https://teapawt.org/t.co/n9k2EwzDkH pfp Memories of Qilin #784. GenArt. @GrailersDAO. The Muse. Memes Collectooooor (🌹,🥀)(🐕🦺,🐾) (🇺🇸,🍷)
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vesper retweeted
1/ On Squiggle #6529
I would like to explain why we are excited about “buying a Squiggle”
While Squiggles are, in fact, sweet, the exciting part is that every part of this process happened in a decentralized manner.
2/ @aRegularDad proposed a Meme Card to fund a Squiggle acquisition.
81 profiles participated in the Main Stage vote and voted with TDH to mint this as a Meme Card
The card won. 77 paid editions were minted, providing 2.51 ETH for the acquisition.
3/ @cheesebiz and @bankons helped scout and connected @squiggleDAO . SquiggleDAO suggested trying to acquire Squiggle 6529
The price was 3.01 ETH, so @MadaCollects who had been following the discussion, chipped in another 0.5 ETH to the pool (respect!)
4/ The seller wanted to stay anonymous, preserve the provenance (no intermediary transfers) and keep their vault secure.
Ultimately, the seller trusted SquiggleDAO and 6529 network and sent the Squiggle directly to the 6529 Network Museum before receiving payment.
5/ Reminder: What is the 6529 network museum? It is a SAFE vault organized by TDH, owned by the network, a cultural asset, NFTs go in, but ~they do not go out.
It is the network-native concept of a national public museum
6/ Finally, one more step to replace the temporary art on the card with something appropriate for the long-term. Well, another TDH vote of course.
@ricardotakamura won with THE VAULT, a long-exposure light painting made at Casa NUA in Brazil.
7/ So to recap:
- Decentralized network mints a meme card to buy a squiggle
- Decentralized network picks which squiggle to buy
- Decentralized network updates the art
- Decentralized network permanent home for the squiggle
8/ What was my contribution to any step of this project?
Nothing at all. I was not involved at all in any way.
I had a vague awareness that it was happening, but was not following any of the details, let alone helping.
9/ Now, some of you are thinking “ok, fine, that is cute, the NFT nerds are collecting NFTs again”
Maybe.
Or maybe collecting NFTs is a generalizable proof of concept, and there is no actual limit to this primitive.
We will see soon enough.
10/ Thank you to all who organized, the voters and everyone who minted.
Great job by all.
vesper retweeted
You can never have too many Memories.
My absolute favorite AB collection. Still collecting, someone please sell me an affordable intrepid palette with gold background. Or I'll just wait until we are in peak bull when I have more $$$.
Update: blinton.eth didn't stop at 4 🤯
Ringers #612 + 6x Memories of Qilin (~7.66 ETH) in about 20 minutes
Someone's building a museum and I'm still refreshing the floor 😂
How many Qilins is too many?
vesper retweeted
I initially missed out on minting this card by a couple of allow list spots 🫠.
But excited to have been able to pick up two editions recently. To me it’s the most beautiful card in The Memes Collection by @punk6529
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil by @lphaCentauriKid now in my vault.
As a @coinbase maxi, these nonstop prediction market push notifications really cheapens their brand.
I am here for the hope for a better financial future. Not to bet on the outcome of the D3 college football game.
It is very off putting and feeds into the idea that crypto is PVP. @CoinbaseDuck
vesper retweeted
Just added two works by @emilyxxie to the collection: Memories of Qilin #1012 and Interwoven #21.
For me, Emily is one of the artists who best connects the history of generative art with cultural memory, craft and materiality.
"Memories of Qilin" is one of her defining works: an @artblocks_io Curated series of 1,024 fully on-chain pieces from 2022, inspired by Chinese brush painting, Japanese woodblock prints and East Asian mythology.
"Interwoven", released in 2023, takes that exploration further into textiles and quilting. Created as part of @LACMA´s Remembrance of Things Future initiative, the series of only 100 works was inspired by Martha Lou Jones’ 1896 Bullseye Quilt from the museum’s collection — turning code into something that almost feels handmade.
And the timing feels particularly good: Emily will be part of @ArtBasel Miami Beach 2026, presented by Art Blocks in the Zero 10 / Generation section dedicated to art of the digital era.
Very happy to finally have these two important chapters of her practice in the collection. 😎
vesper retweeted
There’s no sense in sugarcoating it: today’s vote was a major disappointment—and, I believe, a failure of American leadership. The full cost of today’s result may not be known for years to come, but this much is clear: it increases the risk that the standards that global financial markets adhere to in the future will be those of Brussels or Beijing, rather than Washington and New York.
I want to thank @POTUS for the opportunity to work on this important legislation and for the remarkable concessions he was willing to make to give this bill a chance; @DavidSacks for his wise leadership on not only crypto but all frontier tech policy; and all the Senators and their staffs who devoted countless hours to working on this bill, chief among them @SenLummis who deserved much better than this.
Lastly, I also want to thank my colleagues across the administration at Treasury, SEC, and the CFTC. Their partnership helped us find creative solutions to challenging issues throughout this process, and their patience made it possible for us to see it all the way through to a vote.
On that last point: @SECPaulSAtkins and @ChairmanSelig, you’re up!
vesper retweeted
This is the single biggest advantage that NFTs have over real world assets. We literally have unquestionable provenance and never have to worry about finding a fake or forged CryptoPunk, Fidenza or any other piece of blockchain based art. Image buying 6.7 million worth of Warhol’s only to find out you’re a victim of an elaborate scheme.
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