Waiting To Be Signed

I think NFTs are in a transitional era. In the early days, there was a large base of collectors who were genuinely buying to collect. That conviction is a big part of why prices appreciated so dramatically, many of these pieces were minted for little, or even free, yet people saw long-term cultural value. At today’s price levels, it’s natural that many participants are also thinking about returns or trying to understand where the market is headed. But I think a new generation of stewards is emerging, collectors with greater resources, a longer time horizon, and a generational mindset toward ownership. Yes many NFTs will remain vapor, but collectors who combine great taste with sound strategy and the patience to let their convictions play out will likely be rewarded. Years from now, people will look back and say, “Man, that was so obvious.”

I’ve been saying it for a very long time. if you are an artist within web3, you need to read the room and realise there are only around 300 - 500 actual collectors tops and that’s being generous. so with clean distribution as your main focus ~ it’s best to draw and drop a small exclusive collection, curate all the collectors well, set your foundational support strong and then move into expanding your reach and collections if you head that way. the days of 10k are so far gone. the days of 2k are even gone to be fair.

I'm going to spend a lot of $ to build an onboarding experience the way it should be built It is shocking to me how such a simple concept, getting newbie a piece of digital art, has become and how little progress we've made in the ~6 years I've been here Time for change ✊

I don’t really have a huge affinity to Verse but it still makes me sad. Platforms cost a lot to run and when there is no money in art this is the default pivot (see Rodeo and the other one I can’t even remember). I wish them luck but they have a very slim chance at success. The hard part isn’t creating the content immortalization platform, it is getting big content creators on. Put another way, if there were money to be made saving and trading content, Insta, Tiktok, YT, etc. would have done it.