Ryan Zurrer
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Founder, @Dialectic_Group. Building things that I want for my fam & I while exploring what is true in the new world order.
Zug, Switzerland
Joined August 2010
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
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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.
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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
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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.🧵👇
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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
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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.
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There’s something very different about this time in crypto. In previous bull runs (‘13, ‘17, ‘21) the gains came so fast & unexpectedly that they felt unmerited. This time crypto has paid the cost to be the boss & the remaining community is battle tested against a multi-year war.
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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.
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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
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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.
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I did not have ‘a Simpsons cameo” on my HUMAN ONE bingo card, but I’ll take it.
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You want an uncommon piece of alpha? Ask a top-tier artist if they’d mint on any other chain besides Ethereum? 100% would tell you “fuck no!”. Creators who deeply care about the assets they ascribe to a chain choose Ethereum to custody their life’s work. Follow the devs & the.
Ethereum is the contrarian and right bet to make if you are building or investing in crypto right now. Fuck the KOLs and fake VCs who tell you otherwise.
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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.
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Ronin may be the most underrated L1/L2 in the space. Real-world user traction is light-years ahead of most chains.
“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 -
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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
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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
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Gm @cryptopunksnfts . Why go to the mat for #9092 in this market? Bc authenticity and crypto-native values are all that's ever mattered around here.
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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.
The opening marks the first time the piece is coming to the United States since it was sold at Christie’s in 2021 for an eye-watering $29 million.
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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!
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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!
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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
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The Axie + Yield Guild P2E conference next year in Southeast Asia is going to be the most ridiculously fun event in the history of crypto.
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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.
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Congrats to the Maestro @beeple on Chapter 5 of HUMAN ONE & his first solo show in China. This iconic work gets better with each chapter, which is so emblematic of Beeple’s process of constant evolution. 🦾.
Chapter 5 of HUMAN ONE loading at @beeple's debut solo exhibition at Deji Art Museum in Nanjing, China. 🇨🇳
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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
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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.
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The crypto community has confidence that @inkonchain will be the place for crypto-natives & DeFi pros because @jespow & @krakenfx have been a beacon of crypto native values since the inception of the space.
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I'm very honoured to be included among @artnews Top 200 Collectors again. Big thank you to the Art World's Anna Wintour - @SarahLDouglas, for including a digital collector in her list among such exceptional patrons of the arts. She also filled this edition with thoughtful essays.
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Maybe the only category in crypto where “the institutions are coming” is actually in digital art/NFTs.
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A wash-out sale before the biggest bull run in the history of crypto is a gift from the gods of conviction.
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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.
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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
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.@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.🤩.
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Olaf on @business talking about the emergence of more Major Ecosystems beyond Ethereum, notably @dfinity @MineFilecoin @polkadotnetwork @tez0s, @0xProject and why they are some of the most compelling projects in #crypto. Also $ETH>$BTC in 2018. 🙌
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5 years ago today the Ethereum crowdsale was live. It may go down as the top venture investment of the 2010s. Big up to all the ETH OGs. 🦄.
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Crypto will be the best-performing asset class of 2024. Happy New Year!.
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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?.
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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 👌🙌.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
💎 White 💎. ✨ Artwork by wlop.💰 Sold to @kukulabanze for 40.0 ETH ($164,643.60). $RARE #cryptoart #NFT
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Today is probably the last day you’ll be able to buy ETH below 2k, EVER.
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Is there a more prolific builder in 2021 than @LordTylerWard? Fully on fire🔥 across DeFi (@Barn_Bridge), NFTs (@universe_xyz & #polymorphs) & P2E Gaming (@LeagueDao). Imho he's this year's Cronje & belongs in @CoinDesk top 10. A generational entrepreneur with an amazing team.🚀.
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Protocols are eating the world.
"The AI model is the artwork; the data is the artwork; the protocol coordinating - it all is the artwork. We have made a lot of screen-based work and love a lot of screen-based work but the point of this show was to emphasize the protocol." .- @matdryhurst.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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
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Today is the day that I've responded to the most number of emails/messages with "LFG!!🦾" in a long while.
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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.
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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!.
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Thankful for the artists that brought a new vibe into our community & crypto to the world. 🙏 .21 is the year crypto stopped being a cult & started being culture. @beeple @refikanadol @Mad_Dog_Jones @reisingerandres @maximzhestkov @ix_shells @maaham_n @wlopwangling @deekaymotion.
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It is not what you think you are. It is what you think, you are.
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With 2025 upon us, below are my predictions for the year, in some approximate order of conviction:. Crypto.- DeFi: TVL will surpass 200billion! as more institutions seek compelling yields. The financial use-case is the million-user killer-app of crypto and most of DeFi resides on.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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“Being good at business is the most fascinating type of art.” .- Andy Warhol.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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@CozomoMedici @YKarkai Congratulations Signore on this major milestone for the entire space. We’re all very proud of your leadership & generosity.
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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.
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.@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.🚀.
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5/15 . @HUObrist Pamela Joyner, @UliSigg @CCB_Castello @collectionist @AlbertoMugrabi @CozomoMedici @sarafitzmaurice & more. The learning sessions I’ve had with these Masters have felt like plugging into Art Matrix. These have been the most meaningful moments of the year for me.
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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.
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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.
Refik Anadol on his immersive AI-generated art
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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.
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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
I just published “Dai is now live!”
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@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.
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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.
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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.
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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?.
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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.
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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
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The goat @iamnotnicola et al with some absolute bangers in the invitation:. - In many ways, quantum cryptography is the cypherpunk endgame: cryptographic systems so fundamentally secure that they enshrine digital freedom and self-sovereignty as inalienable.
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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.
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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.
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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). 🚀.
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The M&A era of crypto has begun. I predict that >10billion of M&A transactions will occur over the next ~6months, with many of these deals hatching next week at Token2049. Buckle up, the ride is getting wild.
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Very proud of the work lead by @scrptdfntsy & our whole team on @1OF1_art. Every day feels like we’re forging new ground in 21st century collecting.
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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.😉.
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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
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9/15 I’m excited about how this has brought awareness to other amazing artists such as @ix_shells @ashthorp @Mad_Dog_Jones @maximzhestkov @REAS @SarahMeyohas @SamSpratt @jakejfried & many more. They in turn have helped & supported each other, thereby creating a network effect.
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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
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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.
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Wow! Big announcement at #AraCon2019. @izqui9 of @AragonProject announces that they will deploy #AragonOS on @polkadotnetwork. He also calls on the flock community to help them. What a great opportunity. 🙌 DAOs, #Cryptogovernance & #Web3 have arrived!
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