Web3 writing by the people holding Curio Cards — the first art on Ethereum.
Auction Houses And NFTs Will Forever Be Intertwined
Art auction houses were among the early adopters of NFT. In 2019, two years before the first NFT hype cycle, 4,000 auction houses partnered with Artory, a blockchain-based art registry to record historic artworks and sales. Serious collectors immediately saw the appeal: for the first time, a secure digital trail of art provenance became publicly available (well, only to vetted “experts” and institutions like Christie’s). This documentation process makes valuation more efficient and adds authe...
Auction Houses And NFTs Will Forever Be Intertwined
Art auction houses were among the early adopters of NFT. In 2019, two years before the first NFT hype cycle, 4,000 auction houses partnered with Artory, a blockchain-based art registry to record historic artworks and sales. Serious collectors immediately saw the appeal: for the first time, a secure digital trail of art provenance became publicly available (well, only to vetted “experts” and institutions like Christie’s). This documentation process makes valuation more efficient and adds authe...
Delivering Curio Cards Merch with Product Expert Etheriad
Merch hits differently when it’s made by a fan. It’s authentic and comes from the right place — the community — not executives behind the scenes interested in balance sheets and profits. Curio Cards Merch came from Etheriad. He’s been a fan and cardholder since 2021. He’s always admired the artists and the founders’ vision of supporting them through the community. Rather fittingly, his own project builds on that foundation, championing the original collection, collaborators, and ethos. What s...
Delivering Curio Cards Merch with Product Expert Etheriad
Merch hits differently when it’s made by a fan. It’s authentic and comes from the right place — the community — not executives behind the scenes interested in balance sheets and profits. Curio Cards Merch came from Etheriad. He’s been a fan and cardholder since 2021. He’s always admired the artists and the founders’ vision of supporting them through the community. Rather fittingly, his own project builds on that foundation, championing the original collection, collaborators, and ethos. What s...
Who is Thoros of Myr, artist of Curio Card 30?
There are only two scenarios where you’re likely to have seen the name “Thoros of Myr”: in Game of Thrones, or as the anonymous artist for Curio Cards, the first digital art show collectibles on Ethereum. As members of the Curio community recently pointed out, Thoros is a Red Priest of the Lord of Light and member of the Brotherhood Without Banners. He appears in all but two seasons of the television series, and is perhaps best remembered for being a drunk, fierce warrior capable of wielding ...
Who is Thoros of Myr, artist of Curio Card 30?
There are only two scenarios where you’re likely to have seen the name “Thoros of Myr”: in Game of Thrones, or as the anonymous artist for Curio Cards, the first digital art show collectibles on Ethereum. As members of the Curio community recently pointed out, Thoros is a Red Priest of the Lord of Light and member of the Brotherhood Without Banners. He appears in all but two seasons of the television series, and is perhaps best remembered for being a drunk, fierce warrior capable of wielding ...
Winning Business Strategies From A 'Failed' 2017 Crypto Art Project
Overnight success is rare, and sometimes, it takes four years. When JPEGs hit the mainstream in 2021, Curio Cards and other early NFT collections suddenly exploded. Artwork that had been forgotten, buried inside Ethereum contracts and IPFS servers, was now highly prized by a new generation of digital collectors. Despite initially failing to sell out, a number of strategic lessons can be learned from Curio Cards’ initial execution — before CryptoPunks — long before NFTs had fame. These insight...
Winning Business Strategies From A 'Failed' 2017 Crypto Art Project
Overnight success is rare, and sometimes, it takes four years. When JPEGs hit the mainstream in 2021, Curio Cards and other early NFT collections suddenly exploded. Artwork that had been forgotten, buried inside Ethereum contracts and IPFS servers, was now highly prized by a new generation of digital collectors. Despite initially failing to sell out, a number of strategic lessons can be learned from Curio Cards’ initial execution — before CryptoPunks — long before NFTs had fame. These insight...
Bringing Art Collecting to Ethereum: The Curio Cards Founders — Rhett Creighton
“I think it’s really important to state how impressive it was what Rhett accomplished with that code. If he hadn’t been on the project, we wouldn’t be sitting here right now.” — Travis Uhrig, Show Me The Crypto, Ep. 34. Rhett Creighton is the technical whiz and visionary programmer behind the Curio Cards contracts, also called “vending machines.” He figured out how to use Solidity to code and deploy the first “vending machine” on May 9, 2017. Even before contributing to crypto, Creighton was ...
Bringing Art Collecting to Ethereum: The Curio Cards Founders — Rhett Creighton
“I think it’s really important to state how impressive it was what Rhett accomplished with that code. If he hadn’t been on the project, we wouldn’t be sitting here right now.” — Travis Uhrig, Show Me The Crypto, Ep. 34. Rhett Creighton is the technical whiz and visionary programmer behind the Curio Cards contracts, also called “vending machines.” He figured out how to use Solidity to code and deploy the first “vending machine” on May 9, 2017. Even before contributing to crypto, Creighton was ...
