“One of our guiding principles is the desire to continually innovate to meet the needs of today’s luxury marketplace,” said
1stDibs’ NFTs will be available at 1stdibs.com/nft-collections and will be differentiated within the market for several reasons:
- Highly curated inventory - The launch phase will consist of semi-monthly online exhibitions featuring new crypto-art by creators 1stDibs has selected through a rigorous vetting process. The marketplace will focus on renowned creators from the fine art world and the Metaverse who have proven track records of commercial success.
- Technology-driven approach - Building on the considered curation that 1stDibs is known for, the NFT platform participates in this market with a native blockchain approach, which includes minting and an on-chain marketplace. This combination of a curatorial experience and the technical capabilities of the native NFT platform offers a unique distinction among blue-chip marketplaces. The initial launch includes a custom ERC721 token smart contract which is limited to minting a maximum of 5,000 tokens. In later iterations of the NFT marketplace, a new token smart contract will be deployed so that this initial launch is always limited. The buying process was designed to be seamless and native to the blockchain, leveraging Ethereum cryptocurrency accessed through a Metamask wallet that collectors can connect to the site.
- Community building through content creation - 1stDibs will publish original content in collaboration with the creators to tell the story of their collections and their artistic vision.
The first-ever exhibition on the new platform, “Portals,” features the work of 10 artists from across the globe.
“I chose the theme Portals to represent the threshold of two worlds. For some time there has been a bubbling undercurrent of immersive digital spaces for growing, learning and discovering. This quickened in the wake of Covid-19, which saw the world transition into a digital existence and the emergence of a virtual arts world via blockchain technology,” said Metageist (
Artists include:
- Metageist
A.L. Crego , a veteran GIF artist fromSpain - blackboxdotart, an early crypto-artist based in the
U.K. who is also an encaustic wax painter Isa Kost , an artist, illustrator and graphic designer based inMilan Lucas Aguirre , an Argentinian digital artist working with VR sculpting tools- Marc-O-Matic, a mixed reality artist and storyteller based in
Victoria, Australia - mvhvma, a 21 year old British South Asian artist whose artworks toe the line between illustrative realism and abstract surrealism
- Ogi, an artist, animator and designer who creates worlds of comprehensive meme constructs
- Process Smith, based in the
U.K. , whose current work focuses on AR and VR forms to explore consciousness and reality Rosie Summers , a virtual reality artist and 3D animator at XR Games, based in theU.K.
After “Portals,” the next NFT auctions will be:
September 1 : Escapism: Utopian & Dystopian Influences including works byKarl Poyzer , Nogland, Snow Yunxue Fu,Daniel Ambrosi andSprice Studio .September 15 : As yet untitled exhibition curated byKatie Peyton Hofstader .
For more information, visit 1stDibs.com/nft-collections.
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