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- A new way to monetize your NFTs
Kaloh argues that protocol rewards, a mechanism recently developed by the NFT marketplace Zora, could make free NFTs a sustainable way for creators and third-party curators to earn revenue. Zora's protocol collects a small fee of 0.000777 ETH (about $1.40) from collectors when they mint, and directs portions to creators, referrers, curators, and the first minter, with no gas fees for creators. Kaloh says the design lets third parties such as dApps, galleries, and newsletters earn a share of sales they originate, and cites Farcaster and Lens as examples of high-scale applications using it.
- What 'The King of Collectibles' on Netflix Taught Me
- The Evolution of Art in the Age of NFTs and AI ft. Alex Estorick
This podcast episode features Alex Estorick, founding Editor-in-Chief of Right Click Save, a digital art publication with over 130,000 readers, discussing how NFTs and AI are changing art. The conversation covers the evolving language used for blockchain art, generative art and AI art, and how NFTs affect traditional definitions of art. It also addresses the reGEN initiative, which Estorick's profile says supports artists fighting degenerative diseases, and charitable NFT auctions.
- What's Driving Solana's Come Back?
Solana's rising interest is attributed to its price gains and user growth, with the article citing Messari Crypto for SOL value up 900% over the past year and 1.1M daily active wallets (versus 300k on Ethereum). The article also notes that Solana search traffic passed Ethereum in Google searches in December 2023, though it adds that this comparison excludes Ethereum's L2 chains such as Polygon and Base. The author, who is writing a deep dive on Solana's crypto art scene, says the main drivers are not purely related to blockchain or crypto art, but the rise is spilling into artists and collectors becoming more interested in Solana-minted NFTs.
- This is Why December Will Be Huge for Generative Art
Upcoming events are expected to make December a major month for generative art, according to the newsletter. The fxhash 2.0 launch on ETH is scheduled for December 1 with over 80 generative artworks over eight days, alongside more than ten real-life community events in the US, Europe, and Asia. Foundation also integrated generative art into its Worlds through a partnership with Highlight, and two funding opportunities for digital artists were announced: an Optimism contest with a 1,000,000 OP prize pool and a December 13 deadline, and Somehoodlum's Somefund, with a $250,000 prize pool.
- William Mapan Drops Another Algorithmic Art Gem
William Mapan released "Sketchbook A," a generative collection of 64 pieces, as part of the "Intimacy" exhibition via Verse, and the newsletter writer calls the release impressive. The writer says Mapan began with physical drawings made with coloured pencils, sharing the process on social networks before coding them, and argues the algorithmic results look even better and allow for infinite combinations. According to the newsletter, more than 1 million outputs were generated in eight days, and Mapan is the only artist the writer names as having released generative art in a list of galleries and platforms that includes Art Blocks Curated, LACMA, and Sotheby's.
- Can Your Artist Name Influence Your Sales?
Kaloh's newsletter analyzes whether artists' names relate to their sales, using one year of top-seller data (October 2022 to October 2023) from five blockchain art platforms: Art Blocks, fxhash, Super Rare, Foundation and verse. Full names dominate overall, with 62.7% of the best-selling artists using one, 31.4% using an alias and 5.9% using a short name. Among the top 10 on Art Blocks, nine use full-name structures, and Snowfro's Chromie Squiggles secondary volume (about $24.2M) exceeds the combined top-10 volume of the other four platforms (about $17.2M). Kaloh states it is doubtful the aliases significantly influenced market success, and that art is the most critical factor.
- Introducing Indexy: Clarity Behind Crypto Markets
Indexy is a new app by Kaloh that aims to make tracking, investing in and learning about crypto markets easier by grouping tokens into sector-based indices instead of following individual coins. Kaloh says the first indices cover AI, NFTs, DAOs and emerging ecosystems such as Farcaster and Clanker, and that the AI index tracks the top 50 AI-related coins by market cap. The post notes that the data might not be 100% accurate, and the app is rolling out step by step through a waiting list on Indexy.xyz.
- 🟣 Deep Dive: Farcaster NFTs
Kaloh's market deep dive covers Farcaster-native NFTs, which the author says have sparked a wave of creators and collections, and the report's list is filtered by volume and network relevance. The Farcaster OG NFT, airdropped by Dan Romero to 938 active users before the protocol opened to everyone, has a floor of 1.98 ETH and about 450 ETH in secondary volume. Farcats by 0xen has 293 ETH in secondary volume, and the Purple DAO has 361 members and 32 ETH in its treasury. The report includes over 200,000 NFTs across Ethereum mainnet, Zora and Base, with an average floor of 0.17 ETH.
- The Architect's Journey into Generative Art ft. Jacek Markusiewicz
Jacek Markusiewicz, an architect, artist and creative coder, discusses his move from teaching architecture to making generative art in this podcast episode. He has worked on collections including "Hollow" and "Barbarians" on platforms such as Bright Moments, Fxhash, Objkt.com and Verse. The episode covers parametric design's link to generative art and his "Hollow" collection, which he describes as both a tribute to and a critique of Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida's ambitious vision.
- Year in Review 2023 - Kaloh's Newsletter & Podcast
Kaloh's year-end newsletter recaps 2023 for the blockchain art community, reporting 26 podcast episodes, 145 articles, 10,000 subscribers and 1.2 million emails sent. Kaloh says the newsletter covered six AI artists and an exhibition, reviewed BOTTO, and summarized the theory behind Bitcoin Ordinals. The Blind Gallery collaborated with over fourteen artists, including on the February 2023 Seed Edition on fxhash and the September 2023 Vistas Edition curated with Feral File and Casey Reas. For 2024, Kaloh plans weekly Deep Dives on Tuesdays, podcasts on Thursdays, a hidden gems section on Sundays, and a monthly recap, along with a new educational platform and a revised referral program.
- Curating Art Worlds with Foundation ft. Kayvon Tehranian
Kayvon Tehranian, CEO and founder of Foundation, discusses the platform's development, which lets creators use blockchain to monetize their work and build connections with collectors. The episode covers Foundation's early invitation system, which Tehranian explains was used for gradual system development and community education. It also covers Worlds, a tool for curated contexts that uses blockchain provenance to help navigate the art market, and Foundation's partnership with Highlight to bring generative art collections onto the platform.
- Terrible Hacks, Claire Silver's Fund, Community Art, and a new Publication!
Kaloh's newsletter roundup covers recent blockchain art news, including a Ledger library hack that affected many dApps and services, a compromise of Art Blocks' X account that Snowfro and the ArtBlocks team mitigated quickly, and a compromise of the Flamingo DAO X account that affected collector Pixelpete. Claire Silver raised close to $20,000 for artists' minting costs through her non-profit Accelerate Art, which she co-founded with Ben Roy. The newsletter also reports that Kaloh turned 0.1 ETH into 2.6 ETH in about 10 hours through the $yoyo memecoin game on Farcaster, and it previews a new curation publication.
- A Gallery in the Middle of the Desert ft. Glitch Marfa
Madison Page, Malte Rauch, and Derek Edwards discuss Glitch Gallery, an analog space for digital objects founded in 2022 that sits between Marfa, Texas, and the internet. Page is the owner and director, Edwards is an owner and the Managing Partner of Collab Currency, and Rauch is on the curation board and formerly served as head of partnerships and editor of Bright Moments. The conversation covers "Every 30 Days," a product combining long-form text, a gallery show, and a digital poster, along with the gallery's curation approach, its outdoor exhibition viewable from the street, and plans to evolve the project.
- Powering 50k NFT Communities with Collab.Land ft. Anjali Young
Anjali Young, Co-Founder of Collab.Land, discusses how the automated member management system serves tokenized communities, which the article says more than 50,000 projects use, including Prada, Gucci, Adidas, McLaren, and Pudgy Penguins. In the episode, Young describes the product's origins as no-code tooling for creators, with a later shift to community management starting with DAOs. The article reports that over 53,000 communities manage users with Collab.Land and that 2,000 new wallets across 28 blockchains join a Collab.Land server every day. Upcoming initiatives include a SocialFi app called Telefriends and trading bots.
- From Net Art to Blockchain Art ft. Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
Media artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy discuss their careers in a podcast conversation, covering topics from early net and video art to blockchain art. Kevin created Quantum in 2014, described as the first digital object to capture ownership and provenance before NFTs, and it was later auctioned at Sotheby's for over $1.4M. The discussion also covers the McCoys' first gallery interactions through Postmasters, their teaching at Brooklyn College and NYU, and an eco-friendly approach to reducing crypto's environmental impact.
- Are you in for the Art or the Tech
This newsletter asks readers whether they are more drawn to the art or the tech of blockchain art, and the author says the two are not mutually exclusive. The author, Kaloh, says they started in tech after eight years as a software developer, data scientist and product manager, and now gives equal weight to both, having moved from 80% tech and 20% art early on. The issue also promotes Lens Protocol handles for premium members, previews a podcast guest, Anika Meier, and lists recent items such as a MoMA acquisition of a Tania Franco Klein NFT collection.
- 📊 Market Analysis: The AI Art Market
The article is a December 2024 market analysis of about 70 AI art collections, drawn from OpenSea data for the week of December 16 to 22, 2024, and it reports that the subset's market capitalization has grown sharply over the past three months. Total market cap rose by 7,600 ETH (about $50M), from 22,861 ETH to 30,424 ETH (about $103.4M). Trading volume over the last three months was 2,074.825 ETH (about $7M), and all-time volume stands at 42,030 ETH (about $143M). The average floor price rose from 0.710 ETH to 0.751 ETH, a 54% increase in USD terms that the author attributes partly to Ethereum's price rise.
- Shaping Culture with Shape and Deca ft. Bonafidehan
- Eternal Tides and Factories Series
- Empowering the Farcaster Economy with Moxie ft. Jason Goldberg
- Kaloh's Newsletter | Welcome to the Rodeo Ft. Kayvon
- Anatomy and Shapes, an Interview with Juan Rodríguez García
- All You Need to Know About Rodeo.Club
- Mare Nostrum by Mario Klingemann and Fake Whale's Newest Exhibition
- 💎 Art Basel and The Digital Art Mile Recap
- 💎 A New Spacemonkey in Your Wallet, Every Month
- 💎 hidden gems: The magic behind Terraforms
Terraforms is a collection that has grown in popularity over time, drawing interest from generative art fans and crypto enthusiasts alike. It consists of 11,000 land-art NFTs representing 3D worlds, and the whole project's code is fully on the Ethereum blockchain. Each Terraform is a generative mini-app paint program, and holders can permanently integrate their drawing into the piece to create a 1/1 artwork. When combined, the complete collection forms a massive 3D hypercastle.
- 💎 hidden gems: Paris
Kaloh reports on a few days at Paris blockchain events, including Bright Moments and NFT Paris, which he describes as high-attendance and high-quality. His "hidden gems" picks include a 100-piece artwork by Luke for Bright Moments and Lightbreak, an algorithmic light-path piece. The newsletter also promotes a 10-essay, 101-artist NFT art history survey and a Metaversal Paris side event where an AI machine produced perfumes from a 10-question personality test, sold at 3 bottles for $40.
- 💎 A Haskell-coded generative art collection
Ben Kovach's generative artwork "Inertia #25" uses Haskell-coded algorithms, including rectangular subdivision, Poisson disc sampling and convex hulls, to mimic linocut aesthetics. The series was distilled from 10,000 pieces down to 75 and uses duotone palettes inspired by Kovach's own paintings. The newsletter also highlights Farcaster, a decentralized social protocol with over 200,000 users, and notes that Ana María Caballero's poem CORD, curated by FAR, is being auctioned at Sotheby's with a current bid of $7,500.
- 💎 An Amusing Park You Need To Visit
Kaloh's first weekly "hidden gems" edition spotlights "Amusing Park," a piece by Finnish artist Roope Rainisto that depicts a nostalgic summer day at a whimsical amusement park with vintage striped umbrellas and pastel-toned rides. Rainisto integrates AI with traditional photography and has a 25-year design career and a Master's in Information Networks, and the text describes him as a pioneer in AI-based post-photographic expression. The work is part of his Post Real collection, an ever-growing set of extracts from his experiments, and he has worked at Microsoft as a Principal Designer and been curated by Braindrops, verse, Expanded Art, and Fellowship.
- Richard Nadler returns, Genomes by Ciphrd, TezPole Madness and more!
This weekly digest from the blockchain art newsletter covers several items, including Flamingo DAO's spending of over 500 ETH (about $1M) on generative and AI art over two weeks. Richard Nadler is releasing a new AI-assisted collection on December 14 at 5:00 pm CET, with 128 pieces sold through a ranked auction in which winning bidders pay the lowest winning bid. The digest also announces Genomes, a project by Ciphrd and fxhash founder Alex Mordvintsev's collaborator, with an unlimited edition at 0.02 ETH on December 14, 2023, which will pave the way for fxhash 2.0. It notes the death of Vera Molnár at 99 on December 7.
- 🦩All You Need To Know About Flamingo DAO
Flamingo DAO's spending spree of more than 500 ETH (about $1 million) has made headlines in recent weeks, and understanding its efforts is presented as valuable for artists, collectors and the digital art movement. Being collected by the DAO can bring artists visibility, sales, recognition and rising value, while collectors can use its activity to discover new artists and inform their own purchases. The piece covers the DAO's founders and members, how to join, its collecting philosophy, how it sells NFTs, its recent purchases and its full collection.
- This artist-owned DAO delivers premier art while bringing funds back to artists
Refraction DAO, an artist-owned community that runs digital art, music and culture events, is promoted in this newsletter, which offers three Refraction Passes as giveaways. The article says the DAO has operated since 2021, holding 27 international events, funding more than 30 grant projects, and returning over $500K to artists. Passes are open to anyone by collecting a Refract Pass, and December airdrops are planned, featuring artists such as Sasha Stiles. Two passes go to the most active newsletter and podcast premium subscribers, and the third is awarded through a hashtag contest with winners contacted on December 10th.
- The Story Behind ArtXCode ft. Sofia Garcia
Sofia Garcia, founder of ARTXCODE, a generative art studio and agency, discusses her path into generative art in this podcast episode. She currently sits on the curation board for Art Blocks and previously worked at Onyx by J.P. Morgan as a blockchain technical design strategist and as Director of Education of Code/Art, a non-profit that teaches young girls to make art with code. The episode also covers her early collecting of Tyler Hobbs and Dmitri Cherniak works before 2018 and ARTXCODE's minting on Super Rare during Covid in 2020.
- My Generative Art Shopping List for fxhash 2.0
December will be huge for generative art, according to the writer's latest issue and podcast episode, since fxhash is launching its ETH integration tomorrow and opening over 100 new collections over the month. The issue highlights six collections to watch during December. The picks reflect the writer's subjective taste, each artist's intention, vision and previous work, and whether the pieces feel unique.
- Generative Art Collections to Watch and fxhash 2.0 ft. Waiting to be Signed
This episode of the Waiting To Be Signed podcast, hosted by Will and Trinity, covers popular generative art projects to watch, with a focus on fxhash 2.0 and what it means for generative art and Tezos collections. The hosts discuss the methodology for choosing projects and analyze specific works and artists, including Zancan and Garden's Monoliths, William Mapan's Dragons, and Kim Asendorf's Reading a Book. The episode also covers hidden gems, including Ivona Tau's Study of Atom, and artists such as Casey Reas, Mark Knol, and Rudxane.
- Key Findings from 20 Conversations with Blockchain Art Visionaries
The newsletter marks its 20th podcast episode by listing one main takeaway from each of the 20 conversations about art and blockchain. Takeaways include Jordan Lyall's point that everyone can create value in the space, especially during crypto winters, and Seth Goldstein's view that Bright Moment's success came from fostering communities. Other entries cover Micol's advice that artists should worry more about expanding their audience than selling out today's release, and Ryan Bell's note that being early to new technologies can help artists extend their audience. The issue also shares six blockchain collections, including Trichro-matic by MountVitrivius via Art Blocks Curated.
- A Generative Artist Journey ft. Ryan Bell
This podcast episode features generative artist and front-end developer Ryan Bell discussing his career, creative process, and work. The episode covers his path into coding and finding a distribution channel for generative art, the story behind Fragments of a Wave, and his first exhibition at Art Basel, held in collaboration with fxhash. Other topics include his use of AI-assisted tools, the differences between Art Blocks and fxhash, and his views on prints, plotters, and crossover into the traditional art world.
- Unconventional ways to grow and own your audience
Kaloh argues that NFT artists and creators should build an owned audience through a newsletter and diversify beyond X, which has suffered from link-blocking updates that hurt NFT art marketing. He says his newsletter readership is up 100% compared with one year ago, and that his X traffic has dropped sharply. He recommends Substack or Paragraph for newsletters, Farcaster (which he says has gained over 2,000 high-quality followers for him), YouTube Shorts, and Reddit, while advising creators to pick one additional platform alongside a newsletter rather than trying several at once.
- 🎙Kaloh's Podcast: Curating Computational and Digital Art Legends ft Anika Meier
Kaloh's podcast episode features curator and writer Anika Meier, who writes for KUNSTFORUM, founded the digital gallery Expanded.Art in Berlin, and has served on the Art Blocks curatorial board. The episode covers her early involvement in the art world, her discovery of NFTs and blockchain art, and her collaboration with Marina Abramović on Circa on Tezos. It also discusses her work with Herbert W. Franke for the MATH collection and his tribute, and the gender gap between female and male artists in generative art.
- 🎙Kaloh's Podcast: Educating the Traditional Art World ft. Elena Zavelev
This podcast episode from Kaloh features Elena Zavelev, who heads Marketing and Partnerships at Live Art and is Co-Founder & CEO at CADAF & New Art Academy, discussing how traditional art and Web3 intersect. Topics include Live Art bringing traditional artists into the digital space and the 2019 CADAF festival and fair for digital art, where a CryptoPunk was sold in New York. The episode also covers the Live Art Database for tracking traditional art sales, Sotheby's Metaverse, and the announced acquisition of CADAF by Live Art.
- Growing the Tezos Art Ecosystem ft. Valerie Whitacre
This podcast episode features Valerie Whitacre, Head of Arts at Trilitech, a London-based hub for developing culture and technology on the Tezos blockchain, discussing her career and the Tezos art ecosystem. She previously spent 15 years in sales and business development at private galleries in London, specializing in photography. The episode covers the intent behind Tezos Foundation and Trilitech initiatives, projects such as the MoMA Postcard, and entry barriers for people and institutions, including the British Museum.
- 🎙Insights from a digital curator ft. Aleksandra Art
This podcast episode features Aleksandra, a creative producer at Joyn.xyz and co-founder of Electric Artefacts, discussing her work in digital art and curation. Topics include her experience at Seoul 2023 Arts and Blockchain Week, differences between NFT and digital art events in America, Europe and Asia, and how a Master's in Art Business from Sotheby's Institute of Art shaped her career. The episode also covers her curation of a show for Bitforms Gallery in NYC, the differences between the traditional and digital art markets, and her own AI portrait series. The article notes that the first live-streamed episode had audio problems that will be fixed in a later episode, and that it is now available on YouTube.
- 🎙Raising $5M and future plans for fxhash ft. Ciphrd
Ciphrd, aka Baptiste Crespy, is a generative artist and founder of fxhash, an open generative art platform on the Tezos blockchain. fxhash recently raised $5M to push the platform further, including by integrating with the Ethereum blockchain. The episode of Kaloh's podcast covers topics such as the early days of fxhash, decentralization, redeemable NFTs that connect to physical counterparts, and plans for physical locations after the funding round.
- MoMA's Latest Acquisition Reshapes the AI art narrative
MoMA has acquired Refik Anadol's AI-based animation Unsupervised – Machine Hallucinations, which is now part of its permanent collection. The piece was originally exhibited at FeralFile and donated by Ryan Zurrer and the RFC Collection, led by Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile and Desiree Casoni. It remains on display at the MoMA main entrance until October 29, after being extended multiple times. Kaloh suggests that MoMA's traffic of about 4 million physical and 55 million online visitors per year, along with its Fall 2023–Winter 2024 acquisitions slate, points to a long-term vision rather than an isolated event.
- 🎧 Building a House for Blockchain Art ft. Micol
This is a podcast episode summary featuring Micol, founder of Vertical, a cultural house for art and culture on the blockchain. The episode covers Frieze Week and the adoption of digital art by galleries, which Micol says is hampered because galleries "just don't know how" to explore it. It also discusses Proof of People, a multi-day festival for art, music, and fashion in New York City and London, along with the Vertical Crypto Residency program, which has supported hundreds of digital artists.
- This platform is opening long-form AI art to everyone
EmProps has launched a way for artists to release a "long-form" collection of AI artworks at once, which the newsletter describes as the first blockchain platform to offer this openly to many artists at the same time. In this model, the artist creates a prompt-based algorithm, and outputs are randomly generated from their parameter selection. The author highlights Lisa Orth's NY86 series, which reimagines 1980s New York grunge and underground culture, and notes that EmProps is still in Beta with a few bugs. Other collections mentioned include Clint Fulkerson's AI floor wallpapers and New in Town's Organic Aura, which combines p5.js code with the SDXL algorithm.