After the precipitation of the NFT field, do not ignore this cryptographic art platform from China

Through the ages, in addition to the birth and evolution of various artistic styles, the most important aspect of the development of art is the transformation of artistic media. From the very beginning, when people painted art on cave walls, to animal skins and bones, to canvas most suitable for oil painting and rice paper most suitable for ink painting, art media is both a witness and a promoter of art development.

Later, with the popularization of computer technology, numerous digital artists created in impractical physical art media emerged. While they used new technologies to create digital artworks full of the magnificent colors of the new era, they were also troubled by the problem of copyright protection in the Internet era. With the birth of NFT, digital art has been given the value of "collection", and NFT, the latest art medium, has also caused no small response in all walks of life. Cryptography art has also entered the mainstream view with Beeple's auction at Christie's.

However, crypto art platforms are often ignored by people. Indeed, compared with the beautiful creations of various artists, many people will think that platforms only provide a display space for them and ignore the promotion of crypto art development by platforms.

To understand the important role of crypto art platforms in promoting the development of crypto art, let's first go back to 2013.

The first generation of crypto art

In fact, the earliest "crypto art" is very different from what we now call crypto art, not referring to the digital art on the chain, on the contrary, the early "crypto art" is mostly physical art.

Casascius Coins by Mike Caldwell, for example, are physical gold-plated or solid gold bitcoins with a real private key to the account engraved on them.

Or take Kevin Abosch's artwork "Bank," a limited edition of 50 books in which 500 pairs of Bitcoin public and private keys are organized and declared to be a "Bank."

Then "encryption art" is not as controversial as they are now, they have the entity, see the costumers, also is only added in the work of art or USES the encryption monetary element, to use the new elements of the old art form or easily accepted by people, and at that time, encryption art show was held in the raging fire.

While art is promoting the crypto world to the outside world, blockchain technology is empowering art. 'Crypto Art platforms,' such as Monegraph, Ethereum-Art Market and VerisArt, use blockchain technology to secure rights to works of Art, both for artists and for collectors to avoid forgeries.

At that time, NFT had not yet been born, and blockchain technology had already helped solve the problem of confirming rights for artworks. Therefore, today, if we only regard NFT as a tool of confirming rights, we are overemployed, while NFT still plays a more important role in the process of art development.

It was between 2013 and 2015, less than a decade ago, but if we look back at the "crypto art" at that time, we can see that it developed so fast that it took less than a decade or even centuries for art to complete the journey.

Cryptographic art Cambrian

In 2017, NFT comes with crypto cats, and people are learning and understanding the latest technology while collecting virtual pets. There is also a closer connection between art and smart contracts, and digital art is beginning to be seen as collectable art by a small group of early adopters.

These pioneers saw the potential of NFT, and many of them were also natives of the crypto world, and the combination of art and code resulted in a number of groundbreaking projects. Just at this stage, DADA was officially launched in 2014, OpenSea, the world's largest NFT trading platform, SuperRare and Knownorigin also came into people's vision.

These platforms will be well known in the future, and they represent the highest palace of NFT in the pursuit of "legitimacy" in the crypto world, such as OpenSea, which is now unrivaled in volume, and SuperRare, which has the highest standard of crypto art. But at the time, no one could predict where NFT and crypto art would go, whether they would be accepted or not, and these pioneers helped artists and collectors define crypto art as more than just a physical work of art with crypto elements. Instead, they become digital works of art on the blockchain, including pictures, videos, music and even programs.

Encryption art is no longer within easy reach of the entity, and digital art, from the use of block made by chain technology, and then to the NFT as new art media, encryption has gradually become an overlooked force of art, and encryption art platform: go straight on the road at the end of this article can't see, for the artists respond, for encryption and art.

With the birth of CryptoVoxels, cryptoart, an art form born in the digital world, has found its way to display in the digital world. Each cryptoart platform has chosen to build its own virtual gallery in this digital world. By providing an opportunity for crypto artists to show their work at a time when they are not accepted by the mainstream art world, these crypto art platforms are also shouldered with the responsibility of promoting crypto art to the world.

With the global spread of the COVID-21 epidemic and the disruption of offline exhibitions, more and more art lovers began to come to the meta-universe to explore these "novel" cryptographic artworks. With the development of technology and their deeper participation, they found that this emerging art form brought them unprecedented experience. For the first time, they learned that the layers of a work of art could be decided by the buyer, the format of distribution and the option of the Open Edition, and the trading platform could be co-managed by the users.

Behind these innovations is the unremitting efforts of the crypto art platform.

Async Art enables people to understand what is "programmable Art". Art is no longer unchanged. It can produce various changes according to the weather, currency price or even the collector's mood and preferences. The open release mode of Nifty Gateway makes art no longer just a toy for the rich. Ordinary people can buy the works of high-quality artists at a relatively low price. By opening the market of ordinary people, the income of artists has been increased exponentially. Decentralized cryptographic art platforms such as Rarible decentralize power to all users. Users are not only users, but also managers of the platform, jointly deciding the fate of the platform.

These new "gameplay" are accompanied by the art of encryption to an unprecedented climax.

IO statistics show that since the end of 2020, Cryptoart has exploded completely. With the persistence of veteran crypto artists such as Xcopy, Hackatao and Pak, new artists such as Fewocious have emerged and quickly gained recognition in the market. And the entry of digital artists like Beeple, Mad Dog Jones, and Boss Logic, who have made their mark on social media like Instagram, has made crypto art's explosion unstoppable.

The story of what happened later became familiar to everyone. Beeple, Pak and Mad Dog Jones were listed in the world's top auction houses such as Christie's, Sotheby's and Fujis respectively, and their works were sold at good prices and received praise. Crypto art was finally accepted by the mainstream and was on a par with traditional art.

Cryptoart.ai, the cultivator of CryptoArt in China

However, it is a little regrettable that when crypto art is gaining popularity abroad, the waves set off in China seem very small. However, it is understandable that there will be a certain lag phenomenon when emerging concepts such as Bitcoin and DEFI are spread to China. In fact, in the field of crypto art, there are also Chinese teams working quietly. One of the best is cryptoart.ai.

Cryptoart.ai began to develop in July 2020, and was signed as a key project of big data artificial intelligence blockchain in 2020 Shanghai Jing 'an International Big Data Forum in October. In just three months, it surprised people as soon as it appeared, as a new blood. Compared with overseas relatively silent Chinese cryptographic art environment has injected unprecedented vitality.

As for the lag of China's CryptoArt environment, Qin Jiaxin, co-founder of Cryptoart.ai, also mentioned in an interview with Orient Finance in November 2020 that Cryptoart.ai will make more efforts to make China's CryptoArt go global.

Yes, people in the crypto world have no nationality. Therefore, although CryptoArt is still a blue ocean in China, it is lagging behind in the world. What cryptoart.ai needs to do is not only to take a leading position in China, but to let the world see the color of Chinese CryptoArt.

In November 2020, Cryptoart.ai launched a collection of artworks on Twitter with the theme of "fighting against COVIDNA2", giving spiritual strength to people in distress with art, and these works also received a special exhibition in December.

The Wuhan International Convention and Exhibition Center, once a square-cabin hospital in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, Dec. 5, 2020. In the past year, this heroic city has suffered a great deal, and after the material life has basically returned to normal, cryptoarte. Ai and the world's largest NFT community WHALE jointly held the "Nirvana · Rebirth" CryptoArt exhibition at the 2020 World Blockchain Conference. It brings nectar and rations to the weather-beaten spirit.

If that's all it took for artists around the world to recognize cryptoart.ai, then what's happened since has put a spotlight on the young, intrepid platform.

On December 23, 2020, cryptoart. Ai, together with the world's famous cryptoartists PAK and Song Ting, held the "Art when the Times" NFT cryptographic digital art auction. The total turnover reached 169ETH, which may not be considered as high price by many people now. But it was an eye-popping sum at the time, when Pak's sales had just topped $1 million, ranking it first in the world.

Pak's Leonardo's Vision has become a classic, and Song Ting's Cyber Wonder Woman has also aroused considerable international reaction. As the host of the auction, Cryptoart.ai has also garnered international attention and appreciation. Since then, Cryptoart.ai has continued to expand its influence globally as a cultural promoter of CryptoArt from China. The cooperation with Cryptoart Week Asia and the DOGE community has allowed the world to see the vitality of Chinese CryptoArt.

In 2021, Beeple's work was released at Christie's, announcing that crypto art had officially entered the mainstream. The data of crypto art platforms around the world, such as the number of artists, sales, etc., have experienced a rapid growth, and crypto art exhibitions have sprung up all over the world.

We have seen Christie's, Sotheby's, Fuisi auction NFT cryptographic art works, these famous international auction houses have accepted cryptographic art, that China?

At that time, cryptoart.ai, which was not very active at that time, did not stop, but was planning a show that would set off waves every time they made a move, and they sent 11 pieces of NFT CryptoArt from their platform to China Le Auction House.

The Spring Auction of 2021 was officially opened in Beijing Four Seasons Hotel on May 12. Eleven NFT works sent by Cryptoart.ai platform were presented in this auction. Among them, three works auctioned in the digital blockchain art event, Song Ting's "Found Matisse's Peach and Papercut in Cyberworld", Andreas's "Vincent Van Gogh" and Shindo's "Dancing Blocks" were sold for 100,000 yuan, 80,000 yuan and 50,000 yuan respectively. The other eight NFT works also won in an online night auction of blockchain digital art.

AI promotes Chinese CryptoArt to catch up with the world's pace, and also shows the world that Chinese CryptoArt is also a force that cannot be ignored.

And at the end of May, cryptoart.ai will host a global event in Shanghai's West Bund · Oil Tank Art Park. NFT  Encrypto art exhibition "Real impact", the participating artists not only include Beeple, Pak and other internationally renowned artists, but also include Song Ting, Wang Ke and other powerful Chinese artists, the luxury of the artist lineup is sure to make the cryptographic art exhibition from China attract worldwide attention.

Root in China, look to the world

AI staged such a grand exhibition at a time when the CryptoArt market was calming down, staggating the peak of the CryptoArt heat wave, which shows the attitude of cryptoart.ai towards CryptoArt. As the name of the previous photo and the introduction to Cryptoart.ai Twitter put it, art should follow The Times. The art of crypto will not die with the bursting of the hype bubble, because it comes from this new era, and will surely mature with the development of this new era.

According to the official website of Cryptoart.ai, 752 artists have entered Cryptoart.ai, with a total of 524 works, 346 of which have been sold, and a total turnover of 328.94ETH. The rising turnover not only gives the platform artists confidence, but also attracts more excellent artists to enter. Cryptoart.ai takes root in China and looks to the world. While promoting Chinese CryptoArt to the world, Cryptoart.ai attracts more artists from all over the world to join, and jointly creates a high-quality and internationally competitive platform. They do not pay much attention to the competition between Chinese CryptoArt platforms, as Cryptoart.ai wants to become not only the leader of CryptoArt in China or Asia, but also the backbone of CryptoArt in the world.

It is not important for the development of Chinese CryptoArt to be established first, to hold the first NFT auction in China, or to hold the first Chinese CryptoArt exhibition. What matters is who can really promote Chinese CryptoArt to the world and who can make Chinese CryptoArt stand firm in the world. Cryptoart.ai is working hard for this.

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