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BCA GALLERY will open in Shanghai——the first exhibition Ready Player #1 will be presented from Dec 24th

In 2021, the Non-Fungible Token (NFT) marketplace and the metaverse is experiencing an explosion. Meanwhile, some innovative companies are practicing their social responsibility. As one of the most influential Art-Tech brands with an open mind, BCA Network provides premium digital assets with a better landing point for virtual migration from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0.

In March 2021, BCA held "Virtual Niche", the world's first crypto art exhibition at UCCA Lab. In April, BCA hosted "Crypto Migration: A Journey to Post-digital Microworld", crypto art courses, with Tsinghua x-lab and Central Academy of Fine Arts(CAFA). In May, BCA initiated BCA Global Young Digital Art Scholarship Program and have received 212 striking artworks by more than 100 artists from all over the world. In July, BCA held "Al Colosseo" online NFT art exhibition, exhibiting striking works by top artists and sharing pioneering market insights with the audience and collectors. In September, BCA collaborated with Punk.China to exhibit "Illustrated Handbook of Chinese Cryptopunks" at the 2021 China Blockchain Industry Summit. BCA also exhibited NFT artwork at WWART Expo Shanghai 2021. In November, BCA Network has collaborated with top fashion brand SuperELLE and international art education brand Algaed Academy with building metaverse spaces. In December, BCA will enter into the field of offline galleries. Aiming to bring metaverse into reality, BCA Gallery will create an excellent experience for the audience through metaverse exhibitions.

NFT needs a scene to confirm the possibility of migrating into the metaverse. We can see Web3.0 as the core of metaverse, where people can create new relationships in the virtual world. BCA Gallery will start a metaverse experiment in the concrete forest.

BCA Gallery's the opening exhibition "READY PLAYER #1"

Inviting four influential Asian digital artists to "READY PLAYER #1", BCA Gallery will say goodbye to the silent experience of visiting exhibitions. They will exhibit their works in each exhibition hall, with light tunnels connecting the rooms. Moreover, BCA Gallery will present various music scenes like Rock, Digital, Techno, and Pop. Meanwhile, the exhibited NFT works and POAP will be launched on MetaOpus.

Please forget all the rules in reality. Enjoy the adventure in the metaverse of art, flash, music, and people! Celebrating for Web3.0 with ready players.Just press start!

Exhibitied Artists:Dabeiyuzhou, Chi Lei, Chen Tianzhuo, Tian Xiaolei

Opening from 7 pm, Dec 24, 2021Dec 25, 2021-Feb 25, 2022

Address: BCA Gallery, 502, 117 Hong Kong Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai

EVENTS

7 pm, Dec 24, 2021, After Party

At the end of 2021, empty your mind and follow the music. Join other players and enjoy the experience of scientific fantasy made by Web3.0.Dress Code: Cocktail attire

Dec 25, 2021, Merry Christmas

BCA Gallery will present a Christmas fair with a treasure hunt. "Gold", "mastic" and "myrrh" are hidden in the fair. The audience can collect them to win mysterious gifts.

Dec 31, 2021, New Year EveThe gate to the future will open on New Year's Eve. We will travel back to the 1980s and 1990s when Disco is popular. Dancing in the music and enjoying the cocktails.

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Asian Meta-Digital Art Ranking Phase 2 "Dream Boy Ellwood" will start on October 19th

Asian Meta-Digital Art Ranking is initiated by BCA Network and CryptoArtPanda. It aims to list all the active crypto artists in Asia and the NFT artwork that have won market recognition. It can provide professional guidance and the latest news to the NFT collectors and fans, and record the development of NFT in Asia.

BCA has successfully held an auction for Dabeiyuzhou, who is on Phase 1 of the ranking. The three auctioned artwork, Another Beautiful World, Two Soft Dreams, and Lightning White, were sold for a total price of $283,100. The artist on Phase 2 is Ellwood, a digital artist from China. His artworks are exhibiting on the second floor of BCA PUB in Cryptovoxels.

CV BCA PUB: www.cryptovoxels.com/play?coords=NE@101E,339S

「Metaphor Hom」「Metaphor」「Wonderer 」 by Ellwood

This three NFTs from "Journey of Lefand" series work are inspired by the journey of "Lefand", the third personality in the dreams of Ellwood. Dreams have been the inspiration for many artists. Ellwood has long learned how to take advantage of this inspiration in his creation. He excels at recreating the montage episodes in dreams, interact with the audience by "riddles".

As a past-90s young artist, Ellwood Chen graduated from MICA in the United States and became one of the represented artists of BCA Network. Now he is an influential artist in the field of digital art. His works have been collected and exhibited by private collectors worldwide, including Vulcan DAO, NFT-focused DAO in Asia. His series work “Matrix” has been exhibited on “Virtual Niche”， the world’s first crypto art exhibition.

With the development of metaverse game like Cryptovoxels and Decentraland, art exhibition has become more and more popular. BCA Network has built many art space in Cryptovoxels and has arranged some online exhibitions to display the NFT artwork on MetaOpus.

BCA Gallery

The emergence of the metaverse allows the audience to visit the online exhibition anytime and anywhere. Anyone on the internet can immerse in metaverse, this parallel world.

BCA will launch an Drop auction today for Ellwood at 8pm UTC+8, Oct 19th:metaopus.co/dropStarting at 0.001ETH!

Ellwood said, he prefers to discuss the question of "existence" in his artwork at the beginning of the era of automatic art.

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Are there any famous NFT arists on MetaOpus?

There are more than 700 excellent digital artists worldwide on MetaOpus, including many students and graduates in Central Academy of Fine Art, Academy of Arts & Design of Tsinghua University and China Academy of Art.

There are many famous NFT arists on MetaOpus.

Dabeiyuzhou (LIN Kunhao), born in 1990 in Fujian, digital artist, crypto artist, BCA Network’s represented artist. He is a hot digital artist in China, who is popular among the young generation because of his fashion and cyberpunk style of artworks. Know as oriental cyborg, he has strong fan base in China. His excellent artworks inlcude “Text Gene Project” and Virtual Butterfly series. Some of his artworks will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in October.

Text Gene Project by Dabeiyuzhou

Kefan404 (b.1996), digital artist born in Zhejiang, China and currently based in Germany. Focusing on digital art, interaction and visual design, his works have been featured by Dezeen, Mercedes-Benz , and Porsche’s “Type7”. In the summer of 2019, he began a longterm project called “Blurred Borders”, focusing on the exploration of surreal and sub-real themes, searching for the balance and constraints between reality and perception.

In March 2021, Kim Kardashian posted his work “A Colorful World” without credit nor consent. He went through a complicated process and finally got the symbolic compensation of 1 USD. However, PayPal has took 40% as the international transaction fee.

Later this year, he has collaborate with Hyundai Motor and Boston Dynamics, but was notified by the team 24 hours after the project final release that they decided to remove it. He said that, “I am truly grateful for these interesting and absurd experiences, they made me realize that life is the most artistic play of tragedy and comedy”.

Impermanence by kefan404

TTS, graduate of the pilot class, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University, education chief at the Blockchain Industry Research Center of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA). She is the first Chinese artist to hold a solo exhibition at NASA Research Center, and has participated in the cover design of Nature. In 2019, her artwork was launched into space carried by a Chinese commercial stage-to-orbit rocket (the first stage exploded after separation), and “Node”, an installation produced by TTS was exhibited at Shanghai International Blockchain Week, conveying the idea of Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC). The science fiction “Painting by Child: the Beam Never Goes out” won her the first prize in the 2019 Scifiathon of Social Cosmos held by China Academy of Art (CAA), and was later published by the CAA Press. Solo exhibition held: “Particle Fantasy” from May 25 to June 15, 2019 at NASA Ames Research Center, California, USA Exhibition advisor: Frank Wilczek,the oretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner.

The Re-cyborg Zoo by TTS

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What is BCA Network?

Founded in October 2018, BCA Network is the world's first Art-Tech brand that integrates crypto creation, trading, collection and crypto cultural output. BCA provides quality digital assets with a better landing point for virtual migration from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0.

BCA landscape includes MetaOpus (digital collectibles issuer & marketplace), BCA Studio (original IP studio) and BCA Gallery (digital curation), BCA Display (screen display), Vulcan DAO (NFT-focused DAO). BCA Museum, an offline exhibition hall, will be opened in December. Untill August 2021, the total turnover of BCA has reached $6 million. Since its launch in October 2020, MetaOpus has covered 16 countries and regions, has gathered more than 700 artists, and the platform serves 86,000 global users.

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What is "Text Gene Project" series?

"Text Gene Project" is a text animated image series work created by Dabeiyuzhou, a digital artist in Asia. Known as extremely exquisite and transcendent virtual world, this series is a combination of eastern religious culture and cyberpunk. Dabeiyuzhou has strong personal style in the field of contemporary art, even the field of crypto art.

Dabeiyuzhou has collected a large interdisciplinary corpus to build out a vast textual gene pool. After the computer randomly paired to generate the lexical parentage, the artist selected some aesthetically pleasing phrases and processed them with algorithms to create a more complete and contextual audio-visual combination, filling in the video for these poetry-like texts with constantly generated and changing images. "Text Gene Project" shares the similar principles of "Gibberish Poems", demonstrating the logic of the artist working with the vast amount of computer-generated information: the algorithm is a generative tool and at the same time a mentor for the artist.

"Text Gene Project"View these artworks：metaopus.co/artist_detail/10235

"Text Gene Project" series consist of 31 pieces, which is displayed on MetaOpus, a valuable digital collectibles issuer & marketplace. Some pieces of this series have been collected by VulcanDAO, NFT-focused DAO in Asia. Other collectors include Cao Yin (famous NFT collector in Asia), qinwen (famous curator), MAODAO and Sun Bohan (founder of BCA Network).

"Text Gene Project" have been exhibited on many high-level offline exhibitions including"Virtual Niche" (the world's first Cryptoart exhibition held at UCCA Lab), World Blockchain Conference 2021, the 2021 China Blockchain Industry Summit, etc. Now it is exhibiting on WWART Expo Shanghai 2021. This series is hot now, even the cheapest one is more than $20,000.

The importance of this series is, it explores endless possibilities of human-computer collaboration on digital art and metaverse in the future.

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Who is Dabeiyuzhou?

Dabeiyuzhou (LIN Kunhao), born in 1990 in Fujian, digital artist, crypto artist, BCA Network’s represented artist. He is popular among the young generation because of his fashion and cyberpunk style of artworks. Know as oriental cyborg, he has strong fan base in China.

Dabeiyuzhou is one of high-profile digital artists in Asia. His artworks inlcude "For Future", "Text Gene Project" and Virtual Butterfly series. As the originator of text NFT, he started to create "Text Gene Project" series from 2019, which is earlier than the start of LOOT, a famous NFT project. "Text Gene Project" is not limited to text, but is the combination of text, image and human voice interpretation. Known as extremely exquisite and transcendent virtual world, this series is a combination of eastern religious culture and cyberpunk. The importance of this series is, it explores endless possibilities of human-computer collaboration on digital art and metaverse in the future.

'Evol30-[箤夢Ss_ution29] A Poetic Beach'

Consciousness breeds new thinking/Melancholy beyond emotional calculation is anything but a dream/As loneliness and desolation reverberates throughout the world/in the graveyard of deconstruction/A sheer coldness unbearable by any soul emerges/The trace of a flaming silhouette/Is found on the tombstones of future/A glamorizing paradise in the east/Is the home of a stretch of beach praised in many poems/Which bear witness to the history of abstract thinking.

Dabeiyuzhou"Text Gene Project" series consist of 31 pieces. Some pieces of this series have been exhibited on many high-level offline exhibitions including“Virtual Niche”, the world’s first Cryptoart exhibition held at UCCA Lab, World Blockchain Conference 2021, the 2021 China Blockchain Industry Summit, WWART Expo Shanghai 2021, etc. Also, three artworks of this series have been collected by VulcanDAO, NFT-focused DAO in Asia.

World Blockchain Conference 2021

WWART Expo Shanghai 2021

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BCA NFTalk Vol.5丨Decisive Moments in History of NFT

This podcast is produced by the BC A Blockchain Art Center, supported by China's CryptoPunks community, Panda community, Vulcan DAO and Block Rhythm.

Background: The author of "When the Stars of Mankind Shine" said in the preface that a moment of historical significance is about to usher in a rich and rich history of the human world. A few hours, often even only in a certain minute, but their decisiveness affects beyond time. In the process of WEB2.0 migration, we should also discover some great moments. Look, they will also become their shining stars in the galaxy of human history.

ModeratorLou Ziwei Arthur BCA Co-founder丨Vulcan DAO GP (hereinafter referred to as L)

Guest: Senior Practitioner of Alex NFT (hereinafter referred to as A)

Ah Feng TheForce.trade BD (hereinafter referred to as F)

Wang Yang NFT Senior Collector (hereinafter referred to as W)

Jason US Stocks/Blockchain Robot (hereinafter referred to as J)

01

Why is a JPEG worth a thousand dollars? Why does CryptoPunks become the spiritual symbol of the encryption circle?

F: Token to Metaverse is a progressive process. From no entity to entity, something must be used. The best way to achieve this is pictures. CryptoPunks just appeared. In the initial stage of NFT, the main function of people buying NFT is for social identity, and the pursuit of social status is the driving force for the advancement of human civilization. The price of CryptoPunks already symbolizes a certain status. Buying a very expensive CryptoPunks also shows the determination to be optimistic about the NFT industry.

CryptoPunks is the first NFT community to survive, and the first successful benchmark has very strong vitality. The first group of community members have received very rich returns. This group of people is rich and interesting, but the appearance of CryptoPunks does not seem important. The community has become the largest wealth deposited by CryptoPunks, giving CryptoPunks a historically low level of time condensed.

A: CryptoPunks has become the spiritual symbol of the encryption circle, which is essentially the difference between FT and NFT. A friend once said a classic saying, "FT is consensus, and NFT is empathy." FT cannot mark emotions, but NFT can entrust emotions, and its manifestation is unique. Only emotional things can be connected to spiritual symbols, and only on this basis can CryptoPunks gradually generate value. CryptoPunks inspired the establishment of ERC721 and the NFT craze. CryptoPunks is like the first person to climb Mount Everest and will be remembered forever. It is supplied in limited quantities. As more and more people know about NFT, its price is getting higher and higher, which also expresses the spirit of Crypto and the spirit of punk. Based on the historical status, the spirit of expression, and NFT, it has become the spiritual symbol of the encryption circle.

The historical position of CryptoPunks cannot be replaced, neither Monkey nor Loot can be shaken. Perhaps the price will exceed, but the CryptoPunks logo will continue to be consolidated as more ecology enters, and the historical position will be condensed there.

W: Because I am a basketball fan, I resonate with NBA Top Shot. There is very little information about NFT on the Internet. After entering the CryptoPunks community, I found that the knowledge base here is perfect. Any new NFT project, about their characteristics and innovations, will be discussed in the CryptoPunks group first.

The community has accumulated a large portion of people who have been playing CryptoPunks since 2017. They have been doing NFT in this circle for many years. In April, many senior CryptoPunks veterans were discussing Art Blocks and were very optimistic about the technological breakthrough of this project.

Moderator L: Being at the tip of the information pyramid is very, very important. Whether the first-hand information received is high-quality information or marginal information is directly related to subsequent actions.

J: The most successful community and project on the Ethereum chain is CryptoPunks. The social value of holding it far exceeds the beauty or so-called actual value of a picture. The ultimate goal for many people to earn money in the currency circle is to hold a Punk, and I also earn enough money to buy my own Punk by investing in different projects. Because everyone wants a Punk, it becomes the spiritual symbol of the encryption circle.

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Collect NFT strategy and experience? What are the bright projects? What do you think of Loot?

J: In recent months, I mainly invested in Art Blocks and Crypto Cities. I am more optimistic about the innovative project of Loot, which has changed the logic of the NFT project from top to bottom, and the value of NFT is given by the community.

W: The Internet has become the main place of modern life. The emergence of NFT gave the online virtual product pricing mechanism. After a picture is uploaded to the Internet and made into an NFT, no matter how many people copy the picture to their computer, they will eventually distinguish between original and copy due to the existence of NFT. Original value. NFT opened up a new field and started the process of value discovery.

The avatar NFT is used as a social platform avatar, which represents a social identity and cultural community circle in online social networking. The biggest difference between Art Blocks and other digital art NFTs is that it is natively on the chain and does not involve storage such as PNG and JPEG. Its biggest innovation is to put the code that can draw the picture on the chain and read the code through the browser. , To generate. The advantage is that as long as the ether chain exists and can read the code, the possibility of NFT disappearing is almost zero.

Damien Hirst, as one of the highest-priced artists in the world (a painting exceeding 100 million US dollars), is the first to test the new field of NFT. The release price of his works is only set at 2,000 US dollars. It is an absolute welfare for NFT collectors. It has risen to 50,000-60,000 US dollars. I believe that in the future, there will be more big-name artists of classic art testing the NFT, and these have the potential to become opportunities for high returns.

One of the main reasons for the popularity of Loot is also technological innovation. It can be used as a platform to make many games. In the future, competitors will buy Loot to make their own games, or create Loot to make their own games. These are all to be determined. It depends on whether it can form a large enough community so that everyone must use it (traffic).

A: My collection of NFT is more from the perspective of industrial blockchain. In our opinion, the most valuable thing about NFT is the underlying accounting technology of this non-homogeneous asset. The categories for bookkeeping are artworks and digital collections, and there will be many categories for bookkeeping in the future. Because human beings have two kinds of assets, one is called FT and the other is NFT. FT is currency, and NFT includes artworks, real estate, contract bills, and so on. NFT truly realized the private ownership of digital assets for the first time.

Private knowledge in the traditional physical world is protected by law, but legal supervision is a very high-cost accounting method. Blockchain creates a very low-cost and efficient accounting method and circulation method. From the perspective of the industry, NFT gave the blockchain a huge opportunity to break the circle for the first time because it was connected with traditional assets.

After the emergence of NFT, it gave birth to assets connected to the currency circle and the crypto circle such as NBA Top Shot, and realized the rapid transfer and flow of assets through the blockchain. Essential changes are the basis for the entry of major players in these eras such as Alibaba, Tencent, and NetEase. I bought Punk because I wanted to do the business of NFT, and explored in this direction. The survey found that Punk is the project with this status the most.

Blockchain and NFT have truly changed the soil, and only flowers and plants that we can't imagine will grow on them. Loot is similar. It creates the chemical reaction in NFT, which will inspire many projects and become a seed of innovation.

F: All innovations are played out. My strategy is to be familiar rather than raw, and start trading from familiar areas. From the perspective of game manufacturers, although Loot is very malleable, it takes a very long time for the final product and game to be made. A complete game development cycle will not be less than one year. Loot has not passed the test of time, it is a very dangerous behavior to rush now.

03

Understanding of encryption art? Is the emergence of generative art and programmable art overturning and challenging traditional art?

W: Compared with traditional art, encrypted art has a very wide audience (dissemination). When you make an NFT work, the world can see it; as an art lover or collector, you can see the art of artists from all over the world with a mobile phone. Works; for professional collectors, it is easy to transfer works (liquidity), because facing the global open market for collectors; transaction information, prices, and circulation information are completely transparent, and traditional art industry information is very opaque; NFT is storing and transporting On the one hand, it is safe, low-cost, and fast to circulate, and there is no need to consider storage space issues.

J: The limited edition NFT is a bit like grabbing a sneaker. You can change hands to earn 20% to 30% in two days after you buy it. More contacts have found that the art category has a unique collection significance. Different artists have very interesting understandings of the world and blockchain, and they have gradually changed from short-term traders to long-term collectors.

Xcopy, which is relatively popular recently, started doing NFT two years ago. I bought it in a bear market and the return was good. Unlike the Beeple hype, Xcopy is a very down-to-earth artist with a high degree of recognition in the circle.

A:I think the history of NFT, or the current innovation projects are all marked. These projects may have a relatively good return on investment, but the wealth-making effect of the industry will not last forever.

F: This market has a strong head effect. As young people, what I see is that these things are no longer for young people. We must look at a larger market in the longer term, so we choose Go to Gamefi. Only playable things that allow more users to participate can expand the entire NFT market. NFT art is only a very small part of the entire market.

Social NFT and game NFT can be stacked, and the most potential in the future may be the characters or equipment on the Gamefi track with the nature of social games.

Host L: Traditional art has the problem of high music and lack of music. The interactive experience of encrypted art will be much better, allowing users and audiences to participate in the creation of artworks.

04

NFT projects with Asian cultural themes are rare in the market. What is the reason for the current lack of influence? Breakthrough ideas?

J: RPC can be regarded as a domestically produced NFT project with a larger transaction volume. Kongfu Hero and River export traditional culture. It is a good publicity for traditional Chinese culture, but the culture of China for 5000 years needs more artists to join in. In the next three and five years, Chinese culture/Asian culture will be gradually introduced to the blockchain. Whether it is building Chinatown in Metaverse or different social circles, more and more Chinese people will enter, whether it is buying or issuing, there will definitely be more and more NFT projects in Asia.

A: Kongfu Hero originated in the Punk community. The element that can most arouse global empathy is Kongfu, who has designed characters such as gods and demons. Lack of influence, because many times lack of innovation, some bold things. This kind of craze will actually drive more teams to invest more resources to plan longer-term roadmap development IP. The Chinese or Asian teams can make very good projects, and gradually we will see some better projects, because it is really just starting now.

Moderator L: There are some things that time cannot pass, but you can learn from it. In the blockchain world, persistence is the most important thing, leaving some traces.

F: Many Asian projects do not have the ability to operate overseas communities, and lack people who have the ability to operate communities. We have an advantage in doing Japanese culture, but we still don’t know how to talk to the community and listen to the voice of the community. This is our weak point.

W: The success of a project is critical to the recognition of well-known collectors in the community. Because as long as the big collectors approve it, ordinary investors will come in one after another. One of the main problems with Asian elements is that wealthy Asians have always invested conservatively. The acceptance of potential customers is relatively lower than that of high-income groups in Europe and the United States.

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BCA NFTalk Vol.3｜Art Blocks NFTs’ Imagination

Guest Speakers：Host ArthurLou BCA Co-Founder丨Vulcan DAO GP（简称A）

Zero Chen NFT Consultant of FTChinese.com（简称C）

Ting Song AI and Blockchain Artist丨IOAC Asia Ambassador（简称S）

Hesiod 「Theogo NFT Observer」Chief Editor （简称H）

Nico Yang VulcanDAO GP（简称Y）

Background: It's been a few months of a mini-bull market for NFT collectibles, which the frenzied sales of CryptoPunks have pushed up in recent days. In addition, Art Blocks, as a generative art segment, topped the 7-day trading volume list strongly, ranking first with The Art Blocks segment was ranked fifth overall with $498 million. These three segments - avatars, generative art, and solo editions - make up a solid JPEG Summer. In this context, we invite four guests to chat about the NFT imagination beyond Punk.

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Host A: What do you think of the macro reasons for this 2021 Summer rampage? Share some of the recent Punk-like replica disc projects and NFT collecting tips that you've been following.

C: It's not very surprising that Punk is on fire; its holders or investors/collectors who are bullish think it should be higher priced. Its broken circle has become more apparent, and this mini-bull market is a spurt of an accumulation from the entire NFT market that preceded it. Social subcultures and aesthetic psychology drive NFT and trendy fashion, so its rise and fall may be very different from how technology has evolved and popularised. Compared to traditional art and traditional collecting, this wave in the crypto world should be just beginning. If CryptoPunks do become digital antiques, I believe they will be worth much more than that in the future.

Y: Until 2021, it will be difficult for digital content creators to get their work recognized by the market and to cash in without relying on big institutions with a centralized approach. The breaking of the circle in media and the entrance of money brought by the wealth creation effect have greatly refreshed the perception of digital content. Echoing what Che Guevara once said, "After we leave, they build you schools and hospitals, not because they have shown great mercy, but because we came."

The identity that comes with NFT is only really felt when it is held. The purpose is different, and the logic of buying and collecting can be very different. A scarce NFT is a status symbol in itself.

S: Compared to the art market, which is repeatedly tested and scrutinized by connoisseurs from different perspectives, there is a sizeable speculative bubble in the English-speaking community on Ethereum. A lot of this bubble is in cultural content and projects that lack culture can be short-lived. The works that I want to keep inside my wallet for a long time are the ones that I will be happy to look at even ten years from now.

In this JPEG Summer, I strongly feel that it is similar to 1CO at the end of 17, where all aspects of blockchain project parties were active, but the market turned cold after 18 years. A successful crypto art series is also a successful cultural product that combines technology and art.

Punk is Punk in the same way that an asteroid hitting the earth is hard to replicate, and special times happen like this. How do you ambush the next Punk? 1. Is there innovation? 2. Is the seed community very geeky? 3. Is it a historical level under the megatrend? 4. Can the team continue to do it? 5. are the institutional holders coming in at the middle stage good enough to drive the project forward? 6. can it create a cultural resonance in the circle? These are all worth exploring.

Regarding collection investment strategies, I am very much focused on niche artists from developing countries, especially those with a pure art background or a very pioneering sense of creativity in the contemporary art field and those who respect the blockchain spirit of the blockchain community.

Moderator A: Each Trader (trader) has a different investment strategy, and each person has limited energy to focus on one vertical track. Suppose one is easily influenced by the market and forcibly changes his investment strategy. In that case, it is scary for a Trader, which is equivalent to the whole cognitive system having to be reconstructed.

H: The cost of a physical painting is not high, but it can be sold for hundreds of millions. Therefore, the value of a work does not lie in its materials or cost. Its physical price does not determine the value of Jpeg. In the structure of the blockchain market, Crypto Punks, Art Blocks, and BAYC represent the three dimensions that can be found in the NFT market. Crypto Punks starts from a programmer and is driven by technology; the monkey BAYC is community-driven. The blockchain community may be The base for the survival of the future blockchain; Art Blocks enter from artistic creativity.

From the perspective of social governance, Token is an institutional symbol. Mature NFT projects must create a field and a way of existence, and a variety of hobbies professional life corresponds to the current needs of various communities. I don't see it as a speculative target but rather as a script for building a kind of Metaverse called the respective Metaverse, whose development depends on the evolution of the community.

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Moderator A: The more successful 10K projects have a cultural tribe behind them, and the ethos can be very different from project to project. How do you see Art Blocks as a clear stream with awe-inspiring numbers? How do you see it breaking out and the appreciation and valuation insights into generative art as a discipline?

S: The group of projects in NFT that are particularly speculative and not culturally good enough are like passing clouds and won't be in the prosperous state they are today when the market is in a bad mood. But two things are sure to go a long way: firstly, good cultural content is never speculative. But anything that has an innovative aesthetic or interest that strikes a chord is not entirely speculative and has its own commercial identity quite typically. The second point, the trend towards avatars and social identities, is unstoppable.

I am very bullish on generative art. Behind it is a respect and exploration of the mathematical logic behind information technology. The methods used are engineering in nature and reflect the cultural identity of a group of people.

C: Generative art started with computer technology and continued until this wave of artificial intelligence, more precisely the application of convolutional neural networks, entered the aesthetic vision of the masses, with a low correlation to the market price of generative artworks. In the past, the general aesthetics of popular art did not break through the traditional class texture (strong mediated aesthetic vision), the blockchain market changed this law, and the same thing is now entering the NFT art collectibles market.

H: NFT is a fuse to the art market, not a monopoly on art history. When the financial operation goes to an extreme, it is decoupled from the actual value creator. Although Art Blocks has a centralized organizer, it is isomorphic with the state-of-the-art community. Generative art will present different visual effects depending on the materials used. With the rapid development of technology and speculation, it is possible to join the first-line NFT.

Y: Art Blocks is the same thing as the explosion of CryptoPunks. Looking at the top 20 Crypto Punks holdings, the most intuitive data is that there is a very high degree of overlap with the big Art Blocks accounts, with the smallest of these holdings holding more than 50 Art Block NFTs.

More generally, a large percentage of the first blockchain explorers to make a large fortune were programmers. The culture that Art Blocks carries is precisely an aesthetically pleasing phenomenon from a programmer's perspective.

Any art form first evolved from technology, and the value of NFT relies on the programmer-led blockchain revolution to provide sufficient wealth to support it. Crypto Punks represent a new class of people, the last piece of the puzzle in internet development.

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A: The bigger the wave, the further back you look; what should be the kind of work that can be called classic or digital antiques? What is the view on the future of NFT?

C: If we look at this from a long-term perspective, three points need to be considered. Firstly, there is a characteristic of any cultural investment product that performs more similarly to financial assets in a bull market and can be less liquid than financial assets in a bear market, with a liquidity black hole. Classic core assets can find counterparties no matter when they are traded. Broad consensus and acceptance are the hallmarks of traditional investments, and a sense of scarcity and value is formed over a long period.

Secondly, whether crypto art or generative art, continuing to move forward requires special attention to fit in with other cultural and sub-cultural trends, the spirit of the times.

Thirdly, the artist is a profession, not an inoffensive one. One might as well consider the NFT market giving artists such opportunities as a form of nourishment. If it does not produce investment returns, it is still making its contribution to the art market.

H: I encourage artists to get involved in art that may not be very romantic because there is a massive demand for essential art waiting there. A good NFT project is hardly successful without the creation of artists, and NFT offers a vast blue ocean for artists. Calmness is always within one's heart, maintaining a sense of rationality in the course of a bear or bull market, no matter how noisy it may be.

Host's summary: Since I entered this track myself, there are still times of anxiety and confusion, but things are still in the making. I hope that I can do something genuinely long-term like the four excellent teachers.