24 HOURS OF ART: Wednesday Highlights
Digital Art Headlines, Market Highlights, and Analysis from 10/8 - 10/9
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On-Chain Cope
‘COPE SALADA’ by XCOPY launches on Shape L2 via Highlight and enters its first Allowlist stage.
60 of the on-chain, composable file 1/1/250 collection are presently minted. Early secondary sales of 4.69, 4, 4 & 4 ETH are in with lowest list at 4 ETH.
Meridian Moves
‘Meridian’ /1k by Matt DesLauriers sees 5 secondary sales for 3.5, 2.85, 2.6001, 2.5 & 2.38 ETH to five unique collectors. The Art Blocks Collection’s list is now 2.649 ETH.
Pepe Prompt
‘RAREPEPE | Series 1 Card 1’ aka “The Nakamoto Card” by Mike sees its latest edition sale of 27 WETH (~$65k USD) from promptlord.
Notable Pepe Update
The 50 artist Notable Pepes October release continues:
Two Live:
‘BLACK SWAN PEPE’ by jak: 70/100 minted thus far
‘green candle god’ by OSF: 71/100 minted thus far
Two Incoming:
‘MEME EMERGENCY’ by Darkfarms
‘Rare Pepe Wallet Mining’ by Looney
Collection: Highlights
LIVE (Feral File) - ‘Patterns of Flow’
LIVE (LISA) - ‘Personas’ by Victor Mosquera: Presale
LIVE (Ninfa) - ‘In The Past Hides The Future: Part 1’ by Esteban Amaro
LIVE (Sotheby’s) - ‘Algorithmic Primitivism: Autoglyphs - A Set of Seven Types’
LIVE (Transient Labs on Shape) - ‘COLLAB COOKING // SHAPE’
LIVE (Verse) - ‘I’m With You’ by Kevin Esherick
INCOMING (Avant Arte) - ‘THE TREE OF KNOWLEGE’ Prints
INCOMING (ClickCreate) - ‘Carnaval em São Luiz’ by BEISSÚ
INCOMING (SHILLR) - Media S3
INCOMING (The Memes by 6529) - ‘OG Coiner’ by Zigmarillion
1/1: Highlights
‘Coincidir’ by Juan Rodríguez García: 2 ETH to mithrandir
‘Toxic’ by Daniel Koeth: 1.69 ETH to batz
‘STRONG HAIR : 016 : ፲፮’ (Feb 2022) by Yatreda: 1.25 ETH to tuckerhighfield.eth
‘Phantasmagoria II’ by Mat Miller: 1.2 ETH to fauler
‘Stop War’ by MiesGraffiti.eth: 1 ETH to flyingbeagle
‘Resistance Front’ by Ticasssoo: 0.7 ETH to flyingbeagle
‘PARCERO’ by LUKO: 0.5 ETH
‘Dreaming of Tomorrow’ by Miss Al Simpson: 0.45 ETH to flyingbeagle
‘-Wealth-’ by art_heli: 0.344 ETH to flyingbeagle
‘FRINGE’ by PeterArt: 0.3 ETH to flyingbeagle
LIVE (Asprey Studio) - ‘You Could Suffer in Heaven’ by Defaced: 25k USD bid from Blondie23LMD
1/1/X: Highlights
‘Chromie Squiggle’ /10k (Art Blocks) by Snowfro: 4.2 & 3.25 WETH
‘Archetype’ /600 (Art Blocks) by Kjetil Golid: 2.876 WETH
‘Geometric Pepes’ /100 by Batz: 2.01 → 2.41 WETH (same artwork)
‘Memories of Qilin’ /1,024 (Art Blocks) by Emily Xie: 2.35 & 1.2683 WETH
‘Anticyclone’ /800 (Art Blocks) by William Mapan: 2 & 2 WETH
‘merge.’ /20.1k by Pak: 1.35 (126) & 0.8 (82) ETH to LaoVault
‘dino pals’ /100 (Art Blocks) by hideo: 1.1611 WETH
‘alignDRAW’ /2,709 (Fellowship) by Elman Mansimov: 1.12 WETH to shando
‘Signature’ /200 by Jack Butcher: 0.88 & 0.85 ETH
‘DeePle’ /435 by DeeKay: 0.8 & 0.769 ETH
‘The Currency’ /2,045 by Damien Hirst: 0.69 & 0.69 ETH to RichardPeterson
‘Mutant Garden Seeder’ /513 by Harm van den Dorpel: 0.69 WETH to jzs-vault
‘nameless dread’ /669 by die with the most likes: 0.6 WETH to VincentVanDough
‘Terraforms’ /9,911 by Mathcastles: 0.54 & 0.5 WETH
‘Infinite Images’ /682 (Fellowship) by Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst: 0.5 WETH to D-Dog
Edition: Highlights
‘SAINT_LESS (Control)’ /200 (NFTBoxes) by XCOPY: 2 ETH to ChemisTrent
‘PROOF Collective’ /1k by PROOF: 0.7399 WETH, 0.73 & 0.73 ETH
‘MAX PAIN’ /5,516 by XCOPY: 0.745 ETH & 0.69 WETH
‘Brick’ by Alpha Centauri Kid: 0.3899 ETH & 0.32 WETH
‘LetsWalk’ by DeeKay: 0.33 & 0.3001 WETH
‘Fomoverse’ /906 by Pak: 0.26 ETH to LaoVault
‘Window Still Life 008’ /25 by John Karel: 998 XTZ | ~$654 USD
Closing Thoughts
All eyes on X! Here comes the rest of COPE SALADA, and we’ll see how everything settles once the full 1/1/250 is out in the wild.
While it wasn’t the most active day, it was diverse with interesting headlines and 1/1 sales.
Live Events:
Today (Wed) 12:00pm ET: Light.Art Mentorship Program X Spaces (I am 1 of 5 mentors alongside Carlos Marcial, Efdot, Ryan Koopmans, and Shavonne Wong)
Thursday 2:00pm ET: 24 Hours of Art: Art, Shape & L2s with Nat (Highlight) and Han (Shape) X Spaces
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