Art Basel turned into a live case study for digital art’s coming-of-age as Cap recapped Beeple’s Regular Animals installation, the Zero One Ten hall, and Jack Butcher’s physical–digital receipts that stopped crowds in their tracks. The crew zoomed out on what on-chain art actually solves, from provenance and certificates of authenticity to how high-net-worth collectors might eventually move serious capital on more transparent rails. They contrasted artist-led experimentation at Basel with NFT brands still replaying the 2021 playbook, using Doodles’ new Solana mint and secondary collections as examples of what does and does not feel like real progression. Along the way they revisited the “Bitcoin in the 80s” call, walked through why this still looks like a mid-cycle structure into 2026, and connected macro flows back to the next wave of digital art adoption.

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