Crypto patron’s #ArtTank move

Crypto art collector Cozomo de’ Medici turned a weekly buying program into a public call for submissions, asking artists to reply under #ArtTank posts for a shot at a purchase. (binance.com) The program started in late February 2023 as “#ArtTank Tuesdays,” a partnership with Rollbit that Cozomo said would spend $1,500 each week on digital art for the Medici Emerging Collection. Rollbit posted its own announcement on March 1, 2023, using the same weekly $1.5 million? No — $1.5k figure and the same Tuesday format. (bitcoinchaser.com) (cryptotimes.io) By 2026, the format had expanded beyond Cozomo’s own picks to guest-curated rounds. An Art Tank post on February 10, 2026 invited artists to reply for a selection by artist Pindar Van Arman, with five works to be acquired using Rollbit support and winners announced later that week. (outposts.io) That setup gives artists a fast distribution channel: one collector account, one open reply thread, and a promised buying budget on a fixed schedule. It also shifts the first step of discovery onto a public feed, where artists post work directly under the call instead of waiting for a gallery, auction house, or private introduction. (bitcoinchaser.com) (outposts.io) Cozomo’s role in crypto art gives the thread extra weight. In 2023, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art said 22 digital artworks from the Cozomo de’ Medici Collection entered or were promised to its permanent collection, calling it the first and largest private collection of blockchain artworks to enter an American art museum. (lacma.org) The Medici Emerging Collection also has a visible onchain footprint. An OpenSea profile for MediciEmerging, crawled this week, describes itself as “Medici Emerging #ArtTank sponsored by Rollbit” and shows hundreds of items tied to the collecting program. (opensea.io) The thread’s appeal is simple enough for artists and collectors to understand in one scroll: post the work, wait for the picks, and see whether a public patron buys. Three years after launch, #ArtTank is still running on that same promise of weekly attention and weekly acquisitions. (binance.com) (opensea.io)