Summary:

• The meaninglessness of most news headlines
• The broken values of the crypto ecosystem
• The rise and fall of PFPs
• The resilience of crypto art
• The need of a rebranding for art NFTs
  • Suggestions: crypto art, blockchain art, rare art, digital art, or just F***g ART

January 2022:

• January 2022 is **#Genuary** - It’s Generative Art Month!
• January 2: Samsung bringing nfts into your living room in 2022. link
• January 4: OpenSea NFT trading volume surges as Bored Ape mania intensifies. link
• January 7: JPG, an NFT curation platform I contribute to, just raised $3.8M in seed funding. Artnews.
• January 7: LooksRare, an upstart NFT marketplace, announced its arrival. https://docs.looksrare.org/blog/the-nft-marketplace
• January 20: Facebook's parent company Meta is looking to launch NFT marketplace: Report https://www.theblock.co/linked/130974/meta-nft-report
• January 25: Artsy’s ‘22 for 2022’ sale starts, curated by Verisart: https://nft.artsy.net/auctions/22-for-2022/
• January 31: New publication launches by Artnome, Right Click Save As: https://www.rightclicksave.com/

February 2022:

• First crypto art collector interviewed by Larry’s List: Elsie from Edicurial: https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/the-talks/elsie-edicurial-from-cryptopunk-to-crypto-patron/
• Panke Gallery opens its NfTNeTArT group show in collaboration with JPG SPACE: https://www.panke.gallery/exhibition/nftnetart/ with Kim Asendorf, LaTurbo Avedon, Sarah Friend, LIA, Jonas Lund, Rhea Myers, Rafaël Rozendaal, Cornelia Sollfrank, Harm van den Dorpel
• Hackatao launches “Hack the royals”: https://queenskings.hackatao.com/hack-the-royals/
• Operator LA launches Privacy Key 00 with Rarible at Frieze LA: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ll7io9vHBbDX6c9FhC16UG4tcbc_hCX3zgVQklXaRRo/edit