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Marketing yourself as an artist on Bitcoin

Partner Artist Spotlight: Nik.Vct

The Beginnings of Nik.Vct’s Journey

Four Days, Four Artists, Four Drops

Prints are Gamma's fresh take on editions, enabling partner artists to create, on-chain editions from a single...

Ordinals Spotlight: Pixel Passion

Pixel art is a form of digital art where images are created with carefully placed pixels, evoking the visual style of...

A New Era Begins

Three years ago, we set out to build a platform that empowered creators and made digital assets on Bitcoin accessible...

The body as a canvas: Etching identity

I still remember the day I got my first tattoo. The buzz of the needle, the slight sting on my skin, and the rush of...

Partner Artist Spotlight: Maja Kalogera

To begin, could you share a bit about you as a person and your artistic journey? How did you start creating digital...

Celebrating 1 Year of the Gamma Partner Program

September 1st marked the one-year anniversary of the Gamma Partner Program, and we have so much to celebrate as we...

Power in Numbers: Pricing & Supply

Power in Numbers When pricing your drops, striking a balance between perceived value, market demand, and the intriguing...

Ordinals Spotlight: Glitch Art

In a world obsessed with perfection, glitch art stands out by celebrating the beauty of errors. Early pioneers like Nam...

Partner Artist Spotlight: Petra

To begin, could you share a bit about you as a person and your artistic journey? How did you start creating digital...

The body as a canvas: From Handpoke to Brushstroke

Like any other art form, tattoo art has experienced a multitude of trends. As early as the 1990s, tattoo artists began...

The body as a canvas: An Origin Story of Ink

Tattoos have been around for millennia — with evidence dating back to at least 3370 BC. The word "tattoo" comes from...

Ordinals Spotlight: The Art of Collage

Introduction to Collage Art Collage art is a versatile genre that involves assembling diverse materials such as...

10x10 LATAM Art Collective | Xverse & Gamma

Bitcoin, the world's hardest money, now doubles as a canvas for digital legacy. Through Ordinals, artists can...

The Power of Editions

Expanding Your Collector Base

Ordinals Spotlight: Creative Coding on Bitcoin

Generative art is a form of digital art that uses algorithms and computational processes to create unique and complex...

Ordinals Spotlight: Generative Art on Gamma

The beauty of code art lies in its fusion of creativity and logic. Artists define a set of rules or algorithms that...

Graffiti & Ordinals

Stop putting graffiti on my money you pompous vandals!

Ordinals Spotlight: Illustration

Illustration as an artistic genre has a history that dates back to ancient civilizations, where it was used to convey...

Ordinals Spotlight: Photography

In 1826, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce produced the earliest surviving photograph using heliography. Louis Daguerre's...

Nature’s Palette: Art and Botany

Cover image PamplePaperStudio With the arrival of Spring and my Angel Wing Begonia shooting its first pink flowers of...

Halving Homecoming

DAVE VAN PATTEN In the dynamic artistic scene of Long Beach, Dave Van Patten emerges as a standout figure, traversing...

The Revenant - Travis LeRoy Southworth

Travis LeRoy Southworth is an OG in the crypto art space and one of the initial beta testers of SuperRare. His Web3...

Partner Artist Spotlight: Sinfini3

Can you introduce yourself and share about your unique background?

Let There Be Runestones, Art Challenge

The initiative Earlier this month, Runestones mined the largest Bitcoin block in history and inscribed the largest...

Partner Artist Spotlight: Andrea Belloni

Can you introduce yourself and share about your unique background?

Partner Artist Spotlight: Michelle Thompson

Can you introduce yourself and share your journey into the fusion of traditional and digital art? Embarking on my...

Ready for launch?

A guide to launching your collection on Bitcoin Since Ordinals mainnet launched in January 2023, the world of digital...

Prints Challenge: All that glisters is not gold

The challenge This month, we're shaking things up and diving into the world of idioms. We’re inviting Partner artists...

Marketing Yourself as an Artist on Bitcoin

Embarking on the artist journey into Web3 and Ordinals can be both thrilling and intimidating for most creators and...

A Sea of Pixels — from Gaming to NFTs

Pixel art, a cornerstone in video game presentation, spans the eras alongside the rise of three-dimensional graphics....

Prints Challenge: Vincent Van Gogh

The challenge This month, we’re inviting Partner artists to explore and revisit Van Gogh's vibrant worlds of color,...

Sparkle and Sphere by Resaang: A Gift to the Gamma Community

As 2023 comes to a close, we want to thank the Gamma community for your support and trust over this incredibly eventful...

An Update from Gamma.io

I wanted to share some news with the Gamma community—especially with our earliest users who have come to know our team...

Artist Open Call: Miami Art Week 2023

We are excited to announce an open call for artists to submit artworks inspired by the Art Deco movement.

The Art of Sport

Art and sport are infinitely interwoven in a way that travels beyond pure aesthetics and competition. Art and sport...

Under the Sun: Space Art

There is so much we don’t know about space: No-one has ever come back from a black hole to tell humanity about what’s...

What's in a Name?

What's in a Name? From the beginning of time, language has served as one of our most remarkable and constantly evolving...

First Prints Challenge: The Sistine Chapel

The challenge For this month’s Print Challenge, we’re inviting Partner artists to explore and revisit the Sistine...

Finding a muse

As Head of Community at Gamma, I am so fortunate to work with and onboard creators to Bitcoin. A few questions I often...

Survival of the Fittest in Web3

In an enlightening Twitter space with @itsdonnyok, we voyaged into the fascinating world of NFTs, drawing intriguing...

Prints: from Woodblocks to Blockchain

Ever wondered how the Han Dynasty people in 206BC China mass reproduced their texts and images? Take a guess. Well,...

Special Sats and Ordinals

Understanding sats The Bitcoin world often talks about sats, but what are they? Think of sats as the cents to Bitcoin's...

The art of movement: A story of dance

Movement is part of human nature. From taking our first steps, to finding complicity with a stranger on the dance...

Introducing the Gamma Curated Series

Ever since its inception, Gamma has aimed to empower creators with robust, user-friendly tools that enable them to...

Why do we love PFP’s?

The digital realm is experiencing a radical shift in personal expression and social interaction, thanks in large part...

Ordinals on ₿ — Art that will live on

Bitcoin has long since shattered traditional concepts of data storage and transactions with its ground-breaking...

Gamma x Xverse at Ordinals Alley: Co-Curation

A few days ago, we explored how the Ordinals Alley exhibition came to life, and learned more about the Open Call...

​​Gamma x Xverse at Ordinals Alley: Introducing the Open Call Artists

In Gamma’s previous blog post, we explored how Ordinals Alley, the very first art gallery dedicated to Ordinal...

Gamma x Xverse at Ordinals Alley: Foreword

We’re so excited to announce that together, Gamma, Xverse, and Bitcoin Magazine are presenting the very first art...

Why do humans like to collect NFTs?

From stamps and trading cards to now NFTs, the market for collecting and trading physical and digital items alike are...

Timeless traditions: Birthdays

As a kid, I used to hate my birthday. It often rained, my friends were generally away for the holidays, and there was...

Artistic Peacocks

Party animals Did you know? A group of peafowls is called a party — and they party with each other, but not with other...

Bitcoin Ordinals & Stacks NFTs

At Gamma, we’re building a Bitcoin-based NFT marketplace and a home for your Web3 social identity. While we started out...

Winners of Moon Bound! A Quest for Bitcoin NFTs

Moon Bound! A Quest for Bitcoin NFTs was a social treasure hunt where around 350 participants competed to find secret...

You make me melt 💝

Big red bows. Intricate designs in ornate, velvet boxes. Praline, coffee, dark and white, fudgey and crunchy, sweet and...

Create Ordinal inscriptions on Gamma

Lately, all the NFT buzz has been spotlighted on one thing: Ordinals.

Moon Bound! A Quest for Bitcoin NFTs

Gamma is excited to invite you on this fun treasure hunt and quest for Bitcoin NFTs!

Bilingualism in visual arts

Mother tongues Bilingual individuals are usually defined on a cognitive level as people who have a relative balance in...

Haiku: the language of a given moment

A big fat flake Of snow Falling all alone

Security Basics – Tips for NFT Collectors

Collecting and creating NFTs is a wonderful way to engage in the web3 digital economy. NFTs range from digital, art,...

Getting Started with Gamma | Gamma Guides

Curious about how to get started with NFTs on Stacks, secured by Bitcoin? Keep reading this post!

How to Engage Your NFT Community on Social Media

For many creators, the voyage into web3 and NFTs is an exciting process, yet it can be daunting at times. All of a...

Gamma x Mintery | Miami Art Basel ’22

Calling all artists! Want to see your art featured during Miami Art Basel ’22? So do we!

Let’s vote on an image design for BNS NFTs

Over the past few weeks, BNS has been exploding in popularity, with nearly 150,000 BNS names registered in total, and...

Meet the panel of the Peer-to-Peer Collection for Gender Equity

Equity, noun: the situation in which everyone is treated fairly according to their needs and no group of people is...

Peer-to-Peer: A Community Collection for Gender Equity

Equity, noun: the situation in which everyone is treated fairly according to their needs and no group of people is...

What is IPFS and How Does it Work?

IPFS stands for the InterPlanetary File System (believe it or not). In their own words it is:

Proof of Work Celebration

Gamma was inspired to host a fun community-wide event—everyone is invited: Proof of Work Celebration! Let’s celebrate...

How to Download and Set up Hiro Wallet | Gamma Guides

So you want to engage in the Stacks ecosystem, secured my Bitcoin. A Hiro wallet will let you store, stack, and connect...

Photography Week on Gamma

Way back in 1826, in France, Nicéphore Niépce captured the first permanent photograph called, “View from the Window at...

The Artists Behind the Projects

The NFT collections we know, love, and collect all have an amazing artist at their heart. This collection is to...

Gamma Creator Spotlight: May 2022

It’s been exactly one month since we announced our new brand, social platform, and long-term vision for Gamma. Since...

How to Purchase an NFT on Gamma | Gamma Guides

Missed the mint on a collection you were eyeing? No worries, in this guide, we’ll show you how to purchase an NFT off...

Introducing Gamma, a Hub for the World’s Web3 Social Identity

Our platform was launched in September of last year as STXNFT.com. In January, we shared our plans to become the...

A Guide to the Gamma Create Portal | Gamma Guides

The Gamma create portal allows you to define and deploy a custom smart contract for your NFT collection. You’ll have a...

Your guide to .BTC Domains (BNS) | Gamma Guides

By now, you may have seen Stacks community members on the Gamma marketplace, Twitter, and Discord with .BTC at the end...

STXNFT Community-Favorite Profile Contest

STXNFT is excited to provide users with the ability to customize and curate their own profiles using their NFT...

Taking Steps To Become The Leading Marketplace For Bitcoin NFTs

Today, we’re announcing our biggest marketplace upgrade yet. We’re making it easier for users to find, buy, and trade...

Mint with Bitcoin (via Lightning)! | Gamma Guides

We’re excited to announce the first ever NFT project on Stacks to be minted with bitcoin via Lightning payments! In...

STXNFT New Years 2022 Airdrop & Treasure Hunt

We wanted to usher in the New Year with a fun event for everyone. Join us as we award 20 prizes, including NFTs and STX...

The Scale of Two Cities: CityCoins NFT Competition by STXNFT.com

Help us measure the support and scale of each CityCoins city in this friendly proof-of-culture NFT competition. It was...