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This statement may annoy both Trad Art people as well as some Ethereans but I've honestly come to think this:

Art is one of the best things that has happened to Ethereum and Ethereum is one of the best things that has happened to art...

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For artists and collectors, Ethereum delivers:

-provenance/verifiable ownership
-globally accessible marketplaces
-Perpetual royalties
-Cheaper (and faster) transport and storage...

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The result I believe is a more inclusive art movement and a better UX in the broadest sense for both artists and collectors...

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This doesn't mean that "WAGMI" and that all or oven most artists will necessarily succeed in NFTs, but I do believe this technology and movement will let _more_ artists make a living and in some cases thrive financially doing what they love...

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From Ethereum's side, tokenized art is a novel use case that has drawn in thousands of non crypto-natives

Tokenized art showcases Ethereum's power as an expressive, secure + immutable base layer where artists + collectors can trust their works will live on forever...

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Art is one form of cultural object, but more broadly Ethereum is emerging as a transport + storage layer for cultural intangibles as @punk6529 puts it

These cultural objects can span everything from the Constitution to Pepes...

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One advantage of these cultural objects is that they are _more_ acyclic than most assets that live on Ethereum

For example, there are a number of artists on SuperRare that have recently hit new all-time highs while there are zero DeFi tokens (I'm aware of) that have