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If you're looking to snag a Masterpiece for your Art Collection, it's a great week to tap into The Patron Age - your trusted source for intel on the most anticipated Digital Art Releases. With 29+ Drops on this week's radar, let's see what's set to debut! 👀 Get Art Pilled 💊⬇️ 🟪🟦🟩🟨🟧🟥🟪🟦🟩🟨🟧🟥🟪 🟨▫️𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊▫️🟦 🟩🟦🟪🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟥🟧🟨🟩 🟪 𝙉𝙚𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙮 by @blanqspacer 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟯𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse Works 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 20 Unique 1/1 Works 〰️ 🎛️ Format: FCFS Public Sale 〰️ 💰 List Price: $150 USD 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Nikita Blanq turns the limits of knowing into its subject, tracing humanity through images where recognition begins to dissolve and new forms of meaning emerge. Built through repeated acts of dissolution and return, the series frames AI as a place where perception begins to fail and meaning forms, reflecting on the paradoxical nature of human perception. 🟪 𝙈𝙞𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧 𝙈𝙖𝙣 𝙂𝙄𝙁𝙨 by @davidhenrynobo1 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟯𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 10 Unique 1/1 Works 〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Timed Auctions 〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.069 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: “Art is a mirror that reflects a broken system.” 🟪 𝙀𝘿𝙄𝙉𝘽𝙐𝙍𝙂𝙃 𝙄𝙎 𝘽𝙐𝙍𝙉𝙄𝙉𝙂 by @rocketgirlART 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟯𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Timed Auction 〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.35 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Rocketgirl channels a world on the brink, where retaliation, dread, and collapse fold into one urgent pulse. Drawing on apocalyptic visuals, the work feels like a reckoning already in motion. 🟪 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙇𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨 𝘿𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙚 by @555elnaz 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟯𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Timed Auction 〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.11 ETH 〰️ 💰 BIN Price: 0.25 ETH 🟪 𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙨 by @lineofakc 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟯𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 8 Unique 1/1 Works 〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Timed Auctions 〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.1 ETH 🟪 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙛 by @Itsfredi1 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟯𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Manifold x Suburbs Gallery 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 30 Editions 〰️ 🎛️ Format: FCFS Public Sale 〰️ 💰 Price: 0.01 ETH 🟪 𝙙𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 by @toadswiback 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Glitch Gallery 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 75 Unique 1/1 Works 〰️ 🎛️ Format: 33H Timed Auctions @ 12pm ET 〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: diewiththemostlikes assembles seventy-five hollow-eyed, frayed figures into a single brutal accumulation, each one a number against Indiana's average age of death, rendered in raw lines and bruised colors that swing between celebration and mourning without ever choosing. There's no lesson nor tidy redemption to be found - only bodies caught mid-motion, walking the same worn ground their parents walked, accepting the end with something closer to grace than fear. This is grief without sentiment and mortality without metaphor, asking viewers to sit with what gets lost in the broadcast’s static, and what, if anything, survives being forgotten. (NOTE: Auctions will close on July 15th at 9pm Eastern Time.) 🟪 𝙁𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙤𝙡𝙡 by @AlexKittoe x @nev_in_color x @tormius 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: OpenSea 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 275 Unique 1/1 Works 〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale @ 12pm ET 〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0169 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: In collaboration with Tormius, Alex Kittoe and Nevin Johnson transform the burn mark of photographic development accidents into a dual-media work where analog memory and digital intervention meet. What begins as a dark room mishap becomes a jumping off point, using the first frame of the film as both subject and image structure. 🟪 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙁𝙀𝙍𝙨 by @narcisojuse 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 100 Unique 1/1 Works 〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Presale AL @ 11am ET 〰️ 🎛️ Phase: FCFS Public Sale @ 12pm ET 〰️ 💰 Price: 0.035 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Jose’s 100 hand-drawn characters were built with love, made from bad decisions, and birthed from too much coffee. 🟪 𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍 𝘾𝙃𝘼𝙉𝙉𝙀𝙇 by @DV_gh0st 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse Works x Fakewhale 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 5 Unique 1/1 Animations 〰️ 🎛️ Format: 48H Timed Auction @ 12pm ET 〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: DV Ghost lets the familiarity of televised broadcasting slip into an uncertain register where broadcast fragments, weather data, and visual decay drift together in a single looping current. The series treats weather not as information to be delivered, but as an atmosphere of memory, noise, and rupture. 🟪 𝘿𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙈 𝙈𝘼𝘾𝙃𝙄𝙉𝙀𝙎 by @Nicolas_Sassoon 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟲𝘁𝗵 [𝘛𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦] 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare x Rhizome 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Charity Auction @ 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘛𝘉𝘈 〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 2 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Releasing as part of Rhizome’s Microgrant Program Fundraiser, Nicolas Sassoon gathers screens, signal noise, and traces of collective culture into a stark black-and-white field of motion and pattern. What emerges is a quiet vision of connection, where optical disruption briefly opens onto the possibility of shared utopia. (NOTE: 50% of the auction’s proceeds will go to fund the grant program. Please follow @Rhizome on X for updates on the Auction’s Launch Date & Time.) 🟪 𝘿𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙 by @0xVestica 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟭𝟲𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 15 Unique 1/1 Works 〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Presale [𝘖𝘯𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨] 〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘛𝘉𝘈 〰️ 💰 Prices Range from 0.2 ETH to 0.24 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Built on the foundation of a casual sketchbook impulse, Mariah’s latest work crystalizes into a brutal portrait of digital labor, where repetition, visibility, and exhaustion become inseparable. Framed by looping motion and the demands of the algorithm, the series reads like a “proof of grind;” art made inside the very system it refuses to romanticize. 🟪🟦🟩🟨🟧🟥🟪🟦🟩🟨🟧🟥🟪 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘌𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯'𝘴 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤: 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 "𝘋𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩" 𝘣𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘴. (𝘢𝘬𝘢 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘴𝘰𝘯) 🟩🟦🟪🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟥🟧🟨🟩 Now that you're through the 7-Day Outlook, let's take a look at what else is coming up over the next 30 Days!

@songadaymann Mr Mann becomes the Virgil to Claude's Dante

I JUST MADE A GAME CALLED 🔥LINDSAY GRAHAM IN HELL🔥 The goal of the game is to save all your girlfriends. Your girlfriends are Birdo. PLAY IT: mann.cool/hell There may or may not be a hidden Mitch Mcconnell somewhere down here...

@punk734 @VanArman 🔥🐙🔥🤖🔥

Its been a long hunt, but I was recently able to complete my triptych of rare krakens with the addition of the Dancing Kraken to my collection 🥳 The cute little podGANs are probably my favorite series by @VanArman. I have a few ideas about to display them at home - stay tuned!

@glitchmarfa @toadswiback a powerful project indeed

when will you realize that dying is not enough @toadswiback x @glitchmarfa

Cents 🪙

@lifofifo @udiWertheimer ty lifo 👊 we're definitely looking for a credit card solution for upcoming shows

@udiWertheimer Cents, solely due to it having most appeal outside typical ordinals crowd.

the Wizard Portal is the easiest way on the internet to collect curated jpegs which guest collection should we add next?

good morning from Jubilant Twinkle from Possibility Spaces, @sovrnart collection

@LookHighward a beauty!

@misterbombadil 👊👊👊👊

Bitcoin Ordinals

@itsdonnyok inscriptions being basically the only thing denominated in BTC and driving actual use as money is a point that oddly doesn't come up at all enough, tho it's one that @brian_trollz has made in his articles despite the fact that he's not really into inscriptions

Some misunderstood concepts on the internet today: 1. Inscriptions don’t use op return, and the limit was still 1MB before core expanded relay policy. 2. People buy inscriptions on chain using bitcoin as money. They’re kinda the only thing denominated in BTC. ily <3

@BitcoinNL @Satflow @OrdinalMaxiBiz @nodemonkes @BitcoinPuppets @TheWizardsOfOrd @LeonidasNFT @TaprootWizards @BitcoinFrogs we cockroaches shall inherit the chain

You are looking at the absolute bottom of assets that are stored forever directly on Bitcoin Collections 30D vol. top to Bottom on @Satflow 1 @OrdinalMaxiBiz 2 @nodemonkes 3 @BitcoinPuppets 4 @TheWizardsOfOrd 5 @LeonidasNFT 6 @TaprootWizards 7 @sovrnart 8 @BitcoinFrogs

@_genk__ 🧠

Ordinals' Cultural Reconfiguration 𝟙. paradigm shift: it is a mistake to evaluate ordinals using ethereum nft metrics, because their value does not lie in mass trading but in being cultural assets secured by the most permanent and secure network. 𝟚. audience: although the audience seems small right now, just as it did in the early days of bitcoin and smart contracts, what truly matters is not volume but building the infrastructure for when large numbers of users eventually arrive. 𝟛. natural selection: as noise, speculation, and low-quality projects disappear, the ecosystem becomes stronger thanks to those who genuinely care about it. 𝟜. a new identity: bitcoin has evolved from money to a store of value, and now we are witnessing its transformation into a platform for digital culture, even if the market has not yet fully recognized its potential. 𝟝. historical value beyond a jpeg: you are not simply buying an image. you are acquiring a historical artifact, a community, a cultural symbol, and a place within a broader narrative. 𝟞. more sophisticated liquidity: capital will return, but not in the same way as before, when almost every collection pumped. there will likely be more capital concentrated in fewer collections, more efficient markets, and more sophisticated collectors, favoring the projects that survive. 𝟟. risk: there are no guarantees. this is only a thesis. there is always the possibility that capital concentrates in only a handful of collections, that other narratives capture attention, or that bitcoin continues to prioritize only its financial use. ➤ conclusion and personal view: ordinals are not dying. they are simply going through a phase of consolidation and natural selection. if the digitization of art continues to expand and the market once again values scarcity, provenance, and assets inscribed directly on bitcoin, collections with history and strong communities could become highly relevant across the ecosystem, benefiting a large share of long-term holders.

@kv4rl that's a badass pfp

climbing the wall of worry.

@blktng 🔥🔥🔥

100 of 250 Old Glory's have been inscribed✊

@basebeng @banknotes_btc genius is always weird innit

Am I weird or a genius for collecting fiat on Bitcoin Probably both @sovrnart @banknotes_btc

NEW: The „Export CENT” card now follows the detail view: switch a CENT to Dual view and the exported PNG and PDF show front and back side by side. In Single view the export stays front-only as before.

@daidatep that one has such a great reverse! it's the one that just sold recently, no?

@MobilitySignal @VanArman @cldpntr @OpenAI @AnthropicAI @GoogleDeepMind 🤖✉️

frontier of AI systems is @VanArman with @cldpntr custom autonomous truck & drones drifting & scanning, creating art on copper with lasers, and sending postcards around the world. one artist creating way beyond @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI and @GoogleDeepMind