Vaulted by PROOF

Ben Roy, co-founder of Accelerate Art, and R4v3n, artist/engineer, are joined by Eli Scheinman to discuss how narratives can often shape sentiment and culture. Topics include: consumer crypto trends in digital art, revisiting Ben’s “Fat Cryptopunks Thesis” in 2024, and, as always, a look inside our guests’ Vaults.

Erick Calderon (Snowfro), Founder of Art Blocks, and Alejandro Cartagena, Founder of Fellowship, join Eli Scheinman to discuss their experiences over the last 4 years as founders and pioneers of digital art platforms.

Eli Scheinmann, Director of Art at PROOF/Yuga Labs, is joined by Sofia Garcia, founder of ArtxCode, and Blondie, founder of White Walls, to discuss the business of supporting artists.

Jack Butcher and Jalil Wahdatehagh on Building a Digital Art Museum with Consensus and Curation

Jack Butcher and Jalil Wahdatehagh from Visualize Value, Opepen, and Checks join Eli this week to discuss using consensus and curation to build a new kind of digital art museum.

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Raoul Paul (CEO of Real Vision) and OSF (artist/collector) join Eli to discuss how macroeconomics play a role in investing in crypto and digital art.

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First-ever PROOF Podcast guest DCInvestor returns with Matt Zhang (Founder, Hivemind Capital) to discuss future-proofing your digital art portfolio. Topics include collecting styles, time horizons, and strategies for collecting digital art that will remain relevant for years, even decades, to come.

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00:00 - Intro
02:36 - Recently Collected

09:28 - Time Horizons
16:36 - Collecting Thesis
20:43 - Avoiding Bubbles
25:57 - ETH ETFs
26:15 - What’s in Your Vault?

39:28 - Outro

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DCInvestor: ⁠Harbor Scene by Tyler Hobbs⁠

Matt: ⁠Winds of Yawanawa⁠

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DCInvestor: ⁠Autoglyph #135 by Larva Labs⁠

Matt: ⁠Path to Xanadu by Chris Burden⁠

Sam (Market Analyst/CCO, Memeland) and CJ (Generative Artist and Engineer) join Eli Scheinman (Director of Art, PROOF/Yuga Labs) to discuss their experiences as creators on L2s, network effects, and favorite pieces of digital art in their vault.

Amanda akaStevey (Community/Art, PROOF/Yuga Labs) makes her triumphant return to the show, joining KOL 787 (Collector/Artist) to chat with Eli Scheinman (PROOF/Yuga Labs’ Director of Art) about all things digital art.

Collector/Investor Derek Edwards and Artist/ALLSHIPS founder Dave Krugman join PROOF/Yuga Labs’ Director of Art, Eli Scheinman.

It’s “genesis podcast vibes” for Vaulted by PROOF, a podcast about collecting and creating digital art.