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Introducing Escher 🖼️

A new home for fine art editioned NFTs!

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Metaversal is a Bankless newsletter for weekly level-ups on NFTs, virtual worlds, & collectibles


Dear Bankless Nation,

The Tessera team just introduced a new platform, Escher. 

Escher is a platform and marketplace aggregator for fine art editions, i.e. 1-of-X pieces like Mindlessness by Terrell Jones. 

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With Escher, you’ll be able to access all of an artist’s work in one convenient place, plus easily discover and buy or sell fine art editions. 

For today’s post, let’s walk through what you can expect from Tessera’s latest release, which is timely considering how the open edition boom is driving tons of interest toward editioned cryptoart lately!

-WMP


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Getting Ready for Escher, a New Destination for Fine Art Editions

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10/ Why now? Artists eager for a platform solely dedicated to editions will now have a singular place to showcase & organize their art. Collectors will now be able to readily discover artists, with an exceptional, expansive & exclusive procession of art unfolding before them.
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The 101

The team behind Tessera just announced the launch of Escher, a new platform focused on fine art editions. Set to go live on March 30th, Escher will offer a new singular and organized experience around the browsing, buying, and selling of digitally editioned art. 

The “artist-first and user-first” project will function as an aggregator to track editioned NFT mints and listings across the ecosystem, with the added benefit of a dedicated curation team that will work to elevate emerging and established artists alike.

In the past, there hasn’t been a unified place where artists and collectors can readily highlight and sell their NFT editions, and Escher aims to fill this gap. 

The Escher UX

Escher will aggregate all editions by an artist, no matter what platform or smart contract the editions exist on. This unified UX will eliminate the need for collectors to jump around multiple platforms to view an artist’s complete body of editioned work, as has previously been required. 

Escher will also offer artist showrooms, which will be customizable and dedicated spaces where artists can showcase their editions as they please. Out of the gate, the platform will feature showrooms for over 25 artists, including Jack Butcher, Cath Simard, XCOPY, Grant Riven Yun, and Sarah Zucker. 

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6/ Esher's artist showrooms are dedicated and customizable spaces for artists, bringing together all of their editions, regardless of the contract or platform on which they were released. Collectors can experience an artist’s entire catalog of editions in their curated showroom.
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Lastly, Escher will be an open marketplace so anyone can use the platform to browse, buy, and sell artists’ editioned pieces through primary and secondary marketplace listings. 

Escher Exclusives Are Coming

Tessera complemented the Escher launch announcement by announcing that Escher Exclusives, a curated collection of limited editions from some of the most acclaimed artists in the NFT ecosystem, will also have its “Season 0” launch on March 30th. 

Each season this series will offer a rotating cast of artists, edition quantities, and themes, so these exclusive releases provide art collectors unique opportunities to experience the best digital artists in a single, iconic collection. 

To learn about and stay up-to-date on upcoming Exclusives drops, make sure you’re following the Escher Twitter account!

The Big Picture

By aggregating editions and their secondary marketplace listings across different contracts, token standards, and platforms, Escher will become a unique and first-of-its-kind hub for defragmenting the cryptoeconomy’s art world. It’s also arriving at a time when open edition mints are becoming an increasingly go-to option for artists and collectors.

This timeliness, combined with Escher’s artist-first approach, its commitment to royalties when others are racing to 0%, and its commitment to quality, makes the platform well poised to become a mainstay in the cryptoart scene for the foreseeable future.

P.S. Remember how Coinbase just dropped the Base, Introduced free mint to commemorate the launch of its Base L2? Tessera’s doing a similiar free mint to commemorate the launch of Escher, and it’s open through tomorrow, March 8th, to 11:59AM EST if you’re interested.

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12/ To celebrate our entry into editions, we created The Escher Edition: zora.co/collections/0x… Our free open edition will be claimable from Tuesday, March 7th at 12:00pm EST to Wednesday, March 8th at 11:59apm EST.
zora.coThe Escher EditionHere for the art.
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Action steps

  • Check out Escher: preview the platform ahead of the full launch on March 30th 🖼️

  • Catch up on last week: see my previous Polymath NFTers roundup post 🧠


Author Bio

William M. Peaster is a professional writer and creator of Metaversal—a Bankless newsletter focused on the emergence of NFTs in the cryptoeconomy. He’s also recently been contributing content to Bankless, JPG, and beyond!


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