Doubling Down on Botto: Because Everyone’s a Critic

Variant, the investor, announces it has doubled down on its initial investment in Botto, which it describes as a "decentralized autonomous artist" and DAO. The article explains that Botto produces artworks, while the human DAO community votes on which pieces go up for auction as NFTs, with proceeds returning to voters and the DAO treasury. Variant argues that Botto is at the forefront of a paradigm shift in art, and it frames the project mainly through open questions about communal artistic legitimacy and whether Botto will ever stop producing.