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Saturday, November 29, 2025

Crypto Heavyweights Made Appearances at Art Basel, But NFTs Were Scarce as Bitcoin Continues Its Plunge - artnet News

As a new crypto winter set in just in time for Art Basel, there was a lot of non-fungible gossip (and a few sales!) to report from the world’s preeminent art fair, which opened this week.
Along with the usual throng of art glitterati, several major ballers of the NFT and crypto art scenes made appearances at the fair this year. Ryan Zurrer, founder of Dialectic.ch and collector of works by the likes of Beeple and Refik Anadol, was spotted strolling the main fair. And Beeple himself could be seen perusing the fair with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, director of the Castello di Rivoli, where his very first sculpture, Human One, is currently on view. Meanwhile, Niclas Castello, progenitor of the infamous gold cube turned Castello Coin cryptocurrency, spent an evening huddled at a corner table at Les Trois Rois.
Unlike Art Basel Miami Beach in December, which felt more like an NFT party than a traditional art fair, the Swiss edition felt markedly less bullish on NFTs.
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