Gallery · est. 2017
Most funds discovered digital art when it hit the auction block. 1confirmation hung the show. Seed checks into OpenSea and SuperRare, early positions in CryptoPunks and Meebits, conviction in Beeple and Pak — placed before NFTs had a single headline.
Art and culture were never a side bet here. They are the identity: proof that open networks give provenance to the things people actually care about.
Now hanging
Six exhibits, one per movement the fund backed early. Each generative study is an homage — a placeholder frame awaiting the licensed piece.
01 / 06
10,000 24×24-pixel citizens of Ethereum — the proof that provenance could make pixels priceless. 1confirmation bet on Punks before NFTs had a headline.
Homage study
Licensed CryptoPunk imagery from the firm's collection.
02 / 06
The Everydays discipline — one work a day for over five thousand days — carried digital art to Christie's. 1confirmation backed the artist era early.
Homage study
A licensed Everydays piece, with the artist's credit.
03 / 06
The anonymous machine. Minimal geometry, maximal scarcity — Pak turned supply itself into the medium.
Homage study
A licensed Pak work; keep the wall dark around it.
04 / 06
20,000 voxel characters for a 3D future. 1confirmation backs The Meebit Company as steward of the collection.
Homage study
Licensed Meebit renders from The Meebit Company.
05 / 06
The genesis marketplace for one-of-one digital art — where the crypto-art movement found its gallery. A 1confirmation seed investment.
Homage study
A licensed genesis-era SuperRare piece, artist credited.
06 / 06
Code as brush. The long-form generative movement — Art Blocks and its descendants — tracked from the first mint by Cryptoart.io.
Homage study
A licensed long-form generative work.
The instrument
Built by Richard Chen, General Partner
The crypto-art data platform. What began as a labor of love became the industry's ledger of record for digital art — tracking sales across every major platform as the market grew past $2B.
$2B+
crypto-art market tracked
The ledger of record for a market few believed would exist — built inside the fund that put art first.
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