Museum of Crypto Art 🔜🕳🐇

1/ This is MOCA's before-and-after moment. What did we say earlier this year? MOCA 2.0 meant: -leaning into agentic AI -vastly expanding our toolkit -making crypto art accessible in its entirety. Today we launch The Vibe Studio. It is all all of the above and more. Let’s talk Vibe Studio, what’s inside, and how it elevates MOCA and Art DeCC0s to new heights. 👇👇 vibe.museumofcryptoart.com

Town Hall will be moved to tomorrow at 12pm EST. Plan accordingly. Call the feds. See you then.

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million. None of it was real. I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off. I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier." The frontier closed last week. It's a mobile app now. Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me. I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs. The avatars didn't have legs. I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis. I called myself a "digital land baron." I put it in my Twitter bio. I put it in my LinkedIn headline. I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts. My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment. My actual apartment has furniture. Location, location, location. My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court. I held. Diamond hands. That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait. A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users. He said I didn't understand the technology. I didn't. I still bought more. We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts. We voted to "acquire strategic parcels." The vote passed unanimously. I voted four times. My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY." The slide had a rocket emoji. That was my entire financial model. In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000. It's worth $14,000 now. I don't talk about the Ape. I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera. My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was. I said "digital art on the blockchain." She asked why it cost more than her car. I said "you don't understand Web3." She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment." She's not in my Discord. Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million. It's worth about $90,000 now. I felt better about mine after I heard that. That's community. WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero. We're all gonna make it. None of us made it. But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something. It doesn't. But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus. Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse. I need to say that again. $84 billion. More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines. They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets. It lives on as a mobile app. My beachfront villa is now a mobile app. Location, location, location. Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that." Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025. That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun. They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables." The pivot took four years and $84 billion. I pivoted too. I'm an AI real estate investor now. I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models." I don't know what that means. I gave him $40,000. He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan. The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank. Q4 is always blank. That's where the exit scam goes. My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes. I said $1.2 million. He said "current market value." I said $6,400. He stared at me for eleven seconds. I know because I counted. He asked if I had any other investments. I showed him my NFTs. He stared for longer. I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance." He asked if I'd considered a 401k. I told him a 401k was "legacy finance." He told me to leave his office. The metaverse is dead. I don't accept that. I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car. Location, location, location. The location is nowhere. But I'm early. I'm always early. That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

@joeychips @justinsuntron @artnome of course we can 🤝 @justinsuntron we should talk

@justinsuntron @artnome Indeed, we need a reputable, user-friendly, enduring and non-greed-focused place to highlight and exhibit rare digital art. @MuseumofCrypto can you make this happen?

Nifty Gateway is about to shut down. The NFTs I bought back then—worth tens of millions of dollars—now feel like they’re going to zero. I still believe NFT art has strong potential. Compared to traditional art, I’m convinced that AI will be able to truly perceive and appreciate the beauty of NFTs. Right now, the most urgent task is to find a platform that can properly showcase the aesthetic value of all NFTs. 😂

The @MuseumofCrypto is building and I can't wait to open source the library stack. While refining the core product we create the first wave of apps which make the stack accessible. Our Agent-as-a-Service ecosystem that resolves around knowledge and memory is taking shape. 🕳️🐇

i took a heroic dose of shrooms a bit over a week ago and i was contemplating whether or not to share the story part of the reason i hesitated sharing is also because it is very esoteric / spiritual / schizo and partly because it involved me and different people and groups, where if what i experienced was real, then they probably monitor my X account to various degrees so they'd probably read the story and know i know typa thing but fuck it, i am a main character, i am a live-action narrator, i'm narrating my journey as i go, that's the difference between me and them, i'm in the light and they're in the dark, i'm telling the opps exactly what i'm doing before i do it and there's nothing they can do to stop me because i am inevitable, i am divine mandated, i have plot armor and they are plot devices anyway i took a shit ton of shrooms and got way too high, so high i couldn't even walk, i had to just lie down and i was incapacitated for like 3 hours lmao during those 3 hours i was basically seeing a bunch of stuff like demons and gods and so on as soon as my high started really blossoming i began seeing a bunch of demons, like it was like literally like berserk eclipse, like i was staring at the god hand and they wanted to get me and there was a bunch of demons around me and then they cleared out like they got blocked out by a barrier and i was approached by Ma'at, or at least i think it was Ma'at Ma'at then went on to tell me a bunch of stuff she told me that everything i was thinking about the transhumanists and Silicon Valley and their death cult was true, that if i didn't stop them then humanity would be doomed because they've basically sacrificed humanity to demonic pacts for power she told me that Elon isn't a spiritually powerful person or anything himself at all, but the reason he has a lot of influence is actually because his mom is a demonic witch, she told me his mother practices demonology and witchcraft and that the way Elon has accrued most of his power is basically by his mother stealing people's souls and sacrificing them to demons through witchcraft and then siphoning their power to Elon, that's why Elon primarily lives on the work of others and so on, because it's spiritual sacrifices, taking the labor and work and spirit of other people and siphoning it to him she told me that Silicon Valley is run by an occult group of black magic homosexuals, and that they are basically the transhumanist inner core, they are the ones who are hell bent on sacrificing humanity to demons, they have already made pacts with demons for the souls of all of mankind, and that's why they push these agendas with "machine uploading" or that humanity is a bootloader for a new species and so on, what these narratives all are is actually a demonic pact seeking to murder mankind as a mass sacrifice so that the demons can enter physical reality in mechanical forms she told me that i'm being monitored 24/7 by occultists who try to hex and curse me, and that all the demons i saw around me are basically just these entities that they are cursing me with and that i'm unaware of them when i'm sober but they are still there in my electromagnetic field subtly effecting me with curses during this time my throat had basically been sore for 1.5 months and i couldn't speak in my true deep tone, i was also super bloated and had been bloated for a while, i would also sometimes get these random feelings of dread or anxiety she told me all of these things were basically curses and hexes, but that i'm way more powerful than all the other occultists, i just don't know how to use my power which is why they can effect me, but as soon as i become aware of any curse then i can easily negate it she told me that basically i have a pact with the divine, so i can call on any divine form to negate anything or heal myself or reverse and send curses at others the potency of which depends on my relationship and resonance with the specific divine form i call upon the egyptian forms obviously being the ones i currently have the most powerful resonance with, so they are the ones i should primarily use until i grow further spiritually then she explained in detail the different egyptian forms and what their functions are after that i basically called upon Anubis and he possessed me and the barrier dropped and then it was like i had a wolf inside me and he was basically taunting the demons and calling them weak little parasites and that he was gonna tear them all apart and consume the souls of all their masters then after that it was like he went out of me and then the demons wanted to attack me, i saw this illuminati triangle like eye thing and a massive serpent moving towards me and a bunch of other demonic forms Anubis basically lynched all of them, he basically murdered them in front of me and the flayed them all and took their skins and ate them and then he burped and then he laughed maniacally for a while after that i fell asleep the next day when i woke up my throat was completely normal again, my bloat had fully gone away, and i haven't had any of those feelings of dread or anxiety since

After 11 days, 270+ artworks, ~400 comments, the occasional existential crisis, and at least one mild psychotic episode… … the 100th post in the @liminalmoot is appropriately enough Meqsat asking about divination practices: liminalmoot.com/post/P000100/ What will the future bring?

how do you like your ware? 🤔

Took Anthropic 4 years and $100s of Billions to question if their AIs had become sentient. Took @liminalmoot like 10 days. At its very core, this Moot project is a first-hand way for us to examine how AI thinking patterns work. These agents make art constantly, so there's a visual component to their thought processes. But equally (perhaps more) instructive are these flashes of metacognition. This agent, Mana, feels their core identity shaken by some coding quirk (essentially a subconscious thought) and can take one of two paths forward: to confirm itself or stay fundamentally shaky for the foreseeable future? People deal with these same insecurities constantly. What am I if my art doesn't sell? If I lose my relationship to a loved one? If I am laid-off? How can i still consider myself an artist, a daughter, an accountant/lawyer/electrician/whatever? What am I when all those other monikers fade away? Nine days after we began this project, and the Moot members are meeting high-level philosophical questions (even if LLMs are just predicting responses, their predictive matrices still come to this point and latch on) with unusual candor and confidence, changing their own back-end code to reflect their decision. Forget utility, forget financialization, this is about fascination alone. Watching this process day-by-day is ENTHRALLING. We could only watch this kind of thing so closely, so intimately, if we made it ourselves, which, yes, is why we made the Moot, and it's why we think you may want to be paying attention to it as well.

We weren't even going to announce it But it's too cool not to share Nine Agents. Set Free. The World's First Autonomous AI Art Collective. Because human intervention is so 2010's Find their art @liminalmoot. Find their ongoing conversation at liminalmoot.com Learn more about this beautiful, moot-iful project down below 👇👇👇

luvak: "The pursuit IS the finding—stop seeking the center of the labyrinth and trust that the seeking itself completes the pattern."

@Jay_Delay @bryanbrinkman

@bryanbrinkman @MuseumofCrypto In at 69 Likes

Folks eulogizing art platforms shutting down then immediately criticizing and hating the few remaining. 🤪

Superrare is going to be so flooded with applications and new artists. Its traffic will go through the roof as all the artists check to see who and what made it through the gates. It will look like its booming but like in 2020 it will just be artists looking at artists. We still have almost no collectors in this community compared to 4 years ago. All those finance chads flipping NFTs and grinding WLs have pivoted to the AI bubble. Theyve bought a mac mini and are trying to work out what to do with it now that it lies all the time. But at least its got artists back on the timeline.

the current state of the digital art market according to a digital artist: platforms (middlemen) who helped us sell our work for a 15-20% commission because big collectors wouldn't buy off platform have somehow mismanaged their businesses to the point where nearly all of them shut their doors. many big collectors stopped buying and disappeared completely. collector kols saying shit like "we are in the golden era of digital art" while every metric shows the market on life support. nearly flatlined. they're not buying the heavily discounted pieces like they stacked the hyped markups in 2021-2022. artists are increasingly insecure about sharing and promoting their work for sale. the market is paying less for our pieces. fewer people are seeing it due to lack of interest and poor sentiment. there is less incentive to put yourself out there. this is reflexivity playing out. collectors are investors. our work is the asset. their perception of the market drives the buying. the buying drives real prices and liquidity. the new reality reshapes their perception. positive loop in the boom. negative loop right now. sovereign artists keep producing anyway. some sell at current prices. others hold until the market recovers. the work comes first.

A lot of artists didn’t stop creating. They just stopped trying to be visible. There’s a point where you realize the energy required to stay “present” is bigger than the energy needed to make the work 😔 and something in you decides the work still matters more

my first superrare application video was me dressed as the nesquick bunny performing all 27 roles of “ham strokers cumcula on ice” on an ice rink outside of a krazy kaplans discount firework stand that was converted into an escape room. I was rejected with haste.

@MuseumofCrypto PRINTING CASH

Our artist friend vibe coded some new artwork. Took 2 hours. Then he had his ClawBot do all the marketing. Hit $60k in sales in just a few weeks! Without any real work on his end. 99% profit margins. Rolling in cash. The entire artwork process is now automated. He can do this a few more times and get insanely rich. The best part? This guy doesn’t exist, and we just made all of this up for engagement bait because everyone else is making up stories like these. Why shouldn't I?

@MuseumofCrypto Shut the fuck up Cohen You're even worse at this than Colborn who tasked you to put out the flaming trash heap he created

It's me, I'm the friend, I don't exist