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Cozomo de' Medici is a pseudonymous collector, investor, and thought leader who has become one of the most popular and prominent names in the crypto art community. The Medici Collection includes XCOPY’s Right-click and Save-As Guy & Some Asshole, DeeKay Motion’s Destiny & Life and Death, Beeple's Start Again & Space Exploration, Claire Silver's Complicated & the fisher king, Sam Spratt's I. Birth of Luci & VII. Wormfood, and “God Mode” Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs. These sit alongside many unique 1/1 and generative works from diverse and emerging artists, across multiple platforms & blockchains. Earlier this year, The Medici Collection gifted 22 digital artworks by a group of 13 international artists—from Brazil, Canada, China, England, Germany, Portugal, and the United States— which are now part of or promised to LACMA's permanent collection.

gmoney (@gmoneyNFT) is a renowned NFT cultural thought leader and educator – best known for anonymously sporting his iconic orange beanie, CryptoPunk, and establishing his metaverse community Admit One. gmoney sold Visa and Galaxy Digital the CryptoPunks they purchased for their collections, and he is the founder of 9dcc, the first crypto-native fashion luxury house to exist on the blockchain. gmoney was recognized by nftnow’s 2022 ‘NFT100,’ the Vogue Business Disruptors 100, and featured on Fortune as one of the 50 most important people in NFTs, thanks to his work educating people on why the largest global corporations – like adidas, Meta, Nike, Visa, or Pepsi – are rushing into crypto, and how blockchain and metaverse strategy will be critical for future success and monetization. gmoney has become an iconic symbol of success with consciousness in the blockchain arena who has cemented his reputation through multi-faceted business endeavors, investments, partnerships, collaborations, and transparent communication across various social channels, all while working to prominently uplift the voices of women, POC, and other minorities in the space.

Plutonium F. is an artist, collector, curator and has been active in the NFT space since 2020. He has been a part of the curation committees at Fingerprints DAO and GrailersDAO. He co-curated perceive() — an exhibition at the Art Blocks gallery in Marfa, Texas (Nov’22 — Aug’23). He was also one of the curators for Fellowship’s group show — Post Photographic Perspectives II (July ’23). He is currently building an art studio called Extropy.

Veteran booking agent Tom Windish has developed the touring careers of some of the hottest names in music, including Billie Eilish, Lorde, alt-J and The xx. Working with these artists and other top talent from the early days of their careers, hundreds of clients have grown from playing small local venues to dominating stages at major festivals and arenas under his purview.

Justin Melillo is an artist, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He is the Founder and CEO of Mona, the 3D world building platform for the immersive internet. As an artist and creative technologist for over 12 years, Justin has worked with world-class teams and clients such as Magic Leap, DreamWorks Animation, Drake, CharliXCX, Sia, and the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Justin's AR experiences have been viewed over 100 million times across Instagram and Snapchat.

As the Artistic Director of the 1OF1 Collection ScriptedFantasy runs one of the premier digital art collections in the world. 1OF1 takes an activist approach to the work it collects, supporting forward thinking artists and institutions at the cutting edge of art in the digital age.

Rita Alay Libera Del Curto Askenasy has worked at Christie’s, The Serpentine Galleries, Convelio and Sotheby’s and brings a wealth of experience to our judging panel. As Art Sales Director at MTArt Agency, a talent agency which represents 40+ contemporary artists and builds their careers via sales, public art and brand collaborations, Rita is placing their artworks in collections around the world, advising first time buyers on acquiring their first work of art, seasoned collectors to build or create collections and investors create diversified portfolios of talented and fast rising artists.

Faith Love is a visual artist renowned for her minimalist approach and profound exploration of the human condition. When she's not creating she leads creator relations at Consensys/MetaMask.

At the forefront of web3 innovation, Greg's the Head of Events & Partnerships for FWB, the premier web3 cultural social network, amplifying his pledge to blockchain-driven breakthroughs for creatives. His past roles include iconic brands like Ace Hotel and VICE. He's also stamped his mark in the literary world as the acclaimed author of "Snacky Tunes: Music is the Main Ingredient" (Phaidon).

KaliYuga is an American artist, developer, and educator working with machine learning tools to create artwork since 2020. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Independent, Bloomberg, Engadget, Petapixel, and VentureBeat, as well as in numerous Stability.ai communications and product releases. She has worked at Stability since 2022.

Sam Spike is the co-founder of Fini, an art and technology company that produces speculative projects involving embodied data. Previously Artistic Director at Fingerprints DAO and co-founder of JPG, he has been deeply involved in the fine art NFT space for three years as a curator, consultant, and builder.

Micol Ap is Founder & CEO of VERTICAL, a house for art and culture on the blockchain. With over 9+ years of experience in the technology and cultural industry, previously at Meta and IBM, Micol is passionate about the intersection of culture, technology and innovation. Micol also sits on the curatorial board of Art Blocks, the leading platform for generative art on the blockchain as well as is the founder of VERTICAL Residency and Proof of People.

Ozan Polat is an Entrepreneur and Investor. Throughout the 2010s "new media and new formats" was a recurring motif of his different ventures. Ozan Polat started to collect NFTs in before the term was coined, when he discovered Rare Pepes and continued to participate in early projects of the emerging NFT space.

Hannah is an independent filmmaker who delights in smashing taboos and pushing the boundaries of non-fiction. Previous directing and producing credits include PROJECT 2X1 and 40 DAYS OF TESHUVAH. She is currently the lead producer of I’M NEW HERE, a cutting edge indie film about the artists shaping today's most polarizing technologies: crypto and AI, directed by Sundance award-winner, Dan Sickles.

Commercially, Hannah has produced film-led campaigns for The Malala Fund, the United Nations, Alicia Keys, Levis, and LabCorp. Her work has been recognized internationally, including at the TED, INK, and CUMULUS Conferences. Hannah holds an MFA in TransDisciplinary Design from Parsons School of Design, where she also teaches a Design Activism Studio. Blockchain historian building a collection of culturally relevant and historically significant NFTs. Day zero Squiggle minter and former Art Blocks curation board member.

Joining the Web3 space at 17, he found his home in NFTs and was fascinated by the future of digital objets & ownership. During the day he leads Artist relations and Marketing at Transient Labs, and during the night he explores his creativity with collage and AI.

Co-founder of Crowdmuse and co-host of mindmeld pod. Hobbyist analogue photographer and painter. Created album art for the likes of Azedia, Anatu and other music creators and projects.

María Paula is a technologist, writer and curator that comes from Argentina, is the co-founder at jpg.space, and the Department of Decentralization. She has been working in web3 since 2017, when she joined the Web3 Foundation as employee number three. She's worked or consulted for several of the most prominent blockchain projects, and in 2018 she founded a grassroots organisation in Berlin, Department of Decentralization, hosting web3 hackathons, and researching and publishing on art and technology. Her organisation's latest collaboration was a year long project with Hito Steyerl, StrikeDAO, for which they built a quadratic voting app and presented a governance proposal for a German institution. In early 2021, she started her own company alongside Sam Spike and Trent Elmore, jpg.space, a protocol that focuses on on-chain NFT curation. On her spare time, Maria Paula writes about culture and NFTs for Forbes Digital Assets and other publications, and of course, curates IRL and online exhibitions. More info: mariapaula.net

As co-founder and CEO of Sona, Laura is driven to redesign the system by which music is created, collected and consumed so that artists can own what they do and do what they love. Prior to founding Sona, Laura worked in product and design at some of the leading projects at the vanguard of community. She remains an active advisor and investor in many projects at the intersection of music, technology and the creator economy.

Primavera is a legal scholar at Harvard University, as well as an Internet activist and artist exploring the intersection between law and technology, focusing specifically on the legal and political implications of blockchain technology. Her artistic practice instantiates the key findings of her research in the physical world, creating blockchain-based lifeforms that evolve and reproduce themselves as people feed them with cryptocurrencies.Her works have been exposed in various museums, galleries and art fairs around the world including Ars Electronica (Austria), HEK Museum of Digital Arts (Basel, Switzerland), Furtherfield Gallery and Kinetica Art Fair (UK), Centre Pompidou, Grand Palais, Gaité Lyrique, and Le Cent Quatre (France), Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture (San Francisco), as well as festivals such as Burning Man (Nevada) and Fusion Festival (Germany), and online galleries like Feral File.