‘ROI’ by Alpha Centauri Kid is acquired for 27.5 ETH (~$83,000 USD) by DoubleB.

It is the sole artwork in the ‘Blockchain Murder’ collection. Originally minted January 18, 2022, it subsequently sold to TrillVault for 100 ETH ($316,150 USD).

“I’m supposed to kill you??”

The artwork has an interesting backstory. Created to depict a scene with collectors and doctors standing over a.c.k.’s death bed “waiting for [him] to die so they can 1000x their investment by selling [his] art”, it offered the collector an unplug function.

“yes, just trust me.”

Trill pulled the plug.

“Congratulations, YOU killed ACK”

This initiated a chain of events, metaphorically killing the artist, taking down his social account, sending the 1/1 artwork to a burn address, and altering existing artworks ‘Ethereal Rose and ‘til death do us part’.

“The collector is forgiven of any wrongdoing as they were merely a piece in Death’s puzzle of revenge. Long Live the Muse.”

Three days later all was restored, reviving the artist and artwork, and altering it into its final (and current) scene.

We catch up on an under-the-radar exchange.

‘Legacy Derivative’ by Sam Spratt - 1 of 50 Council Masks in the 613 ‘Masks of Luci’ collection - is exchanged by Bonafidehan for ENS address Shape.eth from ENSagent.

Significantly, this means the Council Mask will now live apart from Han’s Council Skull.

What was the impetus for the trade?

Via Han:
“we're bringing shape to the next level in 2026. huge strides will be made. so now felt like the perfect time to acquire shape.eth and @shape”

(Hat tips to both Misk and Pravijn for bringing the above to attention)

The Digital Art Market Show is live on X today at 12:00pm ET.

First up at 12:00pm ET is a 1-on-1 with Natalie Stone, following the opening of NODE and CryptoPunks 10,000 Exhibition, as well as her article release for Ethereum.

Next at 1:00pm ET it is a roundtable featuring the Botto Genesis Book, including Simon Hudson, Gregory Eddi Jones, Marco Peyfuss, and Mackenzie Davenport.

8NAP - ‘What Cities Hold’ by sigmax: 350 artwork collection, 190 minted, currently in public phase at 0.029 ETH per artwork

Art Blocks - ‘Signal Boards’ by Stina Jones: 500 artwork collection, 272 minted, currently available at 0.015 ETH per artwork

SOLOS | Verse - ‘Human Resources’ by Tabor Robak: Phase 1 of ultimately 10,000 artwork collection begins with free mints for eligible collectors, 455 claimed thus far with 2 days left in the phase

SuperRare - ‘TESSERACTS’ by The Digital Asset Museum: 50 SVG artwork collection granting holders curated art and early access to programs and initiatives

Transient Labs - ‘Pendulums’ by Ben Strauss: 512 generative artwork collection, 220 available at 0.0512 ETH each

Wednesday, January 28:
‘VORGIANS’ by King Xerox and art₿rock (GORD Labs) with SuperRare: 1,666 hand-crafted 1/1/ portrait collection, blind mint with phases beginning at 11:00am ET

Wednesday, January 28:
‘As The Days Go By’ by Alex Kittoe with Iconic and Museum of Art+Light: 150 dynamic artwork and physical print collection, opens at 12:00pm ET

Wednesday, January 28:
‘Fuck The Algo’ by Tony Babel with Manifold: Open edition and first piece in the ‘Vintage Distortions’ collection, open for 24 hours at 0.0169 ETH each, 4 artwork burn-to-redeem to follow

Wednesday, January 28:
‘A Node from the Outer Rim’ by Intrepid with The Memes by 6529: Up to 328 editions available for 0.06529 ETH each, opens at 10:40am ET

A Sam Spratt Skull of Luci sale (!) breaks too late for today’s report, but you can find that here. We’ll recap the story and all developing details tomorrow.

Yesterday was highlighted by Nifty Gateway reversing course and announcing a much more collector friendly plan for their exit. Two things are true. Their revised strategy could have been the original plan and likely would have been if feedback was sourced first. Matt Kane says it best here. At the same time, this is an exiting company. Remaining insensitive and letting the door slam was a real possibility (we’ve seen it before and we’ll see it again). It got there in the end.

See you on The DAM Show today!

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Today Reported:
Sales thresholds of 2 ETH+ Collection, 0.2 ETH+ 1/1, 0.4 ETH+ 1/1/X, and 0.2 ETH+ Edition