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Artcoin has huge potential to onboard the exact people we need more of in this space. Artists are dreamers who usually care more about the work they’re creating and the message their artworks carry, than about making money quickly. Fans and followers of real artists often follow their favorite creators for years and contribute by sharing new pieces on socials, featuring the artists‘ motives in their own creative interpretations or, if they can, buy real world originals to display in their homes or private collections. It’s a culture that has strong parallels to early meme and NFT communities and probably holds some of the realest future bagworkers this space is yet to even see in action. The classic arts world still has many limitations when it comes to offer talented artists a broader stage, be it to expand an audience beyond its current circles for established artists or provide funding for (young) aspiring artists without a proven network or wealthy sponsors. Here’s where DeFi can help. Think of artists sharing their works with a worldwide community of Artcoin supporters, apply for funding from the eco’s main coin‘s creator fees or simply launch their own arts-themed memecoin and pair it with Artcoin for more eyes and exposure. Over the years we’ve seen many attempts to launch and run Artcoin as the next blue chip memecoin, to fulfill the now 12-years-old ‘prophecy’ of the holy Aircoin/Fartcoin/Artcoin trinity. In my opinion these previous projects usually didn‘t last because they were based on tokens launched by serial devs that launch thousands of coins using bots and trackers, with the sole purpose to farm volume off short-term attention spikes or global news events (i.e. the Pope talking about the importance of art in an AI era). Or because they were launched by extractive cabals or -and that’s probably been the core issue- by people who just don’t really know anything about arts, and also don’t care. Being an artist myself with a positive track record of running or bagworking arts- and other content-focused memecoin projects over the past couple of years, i’d like to try and give Artcoin another shot. My vision for Artcoin is for it to become the core element to an eco that actively onboards interesting and well-intentioned new people to our space and its selected communities of real holders, bagworkers, arts enthusiast and, of course, a colorful bouquet of on- and offchain, classic and digital age artists. I would be happy to hear your thoughts and perspective on a beautiful yet reasonable Artcoin vision and how together we could fill it with life. Believe in Art.