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.
🟧 Ataraxia by cvr
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 287
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H Tier 1 AL @ 11am ET
〰️ 💰 Price: FREE
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 5H Tier 2 AL @ 11am ET (9/24)
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00038 BTC
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 4pm ET (9/24)
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00075 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: After a few years of creating with the intent to express grief and sorrow, CVR’s latest work has been created in the pursuit of something new. The Collection offers a meditation on peace, joy, and contentment through creative coding with hundreds of different output variables. The Artist’s hope is that you can experience the same tranquility while viewing your piece in motion (or even as a still image for print).
🟧 DYSON SWARM by Nullish
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1,500 Editions
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Holder Allowlists [Sold Out!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0009 BTC
🟪 Daemonica Syntheticum by Ganbrood
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse x TENDER
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 44
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H Auction [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Ganbrood’s latest collection is an exploration of humanity’s enduring fascination with heroism, from ancient gods to modern superhumans, questioning whether these revered figures mirror our deepest desires and ambitions. Through surreal, otherworldly forms, the series challenges the boundaries between organic and synthetic, urging us to reconsider heroism in the age of algorithms. The 24-hour auction is going to be a “Ranked Auction with Rebate,” meaning that the winning bidders will only pay the lowest winning bid amount. Once the auction concludes, each of the works from this artist-curated series will be randomly distributed to the top 44 winning bids.
🟪 Clickmine Sketches by Sarah Friend
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Ensemble
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 3 [Only 2 Available]
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.5 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Ensemble – a platform that specializes in artist project sketches, concept art, and other process artifacts – is proud to present two of three original interface sketches for Clickmine – one of the earliest onchain artworks which uses the clicker game format as an artistic medium. In the original game, players mine ERC-20 Tokens, with hyperinflation escalating as power-ups are purchased, eventually overwhelming both the interface and the virtual landscape. The concept sketches – made in the Summer of 2017 – have since been exhibited globally at The Brandscape in Toronto, Somerset House in London, Kate Vass Galerie in Switzerland, the Chronus Contemporary Art Center in Shanghai, and beyond.
🟪 Roots by Fernando Jerez
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Art Blocks Studio
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 256
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.015 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Maintaining simplicity, the diversity of Roots has been designed to encompass a wide range of compositional variations, surprising the viewer with unexpected richness. The resulting outputs bring together fat pixels, naked textures and crude compositions that feel raw and unrefined, yet fresh in their own way.
🟪 Climate Crisis by Bouboy
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Ninfa
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 25 Unique 1/1 Works
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Reserve Auctions [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.1 ETH
🟪 Behind Closed Doors IV | 密室での by Dre Dogue
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Manifold Studio
〰️ 🧮 Max Supply: 100 Editions
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.025 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Dre Dogue’s Behind Closed Doors series, which focuses on Japan’s last remaining love hotels, is entirely shot on 35mm Film across a number of locations in Japan (Edition IV was shot in Atami, Japan). For the latest installment in her series, Dogue is releasing 3 BCD Editions to provide a more affordable entry point for collectors while also giving collectors who acquire a Full Set – 1 Edition of IV, 1 Edition of V, and 1 Edition of VI – the opportunity to participate in an exclusive raffle for one of her 1 of 1 BCD Works. For more information on how to collect Edition V and Edition VI, read on ⬇️.
🟪 Behind Closed Doors V | 密室での by Dre Dogue
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Manifold Studio
〰️ 🧮 Max Supply: 100 Editions
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Burn to Redeem [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0069 ETH + Burn 1 Edition of BCD IV
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Edition V was shot in Kyoto, Japan. For more information on how to collect Edition VI, read on ⬇️.
🟪 Behind Closed Doors VI | 密室での by Dre Dogue
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Manifold Studio
〰️ 🧮 Max Supply: 100 Editions
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Burn to Redeem [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0069 ETH + Burn 1 Edition of BCD V
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Edition VI was shot in Osaka, Japan.
🟪 Anomalies: Initial Research by Demon Ego
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Reserve Auction [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.222 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The artwork is configured for a Reserve Auction. Once the reserve is met, a 24-hour timed auction will begin.
🟪 purgatory room VIII by rightclickdead
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Reserve Auction [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.333 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The artwork is configured for a Reserve Auction. Once the reserve is met, a 24-hour timed auction will begin.
🟪 Green Day by Rocketgirl
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Reserve Auction [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.3 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The piece is part of Rocketgirl’s ART OF SPECULATION series. The artwork is configured for a Reserve Auction. Once the reserve is met, a 24-hour timed auction will begin.
🟪 Forecasting by Rocketgirl
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Reserve Auction [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.3 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The piece is part of Rocketgirl’s ART OF SPECULATION series. The artwork is configured for a Reserve Auction. Once the reserve is met, a 24-hour timed auction will begin.
🟪 13__Ambivalent by Nucleo
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, September 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Foundation
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Reserve Auction [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.125 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The latest artwork in Nucleo’s The Invisible series is configured for a Reserve Auction. Once the reserve is met, a 24-hour timed auction will begin.
🟧 UNGA by fked up
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, September 24th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Ordinals Bot
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 888
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 3pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: FREE
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: While the collection was originally intended to be launched on Fractal BTC, I was ecstatic when I found out that the artist had moved the launch to BTC Mainnet due to the reality that Fractal cannot make use of recursion. This release will be the first part of a two part series.
🟧 Chaotic Patchwork by Geo Ordinals
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, September 24th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Magic Eden
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 333
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: GTD AL @ 11am ET
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: FCFS AL @ 12pm ET
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 1pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00069 BTC
🟧 Guardians of Ordinals by KING XEROX x Artography
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 25th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Magic Eden
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 666
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Potion Holders @ 10am ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0004 BTC
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: GTD AL @ 12pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0008 BTC
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: FCFS AL @ 3:30pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0008 BTC
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 6:30pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00111 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: 66.6% of the collection has been pre-sold via “Potions.” Potion holders will have 2.5 hours to mint from the 69 WarlOrds in the collection, but all remaining WarlOrds will be transferred to subsequent phases along with the remaining supply.
🟪 QQL [Benefit Auction] by Tyler Hobbs
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 25th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: AOTM x Iconic
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 3 Auction Lots
〰️ 🎛️ Format: 48H Reserve Auction @ 12pm ET
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 1 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: In collaboration with Iconic & AOTM, MOA+L’s next benefit auction will feature an artist-curated selection of outputs from QQL – the iconic, communally curated code art series designed by Hobbs and Indigo Mane. Participating collectors will have the rare opportunity to acquire artworks from 3 lots curated by Hobbs – two which will feature outputs created and minted by Hobbs himself, and one being minted and hand-selected by Anders Carlson – one of the parametric artists in Hobbs’ QQL community. Auction winners will also receive a matching framed 30” x 37” artist-stamped, museum-quality print, and an accompanying certificate of authenticity.
🟪 mmERCH: The Ultra-Luxe Five
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 25th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Christie’s x @mmERCH
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 5 Unique 1/1 Hoodies
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 7-Day Auction @ 10am ET
〰️ 💰 Price: No Reserve
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Created in collaboration with renowned digital art collector, Seedphrase, this collection is inspired by what may be the most iconic generative one-of-one — Seedphrase’s seven-trait CryptoPunk. Each hoodie is a unique, algorithmically generated, crafted from luxurious Italian neoprene doppia faccia, assembled in Los Angeles, and will feature tonal stitching as well as 3D Logo Embroidery. The cord ends are bejeweled with Swarovski crystals or created diamonds. Each hoodie is paired with an original, 1-of-1 NFT artwork by preeminent AI collaborative artist, Claire Silver. The remaining pieces in the 322 piece drop will be sold starting on October 1st.
🟪 Anomalous Nature by Brutal
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 25th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Foundation
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Reserve Auction @ 10am ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 1 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: A Bidder’s Edition has been teased… Be sure to check Marco’s X on Tuesday for more details.
🟫 Wujoud by Bassil Taleb
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 25th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Tezos]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 150
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 1pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 8 TEZ
🟪 Once Upon a Garden by Linda Dounia
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, September 26th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Fellowship AI
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 250
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 1pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: $1,000 / Bouquet of 5 Works
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: As part of the Silk Road event in Istanbul and in partnership with ARTXCODE, Fellowship will be unveiling Linda Dounia’s Once Upon a Garden: The Complete Works, representing two years of Linda’s research, development, and artistic exploration. The series presents an archival exploration of possibilities, representing 50 emergent species of critically endangered and extinct flora from the Sahel region of Africa that we have little to no records of, and therefore no way to remember. Collectors have the opportunity to purchase a ‘bouquet’ of flowers that includes one individually minted NFT from each of the five chapters (5 NFTs in total). The first four chapters offer static images while the fifth chapter is a 40-second video.
🟪 The Canal Street Show – Inaugural Drop
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, September 26th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Manifold Studio
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 80 Total Editions
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 11:30am ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.1 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Launching in celebration of the third presentation of The Canal Street Show – set to open in NYC this Saturday night at Lume Studios in collaboration with Subjective Art Fair – the inaugural drop editions will feature brand new work from Photon, Cowboy Killer, Terrell Dom, and Efdot, Each of the artists’ works will be limited to 20 editions, making for a max supply of 80 editions. For the latest updates on the release, keep an eye out for updates from the hosts Eternal Pepe and Efdot.
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.