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Murakami NFTs and Solana's Seeker: Are We Witnessing the Death of 'Art'?

08/08/2025

Murakami NFTs and Solana's Seeker: Are We Witnessing the Death of 'Art'?

Solana's new Seeker phone is here, Murakami's dropped another NFT collection, and South Korea wants to be the next crypto haven. Sounds like progress, right? Innovation! Democratization! What if all this “progress” is indeed just building the road to artistic hell. What if we’re conflating accessibility with quality, and volume...

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