Buy the JPEG, take the ride | Collecting for @HivemindCap Digital Culture Fund | Building @LightyearBuild | Views my own
Joined August 2021
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Happy 5 year anniversary to Fidenza
#718 from the @HivemindCap Digital Culture Fund collection
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Mdiac retweeted
Jun 4
Some of the most important breakthroughs in AI and frontier technology never make it beyond the lab.
Federal research funding is declining. Corporate funding often comes with IP concessions. And traditional venture capital typically enters the picture long after the most critical research has been done. Too often, groundbreaking ideas are left without the resources needed to reach the next stage.
That's why we're excited to launch darkmatter lab in partnership with @UCBerkeley , with support from @googlecloud , @GundersonLaw , and @goodwinlaw.
Built for researchers before a company exists, darkmatter lab provides at least $1 million in resources per project, including research funding, compute credits, legal support, and operational expertise.
We're starting with AI and blockchain, supporting work in areas like AI infrastructure, agentic systems, cybersecurity, cryptography, compute optimization, and decentralized technologies.
This is the cornerstone of Hivemind's upcoming venture fund and a new approach to helping transformative research make the leap from academia into the real world.
Learn more: hivemind.capital/content/hivโฆ
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Really enjoyed this conversation with @keyvass. We covered a lot, including collecting for myself and @HivemindCap, building @lightyearbuild, dissecting XCOPY, and the current state of the market
You can read below or on the @KateVassGalerie website
INTERVIEW with collector @Mdiac_
1/ Every generation of collectors leaves behind a portrait of what it valued.
The collectors of onchain art are no different.
Some chased trends. Some chased markets. A few spent years trying to understand the deeper forces shaping digital culture itself.
@Mdiac_ is one of them.
Raised around art, drawn into crypto through community, and eventually becoming both collector and builder, he offers a perspective that sits at the intersection of culture, markets, and technology.
From joining @HivemindCap's Digital Culture Fund in 2025 to co-founding @LightyearBuild, his journey reflects the evolution of onchain collecting itself: from participation to conviction, from ownership to stewardship.
What happens when a collector decides to go deep enough to understand an entire culture through the work of just a few artists?
From Francis Bacon to @XCOPYART, from collecting to building, this conversation explores what it truly means to go deep.
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Interview by Kate Vass. Full conversation coming in the Public Edition of Collecting Art Onchain.
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Iโm thankful to Kate for featuring me alongside legendary collectors like @Jediwolf @batsoupyum @lerandomart @RaoulGMI
katevassgalerie.com/blog/verโฆ
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10 Punks have now been bought through Punks Terminal for a combined 317.64 ETH on 5,800 ETH bid volume
0% fees with additional Stash bidding functionality on top of the existing CryptoPunks contracts
I'll put out an explainer video talking through the features and benefits
Jun 6
Punks Terminal purchase
CryptoPunk #5163 bought for 32 ETH, 1.53 ETH below @PunkPredictor's 33.53 ETH estimate
Using Punks Terminal, the buyer had placed a custom 32 ETH bid on 725 Punks with the following trait composition:
- Male
- 0/1/2 trait count
- Albino/Light/Medium skin tone
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punks.lightyear.art
Discover Punks, deploy your Stash, manage your bids
The inclusive/exclusive logic for bidding has greatly evolved how we approach collecting targeted traits
DM if you need help onboarding
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Cool to see others building on top of Punks recently too:
@jalilwahdat
x.com/jalilwahdat/status/206โฆ
Jun 5
Fixed pricing only works when the market is liquid and items are fungible. Punks are neither.
punks.auction/ @punksauctions
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Really great vibes at @NFCsummit this year - congrats and thank you @johnkarp
Some highlights:
- @operator_______'s Performance Operating System presentation (@dejhati & @aniacatherine are brilliant)
- Talking to @unityofmulti @NFTart & other OGs about their early XCOPY collecting experiences
- UNPERMISSIONED SELF at @EternoGallery - took home a THE SINGULARITY print signed by @Coldie
- @dmitricherniak's Ringers installation and talk with @monkantony_tez
- Seeing pieces from @HivemindCap's collection on rotation at the @inkseart lounge
- The @opensea Fado session organized by @adamilenich & team
- Talking digital culture on a panel with @KateVassGalerie @ChrizRoc @_mp9x
- Judging the VIBE-A-THON with @seloresiste & @gwendall
- @NinaRoehrs's curation of SYSTEMS / Monogrid on a large screen
- @LoroMasnah's The Doomed mural
- Meeting dozens of familiar faces IRL for the first time incl. @musicalnetta @AdamWeitsman @flakoubay @dangiuz
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A selection of @HivemindCap Digital Culture Fundโs art PFPs are on show in the @inkseart Lounge for the next 90 minutes. Come check it out
1st floor of the Art Factory
Thank you @100collectors @flakoubay for the invite
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Mdiac retweeted
What makes digital culture last beyond the hype cycle? What turns collecting into community, and technology into shared memory?
Weโre excited to share that at @NFCsummit, @keyvass will moderate the panel โMore Than NFTs: Culture That Survives the Internet.โ
The conversation focuses on the human relationships behind on-chain collecting. Speakers will explore trust, identity, and community as core elements shaping digital art ecosystems beyond the technology itself.
Speakers include: @_mp9x @Mdiac_ and @ChrizRoc
๐ Main Stage, Unicorn Factory, NFC Lisbon, Portugal
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June 5th, 15:50
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Mdiac retweeted
May 29
Well... spoke too soon. ๐
Really sorry, everyone - it seems payments are not going through on @verse_works.
๐ฅIf you're on UK time, pour yourself a drink. If you're on US time zone also pour yourself a drink.
Either way, please hang in there - we are trying to fix this asap๐
May 29
Should be working now everyone ๐ฉตthank you so much for hanging in there
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Mdiac retweeted
The @inkseart lounge is a space to slow down inside NFC Summit. ๐
Timed takeovers throughout the festival by @HivemindCap @Mdiac_ @Arthemort @Coldie @MLOdotArt @annhoy @Hackatao @BoyaGeorge @MattiaC @LaurenceFuller @Andrea_Chiampo @louisdazy @Ann_ahoy @neurocolor & more.
Different energy every hour.
Second floor, Fรกbrica de Moagem.
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