24 Hours of Art: January 11, 2025

The 27th Token

"I've been responding to the platform constraints of Rodeo through a collection of 26 pieces capturing its dynamics" says Jack Butcher.

First, he surprised with a metadata update that replaced 26 original artworks (left) with the same Checks image.

Next, a second metadata update ushered in a 3x9 grid of new images (right) telling "the story of an expanding network".

Finally, he issued a 27th token with a challenge. If its mints exceed 159,300 (the total number of mints across the first 26 tokens), the network becomes permanent. If its mints fall short, each reverts to its original.

'27' is minted 133,400 times (covvboy accounts for a massive 90,004 of them) with a 12:00pm ET close. It'll come down to the wire!

Collection: Highlights

Vault Core by Stefan große halbuer

  • Primary (The Memes by 6529) - 'Vault Core' by Stefan große halbuer: closes at 183 mints for 0.06529 ETH each

*Incoming Notables

Monday, January 13:
'PXL DEX' by Kim Asendorf: 1/1/256 collection, Monday 1 ETH each public phase, website URL coming soon

1/1: Highlights

High Desert House by Killer Acid

  • LIVE (Foundation) - 'A Cube' by Mari: 0.5 ETH bid, ends 1:30pm ET
  • ACTIVE OFFER (Foundation) - 'Banana Split' (Jan 2023 FND) by Socmplxd: 5.5 ETH offer by droidburner

1/1/X: Highlights

Grifter #471 by XCOPY

  • 'Grifters' /666 by XCOPY: 18.369 ETH
  • 'Meridian' /1k (Art Blocks) by Matt DesLauriers: 4.2 ETH & 4 WETH
  • 'Rainbow Grid' /54 by Kim Asendorf: 3.45 WETH to hahah
  • 'Themes and Variations' /500 by Vera Molnár with Martin Grasser: 2.3 WETH to IDAXX
  • 'The Currency' /2,076 (HENI) by Damien Hirst: 1.433 & 1.3611 WETH
  • 'Synthetic Dreams' /1k by Refik Anadol: 1.2 WETH to Abondance
  • 'beef brothko' /666 by die with the most likes: 0.9 ETH
  • 'DeepBlack' /3,073 by DeepBlackAI: 0.85 ETH to StellaCat_MM
  • 'Latent Ink' /500 (Fellowship) by Eko33: 0.85 WETH to Harmoniac
  • 'Seize CTRL' /404 by CTRL: 0.0265 & 0.0252 BTC

Edition: Highlights

AFTERBURN by XCOPY

RD Report

Nothing like an exciting finish line to kick off a weekend. I'd think with covvboy being willing to mint 90,004 of '27', it's likely someone(s) tip this mint over the magic 159,300 number. Let's see.

Have an inspired weekend everyone!

Today Reported:
Sales thresholds of (USD) $10k+ Collection, $1k+ 1/1, $2.5k+ 1/1/X, and $1k+ Edition artworks

Under threshold and interesting to me is 'Guts and then the Bloom.' by Giant Swan selling for 0.25 WETH to TheAnalyst on OpenSea. The artwork was originally minted in January, 2020 via SuperRare.

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