Month: June 2021

II. English Platform Study

A. Primary Market

1. SuperRare

  • Require submission (couple weeks)
    • Portfolio required
  • Aim to be the curated single edition rare artwork place
    • To be like the instagram meets Christie’s
  • Great user interface and diligently updating
  • Repost very often on social with their artists having news or releases
  • One of the premier places
superrare.com homepage
SuperRare Editorial page

2. MakersPlace

  • Curated
    • Require submission
    • Curation seems to be more broader than other platforms
    • Variety of artistic styles
  • To empower digital creators with creating a marketplace to sell their creations
  • Having issues with artist plagiarism
  • Credit card available
makersplace.com homepage

3. Rarible

  • Community owned  platform
    • Open to everyone, a trash and treasure of crypto art space – a flea market
      • All sorts of trash
      • Definitely treasures if you know what you’re looking for
    • Wide audience
      • Difficulty to get discovered if not verified
      • even got verified ticked couldn’t get discovered organically when posting
    • Possibly looking for bargains
      • Not the high end of crypto art market
      • But may be worth trying out to get feet wet selling
  • Copyright infringement and plagiarism
rarible.com homepage

4. Nifty Gateway

  • Invitation only
    • Scheduled artist drop events
  • To make NFT art accessible to everyone
    • Platform teaming with top artists to make quality limited edition drops with hype releases
      • Name an upcoming artist and the date then spread the hype
      • Only available for a short time
      • Often sell out within minutes or seconds
      • Then they have a secondary marketplace 
  • Curator’s collection 
    • Artists could recommended by creators 
niftygateway.com homepage

5. OpenSea

  • Catch-all mothership for digital collectibles like eBay
opensea.io homepage

6. Async

  • With programmable digital art that can evolve or change over time
async.art homepage

7. Foundation

foundation.app homepage

8. hic et nunc

hicetnunc.xyz homepage

Reflective Writing: General Impression

So far I interviewed 31 people, including my friends, my teachers, and strangers I’ve never met. Some are short conversations, some are longer than we exchanged opinions. 74% of them had no idea about this topic, and most of them stand that “all I’ve seen is negative stuff about how it affects the environment”, or strongly believe that current crypto art is not about art, it’s all about cryptocurrency, this will fade away soon.

I agree with what they said, like NFT is hurting the environment, the artwork is not “art” enough. Also the instability, we don’t know if the NFT would disappear tomorrow like the Chinese government banned Bitcoin today, or it just would be abandoned by the public’s choice. But nothing you will know about the future. Everything fades away, but NFT is happening, Crypto Art is booming, and I think this is interesting. 

The NFT workers are resolving the environmental issues, we could invite more great artists into the world. We could build something different.

Early Intervention: hic et nunc

I decide my early intervention was uploading my stakeholder’s work to hicetnuc.xyz.

Then I searched the tutorials:

Unfortunately, after loads of research and registration, my tests failed due to my Chinese identity. I think it’s related to the newly promulgated law.

It was an exhausting and depressing journey, but I think it’s not only for me, it’s for all Chinese users.