I read a tweet this week from Cozomo, an anonymous collector and influencer who has embraced digital art. I had to think about the message for a while but I really agree with him. Digital art is finally a large step further in the art domain. Therefore, I am reposting his message in its entirety here again because a twitter message is only a quick read and I think it is important to have this message visible for a longer period of time->.
Few see it yet – but if you look closely, it’s undeniable:
Right now is the greatest risk-adjusted moment in history to acquire digital art.
And possibly the last window to do so before the market changes forever.
- Better than 2021 – when all eyes were on it, but prices had soared.
- Better than 2018 – when no one was watching, and would they ever be?
- Better than 2023 – when most eyes had turned away. True believers remained, but new energy had disappeared.
- Better than 2024 – when regulators tried to kill crypto altogether, and our art with it.
Now in 2025:
- Almost all the top museums are on board.
- New patrons arrive with war chests
- Crypto king made it at the highest levels of world government
- Art placed in museums’ permanent collections, creating ‘end-of-line’ and diminishing supply
- Lending markets for Grail 1/1s and editions formed and developed
- Foundations & DAOs formed to champion the movement and its artists
- Consensus around top 1/1 artists allows ‘safer’ collectors access
- Digital galleries and artist-in-residence programmes help those discovering and investing in the “next wave”.
- Digital works on facemelt screens in MoMA lobby (twice now) bring new patrons on board
- Entire museums built to house digital work, bringing in new eyeballs all the time
- Pioneering artists getting their moment in shows like Coded, Digital Witness (LACMA), and Speak to the Eye (Vera Molnár retrospective @ Pompidou) – giving the whole genre deep institutional cred.
For centuries, art has been used as a means of preserving wealth.
For the past decade, crypto art has existed on the fringes, as a means of speculation.
From now on, crypto art moves from speculation to preservation.
Get it while you can.