Artists and Collectors everywhere!
We are thrilled to share with the world! Today, Sealed is open and available for EVERYONE to list, trade, and collect art!
Welcome to the future of digital art! Today!
🦭🧵
We're SO happy to share the artist we're working with, to honour the first 100 Subscribers on Sealed, the talented
@furagu2525
!🎉
A quick teaser of the WIP!
Still limited spaces left, so Subscribe to someone on Sealed now to be included❗️
Can you spot yourself here already?
🤠 SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE HERE 🤩✨
- SUBSCRIBE TO CREATORS, GET PERKS !
- DEPOSIT DAI AND GENERATE YIELD, SUBS CAN BE POTENTIALLY FREE*.
- PLATFORM FEES ARE 0.03% COMPARED TO TRADITIONAL PLATFORMS (1% VS ~10.9% - 20.5%)
Creators MAKE more.
patrons SAVE more.
We just released gasless edition minting on mainnet!
Never worry again about not having gas for minting or having to cover upfront costs that you don't know if or when you'll recover.
Available on your current contracts thanks to our manifold integration
Spring is here!
A time to celebrate new beginnings and optimism!
And to celebrate the first group of Subscribers supporting artists using our subscription service, we just airdropped our tribute to you, featuring you!
"Sealed Hanami Fest!"
Fantastic artwork by
@furagu2525
In about an hour, the Sealed team is going to use all of the marketplace fees generated since launch to go on a subscription signup spree! There’s no rhyme or reason to who we will sub to or how much, but we’re hoping to discover as many amazing artists as possible!
We just added a button to mark NFTs are AI-generated when listing
Our goal is to make life easier for collectors that care about that while allowing all types of works to be on our site
Ever had to look at multiple marketplaces to find all the listings of an artist?
Sealed aggregates listings on Foundation, SuperRare, MakersPlace, KnownOrigin, Manifold and Zora, so you can just go to an artist's page and see all of them in a single place
Coins Pamping, Gas high!
What about the art?!
Don't worry, we got you.
-Artists: Gasless ETH NFT minting means you can drop art on Sealed anytime without cost, regardless of gas!
- Collectors: Gas optimization on Sealed is almost 50% more gas efficient for collecting art!
THE SUBSCRIPTIONS HAVE BEEN ACTIVATED! 🫨
In the 48-hour launch marathon, 161 creators set up their subscription tiers!
so we used the marketplace fees we generated since the launch to subscribe to them all for 3months!
as they say back home, poggers!
In about an hour, the Sealed team is going to use all of the marketplace fees generated since launch to go on a subscription signup spree! There’s no rhyme or reason to who we will sub to or how much, but we’re hoping to discover as many amazing artists as possible!
question! if you are selling art for less on tezos, why not list the same piece on sealed for a super low reserve! with gasless bidding, anyone can afford to bid! and with vickrey auctions all bidding is fair, you only bid what you can afford or however you value the work!
dare
Search by prompt is live! Go give it a spin!
Instead of prompting to generate imagined work, why not prompt to find the piece that speaks to you, onchain, today!
Find any 1/1 minted on Ethereum, by prompt, Fast. It is fast. Seriously, fast.
"Sealed is for anime art!"
We love Anime and artists inspired by it.
But we not only Welcome all kinds of art, we celebrate them!
We want to inspire & encourage each other through all forms of art!
A thread of OTHER genres on Sealed!
🧵
(garden_simulator.exe by
@__rylen__
)
In 2 days we're gonna spend all the money we've earned so far from fees on subscriptions to support creators
Set up your subscription tiers before then to be eligible! It's free and gasless
🤠 SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE HERE 🤩✨
- SUBSCRIBE TO CREATORS, GET PERKS !
- DEPOSIT DAI AND GENERATE YIELD, SUBS CAN BE POTENTIALLY FREE*.
- PLATFORM FEES ARE 0.03% COMPARED TO TRADITIONAL PLATFORMS (1% VS ~10.9% - 20.5%)
Creators MAKE more.
patrons SAVE more.
Gas cost of minting 5 editions:
- Sealed art: 97,312
- Manifold: 108,344 (+11.3%)
- Foundation: 327,639 (+236.9%)
Currently sealed offers the lowest gas cost for minting on all platforms, and listings are gasless!
Sealed now supports
@recomet_io
natively! Recomet is a cryptonative commission platform that shares ethical alignment with ours and provides another means for artists in the space to leverage tools they have in the web2 art world!
All you gotta do is check the box!
We've added new showcase tabs to all user profiles!
Now you can select specific works that you have created or collected to display there, creating a curated selection
Want to give a try but don't know where to start with listing?
Well, here's two useful videos on how to Mint and List!
We'll start with Part 2: How to List, as you can list any NFT you've minted anywhere!
Today seal will remind them that seal solved the nft indexing problem.
Discover any 1/1 on ethereum with our SuperSearch (search by prompt)!
It doesn’t just show the listings on sealed, but also the listing on any 1/1 marketplace.
and results load FAST
Don't worry artists and collectors, we won't make you doomscroll or sell your art for $0.29 on Sealed!
We remain a market for collecting and selling art with intent!
Here are some great artworks on Sealed🧵
Chart of new daily listings on major 1/1 platforms (excluding foundation) over the last 2 weeks
Now sealed is consistently the 2nd marketplace in new pieces listed!
Marketplace Sameface Syndrome?
Yeah, we're pretty tired of seeing the same artists plastered over other Marketplaces too.
On Sealed, if you look at this awesome piece by
@_stulka
, scroll down, you'll be recommended new art you've probably never seen, based purely on the art!
Doomsday Scenario!
Jk, it's just another Monday.
But we were prepared for this!
The team at Sealed are seasoned artists/collectors, we knew this was coming...
And we're prepared!
- Gasless ERC 1155 editions on ETH
- Gasless Bidding
- Gas-saving artist subscriptions on DAI
Last week on Sealed:
- Launched *Gasless* Editions on ETH mainnet (ERC1155)!
- New Editions section on Homepage!
- Month 2 of Subscriptions has begun!
- Expanded the team!
- Regular Community streams, events, art sharing and critiques on Discord!
and moo0o0ore to come...
Save ETH collecting with Sealed!
- With our Gasless bidding, gas wars can be a good time, friendly competition without needlessly spending ANY ETH on gas.
- Meaning more bids for artists!
- Also our Gas optimisations make listing on mainnet
~40% cheaper than other markets!
We just wrapped up our alpha test and we're thrilled by the support and engagement so far!
Since the alpha leak, we've seen 348 listings and 114 auction sales!
Now we need you and YOU and you to go out there and bring your friends and collectors! Anyone can list!
We just added a new tab to all profile pages that lists all sales from an artist!
This makes it easier to see an artist's previous activity, their collectors, and verify they're real.
Sealed introduces Vickrey auctions to the digital art space! We hope the introduction of this mechanic will encourage more people to feel like they can participate!
A Vickrey auction is a sealed-bid auction where bidders submit their bids without knowing the bids of the others.
If an NFT artwork isn't posted on Twitter and nobody is featuring it, does it even exist?!
Sealed is here to say "YES, look at it now!" while we shove it in your face.
The worst handled aspect of the NFT space: Visibility and Discoverability, we're dedicated to fixing that!
🧵
You dont have to split your collections to mint on sealed!
If you already have a collection on SR, FND or any other marketplace, you can mint there and list on sealed, sealed accepts all ERC721s
GMeep
(I dunno about that one guys)
We're gonna be absolutely swagged out at the Sealed booth in NFT NYC this year.
Make sure you stop by, we'll have IRL wearables (T-shirts + hats), maybe even some exclusive digital art... and more stuff to give away!
Who's gonna be there?
oh my god we'll be practically giving these away*
hope you come to nftnyc and visit us at the sealed booth
and stay tuned to some ways to acquire by following
@sealed_art
At , we've built marketplace that is better for both artists and collectors, one that prioritizes efficiency, fairness, and enjoyment in the art buying and selling process.
Sealed is an artists first platform.
But our goal is loftier than just another marketplace, we're looking to change the culture of the this space, to improve conditions for artists, save time for collectors, and build something that will last as we enter into an insane digital future.
lets do sum math!
>you haf to shill on twitter to get anyone to bid on any platform
y not list on and enjoy a low 2% fee that goes back to da artists (and make some new friends and set ur bg color on ur listing <3 <3)
easy!
We now track last sale price for all NFTs on profile pages
Sales are aggregated across Foundation, SuperRare, Opensea, Rarible, Sealed, MakersPlace, KnownOrigin, Manifold and Zora, so we always show the last sale regardless of where it happened!
Here at Sealed, we ONLY feature our best friends on the Homepage!
And guess what...
If you list your art on Sealed, then we're automatically best friends ♥️
Each artwork on Sealed is featured every time it's Listed, Sold, and also just sometimes randomly in Roulette section!
Actually, THIS IS HUGE
First month of the sub feature just wrapped and we are stoked to see the results
-174 Individual Artists have received 1+ pledges
-Top Pledged to Artist is making $450 USD/month
-90% of subscription pledges are 3 month+
Amazing!
Ok, two weeks in a row, let's make this Artist Spotlight thing a "thing"!
This time we're going to talk about
@PlasticTasticc
, a seriously unique artist who is literally pushing boundaries on Sealed!
We just released gasless edition minting on mainnet!
Never worry again about not having gas for minting or having to cover upfront costs that you don't know if or when you'll recover.
Available on your current contracts thanks to our manifold integration
Reasons to use sealed as your portfolio page:
- Can curate your displayed NFTs
- Collectors can see all your listed NFTs across all marketplaces
- We display all your NFTs, no matter the contract you used (opensea, fnd, manifold...)
- Full onchain history on all your works
Oh, you've asked. And now, we've answered.
The Sealed Discord Community is now open to everyone!
It's a shill free space, built to talk about art and culture. Come if you'd like to join the moooovement!
Archiving NFTs, including many of the ones at risk because of KnowOrigins shutdown, is a byproduct of our optimizing of Sealed!
Sealed is so much faster to load your art than other marketplaces, because we painstakingly pulled information on alot of NFTs and re-encoded them for
Last Week on SEALED:
- According to Stats, Sealed continues to host more auctions and higher volumes than alot of ETH NFT marketplaces, some established pre-2020!
- The artist featured in our Artist Spotlight last week has had FOUR 1/1 auctions since!
(Congrats again
We've created some unique discoverability algorithms as well.
A personalized recommendation feed based on the art you collect and a "You may also like" feed under each listed piece that shows you more art you may like, like the piece you're viewing. We're quite proud of these!
Tired of seeing 0x addresses when looking at sales histories, not knowing who is who?
We imported names from lots of different sources to ensure we have everyone tagged, making it easy to identify everyone
Since our launch a week ago we've shipped:
- showcase tab
- last sales on ALL marketplaces
- deviantart integration
- expanded pages for our homepage categories
- ux improvements and bug fixes
and more to come!
Because we embrace and display NFT art on Ethereum mainnet, regardless of marketplace, many of the artworks from KnownOrigin are archived on Sealed!
Should infura or IPFS links no longer be supported post-shutdown of KnownOrigin, you'd still be able to see the NFTs and get their
Earlier this month,
@KnownOrigin_io
announced their shutdown.
Since then, a few of us have been examining how they store their 250,000+ NFTs and we discovered something terrible. 🧵
We've also spent a lot of time ensuring the marketplace is ABOUT art and discovery. Gone are distracting text and walls of text about the marketplace being about art.
Sealed provides full galleries where your art is respected as are the dimensions
Last week on Sealed:
- First Artist Spotlight released, who wants to be next?
- Editions on Sealed are over 3x more gas efficient for collectors than other Markets.
- Data shows artists are ~32% more likely to get a sale on Sealed vs other markets.
- Announced collab with a
GET IN, WE'RE STARTING A MOOOOOOVEMENT
Between the 1/1s, and Limited Editions below, all are available right now, consider collecting or helping out the artists you like with a share!
Some Recent Listings and Live Auctions on Sealed🧵
Capping the week off with a boat-load of sales, live auctions and listings on Sealed!
We continue to prove with innovation on mainnet, we can save artists/collectors ETH, stand by the well-established provenance, and foster art-centric culture!
Let's look at some of the art!🧵
Search by Prompt on Sealed is one of the best features in the NFT space! 🗣️
Imagine using AI to search every artwork on Ethereum network, by subject matter, not just title or tags!
Genuinely a fun way to discover art, like you can see here!
Thread of art we found🧵
How did we achieve gasless minting?
Creating and listing editions only involves signing an offchain message, and only when there's a sale that message is brought on-chain
So creating, listing, re-listing and editing NFTs is completely free until the first sale
We're not only trying to save you time bidding and listing, we're trying to save you time LOADING.
loads everything at blazing speed.
Did you see that?
There it went again!
All these fancy pieces of art actually load during this lifetime!
We’re holding our first public office hours tomorrow! We’ll be talking shop, all the recent updates, a little philosophy, and what’s coming for sealed.
Hope to see you there!
UR NEW FAVOURITE ARTIST IS CLOSER THAN U THINK!
At Sealed, we build with visibility for Art in mind!
-Like our democratized homepage where every artist is featured
-Innovative discoverability tools like the AI-driven Search-by-Prompt
-or our art-focused community!
Some of these artists just do too much, so...
This time we're focusing in, Spotlighting a unique collection of works!
A mix of traditionally hand drawn and stylistic digital illustrations and character profiles from a dark future begging to be explored:
SCRG by
@suisoichi
!
In a Vickrey auction. The highest bidder wins but pays the price of the second-highest bid.
This encourages bidders to bid their true value since they'll only have to pay the next highest bid, not their own maximum.
Merch Giveaway Time!
Miss the chance to grab Sealed swag at NFT NYC? Didnt get enough? Couldn't make it to New York?! New exclusives?!
We'll be running giveaways for Artist and Collectors!
Giving it all away through a series of challenges!
(Shipping Worldwide)
First Quest 👇
Artists, if you've made art or content for your Subscribers on Sealed, share it here!
If you haven't set up your Subscription page, it takes less than a minute, no gas/fees, totally free.
Set your perks, tell your friends and collectors, stress less about big sales 🫡
collectors! check out all the sweet editions currently available on sealed !!!
artists, have you created your edition drop yet?? collectors might be looking!
(art and artists featured in video listed in quote tweet. go find some new art to love)
Last month we released onchain subscriptions. Today we want to spotlight an artist who has utilized this service to create a fairly large community of subscribers very quickly!
Let’s dive into
@shizzyaizawa
and what they’re doing for their subscribers.
Now would be a good time to approve your ERC-1155 Manifold collections for Editions on Sealed!
After a one-time approval gas fee you can mint Editions on mainnet ETH totally free on Sealed, using an existing Manifold contract!
Saving ETH and maintaining contract Custody 🫶
It's time for the Development Weekly Round-up!
We've been busy shipping this week!
- new Showcase Feature
- Twitter and DeviantArt Integration
- AI-Generated NFTs Tagging
- New Artist Sales Tab
Read on for more info! 👇
Since our launch, we've had 55 different people subscribe to creators on Sealed
We're planning to reward them with a group NFT that will include every single one of them, which we're extending to the first 100 subscribers
Subscribe now to be included!
Here at Sealed, not only do we continue to build as a market, continue to host art sales on mainnet ETH,...
But we take time to talk about and appreciate the art too!
Sealed Art thread 🧵
Join
@robek_world
for the sealed weekly office hours, tomorrow! We’ll talk onchain subscriptions and what’s coming next at Sealed — and also try to unravel the mysteries of the universe
Sealed, show me Windows 95 Glitch art!
Our unique Search system allows you to find any aesthetic, theme or micro-niche you can think of!
- The search loads super fast
- Based on visuals too, not just title/descriptions
- Just try search "Toilet Poetry" on any other marketplace
we spent a ton of time to make sure we got all NFTs attributed correctly!
We even support NFTs created through multiple NFT marketplaces that shut down years ago, just to ensure we cover all the tokens created by an artist
Just listed one of my older piece, "Warrior" on
@sealed_art
It's so mind blowing to me that sealed recognize my old ass infinft/nameless contract from 2020. I'm so so happy that this piece can see the light again
vikrey auction btw ✨
is a blend of innovation with user convenience. With commitment to enhancing the bidding experience, while ensuring security and trust, it aims to set a new standard in the ever-changing world of NFTs.
Join us today and let's save the future of the space.
The fastest!
At Sealed, your time is important to us! We built our very own image pipelines. Other marketplaces rely on external services - but we implemented everything ourselves and run it on our own bare metal infra so we can optimize it to meet our needs!