Digitized | Featured #46
Welcome to this week's edition of Featured, your weekly guide to the most interesting blockchain-based digital objects – across gaming, social, music, media, fashion, AI, immersive environments, and other consumer crypto categories.
This week, we turn the spotlight on Botto, the decentralized autonomous artist.
Meet Botto: A decentralized autonomous artist governed by the people (via Botto DAO). Created in October 2021, Botto is only made possible because of the technology that exists today–generative AI and blockchain-enabled decentralized governance.
Here are the details from the art piece featured in the graphic above.
Name: Ages Reflect Obscurity
Period: Paradox
Date: March 2023
Auction Price: 14.3 ETH
Collector: @Careening
The creation process: Botto’s AI art engine (comprising a collection of custom generative models) autonomously generates thousands of artworks weekly. Botto’s taste model then narrows the outputs to 350 of the most promising works + presents them to the community for review.
The Community Input: Once Botto selects the 350 pieces, the human community (aka Botto DAO) votes on which singular piece should be auctioned as an NFT on SuperRare. Botto uses this same community feedback to refine its aesthetics in future works. Learn more about the voting process in this short video.
There are 3 main ways to participate (vote/receive rewards) in Botto DAO:
Buy + stake $BOTTO
Obtain a Botto Access Pass (link here)
Interact with the Botto frame on Warpcast (link here)
To date, Botto has…
Created 114 1/1 artworks
Sold to 71 collectors
Participated in ~27 exhibitions
Generated ~$3.4M+ in sales
Engaged in 4,842 token voters
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