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1 week ago | nftnow.com | Matt Medved

Welcome back to the Now Newsletter. I’m Matt Medved. It’s Frieze week here in New York — which means a nonstop blur of gallery openings, cocktail circuits, and after-hours art world energy. Last night, I dropped by Ledger’s meetup at Pubkey — a quirky Greenwich Village dive bar that feels like it was coded into existence by Bitcoiners.

1 week ago | nftnow.com | Matt Medved

Jesperish didn’t set out to become an artist — he was born into it. Raised in the Netherlands by a painter mother and a music-obsessed father, his childhood unfolded like a synesthetic score: progressive rock became color, emotion became form, and gaming became his first canvas. By age 10, he was already manipulating layers in Photoshop CS2 on his dad’s work laptop.

2 weeks ago | nftnow.com | Matt Medved

Welcome back to the Now Newsletter. I’m Matt Medved. The crypto masses have officially descended on Dubai for TOKEN2049. Never been a big fan of the city, to be honest. Always felt like a construct to me: a glittering hallucination in the sand, engineered by oil barons and architects on amphetamines. I remember my first visit in 2015. I went snowboarding indoors at the Mall of the Emirates, only to realize I was being watched by diners at a nearby Applebee’s. Late-stage capitalism at its finest.

2 weeks ago | nftnow.com | Matt Medved

Alpha Centauri Kid’s sales bot has been working overtime this week. Since Sunday, the enigmatic artist has notched major sales, including “The Void” for 33.5 ETH ($60,676), “god of shadows” for 27.15 ETH ($48,968), and the simply titled “🫶” for 20 ETH ($35,332). Two weeks prior, a pseudonymous collector named Conviction purchased “Happiest Place on Earth” for 40 ETH ($72,924), setting an all-time high for ACK’s popular “The Broken Keys” collection.

2 weeks ago | nftnow.com | Matt Medved

The jump from esports design to digital fine art isn’t an obvious one. But for Belgian artist Skilux, it was less a pivot than an inevitability — a slow-burning realization that design alone couldn’t capture the depth of what he needed to say. In the early days of web3, Skilux saw a different kind of future: one where raw emotion and digital expression could meet without compromise. Rendered almost exclusively in black and white, his works resist the frenetic pace of contemporary digital culture.