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All Eyes on Art: Upcoming Collections to Watch the Week of January 7

BY Steven Miller

January 07, 2025

When you consider just how quickly things move in the metaverse, it’s a wonder that anyone can keep up with all the news and product launches, let alone the constant influx of incredible artwork. 

All things considered, it raises an important question: how can you efficiently discover the best upcoming art collections?

For the answer, look no further! I’ve scoured the metaverse to uncover the drops you simply can’t afford to overlook so you can focus on elevating your collection instead of endlessly scrolling through X and Discord.

In this week’s curated Collector’s Digest, I’ll give you a leg up in your search for the premier works debuting on Bitcoin Ordinals, Ethereum, and Solana. Here’s what to look out for this week.


🟧 i drank the kook aid by cvr

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, January 6th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma Prints

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 118 Editions

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0004 BTC

🟧 Dark Forest by RyanBell

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, January 6th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma Prints

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 51 Editions

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00051 BTC

🟧 Mericana Bitcoin X by ZaH

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, January 6th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma Prints

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 25 Editions

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00005 BTC

🟧 PROTOTYPE SENTINEL by Sert

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, January 6th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma 

〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Timed Edition

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00025 BTC

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: “PROTOTYPE SENTINEL” is a dynamic and interactive inscription that plays an animation every time a new Bitcoin block is mined. The Timed Edition will close on Friday, January 31st.

🟧 Geminions by JRNE

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, January 8th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: OKX

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 3,333

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: GTD AL @ 6:30pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: FCFS AL @ 8:30pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 10:30pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0011 BTC

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Created by eBoy – the renowned German Art Collective – @GeminionsBTC take inspiration from retro pixelated video games as well as incorporating traits inspired by JRNE’s gemstone partners Greenland Ruby.

🟪 [RETRO] GRIDS by Tristian Rettich

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, January 6th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Manifold Studio

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 111

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Claim @ 11am ET

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Everyone who sent a “GRID“ to the graveyard wallet will be able to claim a “[RETRO] GRID”. There are three versions available for those who burned – 88 Static Works [Regular], 17 Animated Works [Rare], and 6 Animated Works with Music [Very Rare].

🟪 The Eternal Witness by 1dontknows

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, January 6th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Foundation

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Reserve Auction @ 9:30am ET

〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.69 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Phanuwat Chukoed (1dontknows) masterfully weaves the timeless grace of classicism with the dreamlike allure of surrealism. As viewers, we are invited to step into these surreal screenshots, to explore, to question, and to marvel at the stories they hold. Combining classical imagery with surrealist interventions, the work depicts an ethereal figure—winged, faceless, and crowned with laurel—evoking both divinity and anonymity. The character, poised between creation and contemplation, embodies an omnipresent observer of humanity’s story, as symbolized by the delicate interplay of celestial and terrestrial elements surrounding it. The work is a focal point of the upcoming Solo Highlights Exhibition curated and hosted by the Suburbs Gallery.

🟪 POWDER AND PETAL by Gala Mirissa

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, January 6th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: MakersPlace

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.22 ETH

🟪 Blockchain Sketchbook by Hardley Davidson

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, January 6th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale

〰️ 💰 Price: 1.5 ETH

🟪 CONVERGENCE / / by Danil Pan

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, January 6th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Manifold Studio

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Reserve Auction

〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.3 ETH

🟪 On Endless Sky by unsleeping

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, January 6th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Base]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 10

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public 

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.025 ETH

🟪 Time Travelers by Udit Mahajan

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, January 6th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Base]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 100

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public 

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.001 ETH

🟪 Sprawling Stasis by Udit Mahajan

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, January 6th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Base]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 100

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public 

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.001 ETH

🟦 Call Me Laura K by LauraK

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, January 6th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Exchange Art

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 20 Editions

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public 

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.05 SOL

🟫 Occular Oscillations by Jasmin Lee

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, January 6th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Tezos]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 100

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public 

〰️ 💰 Price: 1 TEZ

🟪 Botto’s p5.js Era Begins by Botto

〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, January 7th

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Botto’s first p5.js Exhibition is set to take place in February, but the DAO has declared that January 7th will be the official start of the AI Artist’s next chapter. Be sure to follow the DAO and the Botto Project accounts for more information.

🟧 Textura del Tiempo by Fernando Cabral

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, January 8th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 300

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 10am ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00024 BTC

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: For Fernando Cabral’s debut on Ordinals, “Textura del Tiempo” is an echo of the constant and dynamic flow of time, capturing fleeting moments and transforming them into eternal patterns. This collection invites you to lose yourself in its fluidity, to observe how the forms interact, creating a harmony that transcends the tangible. Each piece serves as a reminder that, although time moves forward, its texture always leaves traces within us.

🟧 Grand 8 by 8th Project

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, January 8th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 888

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Allowlist @ Time TBA

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ Time TBA

〰️ 💰 Price: TBA

🟧 Eidos by Buitrago

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, January 8th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma 

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 64

〰️ 🎛️ Presale Phase: Until 1/7

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.000333 BTC

〰️ 🎛️ Public Phase 1: 1/8 – 1/10

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.000444 BTC

〰️ 🎛️ Public Phase 2: 1/11 – 1/12

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.000555 BTC

〰️ 🎛️ Public Phase 3: 1/13 – Onward

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.000666 BTC

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Inspired by the Greek concept of “eidos,” representing form and essence, this project celebrates simplicity and purity as the foundations of art. The work transforms art into an exploration of the interactions between shapes, colors, and proportions, showing how harmony emerges from structure and connection. Each piece is a manifestation of the formalist quest for beauty. 

🟧 Alien Ordinal Artifacts [Edition 2] by Alien Ordinals

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, January 8th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Magic Eden

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 3,333

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: GTD AL @ 12pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: FCFS AL @ 12:30pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 1:30pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00055 BTC

🟫 Noisy Mandalas by @at1lab

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, January 8th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Tezos]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 256

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 6am ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 2 TEZ

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: An exploration of Symmetry, Perlin Noise, and fragment shaders. Mixing geometric and organic shapes in radial symmetry, the result is then processed through a palette function that will alter the colors.

🟪 COMPU ‘82 by LEGIO_X_

〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, January 9th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse x Artie Gallery

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 6

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Ranked Auction @ 1pm ET

〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: $82

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Six brutal yet beautiful glimpses of what we thought progress looked like when machines were still machines. Each piece is a memory of a world when computers were ugly, honest things sitting on desks like forgotten gods, humming with potential, their screens flickering promises they couldn’t yet keep. In “COMPU ’82,” Legio X captures this uneasy balance, where innovation both elevates and consumes, leaving us to ponder humanity’s fate dissolving into our own invention.

🟪 Lost Transmissions by Th0mas Art

〰️ 📅 Date: Friday, January 10th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: 256 Art

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of TBA

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Allowlist @ Time TBA

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.005 ETH

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ Time TBA

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.01 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: In a forgotten archive, abandoned CRT screens flicker to life, displaying fragments of multilingual text. The black-and-white glow reveals no clear message, yet the characters pulse with universal emotions: longing, loss, connection. “Lost Transmissions” becomes a meditation on memory and communication – an exploration of how languages intertwine, meanings blur, and even in decay, humanity’s shared story flickers on.

🟪 PXL DEX by Kim Asendorf

〰️ 📅 Date: Saturday, January 11th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Independent Site

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 256

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Allowlist @ 6pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 2pm ET (1/13)

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.5 ETH to 1 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Kim Asendorf’s “PXL DEX” poses provocative questions about the simultaneously material and ephemeral nature of digital art, revealing surprising perceptual qualities of digital objects, demonstrating how artworks create their own internal systems, and functioning as a digital jewel box, a virtual object for collecting virtual objects. Asendorf lays bare the foundations of digital art on screens, offering insights into the nature of digital objecthood. [NOTE: The series of works will vary in price from 0.5 ETH to 1 ETH]

🟪 AMONG THE INFINITE by Kyle

〰️ 📅 Date: Saturday, January 11th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Base]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 256

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 7pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.005 ETH

🟪 Lose Your Head by Nikolina Petolas

〰️ 📅 Date: Sunday, January 12th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Foundation

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public

〰️ 💰 Price: 1 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Inspired by nature, societal reflection, and the boundless realms of fantasy, Petolas unveils portals to secret places where memories, desires, and the subconscious converge. In “Lose Your Head,” Nikolina Petolas masterfully transports us to a surreal and atmospheric realm where the lines between reality and imagination dissolve. The golden gown, delicately suspended without a figure, becomes an ethereal presence—haunting yet graceful—evoking themes of absence, memory, and transformation. The work is a focal point of the upcoming Solo Highlights Exhibition curated and hosted by the Suburbs Gallery.

🟫 人人 5 by Shoichi

〰️ 📅 Date: Sunday, January 12th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Tezos]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Timed Edition @ 10am ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 3 TEZ

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The 人人 Collection aims to achieve the simplest possible expression using 3D Objects. 人人 is a Japanese word. The pronunciation is “hitobito,” and it means “people.”


Thanks for checking out All Eyes on Art! I curate this comprehensive yet selective digest of upcoming collections to keep you informed week in and week out. If you’d like to see more color in your X feed, I share a 30-Day Outlook version of this Collector’s Digest every Monday and my Discover Art series every Thursday.

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