As a species, we are natural hoarders, gatherers. We love amassing a trove of prized possessions, from pencil erasers to Pokémon cards, from Beany Babies to Labubus, Funko Pops to Squishmallows; the list is exhaustingly infinite, preying on our “need” to collect and curate. But what do we actually do with them all? And those are just the tangible treasures… for those of us who’ve spent the past few years accruing crypto art in all its various forms, what about these “non-fungible trinkets” we...

Here we are.. the third and final part of the trilogy. Some time has passed, but so much has happened. It’s almost the perfect time to close the book on this chapter.We once collected images and called it art. We mistook scarcity for significance, provenance for presence. But the gallery’s spell has broken. The velvet rope hasn’t disappeared—it’s wrapped around the artist now. No longer do we mint artworks for their meaning; we mint creators for their market potential. The NFT era has been ec...

The problem with reporting on the developments and evolution of a highly dynamic, ever changing ecosystem is that the longer it takes to write, the longer the post becomes…In the last months of 2024, at least three notable events have struck the Web3 & crypto community that cyclically resonate with the history of this space strong enough, that I have to acknowledge them before we continue with this second half. For in many ways, they illustrate so bluntly what I’ve set out to document.1. Para...

Earlier this week, the NFT community recoiled in horror as without notice, Foundation rebranded it’s Instagram account to Rodeo, and deleted all of it’s previous posts. Such restructuring out of the blue felt like an omen. Was this just a refocusing of attention on their new platform, or was this a sign of something more serious? The CEO, Kayvon posted the following post, shortly before taking questions on an X space with Shillr’s co-founder Funghibull to “clear the air”.Naturally, this was m...