Before the digital art revolution, artists, collectors, and curators were at the mercy of a system that refused to serve the vast majority of them well. The power to determine what art was valuable or noteworthy remained jealously guarded by self-appointed insiders who barred anyone else from entering their ivory towers. These “influencers” of yore were free to manufacture and manipulate reputations as they saw fit, and to profit handsomely from keeping a tight grip over “what matters” in the art market – dictating trends and manufacturing consent.

In this post, we’ll discuss how your staking social graph – when exported as plain text data from on-chain actions  – unlocks an incredibly powerful, platform-agnostic dataset.

Back in 2010, nearly a decade before artists conspired to eviscerate SEO rankings for the “Not For Tourists” guidebooks, two entrepreneurs in San Francisco unintentionally gave digital artists a paradigm-altering gift: Instagram.

SuperRare Labs and Async Art are thrilled to announce a strategic partnership and integrated product offering

Tripling Down on Artist Sovereignty

Last August we announced SuperRare Spaces, an upcoming product that will allow independent curators and promoters to launch their own gallery pages on SuperRare. Fast forward a few short months (what feels like decades in NFT-time), and we’re finally in the home stretch: five incredibly exciting Spaces have been publicly elected by the SuperRare DAO, product development is in final testing, and we’re almost ready to launch the inaugural batch of Spaces and kick off applications for the second Space Race. The future of decentralized curation is nigh!

Last week, we published an update that governance for the SuperRare DAO is now beginning to reach the "rubber-meets-road" stage, along with the minutes from the latest Governance Council meeting.

In August, we announced the SuperRare DAO and launched the $RARE curation token, a fundamental metamorphosis of the platform that set SuperRare on a course for true community stewardship.

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