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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.
🟧 Between Bytes & Being by JCode
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, June 17th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint
〰️ 🎛️ Format: 7D Timed Edition [Now Available!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0005 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Part of Gamma’s Generative Art Summer, Between Bytes & Being delves into the nuanced interplay between technology and existential human emotions, offering a reflective look at identity in the digital age. It invites viewers to contemplate their presence across digital landscapes, bridging the gap between bytes – the fundamental units of digital information – and the essence of being.
🟧 Lost Narratives by hi_im_adam
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, June 17th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public [Now Available!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0005 BTC (~$40)
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Lost Narratives is a generative work about the erosion of clarity in the spaces we live online. The truth is everywhere and nowhere.
🟧 Transatlantic by Rebecca Rose
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, June 17th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 5
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public [Now Available!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0069 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Each 1/1 collage in the series is made from photos the Artist has taken exploring continents, countries, cities, and crypto communities. Each piece contains two locations and the disorientation of the dual perspective composition gives the effect of a physical journey around the globe. Transatlantic is an expression of exploring ways to combine similarities between different geographies, timelines, and crypto chains.
🟪 CHAOS XI by Urs Fischer
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, June 17th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: MakersPlace
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Five Unique 1/1 Editions
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H Auctions @ 6:30pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0 ETH (No Reserve)
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: CHAOS XI will be the final exhibition of Fischer’s ambitious CHAOS series, which comprises 1,000 everyday objects, paired together to form 500 unique creations.
🟪 Falling in Rouge by Kei
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, June 17th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Foundation
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H Auction [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.3 ETH
🟪 Cogito by N8
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, June 17th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Stacks by Transient Labs
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 122 of 333 Pieces
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 3pm ET
🟪 Mowing the Lawn by Hayden Clay
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.045 ETH
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, June 17th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Stacks by Transient Labs
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 25 Editions
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public [Now Available!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.08 ETH
🟪 Nosy Neighbor by Hayden Clay
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, June 17th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Stacks by Transient Labs
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 25 Editions
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public [Now Available!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.08 ETH
🟪 The Yard by SigmaX
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, June 17th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Manifold Studio
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 20 Editions
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public [Now Available!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.01 ETH
🟪 marKeting by Brutal
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, June 17th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Highlight [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 5D Timed Edition [Now Available!]
〰️ 💰 Price: Free
🟪 Picture on the Wall by Sara Smith
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, June 17th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Prohibition [Arbitrum]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 100
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 1pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.005 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: 100% Code-Based, Smith’s latest series really knows how to tie a room together.
🟪 It’s a Based World by Kyle Patrick
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, June 17th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Prohibition Daily [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 12pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: Free
🟪 Les Lettres Que Tu N’as Jamais Lues by Reza Milani
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, June 17th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Rarible [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 9am ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 600 $DEGEN
🟧 ordAR by Whitters
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, June 18th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Independent Site
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 69
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ Time TBA
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.025 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Each ordAR inscription is AR-rigged, and some will have token gated AR interactions. 15 of Whitters’ collectors on ETH who burn select works will be able to claim a free ordAR, but she will also be raffling 10 pieces to collectors of her Gamma Print. The remainder of the collection (44 Pieces) will be sold via a public sale for either 0.025 BTC or 69,000 of Whitters’ Rune – mid•pussy•in•bio. Funds raised from ordAR will be purely used to fund her street art installations.
🟧 The Gamma Summer Pass by Gamma
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, June 18th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: First 15M Window @ 12pm ET
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Second 15M Window @ 12am ET (6/19)
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0012 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The Gamma Summer Pass is an access pass to five unique experiences throughout Bitcoin Summer 2024. With it, you’ll receive an exclusive airdrop by @billyrestey, plus exclusive access to three mints throughout the summer, each for just around $20. Those exclusive mints will include @amber_vittoria, @Megapont, and OTO. At the end of the Summer, the pass will grant you first and early access to a brand new experience on Gamma. To qualify to claim the pass, you must have minted at least 3 unique drops on Gamma, and continued to hold at least 3 drops by June 6th, 2024.
🟪 AOTM Presents: Whispers & Closed Doors
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, June 18th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: @AOTMgallery
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Thirteen Unique 1 of 1 Works
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Auction
〰️ 💰 Starting Price: TBA
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: In their latest curated auction, AOTM is bringing together new works from 13 International Artists that demonstrate the rebellious spirit and dystopian sense of social disorder at the heart of the cryptoart movement and the legacy of the cypherpunks. Featured Artists include @adhd143, @ALCrego_, @annaxmalina, @c3naaX, @C0MPUTERBL00D, @DrifterShoots, @EmpressTrash, @hafftka, @killeracid, @PepenardoStudio, @ROBNESSOFFICIAL, @sabatobox, and @5tr4n0. Keep an eye out for more auction details via AOTM’s Channels on X and Discord.
🟪 What’s in Your Wallet? by MLow
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, June 18th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Fifteen Unique 1/1s
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 6:30pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.15 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Exploring identity and taste in the digital age, Mlow’s latest collection is inspired by the idea that our possessions define us. To create the works, MLow trained an AI Mixed-Model (GAN, ChatGPT 4o, Midjourney6, Photoshop with AI Generative Fill, Magnific AI Upscale, Pika, and more) to interpret the art pieces in his wallet, and then proceed to use those outputs as seeds for new creations. The resulting AI-generated pieces are a fusion of influences, embodying MLow’s digital persona. 2 Pieces in the collection will be sold for 0.5 ETH and will be accompanied by Oil Paintings by @jhuffizi.
🟪 crystalline work by John Gerrard
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, June 18th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Feral File
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 53
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 5am ET
〰️ 💰 Price: ~0.029 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Each crystalline work is its own 3D virtual world, documenting a unique solar moment and prismatic crystalline formation. Together, the 8,760 WebGL works form a blockchain-based, generative public artwork, exhibited to a global audience. The 365-day generative data performance begins on the summer solstice, June 20th. The annual solar simulation has evolved over 5 years, but this exhibition is the first time it will be presented in its entirety.
🟪 Incendiary Sorcery by Max Jackson
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, June 18th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Prohibition Daily [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 12pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: TBA
🟧 Sharp Objects by David Seven
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, June 19th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 3pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0005 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: ITB is launching as part of Gamma’s “Generative Art Summer,” and will mint as a Timed Open Edition that is set to conclude after one month’s time.
🟪 AI Paintings of the Infinite Universe by Star Im x Godwits
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, June 19th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: OpenSea
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 4,000
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 3-Day DeepBlack AL @ 6am ET
〰️ 💰 Price: Free
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 6am ET (6/22)
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.03333 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Each painting in this collection represents an untold story of the universe, inviting viewers to explore and interpret their own imaginations through these visual arts.
🟪 Baalu-Eko by Dplusgraphix
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, June 19th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Mona [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 300
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Limited Edition @ 8pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: Free
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Introducing Baalu-Eko – the eleventh claim drop from MONA – is an artwork by Oluwadara Oyaromade that showcases a next-gen transport merging multiple modes, designed for Lagos, Nigeria, and expanding to Africa and Asia, especially India. Derived from Yoruba terms, it innovates luxury and personal air travel in the Open Metaverse.
🟪 Equilibrium by Tristan Rettich
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, June 19th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Prohibition Daily [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 12pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0015 ETH
🟪 Fragile Errors by @nubplus
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, June 19th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 256
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 2pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.001 ETH
🟧 The Astronomer’s Daughter by POSTWOOK
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, June 20th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Counterfeit Culture
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 100
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Presale [Ongoing]
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Allowlist @ 10am ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.015 BTC
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 2pm ET
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Reveal on 6/21
〰️ 💰 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(dot)io.
🟧 [test] by John Provencher
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, June 20th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse x Grailers DAO
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 64
〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Ranked Auction @ 1pm ET
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Part of the first curated show from Grailers DAO and Singular Art on Ordinals – entitled All at Once – [test] is an exploration of form within the limitations of the past, where colors and resolution were limited and screens were textured, hued, faded. The collection is created through a generative script that tests various image processing/downscaling algorithms, exploring the image’s resilience to resolution and dither. Following the 24-Hour Auction, winners will be given a redeemable Mint Pass for the work. The complete curation showcases works from Rhea Myers, Sarah Meyohas, Kevin McCoy, Rudxane, OTO, Matto, Mia Forrest, and Constant Dull that respond to the prompt, “How can artists create interesting problems in a world obsessed with solving them?” and will debut on Monday, June 24th.
🟪 Entangled by Bjørn Staal
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, June 20th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash)
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 512 [50% ETH / 50% XTZ]
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Dutch Auction @ 1pm ET
〰️ 💰 Starting Price: 0.145 ETH -or- 600 XTZ
〰️ 💰 Resting Price: 0.065 ETH -or- 200 XTZ
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Bjørn Staal’s Entangled dives into the interplay between physical experience, digital interaction, and quantum mechanics through the mind-bending concept of entanglement. Pairing particle visualization with unusual modes of interactivity, the collection showcases Staal’s interest in the power of generative algorithms to connect the viewer to the underlying realities of existence. Editions will exist and can be collected across both Ethereum and Tezos blockchains, and Editions may be paired across chains.
🟪 Camera Roll Secrets by Dre Dogue
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, June 20th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Foundation
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 333
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 9am ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0069 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: A curated selection of snapshots, offering a glimpse into my intimate diary of playful everyday life observations, snapped across 20 countries and 40 cities over the span of a decade, using the casual language of my camera phone. The collection delves into the fleeting nature of digital images, often quickly forgotten as digital waste, yet these are objects filled with beauty, obscurity, humor, euphoria, and despair.
🟪 BREEZE by Iskra Velitchkova
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, June 20th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Highlight
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 81
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Private Sale @ 8am ET
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public Auction @ 12pm ET
〰️ 💰 Starting Price: 1 ETH
〰️ 💰 Resting Price: 0.5 ETH
🟪 TO THE MOON by Sinclair
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, June 20th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Prohibition Daily [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 12pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: TBA
🟧 signals and noise by Alex Rudloff
〰️ 📅 Date: Friday, June 21st
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 3pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: ~0.0003 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: signals and noise will mint as part of Gamma’s “Generative Art Summer.”
🟪 [Title TBA] by Jonathan Wolfe
〰️ 📅 Date: Friday, June 21st
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Prohibition Daily [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 12pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0025 ETH
