When we founded Right Click Save exactly four years ago, we set out to support NFT collectors in coming to terms with the fragile reality of digital assets. In a week when two marketplaces, Nifty Gateway and Rodeo, have both announced impending shutdowns, the threat to the viability of NFTs, especially those with off-chain components, feels existential.

These closures aren’t just about platforms going dark—they’re about infrastructure that people entrusted with their collections suddenly disappearing. It’s a reminder that blockchain’s promise of permanence has always been more complicated than the early rhetoric suggested.

At the same time, NODE Foundation opened its doors in Palo Alto this week, offering 12,000 square feet of exhibition space dedicated to digital art. It’s a genuine milestone, though it suggests that Web3’s original vision of democratized, permissionless access is gradually being replaced by something more familiar: centralized institutions and corporatization, with Silicon Valley driving what gets preserved and who gets included.

Four years on from the age of radical inclusivity, we will continue to track new developments in the ecosystem and to support critical infrastructure in the expanding art world.

Thanks for reading with us,

— Danielle King, Head of Community at Right Click Save

— Nick Hladek surveys the precarious state of NFT security, June 20, 2022

— Jason Bailey on the “NFT Apocalypse”, June 20, 2022

— Kyle Waters and Alex Estorick on how NFT economics have stopped making sense, February 10, 2025

The artists Anna Ridler and Refik Anadol will present AI-generated works at the opening of the public program at the new Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities at Oxford University. The program, opening on April 25, 2026, will include Anadol’s Archive Dreaming, made using his Large Nature Model, in the White Box space while Ridler will present A Perfect Language of Images, a new screen-based work in the Centre’s Great Hall, continuing her exploration of natural history, science, and society.

The new center, designed by Hopkins Architects, offers a mix of performance and research spaces alongside academic teaching facilities. The public programme performances will also include 360 Vessels, a new choral installation by the artist Es Devlin and the composer Nico Muhly working with the Schola Cantorum, Oxford University’s chamber choir.

Funded by the philanthropist and businessman Stephen A. Schwarzman, the center brings together seven of the university’s humanities faculties for the first time: Music, English Language and Literature, History, Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, Medieval and Modern Languages, Philosophy, and Theology and Religion. The center will also be home to the Institute for Ethics in AI, created in 2019 as part of the announcement of the Centre, the Oxford Internet Institute and the new Bodleian Humanities Library.