<MoneyLab> Sphere's PROOF-OF-CELEBRATION: it's live!

Sun Jun 8 13:02:57 CEST 2025

> From: Erik Bordeleau <erik.bordeleau at gmail.com>
> Subject: Sphere's PROOF-OF-CELEBRATION: it's live!
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> Dear Sphere's collaborators & OGs,
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> It took quite a bit longer than expected, but we are most happy to finally say:
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> THE SPHERE'S PROOF-OF-CELEBRATION IS ON!!
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> I. SWIRLS OF FORTUNE: Premiere at Funding the Commons Conference <https://www.fundingthecommons.io/berlin-2025> (June 10th-11th - Berlin)
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> Lene Vollhardt's Swirls of Fortune (2025) <https://karmetplace.thesphere.as/ethereum/asset/0x39f7e5bdfb46bf321b8df7803070d27d79361400:1?tab=info> is an hallucinogenic descent guided by the goddex 'Swirl' into the effervescent, metastable universe of the Sphere -  a speculative meditation on collective consciousness, decentralized governance, and the poetics of emergence in an age of algorithmic control. The film unfolds through a series of interconnected vignettes populated by cybernetic clowns, NPC choreographies, financial meltdowns and electronic dreamscapes where the boundaries between bodies and codes dissolve, revealing new kinetic forms of organizing that unfold like local whirlpools in a cosmic river.
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> Swirls of Fortune Instagram reel <https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKh0sfihdjf/?igsh=a2prNTd5YnRoeTlw>
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> II. Inauguration of the Sphere's NFT Portfolio
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> Alongside Swirl of Fortune, the Sphere's NFT portfolio will be showcased at Funding the Commons as part of the exhibition:
> Grace is a coin with more than two sides curated by Stina Gustafsson and Beth McCarthy.
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> The portfolio comprises NFTs representing the 5 performances at the core of the Sphere's initial Karmic funding Cycle:
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> MATERIA <https://karmetplace.thesphere.as/ethereum/asset/0x39f7e5bdfb46bf321b8df7803070d27d79361400:3?tab=info> by Andrea Salustri
> MATERIA 2.0 - Film for Polystyrene <https://karmetplace.thesphere.as/ethereum/asset/0x39f7e5bdfb46bf321b8df7803070d27d79361400:5?tab=info> by Marija Baranauskaitė Liberman
> MATERIA 3.0 - AEROGAMI <https://karmetplace.thesphere.as/ethereum/asset/0x39f7e5bdfb46bf321b8df7803070d27d79361400:6?tab=info> by Utka Nehen
> C8H11N02 <https://karmetplace.thesphere.as/ethereum/asset/0x39f7e5bdfb46bf321b8df7803070d27d79361400:2?tab=info> by ROOM100
> C8H11N02 - ES <https://karmetplace.thesphere.as/ethereum/asset/0x39f7e5bdfb46bf321b8df7803070d27d79361400:4?tab=info> by Cecilia Manfrini
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> About the exhibition:
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> The artists in Grace is a coin with more than two sides explore value systems through the lens of contemporary technology, questioning what these inherited frameworks mean for progress, innovation, and collective futures. As explored in Anne Carson’s Economy of the Unlost, from which the exhibit gets its title, grace (χάρις) in the ancient Greek of the poet Simonides was both a state of being and a potentiating force, connecting giver and receiver through ritualized connection that enfolded and superseded kinship. Grace is the “strange arrangement” of possibilities that imply yet defy quantification, as value slips through the structuring net of attempts at capture and commodification with the act of transaction itself transforming them.
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> Participating artists: Cezar Mocan, CROSSLUCID, Stephan Zimmerli and The Sphere.
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> III. The Sphere Karmetplace is live!
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> The Sphere's Portfolio exists primarily in the Sphere KARMETPLACE <https://karmetplace.thesphere.as/ethereum>, a custom made platform created by Uint Studio (Pedro Victor Brandao and Viktor Butus), leveraging blockchain technology to facilitate the connection between live art, its creators, and the audiences supporting them.
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> But you may ask: why yet another NFT trading platform? The answer is twofold:
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> ONCHAIN ROYALTIES:
> Contrary to other NFT platforms, the Karmetplace ensures that listed artists receive royalties from NFT sales. The onchain enforced mechanism guarantees ongoing support for creators even after their initial distribution or sale. In other words: by owning our own marketplace, we can set our own rules of profit redistribution.
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> REGENERATIVE COMMONS for the LIVE ARTS
> The Sphere Karmetplace encourages sellers to direct a part of their sale proceeds to The Sphere Common Pool. New funding cycles can thus be initiated after certain thresholds are met and a new governance framework is set in motion.
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> IV. NFT Listing on the Karmetplace
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> Everyone who participated in the Karmic Funding Campaign in Spring 2022 got at least one Sphere NFT full set made of 1 edition of each one of the artworks (i.e. 6 NFTs in total). The Sphere partners have been attributed extra sets as well. The whole supply of 1000 editions has thus been duly distributed. Check your Metamask wallet, or even easier, connect your wallet through the Karmetplace, you might be in for a little surprise :) 
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> More details about the NFT issuance & distribution plan and strategies of diffusion will follow in another email shortly.
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> For now: following the exhibition at Funding the Commons, the NFTs will start gaining more and more visibility. 
> We encourage anyone who is interested in listing their NFTs to do so ASAP, i.e. before the presentation on Tuesday. Many friends of the Sphere will be present at the event and there might be a bit of FOMO going on - let's make sure there are some NFTs available on the Karmetplace :) 
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> Here is a carefully crafted Listing guide <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17vMrces7ZSI_NYwjoO2Xs7ZP7cWtDnvqMge9o-O6CFQ/present?slide=id.g361dd40bca9_1_60> prepared by Pedro, our beloved household web3 angel.  The Karmetplace is really simple to use - and we are obviously available if anyone needs help.
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> We are planning an online session on Friday the 13th (oups!) at 4pm CET to touch base and discuss any questions with you all.
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> Prior to that, we will be back with another email with more details about the NFT issuance & distribution plan, strategies of diffusion, infos about the revamped Anarchiving game
> https://anarchiving.thesphere.as <https://anarchiving.thesphere.as/>and more - 
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> But for now: happy PROOF-OF-CELEBRATION !!
> 
> Erik for The Sphere
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