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Zora

I think to succeed financially as a crypto artist today, community/audience building plays a much bigger role - if your main medium of monetizing your work is these open edition mints on Rodeo Zora etc, and these mints are more akin to “likes with money” rather than actually Collecting Art Objects, then the role becomes more similar to that of an influencer than a traditional Artist™️ because you’re optimizing for “likes”.

I don’t think one should think of these mints as Art Objects that are now being “devalued” to 30c, but that requires a bit of a mental shift since that’s what the whole digital art nft framing was built on.

i think we'll see two different ways for artists to explore:

- posting onchain: zora and rodeo aren't for selling art but more for social posts. sharing some art pieces or designs so the community can collect it for fun (not for financial upside)
- selling on foundation/superrare/etc: back to how art nfts were valued last cycle, where artists can share a narrative/story behind the art and sell it at a fixed price or auction

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For the latter to return I think you need actual new Art Collectors entering the space, as opposed to mercenary speculators larping as Art Collectors. Maybe that will happen but not clear to me how yet

I don’t think speculators are a bad thing, mostly just that the last cycle nft art market was artificially propped up by them - and now they won’t return because better more liquid ponzis exist now

I think 1/1 auction style might be too skeuomorphic in the long run anyway, cryptomedia wants new mechanisms

sadly we'll always have some speculators in this space, maybe there are more private sells (like trad art) where only certain collectors can get on the next artblock art - but few artists can currently do that in crypto imo