Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• Leap of Faith: Auction to Benefit Children’s Cancer Research Attracts Major Crypto Artists (Decrypt)

• The NFT Is Dead. Long Live the NFT? (NewYorkTimes)

• Embracing the Intelligent Age (RightClickSave)

• $69M digital art revolution (TheDanielIslandNews)

Metaverse

• Nike will shut down RTFKT, a subsidiary that made virtual sneakers for the metaverse (OregonLive)

• Museums without vitrines: the Scottish research team transforming the way we view art (TheArtNewspaper)

• Virtual reality biofeedback effectively reduces depression and anxiety symptoms, study finds (PsyPost)

• Alibaba-backed Xreal launches augmented reality glasses with new chip as Meta rivalry heats up (CNBC)

AI

• Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People (YahooAI)

• Palantir, Anduril sign partnership for AI training in defense (Reuters)

• What do we know about the economics of AI? (MITNews)

• American AI has reached its Sputnik moment (TheHill)

Finance

• Trump says venture capitalist David Sacks will be AI and crypto ‘czar’ (CNBC)

• Trump nominates cryptocurrency advocate Paul Atkins as SEC chair (APNews)

• Crypto-backed super PAC Fairshake likely wouldn’t exist if not for SEC Chair Gensler’s actions, Ripple CEO says (CBSNews)

• The Cryptocurrency You May Not Even Know You Own (NewYorkTimesOpinion)

Potpourri

• ‘Hawk tuah girl’ Hailey Welch’s crypto launch draws scrutiny (NBCNews)

• A Kid Made $50,000 Dumping Crypto He’d Created. Then Came the Backlash (Wired)

Art DeCC0s Tweets of the Week

You’re reading this with only 4 days to go until we officially launch Art DeCC0s, MOCA’s very own PFP project and a now-nine-month labor of love. We’re continuing to dish-out honorary DeCC0s to some of the people we love and admire the most, and this week, we added some lovely souls, wonderful artists, and dedicated devs to our already bustling roster:

• Cozomo de’Medici

• Danil Pan

• KryptoMokus

• Zak Krevitt

• Josie Bellini

• EmpressTrash

• Fabin Rasheed

• Ibraheem Leone

And yes, we added ourselves to the Honorary DeCC0s Club (I’ve never been in a club before 🥲)

• Rene Schmidt (our very own CTO, and co-founder)

• Colborn Bell (our fine co-founder and director)

• Max Cohen (some schmuck)

• UntitledXYZ (best damn architect on the internet)

• LuluCollages (do-it-all artistic wunderkind)

• DaïmAlYad (literally the lifeblood of this entire project)

• Julian Brangold (artist, curator, tech guru, etc.)

These fine folks join the rest of our *announced* members of the Honorary DeCC0s Club: Pindar Van Arman, Clay Devlin, SatsMoon, Rob, of Makersplace, Ezra Shibboleth, StellaBelle, An Loremi, Coldie, Nate Alex, Ash Connell, ArtheMort, Leandro Bellone, Dan Sickles, Rizzle, SnowFro, OONA, Matt Kane, Judy Mam, SuperRare Zack, Fanny Lakoubay, Patrick Amadon, Anne Spalter, Artnome, Artie Handz, and Natrix!

We’ll be continuing to make, announce, and deliver honoraries well after DeCC0s launch, so if you want to nominate someone to the Club, please let us know in the comments, on Twitter, or at hello@museumofcryptoart.com!

Some Incredible Things Daïm Made

Art in the Wild

Traditional Art Banger

Betty Boop in Snow-White (1933), dir. by Max Fleischer; animation by Roland Crandall.

Quote of the Week

“Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.”

-Blaise Pascal

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