Essential Reading

• What is crypto art by Jason Bailey from artnome: https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/1/14/what-is-cryptoart

• The History of Crypto Art by Martin Lukas Ostachowski: https://ostachowski.com/about/what-is-crypto-art/history-of-crypto-art/

• A conversation on the History of CryptoArt between Jason Bailey @artnome, Martin Lukas Ostachowski @MLOdotArt, and Micol @verticalcrypto https://verticalcrypto.art/a-conversation-on-the-history-of-cryptoart-between-jason-bailey-artnome-martin-lukas-ostachowski-mlodotart-and-micol-verticalcrypto

• [Article] Andrew Steinwold: The history of NFTs (very thorough research as most people start the history of Cryptoart with rare pepe: https://medium.com/@Andrew.Steinwold/the-history-of-non-fungible-tokens-nfts-f362ca57ae10

Academic Papers

• There is no such thing as blockchain art by María Paula Fernández, Stina Gustafsson and Fanny Lakoubay

  There_is_no_Such_Thing_as_Blockchain_Art.pdf

• Crypto Art: A Decentralized View by Massimo Franceschet, Giovanni Colavizza, Tai Smith, Blake Finucane, Martin Lukas Ostachowski, Sergio Scalet, Jonathan Perkins, James Morgan, Sebastian Hernandez

  crypto art a decentralized view.pdf

Additional Reading

• The history of NFT decoded: https://jingculturecommerce.com/decoded-nft-art-world/

• A recent thread on nfts: https://twitter.com/landforce/status/1365502258985762819?s=21

• The $140,000 cryptokitty: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/style/cryptokitty-auction.html

• The real Cryptopunks story

  • https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks?utm_source=nonfungible

  • https://nonfungible.com/market/history/cryptopunks

  • https://medium.com/@rareartlabs/rareaf-talks-matt-hall-cryptopunks-1bcfe88465bf

  • https://breakermag.com/how-cryptopunks-creators-charmed-the-art-world-and-paved-the-way-for-blockchain-art/

• [Video] The Defiant guide to Digital Art and NFTs (back in November 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqveU599ojg

• [Article] A comparison of different times in art history (to take with a grain of salt but interesting comparisons): https://felipether.medium.com/️-ethereums-artistic-renaissance-77de62df1a69

OG Company Profiles & Timeline (until 12/31/2020)

**Other timeline by Martin Lukas Ostachowski: https://ostachowski.com/about/what-is-crypto-art-or-nft-art/history-of-crypto-art/**

BITCOIN PLATFORMS / PROJECTS:

• March 2012: Colored Coins

• January 2013: Kevin Abosch's project "BANK"

• September 2014: Nilicoins issued as colored coins on counterparty by artist Nili: https://twitter.com/nilicoins?lang=en

• February 2015: Bitchcoin

• April 2015: Spells of Genesis on Counterparty

• September 2016: Rare Pepe Wallet

• May 2017: curio cards

• May 2021: Raretoshi Marketplace

ETHEREUM PLATFORMS / PROJECTS:

• May 2014: Monegraph NFT platform (US)

• January 2015: Ascribe.io marketplace launches (now defunct)

• 2016: Metamask

• June 2017: Cryptopunks by Larvalabs

• October 2017: launch of Dada.art, a social conversation via drawings (visual exquisite cadavra) that started before blockchain and migrated to Ethereum

• October 2017: Cryptokitties

• December 2017: Opensea (US)

• February 2018: Kevin Abosch sells his crypto rose for $1m

• April 2018: SuperRare (US)

• April 2018: Knownorigin (UK)

• June 2018: Rare Art Labs (US) now defunct

• July 2018: Codex Protocol (US)

• July 2018: Christie's Art+Tech Summit NYC

• October 2018: Portion (US)

• November 2018: Snark.art (US)

• April 2019: Editional app (US) now defunct

• April 2019: Autoglyphs by Larvalabs

• October 2019: Rarible

• February 2020: Async Art (US)

• March 2020: Nifty Gateway (US)

• April 2020: Blank.art

• May 2020: Foundation App

• November 2020: Ephimera

• November 2020: Artblocks.io

• January 2021: Blank.art

• March 2021: FeralFile

• April 2021: Truesy

• then count one or more new platform per day!

TEZOS

• February 2021: Hicetnunc.xyz

• February 2021: Kalamint

TRADITIONAL ART MARKET

• March 2021: Christie's auction of Beeple (with Makersplace)

• April 2021: Sotheby's auction of Pak (with Nifty Gateway)

• May 2021: Christie's auction of 9 Cryptopunks (with Larvalabs)

• May 2021: Christie's auction of Andy Warhol as NFTs (with ?0

• June 2021: Sotheby's auction of a Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale (with ?)

• June 2021: Bonhams' auction of CryptOGs: The Pioneers of NFT Art (with SuperRare)

• June 2021: Cambi's auction of Dystopian Visions (with SuperRare)

• July 2021: Christie's auction of Leonardo da vinci's bear head with Hackatao's accompanying work donated to the Museum of Crypto Art

• July 2021: Sotheby's auction of five Sealed Cryptopunks on Paper

• July 2021: Phillips's auction of The White Male Artist

EDUCATIONAL EVENTS:

• December 2017: #ArtProject Decentralized http://artproject.io/ was the Telegram group for anything cryptoart related and still is to this day

• January 2018: Rare Art Festival 1 (NYC)

• January 2018: Artnome blog by Jason Bailey

• May 2018: Ethereal Summit in Brooklyn NY, where a Cryptokitty sold for $140,000 auctioned by Codex Protocol (NYTimes article)

• May 2018: ArtTech + Blockchain Connect conference in Basel by New Art Academy

• October 2018: ArtTech + Blockchain Connect conference in New York by New Art Academy

• February 2019: NFT.NYC 1

• May 2019: Rare AF 2 (Bushwick, NY)

• May 2019: CADAF NY (crypto and digital art fair)

• December 2019: CADAF Miami (crypto and digital art fair)

• June 2020: CADAF Online (crypto and digital art fair)

• June 2020: Rare AF 3 (online)

• September 2020: VerticalCryptoArt

• June 2021: Rare AF 4 (Prospect Parc)

• June 2021: Green NFT hackathon

• June 2021: HEN hackathon