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Don’t Trust, verify: How $RARE staking solves the reputation problem in cryptoart

This is part 3 in a series of deep dives on the proposed $RARE staking model and its benefits to artists, collectors, and curators:Part 1: DiscoveryPart 2: CommunityPart 3: ReputationBefore the digital art revolution, artists, collectors, and curators were at the mercy of a system that refused to serve the vast majority of them well. The power to determine what art was valuable or noteworthy remained jealously guarded by self-appointed insiders who barred anyone else from entering their ivory...

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Jun 15
Open social graphs are the future of cryptoart: How $RARE staking empowers better, more authentic community building
This is part 2 in a series of deep dives on the proposed $RARE staking model and its benefits to artists, collectors, and curators:Part 1: DiscoveryPart 2: CommunityPart 3: ReputationIn this post, we’ll discuss how your staking social graph – when exported as plain text data from on-chain actions – unlocks an incredibly powerful, platform-agnostic dataset. Ask any artist or curator working in web3: Building digital communities is hard. To begin, there is the question of where you should build...
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May 31
The future of art discovery is reputation signals: Introducing Community Pools and Curated Lists
This is part 1 in a series of deep dives on the proposed $RARE staking model and its benefits to artists, collectors, and curators:Part 1: DiscoveryPart 2: CommunityPart 3: ReputationBack in 2010, nearly a decade before artists conspired to eviscerate SEO rankings for the “Not For Tourists” guidebooks, two entrepreneurs in San Francisco unintentionally gave digital artists a paradigm-altering gift: Instagram.“Not For Tourists” Guide to New York City, 2017At the time the product consisted most...
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May 23
Async x SuperRare — Building an Alliance of CryptoArt Believers
SuperRare Labs and Async Art are thrilled to announce a strategic partnership and integrated product offering — starting with Async Blueprints. Our decision to work closer together felt like a natural progression in the cryptoart space, with Async leveraging its strength as a creation tool and SuperRare evolving into a platform-agnostic marketplace for premium art discovery. Famous for drops like XCOPY’s Grifters and Coldie’s DecentralEyesMashup, Blueprints make it easy for Async artists to c...
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Apr 26
Power to the Artists
Tripling Down on Artist Sovereignty One of the core principles of the web3 movement is that people can now truly own their data — paving the way for us to collectively wrest control of our digital selves back from the corporate leviathans who have dominated the web2 landscape in recent decades. For digital creators long captive to the exploitation of these monopolistic giants, this difference is especially massive. In fact, it’s nothing short of a revolution. On web2 platforms like Instagram,...
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Jan 12
SuperRare Spaces: the Future of Community Curation
Last August we announced SuperRare Spaces, an upcoming product that will allow independent curators and promoters to launch their own gallery pages on SuperRare. Fast forward a few short months (what feels like decades in NFT-time), and we’re finally in the home stretch: five incredibly exciting Spaces have been publicly elected by the SuperRare DAO, product development is in final testing, and we’re almost ready to launch the inaugural batch of Spaces and kick off applications for the second...
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Nov 6
Vote on Race Mechanics for Space Race #1 (November 9-12th)
Last week, we published an update that governance for the SuperRare DAO is now beginning to reach the "rubber-meets-road" stage, along with the minutes from the latest Governance Council meeting. As detailed in those posts, after receiving 35 amazing submissions (!) we are now preparing to execute the first Space Race later this month. We were blown away by the extensive interest in becoming a Space Operator and the desire to participate in curation of the SuperRare Network. A first draft of ...
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Oct 29
Instantiating SuperRare DAO Governance
In August, we announced the SuperRare DAO and launched the $RARE curation token, a fundamental metamorphosis of the platform that set SuperRare on a course for true community stewardship. The announcement of the DAO came alongside several other foundational platform shifts, dubbed SuperRare 2.0. In the past two months, laying the groundwork for the underlying product, engineering and organizational transformation to come has been our main focus - and we’ve begun publishing articles regarding ...
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Sep 17
Getting the Band Together
Hey friends 👋 Are you pumped about the future of art and culture yet? Ready to get this revolution kick-started? Now that we've shared some of our hopes and dreams for SR2.0 and you've heard the rallying cry for self-governance, we hope you're as excited about the future of SuperRare as we are. It's a BIG vision, we know, but one that's worth fighting for. And we're thrilled to have you along for the ride 🚀 Before embarking on the important business of changing...
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Sep 2
On Governance & The SuperRare DAO
Ok, so by now you're probably asking yourself - what's the point of all this governance talk? Is this really something I need to concern myself with? And if so, then how does it work? To unpack these questions a bit further, let's take a step back and recap how we got to where we are today and why community governance is such an important concept for the digital economy in the 21st century.The Purpose of Governance“The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars ...
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Aug 17
Announcing the $RARE Curation Token and the SuperRare Network
A revolution in NFT art curation and the decentralization of SuperRare Exactly 20 seconds past 11:20PM (UTC) on April 5th of 2018, the first artwork was minted on SuperRare. We know this precise time and date due to the innovation that makes SuperRare so exciting: our first transaction, like the thousands that followed it, was immutably preserved on the Ethereum blockchain. 1,229 days later, more than $90M in NFT art has been sold by over 1,400 artists on SuperRare. Hobbies became careers. Di...
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Aug 10
Recounting the early days of the NFT art market & peering ahead into the decentralized future with SuperRare co-founder & CEO, John CrainSuperRare was born from a simple idea: what if we could build an art market that put power into the hands of artists? This blog post is a window into SuperRare’s mission to transform this idea into a global artistic movement, as we reflect on our path so far, our community at large and our vision for the future.The BeforeFor almost as long as computers have ...
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Jul 23
From Michelangelo to the metaverse: the past, present and future of art markets
NFTs have given art markets a breath of fresh air. As we explore CryptoArt's next chapter, it’s important to understand what led us here. We’ll start by exploring the history of art markets, their commission structures and the role galleries have historically played in their success. From there, we hope to educate readers on where SuperRare fits into the conversation, and how this positioning sets the platform up for its next chapter. We’re going to cover hundreds of years of history in ...