Art Blocks & The Hunt For A Metaverse Picasso

Art Blocks is a generative art platform. Recently, it’s been making headlines with some jaw-dropping sales, like the 1800 ETH sale of Ringers #879 to investors Three Arrows Capital. Art Blocks gives creatives the opportunity to release their generative art projects to a community of avid art and NFT enthusiasts. Not only that, Art Blocks helps to facilitate a unique experience between artist and collector, by allowing the latter to participate in the art generation process.

In recent weeks, Art Blocks has undergone an explosion of growth, buoyed by the increased interest in the NFT market as a whole. In this report, we’ll contextualize this growth and explore the top collections helping to drive it.

Art Blocks sales have gone from virtually nil at the start of the summer to regularly clearing days with 10,000 ETH of volume in the final weeks of August. As seen in the chart above, total volume can be broken up by and attributed to the three types of collections – Curated, Playground and Factory.

• Curated – Selected by the Art Blocks curation board. The purpose of the curated category is to create a collec