Money Laundering 2: The Unbanked is a collection of 111 one-of-one banknotes from a fictional financial system built on a Metaverse Dollar. Each piece is its own currency, remixing familiar icons, brands, artists, weapons, junk food, institutions and memes into a new visual language of value. Together, these notes challenge the logic of the old economy, disrupt the stories we’ve been sold about “real” money and invite you to step outside the system and be your own bank.
Money Laundering 2: The Unbanked is a collection of 111 one-of-one banknotes from a fictional financial system built on a Metaverse Dollar. Each piece is its own currency, remixing familiar icons, brands, artists, weapons, junk food, institutions and memes into a new visual language of value. Together, these notes challenge the logic of the old economy, disrupt the stories we’ve been sold about “real” money and invite you to step outside the system and be your own bank.
The first Money Laundering series examined how digital art, speculation and memes turned into a new asset class in early 2022. The Unbanked picks up the story a few years later, in a world where that value experiment never really ended — it just moved deeper into our lives.
This collection grew out of the artist’s ongoing obsession with money as both an aesthetic object and a psychological weapon.
Each banknote starts from the same foundation, then pulls in different references: crypto culture, luxury, war, religion, dopamine addictions, fast food, political theatre and the iconic figures who helped redefine what “value” can be.
Rather than offering a single answer or manifesto, Money Laundering 2 functions like an archive: a wall of parallel currencies mapping the emotional, cultural and economic chaos of the Web3 era.
The first Money Laundering series examined how digital art, speculation and memes turned into a new asset class in early 2022. The Unbanked picks up the story a few years later, in a world where that value experiment never really ended — it just moved deeper into our lives.
This collection grew out of the artist’s ongoing obsession with money as both an aesthetic object and a psychological weapon.
Each banknote starts from the same foundation, then pulls in different references: crypto culture, luxury, war, religion, dopamine addictions, fast food, political theatre and the iconic figures who helped redefine what “value” can be.
Rather than offering a single answer or manifesto, Money Laundering 2 functions like an archive: a wall of parallel currencies mapping the emotional, cultural and economic chaos of the Web3 era.
Each banknote is a 1/1, but the collection is intentionally structured with elements and layers that can be read as traits rather than pure randomness.
Across the series you’ll see recurring motifs — characters, symbols, color families and themes — that link certain notes together and hint at their place in the wider Metaverse Dollar ecosystem.
Within the 111 works, 10 pieces are designated as Grails: notes that carry extra weight conceptually, visually or historically. Each Grail includes a large-format signed physical giclée print for the collector, turning those particular currencies into tangible artifacts that live both on-chain and on a wall.
Each banknote is a 1/1, but the collection is intentionally structured with elements and layers that can be read as traits rather than pure randomness.
Across the series you’ll see recurring motifs — characters, symbols, color families and themes — that link certain notes together and hint at their place in the wider Metaverse Dollar ecosystem.
Within the 111 works, 10 pieces are designated as Grails: notes that carry extra weight conceptually, visually or historically. Each Grail includes a large-format signed physical giclée print for the collector, turning those particular currencies into tangible artifacts that live both on-chain and on a wall.
Mr Richi is a digital artist working at the intersection of fine art, memes and technology — treating his digital environment as raw material for storytelling. His work blends pop art, street art and Web3 culture to question everything we take for granted.
Since falling down the rabbit hole in 2021, his pieces have explored speculative mania, financial propaganda, crypto tribalism and the emotional cost of being chronically on-chain.
The art sits somewhere between satire and documentation: a running visual record of how this era feels from the inside, printed as money from a system that doesn’t exist yet…but already looks uncomfortably familiar.
