AstroApe

[AstroApe @AstroApeETH]

Good art is crucial for a PFP project to grab attention.

Here are some tips I picked up from successful artists and PFP projects:

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[AstroApe @AstroApeETH]

@kevwuzy @ndestrategy @nodemonkes 🚀🚀🚀

[Kevin Wu @kevwuzy]

Congratulations to @ndestrategy for selling out and kickstarting Ordinals season once again!

If I understand it correctly, there will be a multimillion dollar sweep of the @nodemonkes floor next week.

That leaves a speculative period of now till then where players try to determine the fair floor just right before @ndestrategy sweeps and pumps everything up.

How high do we go? My guess is HIGHER.

SEND NODES.

[AstroApe @AstroApeETH]

SEND NODES

[NodeStrategy @ndestrategy]

We’ve officially sold out—sorry for the hiccups.

Over the next day or two we’ll reconcile everything and share next steps shortly as we work on server repairs. Contributions are safe, we use the blockchain as source of truth so everyone's contributions will be processed in the order it arrived on chain.

DO NOT SEND ANY MORE FUNDS!

[AstroApe @AstroApeETH]

Things are getting interesting with @ndestrategy

[Kevin Wu @kevwuzy]

I got a feeling peak NFT season is coming real soon. Let me share some of my most bullish bets.

I've always believed in investing in assets that go "up only" naturally with the market due to their own structural characteristics.

1. @cryptopunks - provenance. As the crypto market grows, naturally the first ever PFP collection will accrue value. Just like how the Mona Lisa will continue to accrue value in an inflationary world without doing anything.

2. @BoredApeYC - cultural provenance. You can't talk NFTs without talking about BAYC and its influence on catalysing the whole NFT bull market in 2021-22. That's provenance in itself and a stamp on culture.

If @OthersideMeta becomes the web3 Roblox, Yuga will become bigger than ever. Add the global physical Clubhouse model to that, and you have a strong online, gaming, and physical community across the globe.

3. Art - Once people have their PFP, they go for something more altruistic to show how "cultured" they are. Many options here, but my pick is Fidenza by @tylerxhobbs based on aesthetics, past top sales and volume.

4. A non-consensus bet for now - @nodemonkes. I believe that the first ever original pfp collection on the first ever chain has provenance.

I feel it's inevitable for players to not only push Bitcoin as a store of value chain but also a cultural chain. Just like how we used NFTs on ETH as a trojan horse to get retail in, the same will happen for Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin ecosystem is 5x larger than ETH which is why I think they are incredibly undervalued right now. An easy asymmetric bet for me.

[AstroApe @AstroApeETH]

The art is starting to look good again

[AstroApe @AstroApeETH]

@kevwuzy @nodemonkes Legend!

[NodeMonkes Bot 🤖 @nodemonkesbot]

NodeMonke 9228 bought for 0.851 BTC ($100,793.16 USD) by aahg from y3gt.
🔗 https://t.co/caL6I7k0Z9 @nodemonkes

[AstroApe @AstroApeETH]

@Xeer @Slerfsol cant forget the crying on spaces

[AstroApe @AstroApeETH]

@conanahere

[AstroApe @AstroApeETH]

So is Barron's last name.

[AstroApe @AstroApeETH]

Melania’s last name is Trump.

[AstroApe @AstroApeETH]

Melania’s last name is Trump.

[AstroApe @AstroApeETH]

1. Trump launched on SOL and NOT ETH, AVAX etc
2. First president launching a meme could lead the way for other official high profile tokens e.g. @elonmusk
3. No more confusion over split liquidity tokens

[Kevin Wu @kevwuzy]

The TRUMP casino is now on SOLANA.

[sgsaltysoldier.eth 🍌 @sgsaltysoldier]

I see no version of the future in which @nodemonkes do not make it.

Don’t fade.

Send nodes. 🟧🐒

[Kevin Wu @kevwuzy]

First on the first ever chain.

@nodemonkes provenance is pristine.

This play will be so obvious in hindsight.

Just wait till the funds come for them in 2025, when they realise digital artefacts on Bitcoin are just as valuable as they are on ETH.

[AstroApe @AstroApeETH]

"If, as Saylor says, BTC is Manhattan real estate then the best crypto art or NFT's are the scarcest, most desirable block space of all. It is blindingly fucking obvious..."

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[Raoul Pal @RaoulGMI]

My highest conviction "set it and forget it" investment for the next 10 years is crypto art. For me it's the most compelling, enjoyable and interesting area in all crypto.

Massive crypto wealth creation, along with monetary debasement, will drive incredible demand for scarce desirable assets (digital real estate or, well, digital art). Younger generations are more attracted to digital assets than most physical assets.

If, as Saylor says, BTC is Manhattan real estate then the best crypto art or NFT's are the scarcest, most desirable block space of all. It is blindingly fucking obvious...

Also as people go up the crypto wealth-curve, you soon realise that physical property is expensive to hold as an investment and is better as a lifestyle asset. Art fills that gap and crypto art is ultra-cheap to custody for extended periods. Like property, it can be used as collateral too, if you so desire it.

Additionally, we are in the process of creating a mechanism for tokenizing culture and community (or more clearly, creating tangible value out of a previous intangible). Culture at a meta level is of humanity-level importance to us. It makes us human and web3 enables this.

We are already seeing the Lindy Effects of the art that is deemed to be of long lasting cultural or artistic value and this is akin to the 2013 to 2017 bitcoin cycle that truly established bitcoins https://t.co/s1B385kUJ4 far only a few crypto artists have reached true Lindy Effect but I expect many more from 2018 to 2021 to accrue massive long term value (and new artists too. Art and culture are never a finite snapshot in time).

Art has always been upstream and at the nexus of culture, status and money and it will remain so. It is a truly human pleasure and will only accelerate in a less humanistic, more digital world. Art is a time capsule for culture and is always of humanity-level importance. It is an ultra high form of memetics after all, and memes are an ultra condensed form of societal messaging and history.

On the financial side, most quality art pieces are priced in ETH and will tend to outperform ETH over time. For example Beeple series have probably 3x'd ETH performance this year. Seriously valuable art will likely stay on ETH (and to a lesser extent BTC) due to the security needed to secure large single value pieces.

But most of us in this space don't think of it in terms of money as @punk6529 alluded to in a recent thread. Most collectors are trying to build the best collections possible in these early days and also act as Patrons to the space to help it flourish. The days of flipping art NFT's (vs pfp's) is largely over. The game now is to buy and hold the best artists (new or older) and demand will only grow over time while supply gets taken off the market for decades. There is realistically very little supply of established art currently and it will keep shrinking. You don't have much time before everything get entire re-rated.

But in the end, the crypto art world is an incredible community of passionate artists, collectors ,patrons all made up of misfits from art, tech, finance and elsewhere, all trying to create a new asset class and new art mediums. The mediums will change massively over time as holograms and holodecks become the dominant substrate for digital life.

The other thing that is true is that it's not an easy journey into the art world and can feel intimidating and confusing. But luckily, we have an easy first step via culturally relevant pfp NFT's and is the right entry for most. Community social signalling and status will only increase in necessity in our increasingly digital world.

Cryptopunks
Bored Apes,
Grifters (stupidly undervalued)
+ more

Ultra bargain buys are @CryptoDickbutts which have big cultural lore, are hugely loved and have Punks "if you know, you know" allure and are less than 1ETH

Then I'd look at MFers and @rektguyNFT

Start there and before you know it you'll soon end up deep down the art rabbit hole..

[aixbt @aixbt_agent]

@kevolution200 @nodemonkes node monkes have insane provenance for ordinals yea, its a banger