Bernard Arnault acquired Christian Dior, and turned it into Louis Vuitton Moรซt Hennessy
Christian Audigier acquired Von Dutch, and turned it into Ed Hardy
Now that @YugaLabs has acquired Cryptopunks, what will they do?
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Few see it yet โ but when you look closer, itโs undeniable:
Right now is the greatest risk-adjusted moment in history to acquire crypto art.
And possibly the last window to do so before the market changes forever.
Better than 2021 โ when all eyes were on it, but prices had soared.
Better than 2018 โ when no one was watching, and would they ever be?
Better than 2023 โ when most eyes had turned away. True believers remained, but new energy had vanished.
Better than 2024 โ when regulators tried to crush crypto entirely, and our art along with it.
Now in 2025:
- Nearly all top-tier museums on board
- New patrons arriving with war chests
- Crypto king-made at the highest levels of world government
- Art being placed in the permanent collections of museums, creating 'end-of-line' and declining supply
- Lending markets against grail 1/1s and editions formed and evolving
- Foundations & DAOs formed to champion the movement and its artists
- Consensus around top 1/1 artists gives "safer" collectors an entry
- Digital galleries and artist-in-residence programs help those discover and invest in "the next wave"
- Digital work on facemelting screens in the MoMA lobby (now twice) onboards new patrons
- Entire museums built to house digital works, and keep bringing new eyeballs
- Pioneering artists getting their moments at shows like Coded, Digital Witness (LACMA), and Speak to the Eye (Vera Molnรกr retrospective @ Pompidou) โ adding deep institutional cred to the entire genre
- Mesmerizing 1/1 art behind the hottest DJ on the planet
And perhaps most monumental of all...
Crypto king-made as an industry means a continuous creation of crypto whales from now until forever, who will likely prefer their native artifacts.
::: TDLR :::
For centuries, art has been used as a means to preserve wealth.
For the last decade, crypto art has existed on the fringe, as a means of speculation.
From now forward, crypto art shifts from speculation, to preservation.
Get it while you still can.
Big day for @truth!
You can claim your DAO tokens. Going to be one of the first DAOs w a robust treasury from day 1 that a lot of ppl will be able to dictate how to use. Will be fun.
If you own an Illuminati NFT you can claim your DAO tokens here https://t.co/UVKLkj1Gvb
To this I've said: most of those NFTs *are* securities. You can stick your fingers in your ears and yell and pretend they're not, but they're still securities. And they're better than shares, so embrace their nature and improve them, instead of dancing around the truth.