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Qian Qian reposted thisQian Qian reposted thisWorld is a real human network built to be owned by everyone. So we created a design protocol with real and talented humans and built it to be used by everyone. The growing creative function at Tools for Humanity supports World by designing and creating work internally, partnering with individuals, artists, agencies, collectives, DAOs and more externally, and shamelessly stealing from the creative thinking and talent of the physicists, engineers, economists, and other various optimists that make up the group. Congrats to David Trumpf who led this design effort and to everyone at Tools for Humanity who helped bring it to life. (And a thank you to Qian Qian who created the original logo in a coffee shop in what already feels like way back when )
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Qian Qian reposted thisQian Qian reposted thisWhen you're visiting #ArtBaselMiamiBeach, don't miss an interative installation presented by Bright Moments, located in Miami Beach Convention Center, Second Floor, West Wing, Rooms 206-208.Bright Moments Presents DREAM-0 by Huemin and Dream ComputingBright Moments Presents DREAM-0 by Huemin and Dream Computing
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Qian Qian shared thisA collaboration with World and Samer Dabra, Unique Humans is a generative portrait collection inspired by anonymous proof of human online. Using generative AI and coding, unique abstract portrait images are generated on World Chain for a limited time and each real human is entitled to one free edition. https://lnkd.in/eQHt5icF
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Qian Qian reposted thisQian Qian reposted thisWe are immensely proud to share that Christie's will be auctioning a collection of 216 artworks created by Bright Moments and the world's leading generative and AI artists who have joined us in our three-year, around-the-world journey. It will be featured in June 27th's "Post-War to Present Live Auction" in London and, for the first time, brings together all 60 artists from our 'Venice Finale Collection,' in addition to an 'Ultra Full Set' of 'CryptoCitizens,' and a set of '100x100' artists and works spanning 2021-2024. Thank you to all of the artists, collectors, and supporters who have brought us to this monumental moment in the digital art movement, and Sebastian Sanchez and Christie's for unlocking this honor.
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Qian Qian shared thisThe final moments of the most fulfilling work of my life. Thank you Seth GoldsteinQian Qian shared this10,000 CryptoCitizens across 4 continents over the span of 3 years. That's what we achieved on the final day of Bright Moments Venice -- surrounded by friends, family, collectors, artists, and the most incredible community in the entire world of art. We showed everyone a new way. Thank you for joining us on this journey and helping to dream the impossible into reality. Thanks to Ledger, Art Blocks Inc., and Highlight for supporting our mission and elevating the experience. You're wonderful partners!
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Qian Qian reposted thisQian Qian reposted thisBright Moments started in summer 2021 and came to an end yesterday. It is probably one of the best curated IRL minting experience in Web3 culture combined with great events and an amazing community. It started in Venice beach and travelled to nine cities around the world such as Tokyo, London, Paris and Mexico City. In each city there were 1000 Crypto Citizens available to mint, incl. 1000 Crypto Galacticans, in total 10'000 PFPs. The last venue took place in Venice in Italy and the last NFT was minted by Erick Calderon, the founder of Artblocks. Over 60 artists contributed to this spectacular live minting experience. Outland's chief-editor Brian Droitcour has interviewed Seth Goldstein, the founder of Bright Moments. We will miss these Bright Moments and look back to an era that will probably make it to the digital art history books, covering most of the relevant generative artists around the world. https://lnkd.in/dB3Uid47
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Qian Qian liked thisQian Qian liked thisCongratulations to our friends at NODE on the landmark Beeple exhibition. NODE is the first major physical home for digital art in Silicon Valley, and what they've built matters for every organization beginning to think seriously about how display environments carry culture. Beeple has become a defining voice of his generation. What looked like an overnight success with a $69M sale that legitimized digital art within traditional institutions, was twenty years in the making. One artwork, every day, for two decades. That discipline is what built the work: the command of color, composition, and form that only comes from. As technology evolved, so did his process. He taught himself new tools, expanded his capabilities, and kept making. For years, he gave his work away for free because the making mattered more than the market. That choice built something money can't buy: a real audience. Over the last five years, his work has drawn directly from his personal life and the world around him - sharp, satirical, and unmistakably his own. Beauty and provocation in the same frame. HUMAN ONE is unlike anything else - a kinetic sculpture with four 16K screens, governed by smart contracts that allow Beeple to update the work remotely for as long as he lives. It is a living object, changing as the world does. This fundamentally redefines the relationship between artist and collector. It is also one of the clearest demonstrations of why digital art operates by its own logic and it own relationship to meaning. That power was visible in the line that stretched two city blocks. Students, families, children, they were all draw to the work and the innovative new space. For organizations on the leading edge, this is the signal: digital art doesn't decorate space, it creates the conditions for engagement, sentiment, and genuine cultural resonance. "The goal isn't to make something that lasts forever; it's to make something that matters right now. If it matters enough right now, history will take care of the 'forever' part." Beeple
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Qian Qian reacted on thisQian Qian reacted on thisWhile the world builds for AI we're building for humans. Last Friday was World "Lift Off" in San Francisco. 700+ people piled into an overhauled concert venue while we live streamed to the world what’s next for the real human network: new partnerships, new integrations and new World ID 4.0 making the internet more human. Onstage it introduced: Zoom integrating to protect against deepfakes in your meetings. Docusign integrating to help ensure the right human signs. Okta + Vercel + World AgentKit ensuring agents can be human-backed. Tinder expanding into the US with their World ID integration helping ensure you're chatting with a real human. And finally: to bring musicians closer to fans and fans closer to the musicians they love we announced World Concert Kit, ensuring artists can offer humans only tickets for live shows and keep bad bots from swopping them up. And we launched it with a surprise Humans Only Concert that night, all you needed for tickets was your World ID. Eight hours and a frenzy later over 1000 people showed up for the show. What a time. A massive thank you to the incredible partners who joined onstage and in the audience to discuss, lead, announce and celebrate. And a huge thank you and congratulations to the incredibly talented and creative humans at Tools for Humanity, World Foundation, World and all the partners who helped make it all happen.
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Qian Qian liked thisQian Qian liked thisAnonymous Proof of Human: Essential Infrastructure for the AI Era We’re entering a world where AI agents generate content, sustain conversations, and act online in ways indistinguishable from humans. The question is no longer “is this content real?” but “is this participant real?” Without a way to verify unique humanness at scale, we face existential risks: mass disinformation, election manipulation, scalable fraud, and the erosion of democratic discourse. A single actor with enough compute can manufacture the appearance of millions of people flooding platforms, distorting polls, and drowning out authentic human voices. Why does Proof of Human matter now? AI capabilities are advancing faster than our defense against bad behavior. Open models can now produce convincing text, images, and video at scale. Traditional signals, content provenance, watermarking, detection algorithms, help at the margins but fail to address the core problem: how many independent humans are actually participating? Doesn’t Proof of Human create a surveillance risk? Counterintuitively, a well-implemented Proof of Human (PoH) system doesn’t enable surveillance, it protects against it. Without PoH, platforms resort to invasive tracking: behavioral monitoring, device fingerprinting, cross-service correlation. With PoH, you prove humanness once, privately, and never need to be tracked. How does Anonymous Proof of Human work? • Purpose-built hardware (like the Orb) captures high-entropy biometric signals (iris) that can distinguish between billions of humans with extreme accuracy • Zero-knowledge proofs let you prove you’re a unique human without revealing who you are. Secure multi-party computation (SMPC) ensures no single entity holds all the data • Credentials are self-custodied on your device, not in a central database What can Proof of Human enable? • Limit scalable deception, make it economically infeasible to manufacture fake consensus • Protect public discourse, ensure policy input and online debate reflect real humans • Enable agent-on-behalf-of-human, let AI act for you without impersonating you • Preserve privacy, prove humanness without surveillance Who’s building this today? World ID already integrates these measures: hardware-backed verification, SMPC for uniqueness checks, ZKPs for private authentication. Over 38M people have World App, and 17M+ are verified as unique humans through the Orb. But adoption needs to accelerate. PoH isn’t just an anti-bot tool, it’s foundational infrastructure for human coordination in an AI-driven world. The alternative is a future where influence scales with compute, not people.
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Qian Qian liked thisQian Qian liked thisCan I tempt you with peak cherry blossom and peak tech? We're talking ClawCon Tokyo. 🦄 Peter Steinberger Dave Morin
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Qian Qian reacted on thisQian Qian reacted on thisAKQA is a team and a culture I’ve long admired. Grateful to everyone who’s been part of the journey that led here. Excited for this latest chapter. https://lnkd.in/eyJtEvrc
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Qian Qian reacted on thisQian Qian reacted on this👋 Die Berliner Kreativagentur THE GOODWINS will ihre Design-Kompetenz ausbauen und richtet dafür eine neue Führungsposition ein: Aryanti Ingenillem übernimmt ab sofort die Rolle der Design Directorin - eine für sie maßgeschneiderte Stelle. Ihren neuen Arbeitgeber kennt sie bereits recht gut: https://lnkd.in/e4mxTmG8
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Qian Qian liked thisQian Qian liked thisThirty years ago my girlfriend gave me a TB-303 bass synth software emulator. I was hooked. I loved the acid bassline sound of the 90s rave era. Sitting in my bedroom, messing around with it on my mac, felt like discovering a new language. Simple patterns. Squirming basslines. Endless possibilities. Fast forward 30 years, AI has moved so quickly that someone like me can now build a TB303 emulator app as a weekend hobby. It’s basic and quite rough around the edges. But making it brought back the same feeling I had back then. That sense that the right tool can open up a lot of creative possibility. I know I should probably be spending more time thinking strategically about using AI for productivity and monetisation. But building this reminded me of something else. Sometimes the real value is just curiosity. Making something because you want to see what happens. That’s probably why I became a creative in the first place. If you’re into this kind of thing, check it out here -https://lnkd.in/gKeBwfVy
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Qian Qian liked thisQian Qian liked thisBEEPLE: / INFINITE_LOOP OPENING APRIL 18 PALO ALTO
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Qian Qian liked thisQian Qian liked this🚨 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 ArtMeta is looking forward to bring a major digital art exhibition to Basel this year! "Digital Masterpieces. From code to canon" spanning 70 years of digital art history. June 15 - 21, 2026, Basel, Switzerland (during Art Basel) Looking forward to see you in Basel this year! It will be very special this time.
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