Welcome to the OpenSea digest. Let’s look back through the biggest NFT and web3 news of the week.
Jack Butcher launches ‘Credits,’ a collection sold through $8 payments on X Money
Artist Jack Butcher launched "Credits" on Sept. 20, asking participants to send $8 through X Money with their Ethereum address. Each payment became one Credit, an artwork generated by hashing the transaction ID into four 8-by-8 color grids, with the payment timestamp and any "8"s in the transaction ID shaping the visual result.
Collector Adam Weitsman announced Sept. 24 that he had acquired the rarest Credit in the collection, praising Butcher as an "amazing artist and innovator." That same day, Butcher said he found four one-minute windows during the mint that each produced exactly 80 pieces, illustrating how the collection's time-based color system cycles through 15 possible color sets four times per minute.
Collectors can burn 80 Credits to assemble a rarer work called a Statement. Assembly opens Oct. 1 and total Statements will be capped at 1,526. Butcher has also begun publishing the methodology behind a rarity rating system for individual tokens.
NODE hosts artists Luke Shannon and Maya Man for a gallery talk in Palo Alto
NODE, a digital art nonprofit in Palo Alto, California, kicked off its two-person exhibition "Make Out" with a gallery talk from artists Luke Shannon and Maya Man on Sept. 20. The show, which runs through Nov. 8, 2026, looks at how people present themselves online, tying the theme to both artists' early 2000s internet upbringing.
The centerpiece video, "Battle Royale Pas de Deux," shows Man and Shannon playing as pop singer Olivia Rodrigo and film character John Wick inside a single Fortnite match. Man also contributed "Seven Websites," a set of browser-based artworks she built between 2022 and 2026.
Shannon built three interactive machines, including "For You," a sculpture that scrolls a visitor's phone through algorithmic content, and "Attention Is All You Need," named after the 2017 paper behind modern AI language models.
Rhizome's 30th anniversary auction featured work from five digital artists in New York
Rhizome, an international organization supporting new media art since 1996, held a live auction at its 30th anniversary benefit dinner Sept. 23 in New York City. The sale ran simultaneously in the room and online, with remote bidders competing against guests until each piece closed.
Works included Evil Biscuit's "Card NFT 2" uncut sheet, Tyler Hobbs' "Test Drawing for F(l)ight," Casey Reas' "CENTURY 2052 #39," Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's "Starless" and LoVid's "Sunny Nights."
Proceeds support Rhizome's continued work preserving and presenting digital art.
Artist John Gerrard's LACMA installation "SPIRITS" reached its final chapter on the autumn equinox
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art premiered the last set of works in John Gerrard's "SPIRITS" series on Sept. 22, the autumn equinox, running on the hour from midnight to midnight Pacific time.
The pieces, derived from plastic sandals collected on Morocco's Atlantic shore, took over LACMA's homepage with an interactive work that let visitors worldwide build variable worlds of sound and image by touch, on both desktop and handheld devices.
With this release, "SPIRITS" stands complete and viewable at lacma.org through Dec. 21, 2026, marking one year since the installation opened. Gerrard described the work as tracing oil from its raw form through the life forms that produced it, into the ocean, through a light prism and into nothingness, paired with a real-time generative sound score.
The project credits Werner Poetzelberger as producer and R&D lead, Helmut Bressler as programmer and Jonas Hammerer as generative sound producer, built using the Babylon.js world engine and Tone.js sound engine.
Tomorrow, Autumn Equinox, Tuesday 22nd September, on the hour from midnight to midnight on Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles County Museum of Art @LACMA will premiere the last set of SPIRITS art works, derived from plastic sandals collected on the Moroccon Atlantic shore. A new… pic.twitter.com/TsN6wKpumF— john gerrard (@john__gerrard) September 21, 2026
Tomorrow, Autumn Equinox, Tuesday 22nd September, on the hour from midnight to midnight on Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles County Museum of Art @LACMA will premiere the last set of SPIRITS art works, derived from plastic sandals collected on the Moroccon Atlantic shore. A new…
‘Websites Websites Websites!’ brings twenty artists together for Rhizome's 30th anniversary
marked its 30th anniversary with "Websites Websites Websites!," an exhibition presenting twenty artists' work built around the website as an art form, shown both in New York City and online. The show traces 30 years of changing relationships with the internet through browser-based pieces that invite experimentation, intimacy and critique, according to the exhibition description.
Visitors in the gallery encounter works grouped by loose thematic and aesthetic connections, with different hardware shaping how each piece appears. The online version organizes work into four sections: Anarchy, Abstraction, Poetic Computing and Ghosts. The Anarchy section draws on the anti-institutional spirit of 1990s and early 2000s net art, featuring pieces that misuse software, turn familiar interfaces against users and treat the internet's stranger corners as material.
Included works range from Vuk Ćosić's "History for the Blind" and Damjanski's "Humans Not Invited" to Molly Soda's "2010 Pose Idea," Lorna Mills' "Honey, I Blew Up My Tits" and Jan Robert Leegte's "untitled[rhizome]," which dates to 2000.
Together, the works in the exhibition question how artists can claim space within a corporate internet and imagine more personal, critical ways of being online.
OpenSea launched a hub to collect tokenized trading cards across multiple platforms and blockchains
This week, OpenSea introduced a new feature that consolidates tokenized trading cards from different platforms and blockchains into one searchable hub. The new tool covers sports cards, Pokémon, One Piece and other categories, spanning graded, raw and sealed items, and lets users filter by category or platform.
First-week top sales on the platform highlight graded Pokemon cards like a Gardevoir EX and a Pikachu Gold Star, sold through partner platforms Collector Crypt and Phygitals. Listings pull from partner platforms including Collector Crypt, Phygitals and Courtyard.io, with each digital card backed by a corresponding physical one.
Tokenized cards are spread across different platforms and chains.We put them all in one place.Sports, Pokémon, One Piece, and more. Graded, raw, sealed. Filter by category or platform. pic.twitter.com/4WSqwgUdNQ— OpenSea (@opensea) September 24, 2026
Tokenized cards are spread across different platforms and chains.
We put them all in one place.
Sports, Pokémon, One Piece, and more. Graded, raw, sealed. Filter by category or platform.
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