CozomoMedici’s ArtTank drops
Crypto art collector CozomoMedici launched weekly #ArtTank events inviting artists to submit drops for a Medici Emerging Collection in partnership with Rollbit, sparking visible early engagement on social. (The call for submissions posted on CozomoMedici’s account drew likes and replies) (x.com).
Cozomo de’ Medici has revived #ArtTank as a weekly call for artists to submit work for the Medici Emerging Collection, with Rollbit backing the buys. (bitcoinchaser.com) The format is simple: artists reply under the weekly post, and five works are selected for acquisition for the collection. A Binance Square repost of one recent call said the Medici Emerging Collection acquires five artworks each week with Rollbit support. (binance.com) That setup traces back to the project’s March 2023 launch, when Cozomo said #ArtTank Tuesdays would acquire $1,500 of art each week. Rollbit posted the same day that the goal was “to find and champion the next great digital artists.” (bitcoinchaser.com) The collection itself sits on OpenSea under “MediciEmerging,” where the profile description says the buys come from weekly #ArtTank posts under Cozomo’s account and are sponsored by Rollbit. The page currently shows hundreds of items in the collection. (opensea.io) Cozomo’s standing in digital art extends beyond social posts and marketplace activity. On February 13, 2023, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art said it had received the first and largest collection of blockchain artworks to enter an American art museum through a 22-work gift from Cozomo de’ Medici. (lacma.org) That museum donation included works by 13 artists from seven countries, according to the museum. ARTnews reported the gift ranged from generative works to collectibles from CryptoPunks and World of Women. (lacma.org) (artnews.com) Cozomo told ARTnews in 2023 that the aim was to help seed a serious digital art collection at LACMA, while separating “digital fine art” from the speculative image-profile market that dominated the last crypto cycle. That framing helps explain why #ArtTank is pitched as a recurring patronage mechanism, not a trading contest. (artnews.com) The result is a familiar crypto-art playbook in a tighter loop: public submissions on X, weekly selections, and on-chain collecting into a visible wallet-backed collection. For artists, the next step is still the same one Cozomo set out in 2023—post the work, wait for Thursday, and see what gets picked. (bitcoinchaser.com) (opensea.io)
