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Good Vibes Club marks first year as Project Eruption grows

Good Vibes Club NFT art collective marked its first anniversary as it continues building Project Eruption, a system designed to connect its NFTs with a related community token and rewards program, according to a post from the group on X. 

The team said its ecosystem links three parts: the Good Vibes Club NFT collection, digital badges that track participation by collectors, and a token called VibeStrategy, or $VIBESTR, which circulates within the project’s economy. The group said a portion of token trading activity flows into a mechanism called the VibeWheel that buys Good Vibes Club NFTs and funds rewards for badge holders.

Good Vibes Club said Project Eruption builds a loyalty style system that recognizes collecting, which keeps participation within the Vibetown digital community.

Mastercard launches crypto partner program with more than 85 companies

Mastercard global payments company introduced a new Crypto Partner Program that brings together more than 85 firms across the digital currency and payments sector to collaborate on blockchain based financial tools, according to the company. The group includes companies such as Ripple blockchain payments company and PayPal digital payments platform.

In the company announcement, Mastercard said the program allows participating companies to work with its teams on payment products that connect blockchain technology with established card networks used in everyday commerce.

The initiative focuses on practical uses such as cross border payments, business transfers and settlement systems that move money between financial institutions.

Pudgy Penguin announces Pudgy World is now live

Pudgy Penguins said its browser based game Pudgy World is now live and open to the public, according to a post from the project on X. 

Players can now visit 12 towns in a digital setting called The Berg, complete mini games and follow a storyline where the character Pengu searches for Polly, the other half of the mascot love story.

The team said the game runs directly in a web browser, allowing players to enter the world without downloading software. They added that Pudgy World expands the brand’s digital universe and gives fans a place to interact with its characters online.

Art Basel and UBS publish 2026 global art market report with new data on digital art

Digital art kept collectors curious in 2025, according to the Global Art Market Report 2026 from Art Basel, UBS and Arts Economics. Surveys found that collectors continued buying digital art in 2025 even as the category remained a small share of the market. Digital, film, and video art reached 3% of global sales, up from 1% in 2024, and a poll of 3,100 high net worth collectors across 10 markets found that 51% said they purchased a digital artwork

The report uses the term “digital art” for works created with computer software and sometimes recorded on a blockchain as NFTs, which record ownership of a digital file.

The report also notes that auction activity for very recent works cooled after the market peak earlier in the decade. Only three artworks created within the past 20 years sold for more than $10 million in 2025 compared with 21 in 2021, a year that included record-breaking sales of digital works by Beeple and anonymous crypto artist Pak.

All Seeing Seneca brings 'AFTER JADE' to Art Basel Hong Kong

All Seeing Seneca, the visual artist who served as the designer of Bored Ape Yacht Club, is presenting AFTER JADE at Art Basel Hong Kong through Asprey Studio, the London-based luxury art gallery, at Booth Z4, March 26 through 29. 

The collection pairs cast glass sculptures with one-of-one digital paintings, each built around traditional Chinese ritual objects reimagined through maternal lineage and personal myth. 

The sculptures, fabricated by the Asprey Studio Atelier, include an imperial crown with rabbit motifs honoring her mother, a hairpin referencing the architecture of the pelvic bone, and a Buddha's Hand fruit cradling a small infant figure. Each sculpture is paired with a corresponding digital painting, sold together as a set.

Seneca grew up between Shanghai and New York, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, and sold her 2,880-piece digital painting series "Perils of Sēsē" in under ten minutes before going on to show at The Armory Show and Phillips auction house.

Sougwen Chung brings a decade of robot collaboration to Art Basel Hong Kong

Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher Sougwen Chung will open RECURSIONS, her first solo booth at Art Basel Hong Kong, with previews March 26 and 27 and public days March 28 and 29. The show is presented by Fellowship, the digital art gallery and technology platform, in partnership with OpenSea.

For more than a decade, Chung has been building Drawing Operations, an ongoing series of live collaborations between herself and successive generations of robots trained on her own gestural data. The centerpiece, RECURSION 0 (2026), is a monumental scroll where a robotic system reads Chung's biosensor input in real time and extends her movements across linen, accumulating both marks on the same surface simultaneously. 

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London acquired one of Chung's robot collaborators as part of its permanent collection in 2022, comprising a fine art print, a film documenting the process, and an AI model contained within a 3D printed sculpture. 

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