Digital art made, sold and collected on blockchains, which grew from the Rare Pepes and CryptoPunks of 2016 and 2017 into the NFT boom of 2021.
A lot of people associate crypto art with NFT or token-based art, which is absolutely, I think, a simplistic understanding.
matto, Protocol Art & Blockchain Formalism
I think when we start making boundaries and boxes around art and crypto art and trad art, then we get into a lot of trouble, and we don't really have the dialogues and the kind of flow of ideas that I think are really needed for us to all grow and evolve together.
Casey Reas, Elevating Generative Art: Casey Reas, ciphrd, Anne Spalter