the important thing about NFTs is not that they are subsector of "digital art" or "contemporary art"
the important thing about NFTs is that they are NFTs
"digital art" is a perfectly fine subsector of traditional art.
NFTs are a civilizational-scale idea

How central has crypto really been to your relationship with digital art? Not just as infrastructure, but as culture, values, and community
If digital art had evolved entirely outside of crypto, would you still feel the same pull? Would you collect it? Would you show up for it?

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Coinbase Institutional says shifting market structure, not hype cycles, will shape crypto trading and adoption in 2026 as activity concentrates in a few key areas.

Coinbase says three areas will dominate the crypto market in 2026

According to ME News, on December 28th (UTC+8), Coinbob's hot address monitoring showed that the "alt short seller" transferred $2 million to Hyperliquid yesterday and then established a short position in ZEC around $446. The current position size is approximately $1.32 million, with an average price of $479, and the address is still adding to its position as of press time. This address had already liquidated its positions in MON, ZEC, and Trump before Christmas this week, and significantly closed out its short positions in ASTER, UNI, PUMP, and other cryptocurrencies...

The "fake short seller" returned to the short after the holiday to add to short positions, profiting from previously closed short positions in UNI, ZEC, etc. at low points.

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i think there is a theme that rolls through here from time to time that in order to be "accepted" by "TradArt" or whatever, we should pretend to be something we are not.
this is not only gross, but self-defeating; BTC "won" by being BTC, not by becoming JPM lite.

Agreed. If I'm right an crypto goes from $3trn to $50trn or $100trn, it will have created more wealth that tech companies, oils companies, sovereign wealth and real estate billionaires added together and multiplied by a number. Art is upstream of all wealth. These will be crypto citizens and don't give a shit about how things are "supposed" to be. The buyers will not be TradArt. They will be a super small section of buyers. The buyers will be crypto natives but much like the buyers of Chinese art are mainly Chinese. It's their art, their culture, their currency