SHL0MS WORK IS A NUANCED AND HIGHLY SOPHISTICATED REFLECTION OF NETWORK PERFORMATIVITY. AND IF YOU DO NOT AGREE YOU ARE BOTH WRONG AND UNINTERESTING AND WHAT YOU WRITE IS JUST SOME RANT. SO YOU BETTER GET REAL...
Digital Masterpieces: From Code to Canon, debuting at @ArtBasel's Zero 10, Basel (June 16 – 21, 2026).
A comprehensive survey of the canonical history of digital art spanning 70+ years, tracing the rise of computation as medium through masterworks from the digital art canon.
Historical video courtesy of the @CharlesCsuri Estate.
Only one city does it all. Only one Basel.
Join us this June, where the entire city – from the Messeplatz to the Rhine, from museum walls to late-night conversations – becomes the place for the art world to gather, collide, and inspire.
Tickets available now: https://t.co/MHcDvwBW4r
We are nearly 4 years into building the first-ever community-owned media outlet onchain.
June is Membership Month and could be the last month we accept new co-owners (news pending.)
Here are 10 issues with NFTs and DAOs we sought to fix at Coinage and what we are most proud of:
1. NFTs were built on the idea of "minting out." This encouraged fake mints or manufactured volumes to appear as if a collection sold out. Instead, we built Coinage with the opposite mentality — we preferred attracting people who shared in the mission and raised NFT prices over time with each new (real) mint. (Coinage Caucus NFTs are up more than 100% since launch in 2023.)
2. DAOs suffer from governance theater. Most DAOs are controlled by early founders who control all the voting power. Votes are meaningless because they are all swayed by a few early team members. Instead, Coinage is owned and operated as a membership co-op with equal voting rights. One member: one vote — all transparently onchain.
3. Neither NFTs nor DAOs conferred real ownership. Instead, Coinage's model allows for NFT owners to become co-op members who share in ownership over Coinage as one of the fastest-growing US crypto media outlets. Members are aligned in growing the outlet, and stand to benefit if Coinage were ever sold (a la OpenAI paying $200 million+ for TBPN.)
4. NFTs have historically not yielded dividends, meaning the only way to profit was buying/selling. Instead, as a co-op, Coinage has made history as one of the first entities to pay out distributions to NFT holders. Active members earned a 50% yield in 2025 from Coinage's operations as a media outlet just for participating and voting on what we should cover.
5. Coinage has won journalism awards alongside Bloomberg & WSJ. Our coverage serves only to deliver truth to our members and audience. As an independent media outlet, we serve no higher investor. And unlike most other crypto outlets, we are not controlled by a crypto VC or crypto exchange. We are provably neutral by virtue of leaning into permissionless ownership.
6. Coinage syndicates through Yahoo Finance's 150M+ investor audience. Building a community-owned outlet onchain is one thing. Building a community-owned outlet that reaches the masses is another. By syndicating through the most trafficked financial news site in the US, Coinage is allowing members the opportunity to shape the crypto narrative that matters most.
7. Coinage has our own validators. Through @coinage_x_daic we operate our own validator set on @SuiNetwork@StoryProtocol@Aptos and other chains that allow our audience and community to stake with us and share in the upside. This also means we are not solely dependent on ads/sponsorship revenue.
8. Coinage is a Web3 experiment. For as much as we have figured out, we are still actively experimenting in Web3. We have launched memecoins, gated content behind NFTs, built a replica of our studio in @decentraland. These are not always profit-seeking endeavors so much as they are meant to experiment and learn together. As much as we like to make money, we also like to keep crypto weird!
9. Coinage is a community. "Community" is often a shield or excuse crypto founders use to stand behind. We built Coinage on the thesis that a media outlet is not only measured by the quantity of an audience — but the quality. Coinage is co-owned by real people in the space building real things of their own. We are aligned in growing Coinage and finding truth, together. We would be nothing without the members who have made this all possible.
10. Coinage is delivering on what Gary Gensler's SEC once tried to kill. In 2021 and 2022, any crypto project promising anything of value was sued into oblivion. (They even went after @VitalikButerin and @stonercatstv!) What remained was mostly memecoins and rug pulls, and now, tokenized securities.
But Coinage has proven there is still a way for random people on the internet to come together and co-own something as a community. (Yes, even a media outlet.)
So thank you to our existing members. Join us by minting a Coinage Caucus NFT and becoming a member today while you still can!
Minted an EIGENFOLDS.
A fascinating generative art project that turns pure mathematics into 3D fractal sculptures. Each piece is generated from a rare class of mathematical rules called Pisot substitutions, creating self-similar forms that emerge from spectral geometry and eigenvectors.
9,600 unique possibilities.
100% on-chain generation.
No randomness, no curation, every valid fractal exists exactly once.
Math meets art. 🧠✨
#GenerativeArt #OnChainArt #NFTArt #Eigenfolds #ArtBlocks #DigitalArt #Fractals #MathArt
Perhaps its time to start refocusing on the artists & builders who have stayed around through the bear and bull markets, are doxxed or at least "known-entities" instead of chasing every single new rug thats launched by a brand new account anon "artist" who is actually a serial rugger just milking every nft wave.
If people could just rally around the same few collections instead of the PVPing and rotating everyone would win.
Accidentally deleted the main tweet while trying to remove a reply about the last Act II: Left Behind presale post
Plans remain unchanged
Stay very close, exact details will be shared asap
for those who are still alive ↓