Announcing the $RARE Curation Token and the SuperRare Network

Curation will gradually be vested to our community of artists, collectors, and curators via a new SuperRare curation token, $RARE.

While access will continue to be limited so that the platform can grow sustainably, the vetting and invitation process will be expanded to include a new artist Curation Panel, rather than administered solely by the core SuperRare team. The panel will consist of five community members, initially selected by SuperRare Labs, but eventually voted on by... See more

In order to scale up and take advantage of the true power of web3, SuperRare is embarking on a path of progressive decentralization – ultimately shifting ownership and curation of the network to the community.

In order to scale up and take advantage of the true power of web3, SuperRare is embarking on a path of progressive decentralization – shifting ownership and governance of the network to our community.

And third, the community is now empowered to make the decisions that will affect the future of SuperRare. This includes which artists and curators are permitted to sell work on the site, how to allocate funds from the community treasury, and which proposed improvements to the network and protocol are greenlit.

Second, $400 million as of this writing of the newly launched $RARE token was given with no strings attached to community members. Current shareholders who once owned 100% of the SuperRare stock now own only 40% of the company’s governance token. And while the community members are free to sell their tokens at any time on the open market, our token... See more

100% of the value captured by the network will now be routed to the SuperRare Community Treasury to fund artist grants, network development, and further fuel the growth of the SuperRare ecosystem