What cleared
High sales
An ask is free to post. A sale is a price somebody paid. In the 24 hours to 6 August, 563 sales cleared across the curated list for Ξ 603.64, from 42 collections in 7 rooms. The biggest tickets:
CryptoPunk #2311
CryptoPunks
Ξ 269
Culture
CryptoPunk #8123
CryptoPunks
Ξ 41
Culture
CryptoPunk #4945
CryptoPunks
Ξ 40
Culture
CryptoPunk #4059
CryptoPunks
Ξ 30.45
Culture
#3246
Bored Ape Yacht Club
Ξ 8.89
Culture
#9087
Bored Ape Yacht Club
Ξ 8.3
Culture
#3535
Bored Ape Yacht Club
Ξ 8.18
Culture
Gazers #218
Gazers by Matt Kane
Ξ 7.25
Generative
Counted from sale events at the morning read, ether sales only. One row per work: a work that traded twice in the day appears once, at its higher price. Editions bought in multiples are priced per copy.
Written on-chain
The Reading Room
17 essays about the work hanging here: footnoted, illustrated, and written into Ethereum transaction logs where they cannot be edited or taken down. No marketplace displays them.
The Studio
We do not only choose. Two shows of our own, the contracts they sit on, and the prints and screens that get the work out of a browser tab.
What we publish
Vernissage · Art & Château
One is a picture nobody has seen yet. The other is where it ends up: outdoors, among the vines.
What we publish on
Transient Labs · Publish with us
A contract decides who can change a work and who can take it down. We are particular about whose name is on it.
Where it hangs
WhiteWall · MetaSill
Most of this work was made for a screen. Some of it has earned a wall.
What we learned
The Art of Code · The Rooms
The one part of this market we still find interesting, and the only honest way to report on it is to say what broke, including ours.
On privacy, and the cost of it
ANON
The most expensive painting ever sold went to a man holding a telephone, and nobody in the room knew who was on the other end. Collectors have bought through agents for three centuries, for reasons that have almost nothing to do with tax. Crypto kept the anonymity and threw away the structures underneath it, and the physical attack figures for the first half of 2026 are what that cost.
52
Verified attacks, H1 2026
$124.1m
Recorded exposure, up 11.8x
20
Home invasions, up from 1
CertiK Intel3D, H1 2026 Wrench Attacks. Publicly verified incidents only, so read it as a floor.