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On September 17th, Infernaltoast.eth quietly announced a new project, On Secondary [https://onsecondary.com/] - an open-source secondary marketplace for listing ArtBlocks projects at no-fee.

It's time to talk about NFT secondary royalties, a poorly thought out monetization model that's inadvertently become a standard in the NFT art world despite its misaligned incentives, lack of decentralized enforcement and ethical ambiguity.

A Hard Deed of Ownership, a Hard Ledger of Provenance, but an Incomplete Certificate of Authentication except in Embedded Digital Art.

Nouns is a DAO fund in the package of a generative NFT series. Nouns.wtf (Twitter) dropped this week with an auction that sold for 613 E (a little under $2 million at the time of sale).

Discussion on the Motivations driving Milady Maker's design.

What would it look like to design generative NFT's with profile pictures as a primary use-case?

What NFT's mean for Anti-authorship Praxis I’ve been thinking about what NFT means for anti-authorship praxis. NFT extends and formalizes authorship via the blockhain ledger, however NFT also undermines authorship, by flattening it onto ownership.

NFT's Turn Everything into a Potentially Unique Commodity

The Viral Public License is a perfect copyleft virus, extending copyright waiving licenses like the CC0 or Public Domain by not just waiving rights, but also requiring projects using it to maintain the license waiving rights, too.

Remilia Collective is a fellowship of pseudonymous net art extremists, a virtual tribe functionally organized like a cyberyakuza, a groupchat-as-studio-collective modeled as if CCRU met the Factory, embodying an novel artistic philosophy centered around network spirituality.