The first crypto art exhibition of the 59th Venice Biennale, “The Time of the Chimeras,” will open on April 20 at Palazzo Bernardo Venice, San Polo 2186, concurrent to the opening of the Venice Biennale theme exhibition. The exhibition will last until Nov. 27, 2022.

As the top multichain crypto wallet in Asia, BitKeep supports the trading of NFTs on the Ethereum, Polygon and BNB Smart Chain networks, among other mainnets on its NFT market, and allows users to buy NFTs with the token of their choice. As the authorized wallet of the exhibition, BitKeep has added all exhibiting projects to its NFT market and supports mints, transfers and other transactions — with no NFT transaction fees currently charged.

The Venice Biennale in Venice, as well as the Kassel Documenta in Germany and the Sao Paulo Biennial in Brazil, are the most prominent art exhibitions worldwide. Since its birth in 1895, the Venice Art Biennale has been the most important extensive exhibition group in the world of art, leading the development of modern and contemporary art history worldwide with a distributed, open and diversified natural management system.

The “Chimera Age” Global Encryption Art Exhibition is co-sponsored by Global Crypto Art (GCA) DAO, a global decentralized organization of encrypted art, together with the Venice Biennale Committee and the National Pavilion of Cameroon.

GCA DAO has invited 15 senior contemporary art curators, critics, collectors, NFT investors and outstanding crypto art-industry practitioners from the art world and the worldwide crypto industry to form the GCA Art Council that will nominate, evaluate and vote to decide the 23 artists to submit to the Venice Commission for confirmation. The works of the 23 participating artists in the exhibition involve photography, film, animation, sculpture, installation and other mediums, integrating a variety of comprehensive art media.

As the first series of NFT works to be publicly released for the first crypto art exhibition of the Venice Biennale, MetaEpica will be the most intimate and significant reward for the exhibition’s supporters. Any supporters who donate more than 0.15 Ether (ETH) to this crypto art exhibition will receive a whitelist for a free mint, and GCA DAO will reserve 197 NFTs as contributions and community rewards to thank the early workers for the project and the active participants in the community’s construction. BitKeep supports the transaction and minting of MetaEpica.

Facing the inevitable development of blockchain technology and NFT art, BitKeep will continue to provide a safe and convenient NFT marketplace for global creators and developers. Featuring an aggregated NFT market in its app, BitKeep hopes to conduct more in-depth cooperation with outstanding artists through this exhibition and provide creators and collectors globally with a trading channel for quality digital assets to break the traditional ways of internet transaction, redefining the NFT market.

About GCA DAO

GCA DAO is a worldwide, decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for encrypted art. Its founding members have a broad consensus and deep belief in the value of art, aiming to create a sustainable and influential ecosystem for the betterment of the historic creativity of crypto art. The founding consultants of GCA DAO consist of more than 40 senior people from worldwide, including artists, curators, art dealers, collectors, poets, scientists and blockchain industry investors.

With the support of the professional platform Venice Biennale — honoring artistic creation, technological and financial innovation, blockchain mechanisms and the spirit of encryption — GCA DAO will establish an encryption cultural community that uniquely advances and extensively influences both the world of art and the world of encryption.

GCA DAO will absorb council members through the issuance of small-scale director NFTs with a strict invitation system and KYC process and use to complete the construction of a large-scale DAO community through continuous NFT sales.

About BitKeep

BitKeep is the top decentralized multichain crypto wallet in Asia. It combines five sections, namely: a wallet, swapping, a nonfungible token market, a decentralized application and its Discover feature.

BitKeep was established in Singapore in May 2018. The company is now providing services to 6 million global users. With an original double-encryption storage mechanism to safeguard users’ transaction security, BitKeep has been a zero-security-incident crypto wallet since day one. 

Unlike common blockchain wallets, which only support Ethereum and Ethereum Virtual Machine sidechains, BitKeep has forged strategic partnerships with several top 30 mainnets and become their authorized wallet, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, BNB Smart Chain, Heco, OEC, Tron, Wax, Avalanche, Terra Luna, Near and Arbitrum.

With more than 40 main chains, 10,000-plus DApps, more than a million NFTs and 45,000-plus tokens supported, BitKeep is dedicated to creating the world’s largest Web3 gateway.

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