Hey everyone, I've been meaning to share some updates about fxhash with you for many weeks, but have struggled immensely to do so. A little while ago, as we were trying to secure a loan to keep fxhash going, we received pretty bad news. As some of you were aware, fxhash was under compliance review by the French tax authorities; it was a lengthy and draining process that lasted more than 2 years. At the end of it, despite our goodwill and the lack of regulation applicable to our case, we were fined ~€500k. This would consume almost all of the loan, essentially putting a nail in the fxhash coffin. This really took a toll on me, as things were already pretty depressing future-wise. I had been operating the company (arguably poorly) almost alone, handling admin stuff / trying to secure some money. This news essentially voided all these efforts and meant there was no future for the business anymore. At that point I sort of dissociated from this situation, as I had reached my limits in terms of handling this business. I took some time off April/September to work on myself, my art, and try to figure out what to do next. Taking this time off didn't really come from an active decision, but rather from a need to understand what to do next. As many of you saw, I was becoming less and less present online as I had very little energy left for that. I needed to focus back on myself. During this time, cosi announced the closure of the project. It was hard to watch silently from the sidelines, but I was eventually grateful that he had the composure to inform you folks about the state of things. I wanted to respond publicly to many of you, but I felt like I couldn't just come out of the shadows at such a time without at least offering a few explanations, which somehow felt like an impossible task to me. I also know fxhash meant a lot to many of you. People put their art, their time, and their trust into this project, and formed friendships along the way. Its closure is a loss for many people beyond those of us who worked on it. I'm sorry my silence left you with so few answers from me during that time. I'm deeply grateful for everything you brought to fxhash over the years, and sad that we couldn't keep it going. So here we are now. The business is insolvent. I'll declare bankruptcy in the near future and see how we can pay some of those debts back with the few assets left. As for the future of the project itself, I'm not sure. I took some steps to secure IPFS content on a low-cost dedicated instance in case this happened, as a safety mechanism. But eventually, if we want the art to survive over time, the community will have to organize itself around preservation. I've seen a few initiatives already; hopefully this keeps going for the sake of the art. I think there's a bit of work left on my end to ensure the community can properly take over hosting & distribution of the assets. I'll look into that in the following weeks. On my end I've been working on art again and it feels great. It hadn't felt great for a long time. I would love to find energy and ideas again to contribute positively to the cryptoart space, but it's gonna take a bit of time to get there. In the meantime, I'm very grateful to those who reached out to offer help/a shoulder to lean on. I hope we can keep these friendships going throughout life.

Looking to snag a brand-new Masterpiece for your Art Collection? Well, look no further than The Patron Age - your trusted source for intel on the most anticipated Digital Art Releases. Let's explore all 25+ Releases that made it into this week's edition! 👀 Get Art Pilled 💊⬇️ 🟪 𝙊𝙗𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙨 by @DanielKoeth 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: ObjectsByDK (dot) com 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 100 Unique 1/1 Works [1 Per Day] 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Format: 24H Timed Daily Auctions 〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Daniel Koeth strips a hundred cultural objects of their assumed significance and places them against the backdrop of an open blue sky. Without their familiar context, meaning only returns through the memories, associations, and values we bring to them. (NOTE: DK has officially tossed the script we’ve come to know and love out the window. So, now through 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟰𝘁𝗵, DK’s Objects will be revealed on a daily basis until they’re all sold out.) 🟪 𝙂𝘼𝙐𝘿𝙄 𝘽𝙄𝙊-𝙎𝙏𝙍𝙐𝘾𝙏𝙐𝙍𝙀𝙎 by @Gala_Mirissa 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 8 Unique 1/1 Works 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Format: 24H Reserve Auction 〰️ 💰 Reserve Prices: 0.5 ETH - 1 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Gala Mirissa pays tribute to Antoni Gaudí’s enduring fascination with nature by transforming the human face into an architectural landscape. Across eight works, organic forms flow through the figure until body and space become inseparable, echoing Gaudí’s belief that architecture could grow from the logic of the natural world. 🟪 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙚 𝙒𝙚 𝙆𝙚𝙚𝙥 by @muriellondon 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Format: 24H Reserve Auction 〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.06 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Muriel London traces what remains of us after loss has changed the landscape of our lives. As certainty falls away, love becomes less something we assume will endure and more something we choose to hold, cherish, and give without reservation. 🟪 𝙇𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙤 𝙙𝙚 𝙇𝙪𝙯 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙖 by @tuukzs 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Format: 24H Reserve Auction 〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.1 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Tuukzs places a solitary white lily against absolute darkness, its petals scattering light into a spectrum of color. What appears broken becomes the source of its radiance, suggesting that sometimes it takes being opened apart to reveal everything we were capable of holding. 🟪 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙣 by @tuukzs 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Format: 24H Reserve Auction 〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.1 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Tuukzs imagines a paradise where every flower is perfectly preserved, beautiful precisely because nothing can grow, wilt, or die. Between botanical taxonomy and an idyllic landscape, the work exposes our desire to make nature both wild and perfectly knowable, while acknowledging the impossibility of having both. 🟪 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙍𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙍𝙚𝙛𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩 by @tuukzs 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Format: 24H Reserve Auction 〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.1 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Tuukzs places an ordered celestial diagram above a landscape governed by sensation, memory, and change. The lake faithfully mirrors the world before it, yet refuses to reflect the heavens above, leaving nature to quietly withhold itself from the systems we use to explain it. 🟪 𝘾𝙊𝙍𝙍𝙐𝙋𝙏𝘼 by @rocketgirlART 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Format: 48H Timed Auction 〰️ 💰 Price: 0.069 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Rocketgirl evokes damnatio memoriae in a digital age, asking what it means to destroy an image when even its remnants can testify that someone was once there. A face becomes the site of its own disappearance, its features dragged and dissolved until only evidence of the person remains. 🟪 𝘿𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙩 𝘿𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 by @goppie 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Format: Public Mint 〰️ 💰 Price: 0.25 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Goppie finds tenderness in a landscape built to resist us, where heat, thorns, and hard ground give way to unmistakable stillness. The work suggests that the desert’s magic is not hidden so much as earned through attention. 🟪 𝙑𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙊𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙚: 𝘽𝙤𝙣𝙚, 𝘾𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙, 𝙁𝙡𝙖𝙜 by @BardIonson 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Format: Public Mint 〰️ 💰 Price: 0.48 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Bard Ionson places the forms of bone and sky in a world where the distinction between photograph and simulation begins to dissolve. Drawing from Georgia O’Keeffe’s desert imagery and the logic of AI-generated vision, the work asks what remains genuine when even the evidence of life and death can be convincingly remade. 🟪 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙚 by @BoredJosei 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 19 Unique 1/1 Works - 15 Editions Each 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Format: Public Mint 〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0169 ETH 🟧 𝙐𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙋𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙨 by @YuZapata3SC 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma Prints 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 5 Editions 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Format: Public Mint 〰️ 💰 Price: $70 - $75 🟪 𝙆𝙤𝙞 𝙉𝙤 𝙔𝙤𝙠𝙖𝙣 by @Polygon1993 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: OpenSea 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 169 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Phase: Friends & Family @ 11:30am ET 〰️ 💰 Price: 0.05 ETH 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Phase: Holders AL @ 12pm ET 〰️ 💰 Price: 0.06 ETH 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Phase: Public Mint @ 12:30pm ET 〰️ 💰 Price: 0.069 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Polygon1993’s procedural animations draw from the manga, anime, video games, and digital aesthetics of Japanese popular culture that became formative to a generation raised in the West. Through gyakuyunyuu - the reimportation of Japanese culture - the series turns nostalgia into a question of where our memories, influences, and sense of belonging actually come from. 🟪 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙨𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝟬𝙭𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙙 by @jaendotart 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: OpenSea 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 313 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Phase: Allowlist Mint @ 12:30pm ET 〰️ 💰 Price: 0.02 ETH 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Phase: Public Mint @ 1:30pm ET 〰️ 💰 Price: 0.03 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Jaen transforms Arnold Böcklin’s enduring vision of the afterlife into a digital memorial for things that have vanished from the network. Through handcrafted pixel art, sound, and code, Jaen creates a place to say one final “gn” to lost digital lives, carrying the Isle’s long history of mourning into a culture where disappearance can happen with the click of a button. 🟪 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙊𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝘼𝙧𝙩 by @YoshiroMare 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 8 Unique 1/1 Works 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Format: 24H Reserve Auction @ 8am ET 〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.14 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Yoshiro Mare sees creation as a process that changes its maker, with every experiment, failure, and act of courage leaving its mark. Art becomes both mirror and catalyst: through making, we confront what we carry and emerge as someone newly discovered. 🟪 𝙇𝙄𝙈𝘽𝙊 𝙋𝙐𝙇𝙎𝙀 by @shojironakaoka 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse Works 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 60 Unique 1/1 Plotter Drawings 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Format: Public Sale @ 3pm ET 〰️ 💰 Price: $25 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Shojiro Nakaoka contends with the fragile balance between disappearance and emergence, where what is present slowly yields to what is not. Forms seem to gather at the edge of absence, giving the work the quiet tension of something neither gone nor arrived. 🟧 𝙁𝙄𝙎𝙃 𝙂𝙊𝙎𝙋𝙀𝙇 by @artifishalart 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Droop House 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 420 〰️ 🎛️ Format: 25H Fish Market Auction @ 7:21pm ET 〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 𝘛𝘉𝘈 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Artifishal constructs a sprawling visual mythology in which fish, figures, machines, charts, and devotional symbols continually change meaning as they move through 23 Chapters. Beneath its contemporary imagery lies an older human impulse - the need to believe, belong, and assign meaning to the world around us. 🟪 𝘽𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 by @vidalherrerav 〰️ 📅 Date: 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵 〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Ninfa 〰️ 🧮 Supply: 15 Unique 1/1 Works 〰️ 🎛️ Sale Format: 24H Timed Auctions @ 11am ET 〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.069 ETH 〰️ ℹ️ More Info: By freeing fragments of old game environments from their original purpose, Vidal Herrera transforms nostalgia into something more personal - a moment wherein we can reconsider how memory, repetition, and attention can make a familiar image feel new again. 🟪🟦🟩🟨🟧🟥🟪🟦🟩🟨🟧🟥🟪 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘌𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯'𝘴 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤: 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘌𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯'𝘴 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤: "𝘎𝘈𝘜𝘋𝘐 𝘉𝘐𝘖-𝘚𝘛𝘙𝘜𝘊𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘌𝘚" 𝘣𝘺 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘢 𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘢, "𝘊𝘖𝘙𝘙𝘜𝘗𝘛𝘈" 𝘣𝘺 𝘙𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭, "𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘋𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳" 𝘣𝘺 𝘎𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘦, "𝘒𝘰𝘪 𝘕𝘰 𝘠𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘯" 𝘣𝘺 𝘗𝘖𝘓𝘠𝘎𝘖𝘕1993, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 "𝘍𝘐𝘚𝘏 𝘎𝘖𝘚𝘗𝘌𝘓" 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘭 🟩🟦🟪🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟥🟧🟨🟩 Now that you're through the 7-Day Outlook, let's take a look at what else is coming up over the next 30 Days! ⬇️👀

On the Radar * ATMOSPHERIC GENERATIVE by @Rbabayjanitra on @objktcom - Sep 14 * Iso - Exeter by @wblut (Frederik Vanhoutte) on @objktcom - Sep 11 * LIMBO PULSE by @shojironakaoka (Shojiro Nakaoka) on @verse_works - Sep 10 * Context Collapse by Rhea Myers on @objktcom - Sep 7 * Naives by @Mannay on @verse_works - Sep 3 * RASTER LOGO by @hahajohnx (JOHN PROVENCHER) x RASTER on @raster_art - Sep 3 * Starry Nebula by @drbillkolomyjec (Dr Bill Kolomyjec) on @bootloader_art - Aug 31 * degenerative by ryley o eth x Sally Ohlsen on @artblocks_io - Aug 15 * Private Notes by @rudxane1 (rudxane) on their own site - Jul 20 * Soft Continuum ∞ by @mchx17 (MCHX) on @verse_works - Jul 20 * In the Current by @_natsarkissian (Nat Sarkissian) on @artblocks_io - Aug 17 (183 left) * GAMERS by @galoandstuff (itsgalo) on @artblocks_io - Aug 14 (896 left) * textmode - labyrinthos by @canekzapata on @bootloader_art - Aug 3 (230 left) * City Haiku - Bootloader Event by @opia_aiqo on @bootloader_art - Aug 1 (288 left) * Take a Spline for a Walk by @alexis_o_O on @bootloader_art - Jul 13 (220 left) bitverse.art/events 🖼 ATMOSPHERIC GENERATIVE by @Rbabayjanitra #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #CodeArt #AlgorithmicArt #ComputationalArt #bitVerse

safe to say I think @austingriffith is taking home the ETH funds claimable in ~2 hours, GGs and shoutout @z0r0zzz for running one of the coolest onchain bounties of all time!

Wow! That was fast. We are nearly at completion with 5 states to go!!! Artists from or with work made in Kansas, Louisiana, West Virginia, North Dakota, Maryland where you at?! We are still actively collecting artists from America until our budget runs out even before the Sept 23rd deadline. Please, continue to submit your art even if your state was already chosen. We’ve spent roughly 37k on nearly 100 artists so far! With a new budget set aside from the treasury for Marfa artists in October. @fndzionaversano 501c3 nonprofit organization and 50 states initiative was self funded through 50% of my art sales from Moments of the Unknown. I believe in giving back and helping one another. That’s what art is all about. To make the connections through our creations. Art will always lead the way!