The NFT space is not a place for coincidence. Traders, speculators and collectors all read the tea leaves that lie behind every Tweet and piece of alpha sent to a Discord channel. They are looking to put reasoning behind the question on everyone’s lips; how, why, and when the next NFT collection will be pulled from relative obscurity and be elevated from humble beginnings to ‘blue chip’ status.

A recent and plausible prediction is forming around a broad church of projects and collections deemed ‘historically significant NFT’s’. This narrative was progressed in October 2021 with a complete set of My Curio Cards selling for $1.2M at auction with Christie’s. Now it’s common to see representatives from all the major auction houses being sent like canaries down the mineshaft into NFT Twitter (NYSE:) to unearth the next historically significant project to broader significance.

Since Beeple (Mike Winkelmann sold The First 5000 Days) for $69M his art has been interpreted as a barometer of the wider cryptocurrency market and NFT market. The compelling, digital art of Beeple features hidden and not so obvious easter eggs. Beeple, a futuristic and dystopic version of King Kong featuring CryptoPunk #4156 was essentially made Punk4156 his knight on March 4, 2021. With Winkelmann’s relevance and market-making qualities, it is impossible for the artist not to be aware of the influence he wields.

Fast forward to early January 2022, and Beeple shared another of his dystopic visions entitled ‘DEEP BLACK’ with the world. Upon reveal, it was immediately and intrinsically linked with a historically significant NFT collection entitled ‘DeepBlack’. DeepBlack contains 3,073 portraits. This is the first AI-generated blockchain collection of fine arts. Was this Winkelmann’s way of recognising the importance of historically significant NFT’s and shining a light on DeepBlack as the next in line blue-chip NFT collection?

Whatever Beeple’s intentions were, DeepBlack founder, Pete, was inspired to mark this momentous occasion. In honour of ‘DEEP BLACK’, Pete created a collage version of the piece featuring all 3,073 original artworks of DeepBlack. The unique artworks of DeepBlack’s AI-Artist can be so captivating that you will find yourself zooming in to the piece.

Pete’s collage was shared with the DeepBlack community, who was subsequently polled on what Pete should do with the piece. After twenty-four hours and many thoughtful submissions from the community, they voted to mint this piece as a 1/1 and send it directly to Beeple’s Ethereum address in the hope that he appreciates this spectacular homage to his art.

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