Interviews and a live market panel on NFT and generative digital art collecting, from Proof.
Vaulted by PROOF is a conversational digital-art show built around collectors, creators, and the communities shaping NFT culture. Episodes move from fashion collaborations and physical prints to Opepen mechanics, generative art, AI image making, and market mood.
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Vaulted by PROOF is an NFT and digital-art collecting show that runs two distinct formats within the same feed. Structured interview episodes are hosted by Eli Scheinman, Proof's Director of Art, who sits down with a single artist or collector to discuss a specific project, protocol, or creative process. Looser panel episodes, branded "100 Proof Live," bring together Kevin Rose (Proof co-founder), Sam (Proof's Director of Research), and Amanda (Proof's Head of Culture and Community) for a weekly roundtable mixing market commentary with community chat and guest check-ins. Guests come from the generative and AI art world, with figures like Jack Butcher, Snowfro (Art Blocks founder), and Tyler Hobbs recurring across episodes, alongside collectors such as Seed Phrase and entrepreneurs building physical goods on top of NFT ownership, like Colby McRobbie's Merch fashion line. Typical topics include generative art platforms (Art Blocks, Autoglyphs), AI art market-cap comparisons, CryptoPunks trading history, on-chain mechanics like burn events and token-gated releases, and NFT artists' crossover into auction houses and museums. Market-update segments cover floor prices, ETH/Bitcoin correlation debates, and mechanics like Dutch auctions and token unlocks. The conversation assumes familiarity with NFT terminology, platforms, and market history rather than explaining it from scratch. Episodes run roughly 35 to 70 minutes, with panel episodes recorded live and interview episodes produced as more contained sit-down conversations. Listeners who already collect or trade NFTs, or who follow generative and AI digital art specifically, are the core fit.
Made for: NFT collectors and generative/AI digital art followers who track platforms like Art Blocks, CryptoPunks trading history, and crypto art market conditions.
What sets it apart: Combines one-on-one artist interviews with a recurring live market-update panel (100 Proof Live), both produced from inside Proof/Yuga Labs rather than by outside journalists.
Vaulted by PROOF is a podcast that delves into the world of collecting and creating digital art collectibles. Each episode covers a wide range of topics within the digital art sphere, featuring a revolving cast of influential guests and thought leaders in this revolutionary technology medium. Join us as we explore how digital art is transforming the way we produce and experience creativity today.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes digital art legible as both an aesthetic practice and a system of collecting, ownership, display, and physical production.
Vaulted by PROOF treats digital art as something to look at closely and as a system shaped by code, ownership, collecting, and sale mechanics.
Vaulted turns your digital-art rabbit hole into a collectors' salon, with hoodies occasionally entering the chat.
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A relaxed collector conversation where hoodies, AI art, and market instinct become part of the same cultural bet.
Hoodie season gives Vaulted by PROOF an easy way into a conversation about physical fashion, digital art, and the collector mindset behind both.
A clear look at how Avon Art is using physical releases to bring digital artists closer to collectors beyond the Web3 core.
Vaulted by PROOF brings Abigail Miller into a focused conversation about Avon Art's attempt to make digital art feel collectible beyond the usual Web3 channels.
A thoughtful digital art conversation about OPEPEN, opting out, and provenance as something shaped by participation.
Vaulted by PROOF brings Jack Butcher and Jalil Wahdatehagh into a conversation about OPEPEN, digital art, and the strange freedom built into opting out.
A loose, insider-friendly PROOF conversation where market momentum meets a sharper argument about code, geometry, and taste.
Vaulted by PROOF catches 100 Proof Live in a looser, jet-lagged register, with Justin, Amanda, and collector-advisor Tony Herrera talking through a digital art market that suddenly feels alive again.
A loose, collector-minded look at NFT art momentum, Snowfro physicals, and Velocity Pass incentives.
Vaulted by PROOF treats the NFT rebound question through the mechanics of art drops and collector access, with Snowfro's visual language and Velocity Pass as the useful case studies.
A loose live NFT-room conversation where Joy Division's archive brushes against museums, collector culture, and art-world validation.
Vaulted by PROOF sets Peter Saville, Stephen Morris, and the Joy Division Archive inside a chatty 100 Proof Live room, where art, NFTs, and collector access keep crossing wires.
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Hoodie season opens the door.
Avon Art wants digital artists to make sense in physical form.
Host Eli Scheinman (Director of Art at Yuga Labs and Proof) interviews digital artists Jack Butcher and Jalil Wahdatehagh of Visualize Value about OPEPEN, their open art protocol that ArtBlocks founder Snowfro has called 'a new participatory version of a digital art museum.' The episode covers the new OPEPEN burn mechanic — which lets collectors exchange their token for a unique hand-curated AI-generated piece — framed by Butcher as a commentary on AI training on artists' work and the question 'who owns fire as a concept?' Butcher describes his Proof Grails contribution 'Epiphany' — built around a 2010 Satoshi quote on a 24-word seed phrase grid, completed ten minutes before the deadline.
GM, GM starts loose.
GM starts a little late.
GM, GM opens a loose live room for collectors.