Art Blocks Announces New Initiatives, Collections

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Art Blocks Factory and Playground collections are coming to an end as the generative art platform focuses on a new collection: Art Blocks Presents, according to an announcement Tuesday.

Projects which pass through the platform’s current application review process will be released as Art Blocks Presents and the ones that “push the boundaries” will be chosen as Art Blocks Curated, the Medium article said. Current Factory and Playground collections that are set to be released will receive a “special Heritage designation," but the collections will no longer see additional projects.

Art Blocks also announced some other initiatives:

A commissioned collection called Explorations
New smart contract it claims saves 65 percent on gas for collectors minting and artists uploading through the platform
New website

Late last month, Art Blocks announced that it was sunsetting the series numbers at Series 8, but future submitted projects will still be under the Art Blocks Curated collection.

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