Team Builds Preservation Platform After Foundation Shutdown
Team Builds Preservation Platform After Foundation Shutdown
🏛️ Preserving Digital History
A collaborative team including @jalilwahdat, @yougogirl_eth, and others has spent recent months developing a preservation solution following Foundation's closure.
Background
- Foundation was among the earliest digital art auction platforms
- The platform's shutdown left a gap in preserving minted and collected works
The Initiative The project aims to create a dedicated space for safeguarding artwork originally minted and collected on Foundation. This effort addresses concerns about digital art preservation when platforms cease operations.
The team's work represents a practical response to infrastructure challenges in the digital art ecosystem.
For the last couple of months, @jalilwahdat, @yougogirl_eth and I have been working on an idea that was originally prompted by the shutdown of Foundation, one of the first digital art auction houses. The initial goal, a place to preserve the work minted and collected there.
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