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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.
🟧 Boldinals by Bold Leonidas
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, July 22nd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Magic Eden
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 99
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 8H Guaranteed AL @ 8am ET
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 1H FCFS AL @ 4pm ET
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 1H Public @ 5pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.01 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Boldinals is a 1/1 pixel portrait collection, inscribed on the chain that started it all.
🟪 Piezo by rudxane
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, July 22nd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse x Galerie Met
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 20
〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Auction @ 1pm ET
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: All 20 artist curated works will be sold via ranked auction with rebate, where the available supply will be randomly distributed to the top 20 bids. Winning bidders only pay the lowest winning bid amount.
🟪 Echoes of Growth by Sigma-X
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, July 22nd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Ninfa Curated
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Eight 1/1 Works
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Auction @ 12pm ET
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.2 ETH
🟪 Rio Art Residency 2024 (19 Artworks)
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, July 22nd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs’ Stacks [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Limited Edition of 100
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.11 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Showcasing the culmination of works from this year’s Rio Art Residency – presented by Selkie and lead artist Efdot – each token brings together works from all 19 established & emerging contemporary artists including Efdot, Rebecca Rose, Alimo, MUMBOT, Foodmasku, Luciana Guerra, Ottis Ots, Wizard James, Andre Dahmer, Rachel ST Wood, Luko, Cameron Smith, Sarkis, Carlos Aquino, Mateu Velasco, Daniel Tucci, SirenAI, DrainedEye, and David Moriarty. The mint will remain open until Monday, July 29th.
🟪 IDEATION by Nuclear Samurai
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, July 22nd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs’ Stacks [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Inclusive Edition
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.002 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Nuclear Samurai’s latest piece focuses on the idea of the inner critic. It features many references to their prior work, is animated, and includes original audio.
🟧 B24 Art Gallery Auction Series
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, July 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Scarce City
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Auctions @ 12pm ET
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Over 120 auctions and sales on exhibition this week at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, Tenn.! While prices vary, the auctions will run through July 27th and feature the likes of ZETRA, Collect & HODL Co., Matt Habel, Sea Medicine, Hitomi Matsui, Pepe Flyers, Bitcoin Cartoons, Ariel Birdie, Mr HANSEL, Theo Goodman, Rax, Rutherford Chang, GonkX, CA Danner, FIATFIRE, Rebel Money, Crypto Cloaks, Marcus Connor, Rare Scrilla, Pepenardo, Trevor Jones, Coldie (featured in this week’s thumbnail), and Sarah Meyohas.
🟪 The Masters by Jose Delbo
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, July 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: MakersPlace
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 5 Unique 1/1 Works
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Timed Auction @ 6pm ET
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: $3,000
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Ed. of 5 “Classic Edition” Works
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Ranked Auction @ 6pm ET
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The collection features a total of ten pieces, with two dedicated to each of the five masters. Each artist is represented by a one-of-one edition depicting the masters in profile view surrounded by their most famous works, as well as an edition of five “Classic Edition” in Delbo’s iconic black and white style. Delbo worked meticulously on these pieces over a three-year period, minting them shortly before his recent passing at the age of 90.
🟪 Where One Becomes Many by Connor Grasso
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, July 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 25
〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Auction @ 1pm ET
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.1 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Where One Becomes Many is a photographic exploration of the multifaceted nature of identity, set against the backdrop of awe-inspiring and dreamlike landscapes. Through a series of captivating images, the project delves into the concept of multiplicity, reflecting the ever-evolving complexities of the self.
🟪 CRAWL by Travess Smalley
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, July 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Feral File
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 512
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 12pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.065 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: While the collection itself will open for mint on the 23rd, Feral File will be hosting an Exhibition for CRAWL – curated by Casey REAS – opening on July 16, 2024. The series of 512 works is generated from a Python-code system wherein each work is a “level” that includes different patterns, colors, and textures for viewers to explore.
🟧 NeonStacks by BlockMachine
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, July 24th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Independent
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 555
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 5-Day Presale @ 6pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0025 BTC
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 6pm ET (7/24)
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0035 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: NeonStacks is generative art that evolves with you. Own a piece and control how it transforms by “feeding” it Rare Sats and interacting with its plug-in display effects.
🟧 Airheads by Arthur Hayes
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, July 24th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Independent
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 10,000
〰️ 🎛️ Format: TBA @ Time TBA
〰️ 💰 Price: TBA
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: A release planned in partnership with Oyl that, per the timeline, appears to be mostly minting via community allowlists.
🟪 10K DROP by Rhea Myers
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, July 24th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse x Distributed
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 200
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 1pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.042 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: As the next release in the [aside] series, each piece created by Rhea Myers will be ‘locked’ at the time of minting and unlocked only after ETH reaches $10,000. Using the [aside] protocol, which is linked to Chainlink’s ETH/USD price feed, each asset will only become saleable, exchangeable, or burnable only after ETH hits $10,000.
🟪 Geishadroid by Kira Risgawa
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, July 24th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Foundation [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 30
〰️ 🎛️ Format: 7D Dutch Auction @ 11am ET
〰️ 💰 Starting Price: 0.003 ETH
〰️ 💰 Resting Price: 0.002 ETH
🟪 The Draconure by SPECTR
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, July 24th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Mona [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 300
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Limited Edition @ 8pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: Free
🟪 IMMUTABLE MEMORIES by Harto
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, July 25th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Expanded Art
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 25
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Private / By Inquiry @ 12pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.47 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: In his latest release, Harto innovatively combines traditional drawing techniques with advanced robotic technology to create multi-layered artworks. The collector receives an NFT with the visual, an ordinal available for claim that includes the source code and artist’s notes, and an A3 plotter that interprets the artwork. The result of the plotter may vary in colors and effects from the digital version.
🟪 PRISMS by BLAC
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, July 25th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Foundation
〰️ 🧮 Supply: TBA
〰️ 🎛️ Format: TBA @ Time TBA
〰️ 💰 Price: TBA
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Based on their 4th Book (/testament) – the same work that placed as a finalist in Claire Silver’s recent competition – BLAC will be debuting his latest animated collection, PRISMS. Unique to this series, BLAC will be encoding the Book into each piece in the collection, which can then be unlocked and decrypted into a .txt file directly from the blockchain. Most of this info is still under wraps, but I don’t think I’ve seen this done before.
🟪 Olympia by Barry Sutton
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, July 25th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse x TENDER
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 50
〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Auction @ 1pm ET
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The available supply will be randomly distributed to the top 50 bids. Winning bidders only pay the lowest winning bid amount.
🟪 Covenant by Emily Edelman
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, July 25th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 52
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Auction @ 12pm ET
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.15 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: With Edelman’s presale already underway, 32 of the 52 works have already been acquired by collectors.
🟧 The Astronomer’s Daughter by POSTWOOK
〰️ 📅 Closing Date: N/A
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Counterfeit Culture
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 100
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.018 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Postwook’s forthcoming collection, The Astronomer’s Daughter, is a tribute to her father that interprets satellite data from rare sat block times to create unique timepieces of outer space in her signature style. By using a 15 year retrospective starting from the beginning of Bitcoin, Natasha found the exact rare sats needed to find the dates needed to tell the story of what happened in outer space the day of each handpicked sat. There is no other chain where Natasha could have used rare sat block times and recursion to make this collection come to life – which makes it evident that this collection must live on Bitcoin. To collect, visit theastronomersdaughter.io.
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.
