The sentiment of crypto art

Crypto art is a beautiful example of a side effect of a technology: blockchain. While commonly associated with decentralized finance and cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology allowed to create scarcity in a world – digital art – where everything can be infinitely duplicated and freely saved with a right-click of the mouse, forstering the growth, burst, and stabilization of a dizzying market made of artists, collectors, art galleries and curators. In this preliminary work we assess the sentiments expressed by crypto artists when they create art and those coveted by crypto collectors when they collect art. We find that artists communicate positive emotions like joy and trust instead of negative ones like fear and sadness. However, collectors are agnostic to these emotions. This might be useful information to integrate into a crypto art discovery system that we are currently building.