My early AI art journey and the UnderTheGAN collection wouldn’t have been possible without the knowledge, archives, collections and generosity of @artnome@zaphodok@keyvass@SNOWCASH432@WangXiang
Grateful for the foundations they helped make visible🙏
🖼️ 24 HOURS OF ART 📊 April 27, 2026
🤖 Lost Triptych
‘AI Generated Nude Portrait #7 Frame #165’ by @videodrome is acquired for $200,000 USDC by @Jediwolf.
The deal takes place via @gondixyz and is facilitated by @0xRoses0x.
This marks a significant milestone for the collector’s UnderTheGAN collection, built to reflect “history of AI and AI art”. It is its 3rd “Lost Robbie”, the last piece of a triptych “finally brought together”.
🎨 Pictured: 24 Hour Highlights
- 'SLAVE$' by @TheVERDANDI, collected by @razin_hel
- 'Last Selfie' by @XCOPYART, loan via @gondixyz
- 'Balancing Act' by @rainisto
- 'AI Generated Nude Portrait #7 Frame #165' by Robbie Barrat
- 'BIOME LUMINA #799' by @refikanadol
- 'Winds of Yawanawa #994' by @refikanadol
- 'Grifter #031' by @XCOPYART
THE FOUNTAIN WEEKLY ⛲
A weekly summation of the highest value sales and key listings in digital fine art over the last seven days.
Editor’s Note:
There was a flurry of market activity in digital fine art this week. The leading line item is Debt to Ekub from Skulls of Luci, the third of four pieces from the collection to have traded hands in the last seven days. It exchanges for $375,000, in line with Foreshadow of last week and cementing the collection’s new going rate.
Joining the work in this week’s sales are a Hoodie for $240,000 ($70,000 lower than the attribute’s last print 13 days ago), and a Lost Robbie for $200,000.
The Bear, owned by @seedphrase, has its asking price lowered for the second consecutive week to $850,000.
Top Sales:
Skulls of Luci, Debt to Ekub, @SamSpratt, for $375,000 from @ArtofConviction to an anonymous collector
CryptoPunk #7213, Hoodie, @larvalabs, for ~$240,000 between anonymous collectors
AI Generated Nude Portrait #7 Frame #165, for $200,000 from an anonymous collector to @Jediwolf
New Lowest Listings:
Autoglyph #149 (The Bear), Series 9, @larvalabs, for ~$850,000 by @seedphrase
Autoglyph #343, Series 5, @larvalabs, for ~$190,000 by @batsoupyum
Autoglyph #435, Series 4, @larvalabs, for ~$170,000 by @batsoupyum
POLITICS IS BULLSHIT #45/100, @beeple, for ~$170,000 by an anonymous collector
Put the phone down for two hours and 300,000 USD worth of digital rocks and ai nudes changed hands.
Lost Robbie sold for $200K.
EtherRock sold for roughly ~$100K.
either the world is ending or we’re finally remembering that provenance actually matters. nature is healing.
Honored to help complete a Lost Robbie triptych today.
AI Generated Nude Portrait #7 Frame #165 by @videodrome now joins frames 104 & 163 in the esteemed collection of @Jediwolf.
The seller was an original 2018 claimer, and is a great friend. Congrats to all.
A triptych of Lost Robbies (AI Generated Nude Portraits by @videodrome 2018) finally brought together. A history of AI and AI art - part of my UnderTheGAN collection.
@24_Hours_Art reports on 1/1/X Loan: Gondi - ‘Vault #1037’ containing 2 Lost Robbies by Robbie Barrat: $240,000 USDC Principal at 15% APR over 120 Days, $3,706 USDC Origination Fee.
https://t.co/qciorxMbcZ
🖼️ 24 HOURS OF ART 📊 April 8, 2026
📹 Milestone Moment
“The ending is also the beginning. Where can a year take you to?”
Artist @justinaversano concludes this phase of ‘Moments of the Unknown’ with a 366th consecutive daily auction via @TransientLabs. ‘April 7th - 15:43’ is acquired for 6.367 ETH after 18 bids across 12 unique bidders.
The collection of 10-second Super-8 film edits from an entire year traveling the globe concludes in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Africa, as Fetiha and her son Liqu walk through a museum housing the remains of Lucy, the first human.
Aversano’s closing words:
“The moral of the story here is that we are all one. We celebrate and learn from each other's uniqueness, and come together in unity as the same species. Like brothers and sisters, Lucy is our shared ancestor. She brought us all together simply by being; and all of humanity is just one big happy family.”
🤝 Grail Trade
‘AI Generated Nude Portrait #7 Frame #275’ - a “Lost Robbie” by @videodrome - is exchanged for five artworks headlined by ‘The State of Us (blue)’ by @XCOPYART.
It is @batsoupyum acquiring the XCOPY edition of 20 alongside two ‘nameless dread’ by @toadswiback and two ‘Citizens of Vibetown’ by @goodvibesclub.
The exchange leverages the @gondixyz Trade tool and is facilitated by @eli_schein, who comments: “Two great patrons building their collections.”
🪟 Pictured: 24 Hour Activity
- 'DEATHLESS' by XCOPY, collected by @Punk8868
- 'Grifter #505' by XCOPY
- 'The State of Us (blue)' by XCOPY
- 'April 7th - 15:43' by Justin Aversano
- 'AI Generated Nude Portrait #7 Frame #275' by Robbie Barrat
- 'BULL RUN' by @beeple
- '𝔢𝔳𝔞𝔡𝔢𝔯 6696' by @m0dest___, collected by @Trippy_Roots
Grateful to facilitate a very special trade today.
In total, six works were exchanged, including a Lost Robbie and State of Us (Blue).
Two great patrons building their collections.
⚠️ UPDATE: Gondi Security Incident
We have new information on the exploit.
What we now know:
• The exploit appears to affect NFTs that are NOT currently in active loans
• It is tied to an approval vulnerability on the affected contracts (Purchase Bundler)
• NFTs held as collateral in active loans do not appear to be at risk at this time
What you should do right now:
→ Do NOT repay your loans until we confirm it is safe to do so
→ Revoke approvals for the affected contract immediately via https://t.co/9V6aioEKtc
→ Do not initiate any new activity on the platform
Affected contracts: (All Purchase Bundler)
0xc10472ac1bf9f2e58ff2c83596b4535334c90814 (Ethereum Mainnet)
0x1fba531724ea2493a15bf5c4ea05f6ab5c0fcd62
0x53ceda4c47585df08201955820e23bb261489140
0x3b59bffe109e0f33f20887343759a98b48ecdf5f
0xfd31a0cd628f0bab2cc174c3abd6bfc2d01aca61
0xfaaff69da43b8195e5b0945c4fea4476e4264157 (HypeEvm)
If you have a loan that is about to expire and need to take action, please do NOT interact with the platform directly. Instead, open a support ticket in our Discord and the team will assist you personally.
We will post another update as soon as we can confirm it is safe to resume normal activity. Thank you for your patience — we are working as fast as possible.
🖼️ 24 HOURS OF ART 📊 March 6, 2026
🏦 House of Grails
Two notable artworks move through @gondixyz to the same anonymous collector, in deals facilitated by @eli_schein:
‘CryptoPunk #9707’ - 1 of 259 Hoodie @cryptopunks by @larvalabs - is acquired for $300,000 USDC.
‘AI Generated Nude Portrait #7 Frame #166’ by @videodrome - a “Lost Robbie” - was originally listed for $280,000 USDC. It ends up moving through a $1 USDC Trade, essentially an undisclosed price.
Also interesting on Gondi are multiple @XCOPYART artwork loans being refinanced. Two 1-of-1 artworks top the list, with ‘Dissolution’ receiving a $300,000 USDC loan at 13.75% APR (due: May 1st) and ‘Don’t Scroll’ receiving a $275,000 USDC loan at 15.29% APR (due: May 15th).
🎨 Art Market Highlights
‘Meebit #18868’ - 1 of 18 Visitors in the 1/1/20,000 Larva Labs collection - is acquired for 38 ETH by @spinotron from zoomc, in a deal facilitated by @MeebitsNFTs CEO @sergitosergito.
Spinotron shares thoughts, including a comparison to ancestor collection ‘CryptoPunks’, noting that Visitors and Aliens exist in the same ratio, but an Alien + Hoodie combination does not exist in the Punks collection.
New 1-of-1 artwork ‘in absence of a revolution’ by @toadswiback is acquired for 25 ETH by a private collector. In the artist’s words: “this piece was made as a deviation from creative expectation and maintaining the possibility that I won’t become a stale, diluted derivative of myself. spiral out. make things. horrifically back.”
‘Value Discovery’ by @ripe0x launches ‘Liquid Editions’ with @SuperRare. The new financial art primitive pairs ERC-20 tokens and generative art, leveraging the price spread between two liquidity pools to dictate its appearance. Over time, there are 12 “Spread NFTs” minted as 1-of-1 artworks. Each NFT goes to auction and is an output for a physical print series.
The ERC-20 token has seen $115k USD in volume, while the first NFT minted is live in auction with a 0.69 ETH bid.
🪟 Pictured: 24 Hour Activity
- 'in absence of a revolution' by die with the most likes
- 'Meebit #18868' by Larva Labs
- 'PUMP KING' by XCOPY, collected by @Punk8868
- 'CryptoPunk #9707' by Larva Labs
- 'AI Generated Nude Portrait #7 Frame #166' by Robbie Barrat
- 'Anticyclone #334' by @williamapan
- 'Spread 1' by ripe
The Digital Art Pantheon: 24 Musings
1. This was an excruciating exercise.
2. This was a good exercise.
3. It is alive. It is dynamic. It will iterate. It is v.1.
4. Our Pantheon is likely not your Pantheon. That is a good thing.
5. We all spend so much time with hair on fire. This is a prompt to slow down and reflect.
6. Slowing down to reflect makes it easy to marvel at how special this space is and how much has happened in 13+ years.
7. 13+ years is nothing (in historical context). 13+ years is everything (to us living it).
8. If we don't stand up for our space, no one will.
9. One way to stand up for our space is to celebrate it.
10. One way to celebrate it is to speak about a work you find meaningful and add your own context.
11. Then speak about two.
12. Then speak about one hundred.
13. The best case scenario is that this Pantheon butterflies into all of us celebrating one thousand.
14. This is not purely an art market exercise. We began with XCOPY and a challenging thought experiment. How few could there be? (In case it is not clear, that is a compliment) An XCOPY Pantheon is a fun exercise. Someone should do it. We needed breadth here to tell a story.
15. A target was one or more works within each year.
16. 2025 was not eligible. That is what the upcoming 2025 Annual Report content is for. More celebrations still to come! It allows for a full year-plus of context to pass before considering artworks in the future.
17. Physical first and utility first were largely avoided.
18. There are so many gray areas. A thrill and an agony. Did I mention this was excruciating?
19. You do something like this because you love it.
20. You do something like this because you are obsessed with it.
21. I think there are more people like me.
22. It's easy to get stuck waiting and hoping. For the onboarding, for the conditions, for the algorithm, for the reason, for the market, for the time and place. Most of that won't happen. Until and unless you make it happen.
23. The answer is to act. When it becomes consensus to act, we win.
24. I can't wait to hear you and support you celebrating the art, the artworks, and the space that you love.
2025 was a great and productive year.
I truly believe we’re still in the earliest days of a revolutionary art movement, and I’m grateful to the artists, gallerists, and builders tirelessly pushing the ecosystem forward every day.
It’s been a particular privilege to work with so many collectors this year who are thoughtfully building long-term digital art collections. Their patronage and conviction is fundamental to the future of the movement.
These are a few of my favorite works I helped place in 2025: