I attended an Art Residency last week ! 🏰

It inspired this week's article, Why do some artists succeed (but you don't 😂) ?

Estimated read time: 2 minute 12 seconds.

A few weeks ago a good friend & collector invited me to an Art Residency.

So I stepped outside my comfort zone (meaning I accepted talking to people without using a keyboard 😅)

And it changed my life.

It opened up many potential collaborations, curations, exhibitions etc.

This would not have happened if: I had not met these amazing people,

This would not have happened if: my friend had not invited me,

This would not have happened if: I had no network.

It reminded me of this beautiful map:

Kandinski, Picasso, Apollinaire, Duchamp, Debussy, O'Keefe,...

they all knew each other.

Still not convinced ?

Scientist @Barabasi, showed an artist's success can be predicted by the first 5 galleries they work with:

Albert-László Barabási

@barabasi

YES, WE CAN predict artistic careers, after mapping out the invisible networks that govern prestige and value in art. Three year work with a fabulous team, published last week in Science! Read the paper: goo.gl/mDs7Qw or Ch3 in #TheFormula formula.barabasi.com.

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3:19 PM • Nov 11, 2018

You think this only applies to Art ?

It applies to anything that cannot be measured.

In fact, even when results can be measured, success is still tied to networks !

here's a hilarious example for athletes:

Short Answer: Probably.

Research from Barabasi on Superrare published in the New York Times showed that the market is "clustered" around a few collectors.

While this also happens in the trad art world,

it seems to be even further exaggerated in the NFT space ! 😭

I'm not sure.

Who cares about Success ?

I care about Legacy.

But Legacy needs people carrying it.

So go out, connect. Be fearless.

Human connections are exactly this: HUMAN.

Your next best friend is right around the corner.

to you, whom I met last week, thank you.

Dive Deeper:

Hidden Masterpieces: Successful Artists Are Master Connection Creators

Quantifying NFT‑driven networks in crypto art

Quantifying reputation and success in art

BARABASI LAB · ART · NFTS

This first instance, in any sport, that the #1 women's player in the world beat the #1 men's player, took place in September 2002, when Judit Polgár defeated Garry Kasparov in chess. The NFT, released by Judit Polgár in collaboration with BarabásiLab, commemorates this unique moment in history.

https://barabasi.com

Thank you for reading this issue !

See you next week ! ✌

xoxo

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I'm on a secret trip ! 🏰

So I'll keep it short !

This week I learned about Eigenlayer, so here's A (very) short introduction to Eigenlayer

Please note that I am in the process of learning more about Eigenlayer, consider these informations not as fact, but as MY understanding of it.

Imagine you want to create an onchain NFT that displays the current time.

currentTime = block.timestamp

That was easy ! That's because that data is available inside the blockchain,

We can simply ask the blockchain "what time is it ?"

Now let's add the current temperature in Paris.

currentTemperature = weather.Paris.temperature();

Nope, that doesn't work !

The blockchain does not contain that information.

In fact, the blockchain does not have access to anything on the internet 😭

Chainlink used to solve this issue (by providing a "bridge" between blockchains and real-world data like the weather - see this article 👇)

AccuWeather's Chainlink Node To Satisfy Web3's "Great Need" For Weather Data

In 2021, the blockchain industry's leading oracle network, Chainlink, secured $75 billion in decentralized finance (DeFi) while laying the groundwork for decentralized insurance, dynamic NFTs, and blockchain gaming. Among global organizations delivering their data on-chain via Chainlink, AccuWeather launched its own Chainlink node in what its Director of Flagship Products, Matthew Vitebsky, called a historic [...]

https://chainlinktoday.com

But AFAIK this was removed ! (it probably wasn't worth it 🤑),

All they provide anymore is financial data (ex: live USD-EUR exchange rate)

Wouldn't it be amazing if you could ask for any real-world information on the blockchain ?

Let's create a bounty on the blockchain:

"I will pay you 1$ if you tell me the current temperature in Paris"

100 people answered !

Do I trust them ? Of course not

They only get the 1$ if their answer is ±5°C from the average

(example: if the average of the other answers is 10°C, I will not accept 16°C as an answer)

In a nutshell Eigenlayer gives you a set of tools & contracts to:

• Pick information you want to query from the real world (current temperature in Paris)

• Pick what the criterias to use as validation (±5°C)

• Pick "who" can provide the data (Only Parisians can answer)

• etc.

You're in control of everything.

To learn more, here's a (quite technical) blog on their website:

You Could Have Invented EigenLayer: Explaining EigenLayer

In this blog post, we will take you through the evolution of the protocol, by covering how EigenLayer's architecture emerged from the initial concept.

https://www.blog.eigenlayer.xyz

And a huge thank you to @JakeHartnell for their help in understanding Eigenlayer a little more !

I hope you liked this very short (and potentially inaccurate 😂) intro to Eigenlayer !

See you next week ! ✌

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Tough weekend for me,

Was sick for 3 days 🤢

Unable to write your favorite newsletter ( right ? 😁)

But you know me, I'll never leave you hanging !

I'm BACK ! 💪

Today let's talk about Why you can't price NFTs in US 🇺🇸 Dollar (yet)

If you missed my latest NFT collection, check it out at highlight.xyz/zima (still minting)

Imagine this: A month ago you decided to sell an NFT for $100

You head to your favorite platform and list your NFT for 0.0416ETH ($100 at the time)

A month later ? Well...

Trump got elected, and as a result ETH went up (+$1000) ! 🚀 Amazing right ?

But so did your listing !

It's fixed at 0.0416ETH, which is now $131 (+$31) !

Well, they don't.

On most platforms you can accept payments in any coin you want (USDC included)

But you can't index the price in USD (and keep payments in ETH)

Most collectors want to pay with ETH (or BTC, etc.)

But you might want to sell in USD (or DOGE, etc.)

This is a VERY discussed subject on Twitter (here's a great post by @pablorfraile)

Pablo

@pablorfraile

I believe art should be priced in USD (or another stable currency) while allowing payment in any currency. ETH’s volatility creates vastly different entry points based on its fluctuations, making it difficult to establish stable market values. When a piece is priced at ‘x’ ETH,…

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21:45 • 28 Oct 2024

As always (especially in the crypto space),

the solution is to leave options open.

Artists and Collectors should be able to price NFTs as they prefer.

• Whether the amount is paid in ETH, USDC, etc.

• Whether the amount is indexed on ETH, USDC, etc.

• Whether the amount is received in ETH, USDC, etc.

This is a call to NFT Platforms,

I know this isn't easy to implement (Oracles, disputes, legal stuff etc.),

But I believe in you ❤

See you next week ! ✌

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We finally did it ! Zima was launched a few days ago,

If you have missed it, you can check it out here (it's still minting) at highlight.xyz/zima

Today I show you Why I paid almost $3,000 to put Zima onchain, and how YOU can pay twice less !

Zima NFTs are a combination of:

• code poems (text)

• talismans (images, the heaviest files)

So I focused on reducing image size the most 👾

(you can try compressing your image using the squoosh.app made by Google)

Remember, I even used AI ✨ to make the images smaller in one of my previous articles !

But I hit a wall, I had 83 files to upload,

At that scale even $20/image is expensive ( 83 x $20 = $1,660 already !).

Also, at some point you can't compress images any further, it starts losing meaning. 😶‍🌫

...

But wait, let's step back...

WHY do I have to pay $20 again ?

Gas on Ethereum is like Gas for your car (Surprise, Surprise ! 🤣)

Travel from Vegas to LA ? you'll need 40 Liters.

At 3$/Liter that's $130 for the trip !

Ethereum transactions are the same...

but there's only one Gas station,

and you don't pay with dollars, you pay with ETH !

(specifically gwei, where 1 gwei = 0.000000001 ETH)

Like in real life, the price of gas is not constant (FAR from it) !

This year, you can see gas prices fluctuated A LOT, in fact in March it spiked at almost 100 gwei (10 TIMES more than today)

Even worse,

this week if you had transacted on Wednesday you would have paid 6 TIMES MORE than on Sunday ! 😱

See, I deployed at 11 Gwei (I completely forgot that gas is cheaper on weekends!)

Don't make this mistake, you should:

• Plan in Advance: Estimate the overall cost of your deployment

• Use a script: Set a target gas price, for ex. 3 gwei → And send the transaction only when gas prices fall below it 😃

I could have saved THOUSANDS of dollars ! 🥶

If you enjoyed this,

Please go check out the Zima mint page

And share the work on Twitter !

See you next week ! ✌

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Phew, I can finally say that Zima is ready for launch, LFG !

Only thing left is to make it the best NFT drop of 2024 💪

Today I show you how to find promising NFT artists using Twitter search ! 👀

A great way to find good artists is to simply ask other artists 😁

Using this search query look how I found 3 amazing artists in 15 seconds 👇

Just copy & paste this into the Twitter search bar:

"love" (from:ARTIST_YOU_LIKE) filter:mentions

Ok this one is also obvious, but works really good !

"love" (from:COLLECTOR_YOU_LIKE) filter:mentions

This one uses who you follow to churn out suggestions:

("love" AND "artist" AND "nft") filter:mentions min_faves:5 filter:follows

Finally I reveal to you my secret search query.

What a beauty.

Only the finest NFT artworks !

(("100%" OR "fully") AND ("onchain" OR "on-chain") AND ("artwork" OR "art" OR "NFT")) min_faves:5

REMEMBER ZIMA DROPS ON OCTOBER 31st

BE THERE

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Hi Pals !

I wrote this last week:

Zima approaches. Every day I grow more tired.

Well it approached so fast, I had to delay the drop to October 31st 😂

Tough decision, but your support has been amazing ❤

Today I show you how I (almost) created a new form of art, using AI 🖼

April 2023, I just released "CBDC Airdrop",

an NFT that changes if you look away (switch tab or minimize).

I wanted to include more context inside the code,

so I made the code itself tell a story 👇

That was the start of Zima.

Why not make the code the art itself ?

GENIUS, No one else has done this, I'm sure! 🙂

8 Billion people on earth, you bet someone did. 😂

Nerds at MIT, etc. have been writing poems with code for a while.

here are a few examples:

But I have something they didn't.

AI ✨

What if I told an AI:

"You come from a land, where only Javascript is spoken, write a poem for me."

Now that's unique !

So together with Llama 3, Claude Sonnet, Mixtral and GPT-4.

I wrote 32 code poems.

Each telling a story using a different technique from the web.

Example of this collaboration for a Temporal Dead Zone poem (aka TDZ: like trying to call a phone number that doesn't exist yet) 👇

Code poems don't belong on paper.

They belong in a computer.

NFTs bring code poems back to their rightful place.

The art is not the code, it's not the output, it's everything together.

A few iterations later, back and forth, collaborating, and TADAA !

Zima by Nahiko -> Dropping October 31st

See you next week ✌

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Zima approaches. Every day I grow more tired.

But every day you show me more love and support ❤.

Thank you.

Today we investigate how everyone should pick a date/time for their NFT drop 🤔

Historically the best days to send newsletter are Wednesday and Thursdays.

Why do I talk about newsletters ?

Simple: Their success also relies on knowing when people are online

In fact @chenellco, the newsletter GOAT used to post on Thursdays 👇

Chenell Basilio

@chenellco

@GenYMoneyMan My site typically has more on Thursday, only because it's my typical post day. There are definitely slow days for my site too.

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1:34 • 6 Mar 2015

But that was before.

Now she sends it on Sunday (as does @thejustinwelsh)

What changed ? 🤔 Does it translate to NFTs ? Let's find out

When do my collectors send transactions ?

Let's look at royalties (because contrary to sales, their timing is controlled by the collector)

the best day isn't Thursday or the weekend, but Monday ??

Actually, no.

Right after a drop, the secondary market surges for a few days.

So we need to remove transactions following major drops:

Now we're talking !

Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday (even Friday 🤯) look great.

But Tuesday? Big NO.

Evenings are best for a drop in the CET timezone (as favored historically)

I used to do 6PM CET, but it looks like the activity drops right at that time

The best times are 4PM and 9PM CET,

probably aligning with global activity (US, Europe and Asia awake):

So here's my plan:

Zima will drop on October 17th (Thursday)

at 4PM CET (10AM EST, 10PM CST)

See you next week ✌

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GM fellow beliebers !

Zooms quickly past readers because I got no time

Today we talk about Royalties !

There's been a lot of debate on royalties:

Pablo

@pablorfraile

Royalties are a tax

They also bring negative incentives—especially on the artist side

They can discourage secondary market sales and distort motivations

Change my mind!

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5:19 • 24 Sept 2024

so I wanted to share some data from an artist perspective.

As an artist with 3 big projects, I earned good royalties in 2022.

Guess what happened early 2023 ? (hint: it starts with opensea and ends with no royalties)

I have 3 major projects:

• Entropy: Sep 2022

• TPIAR: Jan 2023

• Bit Rot: Nov 2023

Bit Rot earned nearly double the revenue but 10x fewer royalties.

Where does that lead us?

• Royalties don't really exist anymore (for Editions)

• They are considered "tax" by many collectors

my decision is clear.

I will keep 30 editions as Royalties replacement (to sell as needed)

and

Zima will be a 0% royalties project.

See you next week ✌

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GM fellow beliebers !

Just five months in, and we've hit 120 subscribers with zero drop-offs!

Writing is hard. But I do it because you love it.

Alright, Today we use AI to store images onchain 👇

Ethereum isn't designed for large files. Smart contracts are capped at 24kb.

For context, here’s Beeple's latest Everyday compressed to ~24kb:

And it still costs $240 to put this pixelated garbage 👆 onchain:

This is why most onchain art is pixel art.

Less details → smaller files → cheaper storage !

BaseChain

@BaseChain

ok but do you have a @0xdiid 1/1?

smokestacks

@smokestacks

ok but do you have a @0xdiid 1/1?

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21:57 • 19 Sept 2024

the birth of "compressionism" a movement led by 0xdiid

Stable diffusion is the best compression algorithm I've seen.

After storing the initial 3-8GB model,

each image is just a sentence and a few bytes of data.

Sadly storing Stable Diffusion onchain would cost millions (I don't have) 😅

What if we only store a low-res version of the artwork + a prompt ?

Future upscalers, likely embedded in browsers, can handle the rest,

Here's a real-life example for my next project Zima:

This is how I turn a detailed 3D render into an AI✨ upscaled onchain artwork.

See you next week ✌

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GM everyone !

I have tried countless apps in my web3 journey.

Here's a list of my top 5 apps I use every day, from NFT accounting to my favorite Wallet !

Built by @benjitaylor and acquired by @avara (aave + lens)

@Family is the best mobile wallet. That's it.

The UX is amazing, everything is easy to understand, easy to do, and oh so beautiful.

It's also packed with very interesting features (goodbye metamask)

Family

@family

Messaging has arrived in Family! Engage in end-to-end encrypted chats with any wallet address, powered by @xmtp_ . Send text, voice, images, and video messages. Save media, customize your chats, and easily send transactions directly within conversations.

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21:52 • 14 Mar 2024

Why I love Family: It's packed with great features and amazing UX. Simple, just works flawlessly.

I've already mentioned in a few posts that I use @metabase to visualize all the data I have (collectors, sales, churn, taxes, etc.)

But I've never said why:

• Data is invaluable, ex: How can collectors bid on your work if they're sleeping while the auction ends ? Wouldn't happen if you knew the timezones your main collector base is in.

• OWN your Data. Data is 21st Century's gold. Keep your gold at home. ex: Metabase (and NocoDB) can help you store data (it's like a big Excel file, but better, and allows easy visualization)

Here's how I use Metabase to track my revenue from sale to bank (makes audits so much easier btw):

Why I love Metabase: It can be self-hosted (no internet needed) and makes it easy to graph your data

So, where does this Metabase data come from?

I tried many websites to get data, and Arkham has the best data in my opinion:

• It's spam-free (can be filtered)

• It has metadata attached (like the wallet's Opensea/Twitter username)

• It has only "financial" transactions, meaning it's perfect for accounting (no contract deployments etc.)

Why I love Arkham: handles spam filtering for you, and keeps only financial transactions. AI based tagging of wallets is very cool too. (They also have an API for easy bulk downloads)

Ardrive (and its competitor Akord), is the best tool for artists to put their art on arweave (or even update existing NFTs wink wink KnownOrigin)

Why I love Ardrive: It's basically Google Drive for Arweave. Easy to use, cheap, relatively fast !

Don't lie to me. I know you store your seed phrase inside a .txt on your desktop.

Today this ends. Today you download Bitwarden (or Vaultwarden if you want to self-host it like me) and store your seed phrase there (or even better you buy a Hardware Wallet)

Why I love Bitwarden: It has every password manager feature you might need, it's open-source and self-hostable (via Vaultwarden). Do I need to say more ?

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Exceptionally this week, everyone has access to my bookmarks ! 😋

Eli Scheinman

@eli_schein

No one will believe this has artistic merit if we keep displaying work like this:

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21:39 • 16 Sept 2024

BrendanEich

@BrendanEich

Wow. I knew someone who was there, but who left for OpenAI.

kibty.town/blog/arc/ (orange site link: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=415972…), read till the very end.

Annoying Comma Etc,.

@AnnoyingComma

You seen this vuln. in Arc browser: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=415972… . Reveals a lot about their seriousness.

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6:03 • 20 Sept 2024

𝕭𝖏ø𝖗𝖓 𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖆𝖑

@_nonfigurativ_

304

8:15 • 16 Sept 2024

0xjustadev.eth (⛽️,📉)

@0xjustadev

Wei required for counter claim: 1000000100000
Wei supplied with counter claim: 1000000000000

You were 0.0000000000001E off on your counter claim so it never flipped claim winner to counter.

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23:00 • 11 Sept 2024

Loucas Braconnier

@figure31_

Print bigger

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21:44 • 16 Sept 2024

marka

@marka_eth

the history of art is happening right now, right here

people have called yigit's piece just another copy/derivative

others will look at this "scratch" and go wtf

but those paying attention now, and undoubtedly future art lovers, see the marvel that is happening here

inspiring

Takens Theorem

@takenstheorem

How'd I scratch @YigitDuman’s "Rothko on Pennies"?

Some notes

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4:46 • 18 Sept 2024

Well I sure hope you enjoyed this issue and the peak into my personal toolbox !

Any tools you think should be in this list ? Drop a comment/response !

See you next week ✌

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GM everyone !

3 years ago I got a shoutout from pak in a tweet.

Pak

@muratpak

Two #cryptonative creators I follow closely (and you should too)
@Nahiiko & @SHL0MS

#notaninvestmentadvice

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9:43 • 19 Mar 2021

It gave much much needed exposure (as it did for my beautiful friend and joker @SHL0MS), and I'm forever grateful to them for this.

Today, I do the same and share the 5 artists I think will make blockchain art interesting in the next months (besides me ofc 😁)

If you loved my artworks from late 2020 you'll love Bushi.

Like me, they like to tinker with the medium and break a few rules, here's one of their most interesting works which literally crashes Opensea when it's displayed:

Bushi

@thecryptobushi

SNOW CRASH
Break the metaverse...
CONTRACT: 0xe3567441448dfC9Fd1aaE574EDcf628df2aa079f
CONCEPT

Drawing on inspiration from Neal Stephenson’s iconic novel, I set out to create an NFT that acted as a modern-day “Snow Crash” stored entirely onchain on Ethereum. My version utilizes…

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22:39 • 7 Feb 2024

Fun fact: it also crashed Warpcast, like the whole app

I remember sitting next to Felix when he launched Cypherdudes and the mint page didn't work. Nobody was able to mint, can you imagine the stress ?

Yet 8 months later, the 2048 editions project is minted out ! And secondary is going crazy.

CYPHERDUDES

@CYPHERDUDES

Gm!
And just like that, we're now minted out
A huge thanks for everyone that supported the project from the beginning to now.
Having hard time to find the right words expressing how grateful I am.
Much love
Thank you all so much

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8:31 • 14 Sept 2024

Why ?

Well Felix is not just a talented illustrator, he's also a BAAM (Blockchain As A Medium) believer.

As such, not only are Cypherdudes 100% onchain, they also contain a tool to communicate and store encrypted messages.

Still Remember is my favorite haiku piece, and the one I'll use to present them.

0xhaiku

@0xhaiku

The NFT is glitch art that corrupts over time; it can be temporarily restored by transfer, but if unmoved for three years, it becomes irreparable. Logic inspired by the forgetting theory of memory determines the number of bytes to be corrupted.

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6:48 • 14 Jun 2023

It's so poetic (pun intended), a perfect metaphor of human memories fading away. Using the Blockchain As A Medium (sounds familiar).

0xhaiku

@0xhaiku

I saved a snapshot I took seven years ago on one happy eventful day to the blockchain. This is not a still-life picture, but a still-remember picture.
etherscan.io/tx/0x551110366…

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10:18 • 5 Jun 2023

If you don't follow haiku, you're gonna miss a lot of interesting stuff in the future I'm sure. Your loss 😋

Also known as 0xfff, another great artist (somewhat of a recurring subject in this email don't you think ?)

0xfff.eth

@0xShiroi

Announcing: YOU ARE HERE

Release: Jan 8th at 10pm PST / 1pm EST / 19:00 CET

A fully onchain conceptual-generative edition – bridgable across 22 chains

0.1 ETH / 22 + 1

youarehere.0xfff.love

(1/n)

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1:05 • 3 Jan 2024

You know these apps that let you track phones with a GPS and visualize it's path ?

-> Now imagine you could do this with an NFT.

-> Now Imagine that NFT could travel through different blockchains.

Do I need to justify further why Shiroi is on this list ? What an amazing artwork.

My brother from another mother G.

0xG

@0x0000G

The first 1/1 in the Perpetual collection is “Fearless” – a free NFT that virtually costs 300ETH (around $500.000,00).

Will it ever exist?

Swim to 0xg.xyz/perpetual/mint for details and to mint x.com/0x0000g/status…

0xG

@0x0000G

Fearless

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19:00 • 12 Sept 2022

Selling an artwork for 300 ETH seems far-fetched for most. Not for G.

The buyer of this work needed to pay 300 ETH (but they would get the money back in the same transaction).

Every artist in this list shares a common trait. Ambition.

Ambition leads to uniqueness, which leads to beauty.

I'm grateful I have been given such a stage, and even more today,

to share the future of art with you.

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AI & Design (Marco)

@AIandDesign

This is absolutely insane. Raw render from @Hailuo_AI #MiniMax. Nothing sped up. This is it!

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23:43 • 9 Sept 2024

chance

@nftchance

a small announcement:

after spending nearly a year working in silence i am proud to share with you that @onplug_io is finally coming out of secret development as we ramp up for our testing phase

1 / 7

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15:01 • 11 Sept 2024

AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️

@AISafetyMemes

AI lipreading is here

AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️

@AISafetyMemes

BrainGPT: AIs can now literally spy on your private thoughts

Imagine putting on a cap & reading silently to yourself…except every word appears on a screen!

Yes, the AI literally reads your brainwaves

You silently think: “High quality film with twists”

BrainGPT says out loud:…

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15:24 • 11 Sept 2024

jalilᵛᵛ

@jalil_eth

did a thing.

pathway to fully onchain opepen (request for comments): github.com/visualizevalue…

will add more tests tomorrow.

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0:13 • 12 Sept 2024

What do you think of this format (featuring 5 artists/collectors/platforms you should keep an eye on), should I do more ?

See you next week ✌

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GM everyone !

This week's newsletter is light as I prepare for my biggest NFT drop, ZIMA. I hope you'll love it.

I'll share details on the creation, marketing, and (hopefully) sellout of ZIMA soon.

For now, let's enjoy some nostalgic screenshots from a long time ago, in a galaxy far away...

2021 was a weird year, do you remember when Elon teased an NFT drop ?

Or when Mc-f***ingDonalds dropped an NFT ? lmao

2021: when twitter was adding NFT features into the app ! (before removing it)

Anyone remember these ?? :o

Ouch... that's a lot of money down the drain

this one is a beautiful closing to our little Nostalgia trip 🤣

Alright, back to our beautiful year 2024.

Looking back at these, I think we're better off now. Less noise, more signal.

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Massimo

@Rainmaker1973

The amazing robot makeup of the girls at World Robotics Congress in Beijing, seen up close.

[ mychinatrip]

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10:46 • 31 Aug 2024

Matt Shumer

@mattshumer_

I'm excited to announce Reflection 70B, the world’s top open-source model.

Trained using Reflection-Tuning, a technique developed to enable LLMs to fix their own mistakes.

405B coming next week - we expect it to be the best model in the world.

Built w/ @GlaiveAI.

Read on :

8,202

20:51 • 5 Sept 2024

caio temer

@canalCCore2

If we built a neural network where the weights were lenses instead of vectors, for instance, and the input was light-shaped, the inference cost would be zero.

10.3K

11:29 • 4 Sept 2024

Summer Wagner

@summergwagner

Deeply moved to announce the acquisition of two physical 1/1 pieces by @AustinGrier1

“Full Moon in Scorpio” and “44 Shades of Green” from my Midamerican Fever Dream collection.

I couldn’t have asked for a more kind and thoughtful collector to steward these pieces.

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20:45 • 4 Sept 2024

0xDesigner

@0xDesigner

the role of ai in art marketplaces isn't just to give context on the art, the artist, or the collection.

it's to interpret the taste profile of the collection in the wallet i've connected and give tailored context to how a piece fits in with what i've already collected.

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14:31 • 4 Sept 2024

Thanks so much for reading, I hope you enjoyed today's issue (which I had to speedrun AGAIN 🤣)

See you next week ✌

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Estimated read time: 2 minutes 40 seconds.

Last week, Magic Eden launched Mint Terminal, basically pump[dot]fun, but for NFTs.

If that sounds confusing, don't worry! Today's newsletter will break it down for you.

Here are the 3 most exciting NFT platforms right now.

First, let me explain pump dot fun.

Imagine Twitter, but instead of tweets, the timeline is filled with sh*tcoins. Sounds crazy?

I'll let you be the judge of it 👇

Now (̶d̶i̶a̶l̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶M̶D̶M̶A̶) replace memecoins with NFTs:

For artists, this might sound bad at first.

But collectors struggle to find art they like.

Twitter is a mess, so is Opensea.

So why not rely on what others buy ? it makes sense from a social POV.

I've built an app around this idea, to help collectors and artists find each other, we're currently in beta you can join by replying to this newsletter

What I like about MagicEden: They innovate and provide interesting new tools to the community (from Solana to Bitcoin to the Mint Terminal)

The GOAT.

Nat and his team have built an amazing product. I used Highlight for Bit Rot and will use them for my next project in mid/end of September. Stay tuned!

What I love about Highlight: They offer great tooling for every creator (from 1/1 artworks to onchain generative collections)

Oh, did I mention they also sponsor mints ? (meaning some collectors get a free mint!)

Highlight

@Highlight_xyz

Discovery weekly: sponsored mints ‧₊˚ ⋅* ‧₊

Comment or DM us your artwork. We're picking three to sponsor

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15:01 • 29 Aug 2024

Love it ❤

I need to confess: I've never used Zora

But here's why you should:

Zora just announced a collaboration with Uniswap to help artists get royalties.

Wait, lemme copy/paste that meme from earlier:

TLDR + ELI5:

• You post your art on Zora

• People mint and You earn. nothing changes

• After the mint, People can still buy ! Directly from a secondary market handled by Uniswap

This helps collectors buy and sell liquid tokens easily (not a new concept, hello Pandora), but also helps artists get royalties thanks to Uniswap's contract.

A really interesting concept !

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Linus ●ᴗ● Ekenstam

@LinusEkenstam

You can beam sunlight directly from space

investigation required

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1:10 • 23 Aug 2024

Michael Kozlowski

@mpkoz

Mechanically animated generative art

2000+ moving parts

Gravity powered, no electronics, no motor, no cords.

Empath #01

1,535

19:08 • 22 Aug 2024

colette

@colettebernheim

Instruction book on sewing and tailoring from Ireland, 19th century

15.1K

20:59 • 13 Aug 2024

Meter

@meter

Meet Meter Command.

A generative UI product for getting information, taking action, and building real-time software – all in natural language. meter.com/command

598

15:00 • 21 Aug 2024

LaurieWired

@lauriewired

DNS can be used as a filesystem. Yes, you heard that right.

DNSFS is a project to store files in other peoples DNS resolver caches.

Sure, your files will only last a few days (at best). Even after adding TXT records across entire world, you're only going to have about 250MB…

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19:17 • 28 Aug 2024

Thanks so much for reading, I hope you enjoyed today's issue (which I had to speedrun 🤣)

See you next week ✌

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Estimated read time: 2 minutes 10 seconds.

A few months ago I boarded a long-haul flight from 🇫🇷 Paris to 🇸🇬 Singapore, and lucky me, The Prestige was one of the movies available !

It is a must-watch movie about two magicians battling for fame.

Beyond its amazing story, is is also the perfect guide on how to be a better creative.

Here are 3 lessons I learned from The Prestige

Magicians and artists both bring the imaginary to life.

In this scene, an old magician pretends to be handicapped daily, just to perform a trick involving squatting a heavy fishbowl:

Angier can't figure out the trick because he doesn't understand the value of time. Great magic involves work done long before the performance, creating awe when revealed.

It's because it blurs the line between magic and sorcery.

As an NFT example, In my artwork "BitRot," I pair personas with famous buildings, like Musk and the US Dept. of Treasury. This is a bet on the future, I'm certain many of these news prediction will eventually happen.

Cutter's legendary intro outlines the three acts in a magic trick:

• The Pledge

• The Turn

• The Prestige

I realized someone in the NFT space was already applying the 3 steps , In fact he even tweeted:

Pak sees his art releases as a performance and there's no debating that this is a large part of his success.

I once thought visual art couldn't evoke emotions like music or movies, which can deeply move and change your life.

Now I understand why: musicians see their work as a performance.

Visual artists need to perform their work too. Artists like Pak, Jack Butcher and many more understand this.

This is the most valuable lesson I learned from The Prestige.

See how both magicians perform the same trick: The Transported Man

The first (Borden) throws a ball on the ground, teleports further, and picks it back up

But the second (Angier) throws his hat, and the audience visually gasps as it falls.

Only inches away from the floor, he finally catches it !

Angier understands what the audience craves to see: something is at stake.

I think every artist should learn how to implement stake in their artworks.

I'd like to finish with another great quote from this movie (please watch it):

Cutter: He is a wonderful magician, but he's a dreadful showman.

Like many of you, I'm a terrible showman.

Let's change that.

See you next week ✌

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Estimated read time: 8 minutes 10 seconds.

This week, @dave_krugman dropped his latest project making 21.95 ETH

Here are 5 key takeaways for artists and collectors 🧵 (Case Study)

What a masterclass by Dave, the website, the tweets, the videos, the GIFs !

Dave 🏁 🏁 🏁

@dave_krugman

We poured absolutely everything into the design and user experience of DRIVE // LAP 2. I worked to evoke the early internet I grew up with. Geocities, GIFs, banner ads that link to the collections of @SamSpratt, @toadswiback and @ALIENQUEENNFT, a live stream function with a full…

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16:50 • 14 Aug 2024

You can feel the passion poured into the project to embark the collectors in his world. I loved it !

DeeZe ⛳🏌️‍♂️

@DeeZe

A true masterclass from Dave on this drop

The marketing material is just as good, if not better than the art itself

And I don’t mean that as a slight to the art! I haven’t seen this level of marketing put into a drop in a long time, maybe ever

Dave 🏁 🏁 🏁

@dave_krugman

Thank you so much to everyone who has been sharing, commenting, texting, talking, laughing, and saying kind things to me about DRIVE // LAP 2. We poured our hearts into this one and I am so happy and proud of our extended team. I've really never had this much fun with art before,…

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6:22 • 14 Aug 2024

Many collectors hailed Dave's branding for the drop, and I don't think I would've learned about the drop without this buzz and Deeze's tweet.

This reminded me of how @marc_louvion launches his SaaS products with viral videos. (he described his method here)

Nowadays you rarely see a music piece being released without a music video, and there's a good reason for it:

But why don't we see this from visual art ? Dave showed how impactful this can be for us too.

While the minting website was on-par with the amazing branding, from a UX POV I think it's far from ideal.

I showed it to my wife and she said:

There are way too many items on the screen

It's true, In fact the website breaks at least 4 UX laws:

• Fitts's Law: Make it easy to select things (make them BIG)

• Hick's law: Too much choice is.. well... too much

• Similarity Law: Visually similar elements will be perceived as "not unique"

• Miller's Law: The average person can only keep 7 (plus or minus 2) items in their working memory.

What it means is:

• There are too many items

• They are too small

• They all look the same (from afar of course)

• They are hard to relate to (because of all this)

You can look at the difference between Dave's minting page and ACK's (Broken Keys) minting page.

The key takeaways here to improve mint pages are:

• Keep the artworks big enough so people can feel like they can touch it (see my thread on how to create "graspable" 3D objects:

  

  Nahiko

  @Nahiiko

  

  Secret #2: Make it holdable
  
  What do I mean ?
  A picture is worth a thousand words:

  

  4

  11:23 • 8 Aug 2024

• Let the artworks breathe, don't add too much on top of it at the risk of making every artwork look "the same":

  

  • Last but not least keep the background shenanigans minimal. The background being so charged makes it hard to know where to focus your attention (especially since the background itself is also the art, but it's not mintable, this is super confusing)

There were 91 (actually 58, per @redbeardnft, thanks for reaching out) unsold editions. There is no rule on edition numbers, and that's why I love these case studies.

For my current project (the build in public one), I don't know how many editions to sell. Right now I'm looking at 16, which might be too low (as discussed in a previous issue):

On the other hand, we can see that 300 seems to be too many.

I'm unsure if the issue stems from the UX problems (see above), the bear market, or other factors.

It seems artists have a key number to hit based on:

• their following

• their outreach

• announcements interest

But calculating this is tough.

Instead, the best approach is to analyze similar artists' drops and addition numbers to make informed decisions, using real data from previous performances.

Okay, so why don't we do exactly that?

Let's compare Dave's drop with another drop by a very similar artist in terms of following. I named ACK (Alpha Centauri Kid) and his famous broken keys (initially 100 editions):

a.c.k.

@lphaCentauriKid

thank you ser, appreciate that a lot.

the piano collection is called "The Broken Keys" and will be a collection of 90-100, 1 of 1 piano scenes.
I won't be token gating them or anything as i am having them all start with a 0 eth reserve.

i've shared quite a lot of them but…

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16:18 • 3 Mar 2023

Broken Keys is actually the project that inspired me to create an auctioned edition collection.

Here are the numbers:

Sure, this isn't an apples-to-apples comparison, the market is different, the project is different, etc.

But my guess is that the edition number is one of the reasons why we have such different results while both artists have a similar following.

@redbeardnft also suggested we look at Cath Simard's last drop, which also has an amazing video "trailer":

CATH Simard

@cathsimard_

Introducing "Blue Hour Adventures: Australia!", my first children’s book & dive into the world of youth.

A fictional tale based on my trip in Tasmania, meant to inspire the younger generation.

An exclusive collector's package including the book & the art.

All details below

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17:02 • 18 Mar 2024

I don't think it's a good match because it isn't multiple 1/1s on auction but rather an edition of 444 with a physical too.

This highlights the need for a better repository of artist works and tools to compare/improve. (do I work on this ? maybe 😁)

Now my last point is on the drop timing. Obviously, this is (again) a really difficult topic.

My first hunch is that the summer might not be the best time to drop a project.

The current market is terrible, and the few people who do have the funds are looking at other things like Solana memecoins, Bitcoin Ordinals, etc.

They're not specifically looking at Ethereum NFTs. and especially not at 1/1s.

But again, finding the right time to do a drop is going to be difficult.

Sure everybody aims for Wednesday/Thursday, But finding the right macro time is much harder.

I'm actually creating a tool to help artists schedule their drops using their collectors activity (what an amazing tool it is ! 🤤 ) let me know in the comments if you're interested.

🫡 Alright that's it for this case study. Dave Krugman is a very interesting artist, and I'm super inspired by his approach to marketing the project.

I hope you liked my take on how to improve using his work as reference !

See you next week ✌

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They are a reminder of my life before NFTs. Everyday I was inside that train heading to my 9-to-5 job at a big robotics company.

I didn't hate my job, but something was off. I needed to build my own thing.

Do you have a train track ? A constant reminder of why ?

...

Today I want to talk about 3 things NFT Artists & Collectors struggle with during the bear market.

In a previous newsletter I've talked about how the fluctuations of the crypto market can break you:

Nahiko

@Nahiiko

Why Beeple sold all his ETH and you should too (ELI5 for Artists)

Udi | BIP-420 🐱

@udiWertheimer

Elon sells the best car in the world. keeps revenue 100% in bitcoin

Beeple sells jpeg files, sells every last ETH he receives

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7:15 • 9 Aug 2024

But fluctuations impact more.

For example, selling was easier in March 2021 than now.

Despite this, I released my biggest project in November 2023, a bear market. Don’t let market conditions dictate your release.

Adjust your marketing strategy. Artists often resist marketing, but it’s essential. Even NFT collectors like Cozomo understand that to attract new talent you have to put yourself out there.

That's just how life works. Don't be stupid, Market your art.

You are your own enemy.

Don't let fear stop you from making good decisions.

Fear is natural.

• I fear having to go back to a 9-to-5 job.

• I fear that the market might be my downfall.

• I fear that my next projects will not be good enough.

But at the end of the day, you have to make decisions. And fear should not dissuade you from making the right decisions.

Look, there are So many things that could and should be done.

Here's what I do:

• Withdraw money after a sale.

• Keep unsold crypto in a multisig.

• Diversify unsold crypto (Stables, Gambles, etc.)

• When an app asks to spend crypto for you, change the amount to reflect what you will actually spend (by default it's ALL of it)

• Read Smart Contracts for important transactions (you can use chatgpt).

• If I need a company's website, I check their Twitter bio, then cross-reference it with Google.

• Use a hardware wallet for important stuff, hot wallet for the rest.

• Don’t EVER download files someone sends you per DM.

• If you HAVE to, open them in a browser, or better, a VM (I use tart)

Share your tips in the comments!

The rule is simple:

If your assets' foundation vanishes, are you screwed? If so, diversify more.

• Diversify your wallets (Hot: Metamask, Rabby, and Cold: Trezor, Ledger,...)

• Diversify your social platforms (Twitter, Discord, Newsletter, Instagram,...)

• Diversify your revenue (Selling Art, Reinvesting revenue, Sell your niche knowledge, etc.)

The taxman doesn't care if ETH went down 90% yesterday. If you owe money, you better make sure to keep it safe.

Nahiko

@Nahiiko

One of my friends made $350,000 in 2021 from a big project, and kept everything in crypto.
The guy is a true degen

Still, he later consulted an accountant.

The news was devastating.

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7:15 • 9 Aug 2024

I once spoke with a seven-figure NFT seller who advised to keep a list of 100 ideas.

Since then, I've actually started doing it. I'm still pretty far off the 100 ideas (Actually I just counted, I am at 136 ideas !)

I jot down ideas and add them to my database (like Notion), when I get home.

Lastly, you'll need inspiration to create your list of ideas.

Creativity is simple: your brain needs to consume high-quality content to produce high-quality content.

Here are this week's bookmarks (I heard it's very high quality content 😉 )

✨ Flux is taking over

Javi Lopez ⛩️

@javilopen

Believe it or not, this image was generated with AI (Flux + LoRA).

This image changes EVERYTHING:

- A new reign begins: Flux (Bye, Midjourney, SD, Dalle, etc.).
- We’re leaving the "uncanny valley" behind.

We'll never be able to tell what's real from what's not again.

1,836

9:54 • 9 Aug 2024

✨ AI Streaming is easy now ?

Linus ●ᴗ● Ekenstam

@LinusEkenstam

Nothing to see here…

But this is from a single still image

Avatars using AI will be huge for streamers, remote workers, influencers

No need for expensive 3D pipelines and mocap, just a phone or webcam.

What have we gotten ourselves into?

1,501

18:26 • 9 Aug 2024

🖼 Web Magic

Alexandre Devaux

@AlexandreDevaux

Created a small prototype to generate Muybridge effect
It runs directly in your browser using your GPU to extract human
Demo: whenistheweekend.com/motion.html
#AI #Olympics2024Paris @threejs

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18:16 • 7 Aug 2024

📖 A Giant Crypto Timeline

Igor Stepahin

@stepahin

Nobody's done this before with @figma! What if I take all the file versions over 3 years and create a timelapse? Turns out the API can! A python script exported 880 PNGs 13800 × 2400 of @GrandTimeline in a few hours. Than, a lot of AE work.

Script in the file, bottom left →…

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18:28 • 30 Jul 2024

✨ Getting Elon in your team meetings

MatthewBerman

@MatthewBerman

#1 trending github repo right now looks INSANE

Single image to live stream deep fake.

Look at that quality!!

It's called Deep-Live-Cam (link in replies)

7,464

18:38 • 9 Aug 2024

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I know, I know, this week's newsletter was supposed to be a "how to migrate to Arweave in 90 seconds" tutorial.

Life is hectic.

Balancing everything—family, work, and creating content—is challenging. With only 24 hours in a day, it's tough.

But I'm doing my best to bring you amazing tutorials and tools (Let me know if you wanna be a beta tester).

For now, enjoy this newsletter; it will save you a lot of headaches.

In 2021, @beeple made headlines with a $69M (~ETH42,000) NFT sale.

Then he cashed out.

Some felt confused or scammed:

sassal.eth/acc 🦇🔊

@sassal0x

Beeple rugged us like a 2017 ICO scam

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15:50 • 24 Mar 2021

but he had to do it...

No matter where you live:

• selling something = owing taxes to the gov (like VAT or capital gains)

And be careful, because this can shatter your dreams.

One of my friends made $350,000 in 2021 from a big project, and kept everything in crypto.

The guy is a true degen 👑

Still, he later consulted an accountant.

The news was devastating:

He owed $200,000 but didn't have the money. What happened ?

Well, after selling his project, ETH plummeted BIG TIME.

He sold for $350k but now only had ~$100k !

In some countries, taxes are based on the value at the time of selling.

So, if you sell for a million and ETH crashes to zero, you still owe taxes on that million.

How crazy is that? Beeple's $69M sale could've been a disaster.

Sure, ETH went up, but would you have bet $69,000,000 on that?

Let's say he owes half to the gov, and ETH drops 50%, he's broke.

The headlines would have been different:

He sold for $69M but goes bankrupt ?!

If you think "well if it fluctuates but not that much right?"

Look again 👇

I'm not telling you to always withdraw your sales (even though I do).

This isn’t financial advice, of course your situation depends on local law.

But if the government takes 30%, plan for it. maybe withdraw 30% or use stablecoins to reduce risk.

Tools like 0xSplits can help you automate this. (let me know in the comments if you want a tutorial on how to use Splits for taxes)

I kept my bookmarks for my faithful subscribers only (thank you for the support <3)

Cozomo de’ Medici

@CozomoMedici

We almost never think about it, but there is a reason galleries hang art the way they do.

Early on, art was hung "salon style" - pressed together and stacked floor to ceiling.

But 161 years ago, it all changed, when 3,000 artists clashed with the President of France...

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18:53 • 29 Jul 2024

Avi

@AviSchiffmann

introducing friend. not imaginary.

order now at friend.com

12.8K

15:56 • 30 Jul 2024

Nahiko

@Nahiiko

You guys remember when I logged into Bitclout as @elonmusk ?

Look at the insane amount of notifications the guy was getting.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

@SECGov

Today we charged Nader Al-Naji with perpetrating a multi-million-dollar fraudulent crypto asset scheme involving a social media platform called BitClout and its native token of the same name.

0

11:45 • 4 Aug 2024

The winner of last week's contest is @NFTmaki, who wins a "The Price is Almost Right" NFT (worth $170):

Sidewayz

@NFTmaki

Just make sure your art survives longer than a Solana memecoin.

0

15:29 • 30 Jul 2024

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I just finished recording an episode of cryptonatives today with yet another legend of the space. We're approaching release soon, I'm so excited !

Anyway enough about me, let's talk about securing your NFTs for ethernity 👇

Based on my experience, there are 3 types of NFTs:

1. The Ethereum Evergreen → minted via code and stored onchain

2. The Manifold Goodie → minted on manifold and stored on arweave

3. The IPFS Freebie → minted on a platform (think Opensea, KnownOrigin, etc.) and stored on IPFS

Today I show you how to fix your IPFS Freebies (read this to learn why).

Here is a little drawing that depicts the process of minting an NFT on KnownOrigin:

That's crazy convoluted wtf !? (was my reaction)

So what's stored on the blockchain when minting on KO is a link pointing to another link ? Yes.

How fucking mad is that?

Like what the fuck is wrong with platforms? How is any of this "permanent" ?

They didn't even use the standard ipfs://fileID at the time ! (but rather a gateway link: https://ipfs.infura.io/ipfs/fileID)

So if Infura decides to take this link down, my NFT is gone. Poof...

Okay, so our aim is to replace every instance of https://ipfs.infura.io/ipfs/fileID with ar://fileID

You would typically need to follow this very long guide (but don't do it):

1. Download arkb from github

2. Create an arweave wallet

3. Bridge ETH to AR (Arweave) to this new wallet

4. Get the private key for the wallet

5. Set it as the key to use for arkb

6. use the "arkb deploy" command to deploy our image on arweave

7. replace the infura link with our new arweave link inside the metadata

8. use the "arkb deploy" command to deploy the metadata on arweave

9. Call the setURI function with the new metadata (in my case it's here)

Remember you need to be the creator of the NFT in order to do this

...

You didn't read all that right ? Yeah I figured.

The truth is, this is an issue thousands of artists face each year. There needs to be an easier way, and there is.

Next week I show you how to fix your IPFS NFTs... in 90 seconds.

You thought I'd leave you without my precious bookmarks ?

Shape

@Shape_L2

Shape

Shape Culture. Get Gasback.

582

19:19 • 18 Jul 2024

Dogan Ural

@doganuraldesign

I had to do it :(

Here's is the style code of the day

--sref 2793820794 // Blue Screen of Death

Midjourney Styles

1,557

16:30 • 20 Jul 2024

Harry Dry

@harrydry

Watch me rewrite an ad twenty times :)

There’s no flash of inspiration. It’s more like building a cabinet. Lots of axe work, piece by piece, 'til it's there.

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15:40 • 22 Jul 2024

Remember,

Making sure your art survives longer than [insert funny joke] is key. I've seen countless collectors lose precious assets because of this.

See you next week ✌

Nahiko

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Look, I don't even know how to introduce this week's newsletter. I mean look at that title ?! 👇

I love how OSINT teams up with Journalism.

See how AI was used to trace the bullet's path inches from Trump's head ! (with debatable precision for now)

Steven Greenstreet 🐷

@MiddleOfMayhem

3D recreation of President Trump turning his head a split second before the bullet hits him.

If even remotely accurate, this is an astounding visual.

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1:31 • 17 Jul 2024

Not convinced ? Here's another proof of this match made in heaven.

Just a few days in, and @samueloakford & @washingtonpost had released this amazing 3D visualization:

Samuel Oakford

@samueloakford

NEW: A @washingtonpost analysis, based on more than 40 videos and photos, satellite imagery and terrain data used to build a 3D model shows how Secret Service countersnipers were likely hindered in their ability to see the shooter at Saturday's Trump rally.

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2:03 • 17 Jul 2024

That's it. After AsyncArt, now KnownOrigin is shutting down.

Millions of NFTs, all stored on IPFS. 😭

Let's make it interesting — how about we get @Polymarket to create a bet: "How long will the @KnownOrigin_io IPFS-stored NFTs last?"

KnownOrigin.io

@KnownOrigin_io

After careful consideration and evaluation we can confirm KnownOrigin will continue to wind down it’s on-chain marketplaces & minter (and signpost to secondary marketplaces) over the upcoming weeks.

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16:09 • 17 Jul 2024

Some of you wonder how it's gonna play out:

✨FrankNFT✨

@frankNFT_eth

Interesting to see how this will play out? What will happen to the art? Who will pay for the IPFS accounts? And what platform is next?

Welcome to the end of NFT’s

KnownOrigin.io

@KnownOrigin_io

After careful consideration and evaluation we can confirm KnownOrigin will continue to wind down it’s on-chain marketplaces & minter (and signpost to secondary marketplaces) over the upcoming weeks.

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18:56 • 17 Jul 2024

Here's what's gonna happen:

- in 3 months: everything still works

- in 2 years: everything still works

- in 3 years: IPFS bill unpaid

- in 5 years: 99% of NFTs → 404 ERROR: NOT FOUND

Lesson: Store your NFTs on-chain! (Keep an eye out for an upcoming how-to article in this newsletter or on twitter: @nahiiko )

What a hilarious tweet by @jfischoff showcasing the implementation of the liveportrait paper on @fal

Jonathan Fischoff

@jfischoff

Realtime Live Portrait is live on @fal!

Play with demo here: fal.ai/demos/live-por…

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20:44 • 16 Jul 2024

Another week, another groundbreaking AI video editing tool ?

@minchoi never disappoints when sharing AI news !

Check out the original Reddit post

Min Choi

@minchoi

Video editing will never be the same.

You can now create slow motion and bullet time using Luma AI

It's about to get wild

H/t u/thiagop_nit

2,945

23:02 • 13 Jul 2024

@0xKofi just dropped a gem I had no clue about!

This beautiful guide was created by another data whiz, @andrewhong5297 from @DuneAnalytics.

One Roadmap to rule them all: https://linktr.ee/cryptodatabytes

Kofi

@0xKofi

Check the link in @andrewhong5297 bio. Lots of great beginner guides in there

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11:12 • 12 Jul 2024

Fun fact: did you know they got their family name from the red coat symbol that was used as their house number in old Germany ?

@Debussy100 certainly thinks so!

But what about NFTs ?

Could my NFT bags turn me into the next Nathan Rothschild? 🤔

Pro Google Search tip: "Pdf file you legally download because you own a physical version of it" filetype:pdf

Less Assassination, AI and NFTs... More Eye Candy !

by @CorentinBerndu

Corentin Bernadou

@CorentinBerndu

Infinite scroll x Spinner effect, powered by WebGL and shaders

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19:26 • 12 Jul 2024

And a little Brain Candy !

by @trunarla

˗ˏˋmewtru´ˎ˗

@trunarla

Working on something stupid

5,909

20:29 • 16 Jul 2024

As always, I kept the two most interesting tweets for you fam. Enjoy the deep dives ! ❤

Master illusionist @AkiyoshiKitaoka posted an interesting image this week:

Akiyoshi Kitaoka

@AkiyoshiKitaoka

Girl with a Pearl Earring appears to be colored, though this image is a gray-scale one with color lines. (example of color assimilation; not my invention)

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6:17 • 15 Jul 2024

Why is this interesting? It sparked an idea:

a new compression algorithm.

Storing color is expensive. Each pixel's color needs 3 infos (e.g., 40% red, 20% blue, 10% green).

In contrast, black and white are much more efficient and only need 1 info (e.g., 50% black for one pixel, 20% for another).

So, what if we used illusions to compress images?

Storing color only every 100 pixels could cut image size by 66% (according to ChatGPT 😭, I'm too dumb to run the numbers).

Of course things aren't that simple, but it's an interesting concept I will probably explore further soon.

Time for some Psychology ! 👀

Nahiko

@Nahiiko

Interesting results ! will talk about them in today's newsletter

Nahiko

@Nahiiko

I have a theory

Would you rather... ?

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12:28 • 18 Jul 2024

Earlier this week I posted a poll on Twitter asking the following: Would you rather pay $10 for a 1/1000 NFT or $10,000 for a 1/1 NFT ?

Well the results are in, and I have to say I'm quite surprised !

Ok so here's my theory:

The $100 price point is the sweet-spot.

Let's look at the numbers

I think it's an easy choice right ? No ? Ok Ok, you can argue that you won't be able to sell 22 1/1s in one drop, let's say you can't sell more than the corresponding edition number:

This is already making 1/10's more interesting ! Now let's assume whoever would buy a 1/10 for $1,000 would also buy below that (without capping):

and with capping:

You can see how close it's getting ! Especially if we start guessing what the final edition number could be at each price (instead of fixing it)

Am I tweaking the numbers too much ? Probably, what's your conclusion ?

For me, I'm not sure yet, it does seem like the $100 price point holds up, but it does not show up in numbers like I expected. Of course these numbers are all tied to me, and heavily depend on current market configurations, marketing and virality.

I'm currently working on releasing my internal analytics tooling which will give much better insights, respond to this email if you're interested in being a beta-tester (both collectors and artists).

I hope you enjoyed this issue of the newsletter, please share it and mention me while doing so ! ❤

See you next week ✌

Nahiko

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Today I'd like to try a new format for the newsletter.

I'm offering you one deep dive in addition to my usual bookmarks, I hope you'll enjoy it !

Let me know if you do (I might not do a deep dive again if you don't !)

This story starts a few days ago, I was doomscrolling twitter for hours like every day, trying to find the best tweets for my beautiful subscribers (hard work ikr).

And there it was, between an andrew tate tweet and ehm... work

The famous NFT logo

If you are reading this, you have seen it. It's mathematical.

It's been used everywhere, from Forbes to NBC News and even Creative Commons (yes yes, the same ones that created CC0). Reused, Modified, 3D-fied, etc. endlessly.

To a point where I had never actually asked myself this simple question:

Who created this logo ? And Why ?

Well that day, I decided I wouldn't work on my 6-figure built-in-public project,

in fact, I would not work on ANYTHING productive... until I had found the answer to that question. (I'm a little stubborn)

Whenever I'm looking for an image like that I just go for the plain simple Google Reverse Image search, it works wonders most of the time (It did when I needed it in my last investigation)

A simple search returns the following results

This goes on for pages and pages, URGH !

I can't even sort by Date ! 😭

But I have a trick: CTRL+F hehe

But wait, there are results for 2019 !

... and even 2018 !

...and... 2017 ? hm that's a bit weird.

The truth is, Google works in weird ways.

Take this tweet as an example. It claims to be from 2017, yet the logo featured didn't even exist back then (you'll see what I mean shortly).

How does Google still insist it was posted in 2017?

Well not really, what this search says is: That page, originally created in 2017, now features the NFT logo.

So we're back to square one... right ?

Well I'm not gonna give up here ! Let's trust Google did a good job (for once).

How about we search for "logo" in here?

Bingo! Was it that easy ?

...

Ehhhh nevermind, that's not it lmao

So I continue looking by date... until...

Do you see it ?

It's subtle. But there are 3 results in Japanese, 2 of which on Medium, weird. Let's dive in.

I click, I scroll, and sure enough...

Here it is ! We found it !

hidden at the bottom of an obscure Medium article.

And the coolest part? Both articles lead straight to one company: NFTplus.

So who are these people, and what's NFTplus ?

Turns out, they're a web3 gaming company, in fact you can see the MCH (My Crypto heroes) acronym in the second medium account (Kokushi MCH)

Scroll a little further and we even get a download page for the logo !

It's written that Double Jump Tokyo are the people that created the famous NFT logo, in fact the initial medium articles provided a little more information:

So that's it ! the NFT logo was created by a small web3 gaming company, just looking to help market their game.

Who's the designer behind it? Is there more to this story?

I'm sure @kokushi_oasys, @rmanzoku and @doublejump_en the three protagonists of this story have the answer to this question

You can check Kokushi's article and Rmanzoku's article if you want to glimpse into history :)

Well, that's it for us guys, I gotta say it was quite interesting to dive into this rabbit hole.

I hope you guys equally enjoyed it.

Please do share this as much as you can ! (Who's gonna pay my bills after I wasted a week searching for the NFT logo instead of working ?)

As promised, this week my bookmarks are available only to my subscribers ! (xoxo) 😘

camenduru

@camenduru

LivePortrait: Efficient Portrait Animation with Stitching and Retargeting Control Jupyter Notebook

Thanks to Jianzhu Guo Dingyun Zhang Xiaoqiang Liu Zhizhou Zhong Yuan Zhang Pengfei Wan Di Zhang

jupyter: please try it github.com/camenduru/Live…

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21:06 • 4 Jul 2024

Worldcoin

@worldcoin

The World Chain developer preview is now live

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15:23 • 9 Jul 2024

Suhail Kakar

@SuhailKakar

base: explain like i'm five

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11:04 • 10 Jul 2024

Nahiko

@Nahiiko

I'm building a 6-figure NFT project in public - Part V

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21:58 • 10 Jul 2024

Miguel Piedrafita ✨

@m1guelpf

IT IS TIME TO GIT GUD AT VIDEO

for too long I've been trying to make something "perfect" so fuck it, we're doing 100 bad (incrementally-better ) videos.

this video isn't great, and I usually would've scrapped it. so enjoy and see you next week

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22:05 • 10 Jul 2024

Gleb Kuznetsov

@glebich

Welcome screen

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8:05 • 8 Jul 2024

ofoid

@of0id

Genuine is my latest collection that blends timeless beauty with digital permanence

Every gem is generated on-chain upon request, without any external dependencies beyond the Ethereum Virtual Machine.

ofoid.com/genuine

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23:04 • 9 Jul 2024

If you enjoyed this new format please let me know (Twitter DM, Responding to this email, Comments, Pigeons).

See you next week ✌

Nahiko

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