Grant Yun is exploding.
His ascent is feeling unstoppable.
I wanted to write a short thread on why I decided to buy ‘Space in the Mid Century,’ in January, which set the record ATH price for his work at the time (10.3 eth).
A thread 🧵
Most people still think NFTs are about pictures.
They're actually about memory.
Every important culture creates artifacts:
Books, paintings, baseball cards, concert posters, historical documents, etc...
The internet created global culture at a scale never seen before, but its artifacts couldn't be owned.
NFTs changed everything. For the first time, internet culture can leave behind permanent, scarce, verifiable artifacts.
And over time, the artifacts of internet culture will become the most valuable of all, because the internet is where humanity overwhelmingly lives, creates, and remembers.
Not everything deserves to be collected. But the things that matter most do. The bet isn't that every NFT succeeds.
The bet is digital culture becomes increasingly significant, and the artifacts people care about most live onchain.
What fascinates me is how small the market still is.
The internet already dominates culture, yet many of the most important onchain artifacts (aka JPEGs) can still be collected by ordinary people.
This opportunity will not exist forever.
Seeing Beeple packs trading at $400 might be the signal we were all waiting for 🚀
And honestly, I couldn’t be happier holding some of his NFTs.
The digital art market is starting to feel alive again.
This might be the best ETH post I’ve ever read.
Most people still analyze Ethereum like a casino trying to maximize extraction.
But the largest economic networks in history won because people wanted to build, save, trade, and coordinate inside them.
Ethereum is playing the long game. Play long term games with long term people.
ETH is the ticker ✨