July 10
The Agency Art House Expands Advisory Services to India
Drops & Minting
Are NFT drops just a playground for bots?
A public mint can sell out in seconds, gas can rip into the hundreds of dollars, and Discord will still be full of people insisting the drop was “fair.” That…
Silas Beckett·15 min read
How a potential recession will uniquely affect the creator economy
July 9
Beyond Zeroes & Ones: 59A London Announces Sculpture Garden Proving Data is a Creative Force
Apply for Padimai’s OOPS Onchain Artist Residency
PFP & Avatar Collections
NFT collection vetting: my hard lesson with a hyped PFP drop
Three ETH. That's what I sent to a mint contract last spring chasing a PFP drop that promised "utility-first architecture" and "verifiable scarcity."…
Silas Beckett·10 min read
July 8
How Havana Contemporary Is Redefining Access to Cuban Art
The State of NFTs Part Two: From Pokémon Cards to Digital Art
The Intersection of Art, Design, and Technology in Commercial Digital Artwork
July 7
Inside punk6529’s Recent Retweet — What Comes Next
Drops & Minting
NFT minting: why public drops are designed for you to lose
A hyped NFT mint can sell out in 90 seconds and still leave the public sale looking like a crime scene. Discord calls it “community demand.” The contract calls…
Silas Beckett·15 min read
Classic memes that have sold as NFTs
July 6
Mickalene Thomas and the market shape after recent auctions
Damien Hirst and Saturday's work series focus
July 5
This Virtual Gallery Devoted to Women Artists Is Expanding Visibility in the Global Art Market
Walid Raad and the narrative layers of contemporary conflict art
PFP & Avatar Collections
Decline PFP staking rewards to save on Ethereum gas fees
A standard ERC-20 reward claim can burn through something like 60,000–150,000 gas units before we even get to the part where the reward token has a bid.
Silas Beckett·15 min read
July 4
Ethereum News: New Nonprofit Ethlabs Seeks to Reinvent Art Market Infrastructure — What Comes Next
There’s New Money in Old Masters
Art Market Report: Digital art sales gather pace
July 3
Bonk-Owned NFT Marketplace Exchange Art to Shut Down on August 1
A future world within a conference: How Blockchain Futurist Conference brings web3 to life
July 2
Why Digital Privacy Matters for Artists and Global Audiences
July 1
Art Basel 2026 closes with strong sales and global engagement
INSIGHT: The Rome Statement on Art Market Integrity 2026 — what compliance professionals need to know
June 30
Episode 9 — Digital Korea and the Fusion of Culture Technology
Bleu Bosworth on Contemporary Art, Cultural Capital and the New Language of Collecting
June 29
How Digital Art Platforms Transform Collectors’ Journey Today
Art Basel bets on digital art as medium for future generations
Digital & Generative Art
Trace 1/1 NFT provenance on Etherscan: my stolen art lesson
The marketplaces list 1/1 NFTs next to derivative mint-farm output with zero provenance differentiation between them. Same thumbnail grid, same royalty…
Silas Beckett·10 min read
Digital & Generative Art
Compare Art Blocks projects by script size before buying
A 6 KB script and a 60 KB script can both mint into serious generative art. One might be a brutally elegant algorithm with no wasted motion. The other might be…
Silas Beckett·18 min read
Digital & Generative Art
Run on-chain code of generative NFTs locally to test permanence
Floor prices swing, Discord mods whisper "LFG," and collectors mint six-figure jpegs into wallets they barely control — yet almost nobody stops to verify…
Silas Beckett·10 min read
June 28
Market Analytics & Floor Prices
Why I Track Whale Wallet Alerts During Floor Price Dips
A 22% drop in the floor price of a flagship PFP collection over a 36-hour window is usually enough to trigger a collective meltdown in Discord. Panic-listing…
Silas Beckett·7 min read
June 26
Digital & Generative Art
Why I Check AI Art Metadata Before Buying on OpenSea
A 40% drop in floor price in six hours is usually the first sign that the market has realized it bought vaporware. We have seen this script play out across…
Silas Beckett·7 min read
Marketplaces & Platforms
Revoke Active OpenSea Approvals to Stop Wallet Drains
On-chain forensics tell a consistent story across the major drain events of the last two years: the wallets that get hit are rarely the sloppy newcomers…
Silas Beckett·9 min read
June 25
Drops & Minting
Skip public mints to buy cheaper on secondary markets
During the peak era of Ethereum mainnet gas wars in 2021 and 2022, minting a hyped profile picture collection was less an act of art collecting and more a…
Silas Beckett·8 min read
PFP & Avatar Collections
Verify PFP NFT Smart Contracts: My $2,000 Fake Ape Lesson
Two thousand dollars. That's what a counterfeit Bored Ape cost me before I learned to read a smart contract the way I read an order book. Not a rug, not a…
Silas Beckett·9 min read