole space rides north to Valhalla by Halloween & we see a dozen crypto ETFs during the Trump presidency.
Crypto is a decentralized financial incentive network so naturally the outcome is
The holy grail for museums is 20 seconds. That's it. The average time that a museum guest spends in front of a work is above 20 seconds only for a very small selection of works globally (Starry Night, Guernica, Machine Hallucinations, HUMAN ONE, etc.).
@1OF1_art
's collection of
The biggest question in crypto in Q1-2021 is which debut asset, between
@dfinity
ICP public launch and
@coinbase
direct listing on
@Nasdaq
reaches $100billion fully diluted valuation first. 🍿🙌
March should be fun.
1/2 Yes!!🙌 After months of searching & bidding, I finally got another
@beeple
Everydays - Raw.
I don't think the world fully understands 3 factors at play here:
1- Beeple will go down in art canon as the defining artist of our generation...
I'm very honoured that
@MuseumModernArt
will showcase the Unsupervised Machine Hallucinations MoMA by
@refikanadol
with support from
@1of1_works
. Refik's work is inspiring & I'm excited for it to be shared with the world by such an important institution.
7/15 However, I am extremely impressed & excited with how quickly & thoughtfully global museums such as
@mplusmuseum
@MuseumModernArt
&
@Guggenheim
have evolved their digital thesis this year. Expect really mind-blowing exhibitions soon from all of these hallowed institutions.
.
@Filecoin
/
@IPFS
is the most useful yet underrated protocol in the space by far. The
@protocollabs
team is as good as it gets, most NFTs stored in a decentralized way are on IPFS & the FVM is a massive step forward for a range of use cases & derivatives. The future is bright.🚀
15/15 The greatest value derived from this year has unquestionably been the relationships that we’ve made along the way & I’m overjoyed about how an array of relationships have come together to make this next step for HUMAN ONE possible.🙏 Onward.
Big thanks for the shout-out from the great
@CozomoMedici
&
@GBMedici
in the best newsletter in digital art, the
#MediciMinutes
. It was great to sip a glass of your reserve edition at the Villa a few weeks back and chat about the crossover of art and technology.
It's a GM when you wake up and see Human One in the
@CozomoMedici
Minutes. Grazie for the shout out 🙏
We couldn't be more excited about the opening at Crystal Bridges.
Another great review of the
@refikanadol
’s mesmerizing exhibition at
@SerpentineUK
.
I stopped by the North Gallery yesterday with
@sashastiles
and it was packed all afternoon.🙌🥳🫶
Go see Refik’s works on display until April 7th.
Crypto is set to bifurcate in 2021 between CBDCs/corporate-cryptos & open anon DAO-governed networks building "money legos".
Diversification and open-minded experimentation is the only coherent path forward.
via
@coindesk
@SushiSwap
ran so silky smooth during Red Wednesday & last week.
Its evolution has been remarkable. Rn some of the best UI in crypto. The pace of innovation is staggering.
It's better & we all know it. I can't wait for cross-chain.
Huge props to
@0xMaki
@josephdelong
et al.
So proud of the
@MakerDAO
team. They kept shipping code & being paranoid about security while the whole world got hyped on ICOs. The result is the first scalable, high-utility
#Dapp
. Tremendous opportunities exist for
#Keepers
! I'm excited to continue to support.
#MKR
#governance
1/4 Today is the
@PlayEmberSword
land sale!
I outline here why we acquired land in this new metaverse that offers an elegant crypto-economic model specifically designed for
#PlayToEarn
opportunities.
Trying to craft a concise yet complete definition of
#cryptoeconomics
- "The use of incentives via cryptographically verifiable digital scarcity to organize desired behaviours & resources on decentralized networks thereby driving security & accelerating network effects." Feedback?
14/15 Finally, next week we’ll announce some exciting news about the next steps of HUMAN ONE on its journey to share the story of mankind’s first steps into the Metaverse with the world.
We are ecstatic to share
@SamSpratt
with the Art world during the Venice Biennale. I’m really proud of the work by
@1OF1_art
under the leadership of
@scrptdfntsy
in contextualising this amazing work & innovating in how we exhibit digital art for a highly discerning audience.
Announcing
@SamSpratt
's debut solo exhibition The Monument Game in Venice, Italy.
Experience the story of Luci at an unprecedented scale and leave your mark on the first layer of local observations in a breathtaking environment.
April 17th - June 23rd
Overjoyed & very grateful to collect Unsupervised - Machine Hallucinations - MoMA, by the amazing mad scientist & wonderful human
@refikanadol
.
This real-time generative work seamlessly melds 138k images from
@MuseumModernArt
into a single stream of mind-bending consciousness.
If you're close with someone who is going through a really challenging time, reach out and spend a few minutes to check-in. Don't wait.
Mental health is health.
Anyone who thinks Larry Fink isn’t going to get what he wants doesn’t understand power dynamics in America. ETH ETF incoming (and it’s not priced in). 🚀
2/2 I often say that if I was as rich as Dean and our other young Jedis at their impossibly young age, I never would have made it out alive. Good thing he's got a good family office around him.😉
We’re opening HUMAN ONE at
@crystalbridges
with
@beeple
on Sept 21st. The next day
@artblocks_io
Marfa Weekend starts. If there is enough community interest to attend both (>15 frens),
@1OF1_art
will charter a free bus from Bentonville to Marfa (~12hrs). Let
@ozan_yes
or
While bid wars unfold for artists that couldn't get a job, We'll continue to collect a true OG of digital art,
@ashthorp1
The intense sum of time, training, artistic merit & deep thought that went into Merchandise truly represents what we refer to as "proof of art work"
@1of1_eth
6/15
3) It is generally easier to work with a museum that has a strong leader who can push a decision, since bold digital art can spark controversy. The pioneering vision that the great
@CCB_Castell
showed in bringing HUMAN ONE to
@rivolicast
swiftly was courageous & inspiring.
10/15
5) The relationships collectors can build DIRECTLY with artists is a really special feature of THIS community. I approach collecting similarly to my approach with founders as a VC. We get to know them personally, build trust & try to figure out ways to be genuinely helpful
Part of the value of the Axie Infinity universe (AXS, Mystics, Land & Yield Guild, Ronin, Sky Mavis) will be the collector value of owning the OG game that made
#Playtoearn
for real. A remarkable achievement. The entrepreneurs & community will go down in crypto + gaming folklore.
Little known but true fact about crypto-asset cycles: Every single bull run since 2013 has been driven from China.
For most of the history of Web3, the space has been unfolding in China more than anywhere else on earth.
The Monument Game presented by
@1OF1_art
brings together so much of what makes crypto-native communities so inspiring.
@SamSpratt
brings you along for the ride in his deep story telling & exceptional craft.
Roland Griffiths was a wonderful gentle soul, filled with extraordinary wisdom. His seminal work in psychedelic research opened a door to mystical experiences as part of scientific rigour. He paved the path for the Psychedelic Renaissance in academia that has benefited so many &
An inspiring kick-off to Art Basel with
@refikanadol
&
@ix_shells
exploring the intersection of AI/ML, art, crypto & psychedelics. “Consciousness is just a controlled hallucination.”
Btw, you can tell from the video above why
@NonFungibleNoah
&
@nicoleasales
didn't invite us to the Evening Sale event (they also didn't think we were going to win 🙃). A big thank you to them & everyone
@ChristiesInc
for the partnership over the last year as well.🙏