Author: Cookie, Rhythm
beeple, the man who sold a single NFT for a record-breaking $69 million, has long been considered a symbol of ushering in the golden age of NFTs.

Despite the decline of NFTs, beeple and his team remain active in the NFT community. At this year's Art Basel, he brought another "golden dog" to the currently sluggish NFT market—Regular Animals.
... Yesterday, several Regular Animas paintings sold for over 10 ETH (approximately $35,000 USD) on OpenSea. These works were given away for free at Art Basel, totaling 256 pieces. Based on this price, beeple gave away nearly $10 million worth of NFTs at Art Basel. The project beeple and his team presented for Art Basel this year was precisely Regular Animas. These are a bunch of robotic dogs, as shown in the picture below. They look a bit creepy because these robotic dogs have human faces, and they are all based on famous people, such as Musk, Andy Warhol, Zuckerberg, Picasso, and even Beeple himself. Of course, it's not just the visual effect of looking creepy. These robotic dogs use cameras on their heads to observe their surroundings and use a constantly evolving visual algorithm to create works of art. The celebrities portrayed by these robotic dogs weren't chosen randomly. The aforementioned figures were selected because they have influenced how humans perceive the world, whether through algorithms, art, or politics. We, as humans, observe the world through these perspectives, and so do these robotic dogs. At Art Basel, these robotic dogs and humans observed each other, and each moment of observation became an artwork created by the robotic dogs—an artwork that is also like an autobiography for these robotic dogs. Interestingly, Regular Animas also has a physical series, totaling 1024 pieces. On eBay, one has already listed it for a fixed price of $6500. The market is pricing NFTs far more valuable than physical artworks, reminiscent of Damien Hirst's "The Currency" series from years ago, which forced owners to choose between physical pieces and NFTs. Before achieving great success in the NFT field, Beeple had been creating artwork every day since 2007, but had never sold a piece for more than $100. After gaining fame and fortune, Beeple didn't squander his wealth like some artists or cryptocurrency project teams. He established a studio/gallery of approximately 460 square meters, assembled a team of dozens of 3D artists, engineers, and researchers (including a former Boeing engineer), invited Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, former director of the Rivoli Castle Museum of Contemporary Art, as an advisor, and continuously exhibited his work in art exhibitions around the world, creating new artworks. Beeple's robot dog exhibition garnered attention not only within the cryptocurrency community due to its price but also from traditional media outlets like the Wall Street Journal.