SuperRare Labs

For as long as I can remember "discovery" has been one of the major problems to solve in many consumer products. How do people find new stuff? Video-on-Demand leant on traditional models like channels and genre, e-com retail patterns haven't changed in over a decade, and unless you know what you want, you can often spend hours mindlessly browsing. Social media has truly entered the age of distraction, solving "discovery" by feeding you endless tiny clips based on an algorithm. The digital art market finds itself at a junction, it's both a problem and an opportunity - How do new collectors discover artists, and find art that they love? No one in the current market has solved it yet, we're all experimenting with navigation patterns borrowed from social media, e-com and retail and using terminology from the traditional art world (exhibitions), hype culture (drops) and Web3 (mint). At SuperRare Labs we're focussed on trying to improve "discovery" for this new world of digital art collecting. Starting with our search & explore view, we're using "tags" and "categories", enabling artists to label their work as they see fit and helping collectors combine search terms to find art they love. It's just the beginning as we continue to reshape the product experience with discovery at it's core. Oh and and if you do feel like spending hours browsing art, we also created a "mosaic" view, an artwork only grid, ideal for viewing artwork without the noise. View it here: https://lnkd.in/eAUSXwDi #superrare #digitalart #ux

Another important update in the development of SuperRare Labs 3.0, the Artwork Details Page is live. - Larger artwork display - Redesigned buying options - Tabbed menu, built to scale - Mobile specific UI adjustments - Dim and dark mode Artwork by @artonymousartifakt #superrare #art #uxdesign

Last week we launched a new version of the SuperRare Labs homepage. Centred around discovery and curation. Designed to be simple, elegant and scaleable. SuperRare is the art market, onchain. https://superrare.com/

WELCOME HOME We’ve taken the mission of improving art discovery to heart with the newly redesigned SuperRare Homepage → ᴀ ᴡʜᴏʟᴇ ɴᴇᴡ ʙʀᴏᴡꜱɪɴɢ ᴀɴᴅ ʙᴜʏɪɴɢ ᴇxᴘᴇʀɪᴇɴᴄᴇ ← Discover incredible art on SuperRare ↳ ˗ˏˋLIVE NOWˊˎ˗ ↴ https://superrare.com/

TO BITCOIN AND BEYOND .•* We’re expanding beyond Ethereum with our first Ordinals release on Bitcoin Read more in the article below by Decrypt ↴ https://lnkd.in/dAF8sy_e

We’ve rearranged the furniture to give SuperRare profiles a fresh feel with some sparkly new features... including dark mode and a portfolio estimator 💎 The true value of an illiquid art collection is hard to capture, but we’ve launched an estimator experiment that aims to do so based on previous sales and floor prices – a first for us, so hit us with your feedback .•* Other changes you’ll notice ↴ 💎 Bio, feature artwork, and social links have taken center stage so that you can put your best work forward and give collectors your full story 💎 Easily dive into your Community Pool and Curated List from your profile to see who has conviction in you and to signal your support for others Check out the update on https://superrare.com/

Votes are in for the RareDAO council election 💎 Presenting the top 5 candidates: Emma Joelle Johnson John Crain Paper Buddha Simon Hudson Mr. Bahama Having completed the election with the majority of votes, the above candidates will undergo KYC processes to formally onboard onto the RareDAO council. From there, they will play a key role in stewarding the DAO as a decentralized, creator-first ecosystem.

The final election for the 2024 RareDAO governance council is now LIVE: https://lnkd.in/ghW6HrJU 🗓️ Election period will end at 4pm EST on Tuesday January 30th. Anyone holding $RARE can vote for as many or as few candidates as they see fit. Your voting power will apply to all of your selections. We have 7 candidates competing for 5 seats: 👉 Paper Buddha: https://lnkd.in/gszZcXTg 👉 John Crain: https://lnkd.in/gB8xGz7N 👉 Duncan Dobbelmann: https://lnkd.in/gedZ5U74 👉 Emma Joelle Johnson: https://lnkd.in/ghFGBp-y 👉 Simon Hudson: https://lnkd.in/gKg4Dgqi 👉 Gordon Berger: https://lnkd.in/ghZ_W9py 👉 Mr. Bahama: https://lnkd.in/gNDHpBK4

Nominations are open today through Tuesday, January 23rd at 9am EST for the first council election in the history of RareDAO. We invite passionate, visionary individuals who interested in playing an active role in shaping the future of our community and the web3 creator economy to step forward and help us make history. Once instated, the council will be tasked with: 🎨 Driving initiatives that foster a decentralized, creator-first ecosystem. 💎 Influencing the strategic direction of RareDAO and the broader creator economy. 🤝 Collaborating closely with leaders in blockchain and digital art, DAO governance, and protocol development. Read more and self-nominate: https://lnkd.in/gkGEB4uA

Today, SuperRare Labs proposed that RareDAO evolve far beyond stewarding a single platform. By building a decentralized, global registry of artists, collectors, and assets, we can radically improve cross-platform discovery and authentication, unlocking the true potential of the creator economy. Web3 is a vast ocean of platforms, smart contracts, and chains, but we lack a comprehensive registry to tie all activity back to a creator – a source of truth that maps verification. This hampers discoverability, and pushes authentication and curation to centralized 3rd parties. If we, as a community, are to scale the web3 creator economy to its full potential as a $100B+ market, an autonomous registry of web3 historical provenance is needed. We have a massive opportunity here, and we want to build it alongside the entire web3 community. And so, we propose orienting the DAO's long term priorities around the development of this larger and much needed decentralized data platform. Read the full RFC below. All feedback on the beginnings of this mission is deeply valued. https://lnkd.in/gRrmVEig