24 Hours of Art: January 24, 2025

Decentral Culture

"Adding another pristine cultural grail to 'The Culture Vault'" says Raoul Pal.

His selection is 'Donald Trump - Decentral Eyes - Crypto President Variant' by Coldie, acquired for 10 ETH.

Via Artwork Description:
"Minted on Inauguration Day 1/20/2025, never before has a sitting president aligned with Bitcoin and crypto overall the way Trump has done through a variety of drops across multiple chains...
Will Trump follow through with his campaign promises? Time will tell."

The Met Mints

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) is onchain!

It partners with TRLab, Coinbase (Base), and Moonpay to launch 'Art Links', a blockchain based art history and connections game.

The initial rollout spans 12 weeks and features a sequence of badges and achievements that convey NFTs and connections to rewards.

Via Matt Zhang:
"So proud of Audrey Ou and the entire team of TRLab to build and launch the first-of-its-kind NFT project for one of the largest and best museums in the world. Way to go!!"

Eko Exploration

'Urban Anatomy' by Eko33 sells for 20,000 USDC to Seedphrase, facilitated by ARTXCODE, Toni Marinara, and Micol.

A new chapter begins in the "neural geometry" practice of Eko33 with this 1/1 work that evaluates altered consciousness.

Natural humanity meets perpetual connectivity begets algorithmic imprisonment.

Via Micol:
"Delighted to see this work go into the collection of Seedphrase and for Eko's practice to be evolving in such interesting ways"

All Eyes on Botto

Two Botto auctions are in simultaneous countdown on SuperRare:

Genesis Period 1/1 'Err Hold' has a fresh bid of 86.9 ETH ($295k USD) from stephaneselavy.

New 2025 1/1 'Alien Gardener Contemplates Earthly Blooms' has a fresh bid of 5.5 ETH from m7uys.

The auctions close at 4:00pm ET.

Collection: Highlights

realitiGenC #12

  • Primary (Artist Website) - 'PXL DEX' by Kim Asendorf: 252/256 minted via Allowlist, list: 7.1 ETH
  • Primary (Fellowship) - 'Empire' by Sheldrick: 1/1/500 collection sees 171 sales for 10.37 ETH volume in 24h, total volume 36.22 ETH, sellout confirmed with final works in countdown
  • Primary (Foundation) - 'FAMILY VALUES' by Vikki Bardot: 1/1/125 collection: sellout confirmed with final 11 works in countdown
  • Primary (The Memes by 6529) - 'Pepe: Instructions Not Clear' by Capi: 160 editions minted at 0.06529 ETH each
  • 'Realiti' /186 by Atay Ilgun: 11 sales for 12.65 ETH, list: 1.88 ETH
  • 'Cycles' by Material Protocol: 11 sales for 6.83 ETH, list: 0.74 ETH
  • 'MAX PAIN' /4,924 by XCOPY: 6 sales for 3.99 ETH, list: 0.75 ETH
  • 'Checks - VV Originals' /4,993 by Jack Butcher | Visualize Value: 5 sales for 3.62 ETH, list: 0.25 ETH
  • 'Opepen Edition' /15.8k by Jack Butcher | Visualize Value: 15 sales for 3.14 ETH, list: 0.14 ETH
  • INCOMING (The Memes by 6529) - 'Freedom Ride' by Odysseyoftheheart: up to 329 editions available at 0.0659 ETH each

1/1: Highlights

Abduction in Albuquerque by Killer Acid

  • LIVE (Manifold) - 'trump goes big on btc' by Rektguy AI: 50B REKT bid (~$8,700 USD), ends Sun 3:23pm ET

1/1/X: Highlights

CHAOS #120 Harlequin by Urs Fischer

  • 'Chromie Squiggle' /10k (Art Blocks) by Snowfro: 4.1 WETH to Lazarbeam
  • 'Anticyclone' /800 (Art Blocks) by William Mapan: 3 WETH
  • 'CHAOS' /501 by Urs Fischer: 2.05 ETH to Ely Trader
  • 'monogrid' /256 by Kim Asendorf: 5.7k XTZ | $6,737 USD
  • 'alignDRAW' /2,709 (Fellowship) by Elman Mansimov: 1.0899 & 1.0899 ETH
  • 'Asprey Studio Club' /241 by Asprey Studio: 1.0457 WETH to fb0458
  • 'SABOTAGE' /264 by Kim Asendorf: 1 ETH to ForeTwenty
  • 'Synthetic Dreams' /1k by Refik Anadol: 0.95 WETH to gmSpaceVault
  • 'DeepBlack' /3,073 by DeepBlackAI: 0.7643 WETH

Edition: Highlights

Hot Take and A Haunted Mind by Tony Babel

  • Primary (Manifold) - 'A Haunted Mind' by Tony Babel: 52/130 minted at 0.13 ETH each
  • Primary (Manifold) - 'Hot Take' by Tony Babel: 24/35 minted at 0.26 ETH each
  • Primary (Manifold) - 'SLIMESWEEPER WIN95 Original' by Slimesunday: 52/69 currently minted at 0.069 ETH each
  • 'EYE-ROLLA' /25 by XCOPY: 10 WETH
  • 'BULL RUN' /271 by Beeple: 9.88 ETH to Glenn2222
  • 'Player' /256 by Sam Spratt: 9.69 ETH
  • 'ABUNDANCE' /100 by Beeple: 4.81 WETH to 360NoScopePewPew
  • 'NakamotoFreedom' /300 (The Memes by 6529) by 6529er: 4.5441 WETH to NFTPERcom_U
  • 'SH_MASH_MA' /125 by XCOPY: 1.454 ETHto NFTPERcom_ babus
  • 'PROTO-GOUGE' /99 by XCOPY: 1.25 ETH
  • 'SIDEWAYZ' /364 by XCOPY: 0.73 & 0.7 WETH
  • '1' /270 by Jack Butcher: 0.4 ETH to Schmrypto
  • 'I can't wait' /23 by Hackatao: 0.4 WETH

RD Report

It may not go viral in the way that financial speculation sometimes does, but make no mistake about the impact of The Met embracing the blockchain and building with TRLab.

There is always a question of "does the experiment stick?" and it's impossible to know the answer. The more positive experiments, the more likely it is that one does. As far as chain adoption goes, slowly and then all at once.

Live Events:

  • Today 12:00pm ET: 'This Week in ART' in the 24 Hours of Art Telegram with Niftytime
  • Monday 12:00pm ET: 'The DAM Show' livestream on X/Twitter. Guest announcements to follow.

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

Under threshold but interesting to me is 'Desert Ambivert' 1/1 by Max Karlan selling for 0.22 ETH to An Loremi on SuperRare.

2025 Subscriber Corner

The 22nd ART of 2025 has fun with Slimesunday's SLIMESWEEPER concept, incorporating homages to Autoglyphs and Ringers in a nostalgic design.

Subscriber Count: 202