AB[500] @artblocks_io 💛 Inspirals #20 by @robdixon

Everyone wants to be early to something special. Being early to NFTs changed lives, not just financially, but culturally. It gave people a sense of belonging. A place among cypherpunks, builders, artists, collectors, and cultural obsessives who saw something before it was obvious. But being early also meant being contrarian. It meant getting laughed at. Being dismissed as a nerd in a basement, or humored like a curious kid playing with internet money. Conviction came before validation. Today, we’re in a similar place, just a different chapter. NFTs are beaten down. Written off. Scoffed at in most circles. Sure, a handful of pieces, XCOPYs, Punks, Beeples, are worth thousands or even millions. But zoom out. Those are exceptions. The entire NFT market cap is still smaller than Pepe coin. One of the smallest sectors in crypto, powered by one of the most diehard communities on earth. Things are bad. And honestly, they could get worse. This is still a young industry. Not a newborn anymore, but far from mature. There are real risks. Real failures. Real noise. Yet despite all of it, people stayed. Builders kept building. Artists kept creating. Collectors kept collecting. Institutions showed up. DAOs formed. Billionaires participated. But more importantly, a core group of true believers never left. Companies filled with people who’ve poured years of their lives into this space quietly emerged, learned, and evolved. If you ever wanted to be early to an emerging asset class that still has a pulse, one where curiosity matters, where participation counts, where culture is still being written, then you’re already here. Be selective with your time. Be disciplined with your capital. But don’t stop researching. Don’t stop browsing. Don’t stop enjoying the chaos, creativity, and weirdness that NFTs bring. That’s where the signal has always been.

Gm. SUBTRACTION 2021 collaboration of 512 artworks from me and @mpkoz

Ethereum ATH this month

ANNOUNCEMENT: THE ART BLOCKS 500 5 years. 500 projects. @artblocks_io readies for five upcoming projects, scheduled to conclude at number 500 in November 2025, in line with their 5 year anniversary. 2 Curated releases and 3 community-focused Explorations will celebrate this era of on-chain generative art. The foundational 500 will be preserved as a finite set, giving way to new generative art approaches that build on the first era. Stay tuned. Details and initiatives are incoming.

5.5 million dollars for the punk The Instutions have kicked of buying our jpegs The 10 million dollar treasury for NFTs by gamesquare picked up this punk. So they spent half of it on Where does the rest go ?!! I say beeple xcopy and art blocks

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Trademark by Jack Butcher just pumped 30% in a day. Floor? 0.0399ETH. Still criminally underpriced for Jack’s first generative 10k art collection.

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