Dear friends,
I needed a few days to digest the first 2021 in-person crypto conference that happened last week in Paris, EthCC (Ethereum Community Conference).
After almost two years of not speaking to anybody in person, it’s both exhilarating and stressful at the same time to start again.
All talks were recorded and are available online, but I’ll help curate some feedback below with a short playlist.
In a nutshell though, everybody is bullish about the technology and building a million different dapps, governance is definitely on the radar with DAOs and digital identity projects, DeFi people were much more humble than before, Culture is now part of the movement, and people are still great at partying. There is hope!
ETHCC Curated Playlist
Fanny Lakoubay: The impact of NFTs on the art market [Youtube]
Gauthier Zuppinger (nonfungibles.com): The reality of the NFT markets in 2021 [Youtube]
Primavera De Filippi (legal scholar, researcher and artist): Legal challenges of NFTs as applied to the art world [Youtube]
Sebastien Borget (The Sandbox): Building the Open NFT Metaverse and its Jobs Opportunities [Youtube]
Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Foundation): Things that matter outside of defi [Youtube]
Lane Rettig (Spacemesh): Bitcoin is for Dictators [Youtube]
Santiago Siri (Democracy Earth): Universal Basic Income with Proof of Humanity [Youtube]
Griff Green (The Commons Stack): Our Collective Psychosis around Public Goods [Youtube]
Latest Cryptoart News
Good news! More and more articles like “The NFT Art Market Explained & How to Participate Safely” focus on how to safely get involved in NFTs. “Investing in art involves risk, especially for beginners. Always proceed with caution.” [Art&Object]
While this article “Insuring a $69 million NFT artwork – why that’s a problem worth pondering” does not provide any real insurance solution for collectors, it has the merit to call insurers to raise to the challenge: “Now, the race is on for insurers to deliver solutions that will drive the digital asset wave.” [Insurance Business]
Museums are going full steam ahead with NFTs, and this was the talk of the town at Christie’s Art+Tech event in New York. [Jing Culture & Commerce]
If you live under a rock that is waterproof to NFTs, you might have missed Opensea’s $1.5B valuation after a $100M Series B funding round led by a16z, making it the first crypto unicorn. [Defiant]
Shopify is entering the NFT game by “allowing merchants to sell NFTs directly through their storefronts”, which might be a game changer for a lot of recently-launched NFT marketplaces. [TechCrunch]
After Metakovan purchased the infamous Beeple work for $69M at Christie’s and revealed his identity as an Indian entrepreneur, NFTs could be a disrupting factor in India, where art sales have always been difficult. “NFTs Are Coming to India’s Flourishing Art Market”. [Coindesk]
Notable Artworks
Artblocks.io is dropping the series, Endless Nameless, by Rafaël Rozendaal, TODAY, July 30, at 11 am CT / 12pm EST / 6pm CET, for 3ETH each. [Details]
Vastari Labs and the Whitworth Museum are selling their first UK museum-accredited NFT, The Ancient of Days NFT, multispectral imaging analysis of William Blake’s The Ancient of Days, on hic et nunc. A few are still available. [Details]
DAM (Digital Art Museum) in Berlin is offering unpublished, large prints by Casey Reas from his Path series. They are gorgeous! [Details]
Noteworthy Events
Enjoy your summer! You deserve it.
We hosted a contest at ETHCC:
ETHLocal aims at helping art and tech residencies and bridging grassroots projects and crypto people via NFT fundraising, local hackathons, and educational events.
For the ETHCC conference, we hosted a contest of the best postcard photographed with the ETHLocal stamp. Here are a few highlights:
With love from France.
Fanny
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