Stoked to see more folks get turned on to cryptoart collecting. It's a helluva drug. Since I've managed to make my habit profitable, thought I'd create a little guide for new collectors and those who are more ROI minded. beta.cent.co/matthew/+f9dnl5

The NFT hating artist has to be the most surprising and baffling persona to appear in 2021, maybe ever

The first Asia Pacific edition of @theWIPmeetup happens 2 pm HKT this Thursday at the @SugarClub_ in @cryptovoxels. Catch updates from @A_Giant_Swan, @AcalaNetwork and @CaoArmand. Play a @toxsam-designed game in DCL. And snag some WIP swag. Join here: bit.ly/2EA82gX

Don't forget that 99% of artists and creators still have no clue what an NFT is.

NFTs are getting BIG. BIG artists. BIG musicians. BIG creators. All the BIGs are flooding in. But I'm also super excited for all the future artists who previously never identified as artists to join NFT land.

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0% royalties is what happens when folks do zero research and have zero respect for the history of what crypto artists have fought for 10% royalties for artists needs to remain the standard. I refuse to support anything that doesn't support artists

Life update: Stoked to say that I joined the @niftygateway team. The sprint into the future of cryptoart and digital collectibles starts today. Beyond excited thinking about all the artists and creators I'll be able to work with to help produce pure epicness.

The NFT sector isn't just like one thing. It's like: - the Early Renaissance - 1980s MTV - the 1880s LA real estate market - 19th-century Austrian coffee houses - the video game industry in 1970 - 17th-century French fashion And a whole lot more.

This hack that I learned from the brilliant @evan_van_ness should sort your timeline issues out👇 Add both of these to muted words: suggest_recycled_tweet_inline suggest_activity_tweet If you do that, you'll no longer see liked tweets.

In less than 6 months the NFT space went from being an obscure niche in the niche of crypto to being the main gateway folks are joining crypto from. The entire creative industry is thinking about NFTs. Can we take a collective moment to acknowledge how insane that is???

gm🌧️ feat. "The State of Us (blue)" by @XCOPYART

Everyone knows NFT land is exploding. But, like, how much is it exploding? Let's use some sales numbers from @niftygateway to paint a clearer picture for folks. March 2020 sales volume: $30,000 Feb. 2021 sales volume: $50,000,000 (appx.)😶

Was an insane run these last 3.5 years at NG🫡 Worked with the most talented artists in the world and alongside some incredibly skilled and amazing human beings. Produced $200M+ in art releases. Got sbux to do a burn lmfao. But time for something new, soon(tm)

"Buying #CryptoArt today is like buying Bitcoin in 2010. Instead of spending 10,000 BTC on a pizza though, I bought a work of art that museums will kill for." s/o @SuperRare_co @money_alotta @jivdontexist beta.cent.co/+jz6il

when was the last time the internet was this fun?

Published my 2021 NFT Predictions. There's so much cool ish going on in the space, so I tried to cover a bit of everything: - Blockchain-based VR & The Metaverse - NFT Music - NFT Games - Cryptoart - On-chain NFTs - DeFi x NFTs and more beta.cent.co/matthew/+u8rq7p

Collect art that you love. Collect art that makes you laugh. Collect art that you can't stop thinking about.

0% royalties is what happens when folks have zero respect for crypto artists and the history of what they've fought for

Folks are flooding into NFT land. It's like Niagra Falls is trying to pour itself into a red solo cup. Reply to emails. Hop on those calls. Answer all the questions you can. These interactions will shape how soooo many folks think about the NFT space. Don't eff it up.

Pretty sure the explosion of art in NFT land we're all witnessing is a sure sign that humanity has been hungry and thirsty for more art in their lives for a long long time Here's to a more beautiful world overflowing with spectacular mind blowing art from incredible artists🙌

You don't do NFTs. You use them. You use them to create and do unique things in a way that wasn't possible or easy to do before. Like the invention of the iPhone, NFTs will unlock enormous amounts of creative potential and dopeness. How? EXPERIMENTING. DOING WEIRD ISH.

Good morning to everyone except the handful of collectors who pretend to be guardian angels for artists on social but behind the scenes shower threats on them saying not to mint on specific marketplaces if they don’t want to get dropped wtf✨

Web2: creators making companies rich Web3: companies making creators rich

Acquired your first crypto? Congrats. You're now a bank, custodian, investor, accountant, broker, and risk analyst. Collected your first NFT? Cheers. You're now a gallery, promoter, marketer, dealer, auctioneer, conservator, appraiser, and curator.

First, you collect. Then you curate. And finally, you exhibit. My @cryptovoxels cryptoart stadium built by @money_alotta is the living embodiment of that neverending process. Honored to collect and display all of these amazing artists in one place🙏 cryptovoxels.com/play?coords…

The only goal that really matters: Make artists rich as fuck

NFT land is like the most ideal startup the world has ever seen. The most open minded, high EQ, and creatively talented people from around the world are joining on the daily. Everyone is a potential collaborator. Inspiration is constant. Buidl is life.

just in case folks forgot, @niftygateway has *always* supported creator royalties that coupled with being gas free + providing unparalleled collection security + hosting a ton of ltd editions = artists have probably* earned more creator royalties on NG than any other platform

NFTs are for EVERYONE. Cryptoart is for EVERYONE. Anyone can buy an NFT. Anyone can create them. Rich, poor, and everyone in between. Don't let the headlines fool you into thinking cryptoart and NFTs are just "a rich people thing." Dig a little deeper.

perspective matters. a lot on the internet though, there is zero native perspective. perspective here is emergent, and is only added later, by those who use it anyone who has taken part in the emergence of cryptoart over the past 5 or so some odd years on the internet has for sure felt the bubbling kinetic energy that's powered a tidal wave of artists creating new art works that've landed in the collections of collectors all over the world we've all felt it. maybe we've been lucky enough to see fragments of this growing thing we call cryptoart here and there at conferences or different irl & url meetups for me, personally, it wasn't until last year that the full, beautiful scope of cryptoart - the growing number of exciting and important and impactful yet unique and divergently different artists - and what it was growing into came into sharp relief when the Argentinian artist @PanterXhita released the first wave of A HISTORY OF CRYPTOART on @niftygateway featuring the portraits of 90 unique artists arranged in a style inspired by Mexican muralism artists are seers, after all, so it's quite poetic that an artist and their work helped us finally see what we've all felt visual perspective isn't the only thing that artists help provide though; often times an artists living, breathing experience provides much needed contextual perspective A HISTORY OF CRYPTOART was made for the screen on a screen by an artist located literally at the bottom of the world that was collected and talked about by hundreds of folks who reside on every continent save for Antarctica that is _the_ perspective of cryptoart. and it doesn't stop at this work the cryptoart space is dynamic, and despite the best efforts of the bear market, we've continued to grow. many more artists, collectors, and builders have appended themselves to the blockchain that is recording the history of cryptoart in the interim what started with a few wayward pioneers who started minting work using tools originally created to breed digital cats, grew into a small village of interconnected artists-collectors-builders captured in A HISTORY OF CRYPTOART (2022), and today the cryptoart space feels like a mini-metropolis set atop a digital pangea, ready to split off into its own uniquely divergent directions but we're still all here together. for today at least before this moment passes, Panter has again captured the Perspective of this very special, particular moment in time in her new collection A HISTORY OF CRYPTOART - SECOND WAVE featuring the portraits of 110 artists (and some easter egg signs of important projects and builders) who are all a part of the history of cryptoart and is set for release this wednesday (11/29) on @niftygateway

NFT land has the deepest rabbit holes (plural) in all of crypto.

From an internet of content to a metaverse of culture. Powered by NFTs.

Everyone knows crypto is the future. But if you can only buy your way in, that's a future for the few. That's why I've always thought earning crypto > buying it. And that's why NFTs are key to a better future. NFTs enable any creator to EARN crypto.

BIG big shout out to the 400+(!) folks who showed up to the @MattAndRizzShow listening party in the @nftsmart discord for the latest chat @NFTland and I had w/ @Jihoz_Axie from @AxieInfinity🙌 We covered community, MAJOR upcoming Axie updates and more 🎧bit.ly/3Gszzfq

The timeline is artful, colorful, full of collectors AND artists collecting This is being the change we want to see in action Running together. Collecting for the culture. Inspired by art Bank Runners by @LuchoPoletti lfg

confession time: I'm into crypto and NFTs but never really enjoyed playing Runescape, WoW, Zelda, Myst, or Pokemon. gmi?

Anyone else seeing the rise of these mega NFT collector DAOs and thinking they may become the Medicis (plural) of the Metaverse?

who are the best critical writers focusing on cryptoart? obviously @ProfessorJun_ and @artnome (anyone who writes for @RtClick_Save tbh). SR magazine and @MuseumofCrypto also produce great writing who is missing?

yeah, if you’re in crypto you can make alotta money, but you know what else you can do that feels wayyyy better? making immutable history and lifelong friends from all around the world

NFTs are eating the creative industry. A short-list of folks I'm in active convos with about NFTs includes: - artists - rock bands - singers - DJs - record labels - film directors - festivals - fashion brands - athletes - game studios Notably absent: fast food franchises🤣

Artists collecting themselves has to be one of my favorite galaxy brain moves in cryptoart. @josiebellini first opened my eyes to this practice when she said she reserves every edition #1 of any new work she releases for herself. Thinking about that Josie vault of #1s is 🤯

The never nudes really are a funny bunch

Haven't seen NFT Land come together and be this unified since early-2020

IRL me I don't carry a wallet I own one piece of art I wear only a few outfits Metaverse me MM, Trust, Rainbow, Keychain, Temple, Wax Cloud I own multiple museums (plural) of cryptoart I update my CV avatar's wardrobe weekly

This is The WIP. It's held every Thursday at 12 pm pacific in @cryptovoxels. You click a URL to join. That's it. s/o @ParadoxxArtist for the 🔥🔥🔥 video.

NFTs are pretty damn good at exposing bad taste and shitty intentions with the quickness

The biggest dreamers in the world today are in NFT land and crypto.

How it started: How it’s going:

please don't ever forget that the sothebys & christies of the world joined up with us and *not* the other way around this sh*t is ours. we control our destiny

NFTs are like in-app badges or in-game assets, but for the whole internet. When you own a few nifties you naturally start looking for ways to display them. Cue 3D websites built on virtual land provisioned by blockchain-powered VR worlds like @cryptovoxels and @decentraland.

1/ A lot of time is spent focusing on what NFTs are. They're licenses, art, open APIs, tickets, music, photos, game items, content locks, and a lot of other things. But what about what they let you do? NFTs turn life into the ultimate play-to-earn RPG. Let me explain👇👇👇

My dude @NFTland and I had a mind blowing chat with @al_koii, founder of @KoiiNetwork Koii wants to become the one-stop web3 access point for digital creators, and long-term is aiming to create an open, immutable free speech network for the world🤯 🎧 bit.ly/3yJr5Ms

Gazers by @MattKaneArtist change with every new moon. And every Gazer will continue to change with every new lunation. FOREVER. A new petal will bloom every month. Always different, but similar. Yet always something new. Once in a while something surprising. This is FUTURE ART.

Art is art. Art can live behind a screen, on a canvas, or wherever else an artist creates. Artists create art. Saying digital art isn't art is the same thing as saying digital artists don't exist. You can criticize art, but don't forget if art exits, an artist created it.

feeling invigorated after chatting in the hyperbaric chamber of metaverse growth with @NFTland and @Jihoz_Axie this morning. was a real masterclass in community, growth, web3 building, onboarding and more. super inspiring. stoked to share our convo. soon™

I remember when the big question artists had coming into NFT land was whether they'd be able to sell anything. Now artists need to start thinking long-term about creator address management to deal with inheritance issues around the forever re-sale royalties from their work🤯

NFTs are backstage passes to the coolest shit on planet internet

When I left my lifetime gig at Samsung in Jan., I knew I wanted to build something. I had no idea I'd create @theWIPmeetup, co-found @MetacastGroup, or help build @Valuables, though. But when you bias for buidl and surround yourself with amazing people, good things happen.

I don't see @XCOPYART imitators as much as I see skilled apprentices who could potentially assume XCOPY's private keys (i.e. identity) and continue creating (forever?) as XCOPY Wild to think about, but we may be on the cusp of entering the era of the immortal artist

Cryptovoxels 2019: Cryptovoxels ???:

Think we actually may have seen an analogous fall back in the early 80s when video games (arcade + console games) crashed Revenue plummeted like 97% from $3.2B to $100M between 1983~85 because of - get this - too many cash grabs hitting the market all at once (e.g. way too many new crappy low quality consoles + games were being released) Many folks said video games were dead lmao The release of the NES and an industry wide refocus on quality changed all of that

Damn. Just finished chatting with @icecube and @trevorjonesart. Today was a good day

Buying & selling NFTweets is definitely some kinda fun. Over $40,000 in offers to buy tweets on v.cent.co shows that. But folks are using Valuables to do a lot more than merely buy & sell tweets. Some interesting use cases have already popped up 🧵👇

Just tipped my budtender $420 in ETH after setting them up with a @rainbowdotme wallet and honestly I've never seen a bigger smile in my life

How to earn (more) ETH? Mint NFTs (@mintbase @rariblecom) Buy/Sell cryptoart (@SuperRare_co), VR land (@decentraland), collectibles (@nba_topshot) Run virtual events (@theWIPmeetup) Support communities (@whale_community) Play @AxieInfinity DeFi (@compoundfinance @AaveAave)

Movements happen in waves. NFTs are no exception. First the artists came. Then the early collectors. Tinkerers and innovators after. The rich & famous pulled into port next. Then the mass media and mainstream followed. Gotta always eye the tide tho so you don't get beached.

while gas is making it tough for artists and collectors to do anything on-chain, @trevorjonesart is on-boarding a ton of new first time NFT collectors with his FREE mint that's live on @niftygateway through Sunday niftygateway.com/collections…

Key lesson learned during the last crypto winter: Find and follow the folks and projects that keep on keeping on creating cool, weird shit regardless of where the market is at.

NFTs have tapped not a well or ocean, but a whole universe of digital value. The internet and everything that's sprang from it has been pure prelude. Get ready for the mother of all geysers to gush forth galaxies and galaxies of digital culture upon us🌊

The traditional art world is NASA. Cryptoart is SpaceX on steroids.

shout out to the whole @niftygateway team that's been turning insanely cool artist dreams into reality since 2020 today we witnessed another beautiful dream manifest on NG with the launch of The Monument Game by @SamSpratt excited to see how this dream plays out in the coming days, but equally stoked to see what other dreams it inspires in turn

Fell asleep at 100 NFTweets sold. Woke up at 200 NFTweets sold🤯

crypto twitter is our newspaper. it's also our soap operas and reality shows. it's our debate forum, favorite bar, message board, launch pad, notepad, trophy wall, board of auditors, megaphone, and friend finder. it's a hot dirty mess, but it's *our* hot dirty mess.

SWING (Day) by @bryanbrinkman An artful reminder to find your fun amidst the madness that is crypto

here's a little story about how a $40 bid in September 2019 by @blackboxdotart got @MattKaneArtist back minting on SuperRare and changed the course of cryptoart and metaverse history forever is this how you do storytelling NFTs? beta.cent.co/matthew/+f9dnpy

Recently @NFTheft built an NFT contract with a ‘seizure’ feature. Then they minted a replica of @beeple's Everydays, sent it to him, then seized it out of his account. Now they're actually saying they minted the NFT from Beeple's wallet. This is 100% BS.

Cryptoart has made everyone an art collector. Few know this.

NFT land and crypto moves fast and hype cycles severely distort expectations. It makes sense that folks jump in today and want all the sales, collectors and profits yesterday. Learn to make haste slowly yall. Do all the things. But think long-term. And savor the journey.

thank you NFTs

More collectors & artists caring more deeply, thinking more critically, and feeling more passionately about digital art This is what I saw on the timeline over the last week If you zoom out you’ll see the future of art is fueled by this sort of energy and attention More please

Where are ALL of the most interesting and mind-bending conversations happening in the world today? NFT land.

Here's the chat @NFTland and I had with @vikmeup of @TrustWalletApp on building the best mobile crypto wallet in the game. - from tomato farming to coding - reflecting on the @binance acquisition - crypto trends - operating a lean distributed team 🎧bit.ly/2HdyoHi

Crypto turns everyone into a potential co-worker. Not sure if it's just me, but it seems like most folks in crypto-land are almost always down to jump on a call, brainstorm, or get their hands dirty and build something new with you.

Bullish on everyone who is playing the infinite game of living a rare life doing rare things and collecting rare experiences

Music NFTs are being bought and sold like cryptoart today. That's really cool, but when will music NFTs start to evolve? Some thoughts👇 beta.cent.co/matthew/+psy83o

Over the last 3 years I've collected from over 100 artists on HEN + @objktcom Some artists I've gone deeper on than others So I organized a list of the top 20 artists I've collected the most from on tezos over on @paragraph_xyz to highlight them and show off their dank art 👇

Most of the digital art collectors around today had no idea they were art collectors 4~5 years ago The next wave of digital art collectors are all probably mostly amongst us today too, they just don't know they like collecting art, yet

There's no single greater action you can take to further the adoption of crypto than gifting. Gifting crypto or NFTs is the Satoshi Way.

If anyone missed the listening party, make sure you check out our convo with @ArtOnBlockchain below. We cover: - the genesis of @artblocks_io - what makes on-chain art valuable - balancing creator & collector dynamics - thoughts on drop-onomics anchor.fm/ma-fer5/episodes/S…

it's kind of a joke, but also kinda not when I say I have as many pictures of gazers #196 as I do of my baby daughter gazers change so much, you feel compelled to capture its varied phases and dynamic growth each of these shots was taken within just a few days of one another

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔘𝔫𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔡 by @YUDHO_XYZ Always in awe at how artists can capture so much feeling and meaning in a single work

I've heard people call Opensea the Google of NFTs. Definitely feels more like the Amazon of NFTs.

so @MattKaneArtist @Coldie @GiselFlorez @ekaitza_ @mightymooseART @MattiaC @yusaymonj @jivdontexist @theAngieTaylor @Moxarra @artnome and a bunch of other artists changed their profile pics to portraits by @PXhita from her upcoming history of cryptoart project probably nothing

Been touching grass since the weekend started After checking in on markets will probably need to graduate to smoking some lmfao

just wait until the whole gang of us who became millionaires creating and/or collecting digital culture fully internalizes the fact that we’re actually millionaires👀

A lot of folks think NFTs are a fad like beanie babies. They don't understand that NFTs are a general tool that can be used to create an infinity of possible digital fads (among other things).

"OMG I'M SO LATE TO CRYPTOART!" Number one most common thing I hear in NFT land. Y'all. No one here today is late😂 Just degrees of early. We probably have AT LEAST 10 more years of being early ahead of us too.

My epic conversation with @WhaleShark_Pro on cryptoart, NFTs, and the metaverse. We discuss: - How business is his creative canvas - The origin of The Vault NFT collection - $WHALE DAO plans & community curation - How to properly value NFTs - Hard work beta.cent.co/matthew/+d1gwi9