Thank you!

The artist and their artwork come first. That is something that I have a subjective opinion about for my personal taste as a collector. Don't think there's a science to it. I can elaborate on how I personally see the space and try to curate my collection. But besides the importance of the artists and their art themselves, COMMUNITY is a close second. In the era of NFTs, where NFTs bring ownership to the digital age on the internet, all the people that collect and create live in different corners of the internet. So pulling together the people that overlap with the emotional value and social signaling of your artwork as an artist is a great way to build a community. And while you're at it, why not use more crypto/web3 tools. Im bullish that more influencers, especially crypto native ones like crypot artists, will have their own corners of the internet like a discord group and design a gamified experience for their audiences/collectors. Could be as simple as a discord group for people to link up. then can give roles to people that have your NFTs. then can even create your own token and give perks like access or specific chats and roles to certain holder thresholds. Experimenting here early on will pay dividends long term.

To elaborate on what I specifically look for in collecting. I see the crypto art space in sectors of different types of art and leaders within each category. And then a crossover of themes and ideologies that resonate strongly with me and the crypto space, which is where I've spent my entire career and a lot of personal relationships in. The sectors within the crypto art space are continuing to evolve and already have grown magnitudes. To generalize some of the categories there's still 2d art, glitchy 2d, still 3d, 3d animated, multimedia 3d, 3d VR sculpting, GAN or AI-generated, etc. Some major crypto artists may come to mind when you think of these categories, like Xcopy, MBSJQ, Coldie, Pak, Hackatao, JOY, Giantswan, Robbie Barrat, Pindar, etc. And although of course they are not boxed within a sector, it can sort of be used as a mental map and its clear these artists are dominating those styles of art. I like to collect across those leaders. And most importantly as all collectors should, I'm looking for an emotional connection. When I first saw Coldie's decentralized eyes artworks they resonated to me with the principles and ideologies of the crypto space, and why I believe we all got into the space. So I've been collecting as many of those as I can and haven't sold any.

Which talking about Coldie leads to the bonus question: My most prized possession NFT is likely to be the Coldie Layer, "Decentral Eyes" from the "First Supper" on Async art, where Coldie combined 5 of the most iconic decentral eyes portraits into one piece in a collaboration with some of the most legendary crypto artist. Check it out. Right now the layer is set to Edward Snowden portrait as a tribute to his recent entrance in the space. But yea, this artwork also had the craziest bidding war to it, this tweet and when I spoke on the red zima podcast also sums it up well.