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I have spent the last couple of years collecting, curating, and analyzing the digital art market. I am perhaps one of the few collectors who came from the physical world of collecting. After having amassed what I would consider a significant portfolio of works from a diverse array of artists, only to be robbed of more than half my collection, I sought solace in the world I knew best - blockchain. The digital art world promises immutable provenance, unlimited portability, and a new medium upon...

Recently, low-cost minting has taken the web3 art space by storm. The phenomenon gained momentum with XCOPY’s time-limited mint of digital flies titl...

MotivationUnlike most social apps, which hoard data and capitalize on the network effects brought about by their users, Farcaster enables...

As Farcaster grapples with declining metrics and internal strife, a deeper story emerges about the future of web3 social platforms. Despite outpacing competitors in funding and technical innovation, Farcaster faces a paradox: can a platform be ahead of its time technically while struggling to meet contemporary social needs? This analysis explores the tensions between technical achievement and user adoption in decentralized social media, and what it means for the future of web3 communities.

Patronizing the arts is of great importance. Art is as important as language in the annals of history. It illuminates the moments in time wherein the artist existed and provides a subjective but often unfiltered perspective on events. Without major patrons throughout history, we might never have known the true nature of things as they were in the earliest reaches of human civilization. The internet has tarnished this behavior to a degree in that media consumption is often free, and if it's no...

Digital art has a problem. Perhaps there's a solution somewhere out there.TL;DRTraditional and digital art funnels vary in significant waysHow and wh...