Art on the Times Square screens, collectible onchain from anywhere via collect.nft.nyc.

The year in art and technology, letter by letter.

The first book-length market history of blockchain art, reviewed.

What Christie’s closing its digital art department in September 2025 means for the field.

Where the market and the museums have landed.

Sotheby’s first NFT sale. 19,737 open-edition cubes sold in fifteen minutes; c. $17 million over three days.

Sotheby’s second NFT sale: 28 lots, all sold, $17.1 million — including CryptoPunk #7523 and Kevin McCoy’s Quantum.

10,000 NFTs, each tied to one of 10,000 unique dot paintings on paper made in 2016, sold at $2,000. Holders had a year to keep either the painting or the token; the other was destroyed. 5,149 chose the painting, 4,851 the NFT. The forfeited paintings were burned daily at Newport Street Gallery, Hirst lighting the first of his own thousand on October 11, 2022.

8,000 bags of adventurer gear as plain text, generated and stored entirely onchain, free to claim (7,777 open, 223 kept by the deployer) and gone within hours. Images, stats and rules were left out “for others to interpret” — Adventure Gold, More Loot and Realms followed within a fortnight.

A three-minute 16mm film donated to the Whitney on behalf of fifty members of the public, each holding a blockchain certificate that makes them a donor of record. Ownership of a physical film, put onchain.

The first artwork minted as a token, on Namecoin. Sold at Natively Digital in 2021.

Ethereum as a universal media database meets a culture that memes and remixes every image it touches. The essay behind titles.xyz, now creative tools built on artist-trained models with onchain attribution.

Publisher, editions house, primary-market platform and NFT studio — the organisation behind The Currency and Hirst’s The Beautiful Paintings (2023).