Right Click Save (RCS), the online magazine dedicated to elevating cultural discourse around art on the blockchain and Sotheby's Institute of Art (SIA) today announced a partnership that will expand scholarly interest, research, and writing about NFTs.

With this new partnership commencing at the start of the SIA academic year, RCS will offer an inaugural "Call for Submissions" to SIA students of Masters level to share their best writing on art and technology with RCS readers. The partnership will enable students to participate in the debate about NFTs in a high-profile publication dedicated to this area.

"Students of Sotheby's Institute are ideally placed to examine the growing influence of technology in art," said Alex Estorick, Editor in Chief of RCS. "At a time when art and technology are closer than ever, RCS is a natural space for them to cross-fertilize. This partnership will help a new generation of scholars to lead that conversation."

"We're delighted that our students will have this new opportunity to bring their writing and thought on this major development of today's art world to the public sphere via RCS," said Jonathan Woolfson, Director of Sotheby's Institute of Art – London. "It is vitally important that the art world leaders of tomorrow become deeply familiar with the momentous technological leaps of our time. Sotheby's Institute has recently introduced NFTs, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrencies to its existing range of teaching topics and expertise, so there is a really fruitful synergy here. I greatly look forward to witnessing the dialogues that will result."

About Right Click Save

Right Click Save, a ClubNFT publication, is an online magazine that seeks to drive critical conversation about blockchain, NFTs, and Web3. Its aims are as follows: Engage readers about the ongoing topical and historical importance of NFTs to culture. Give artists and collectors of the NFT space the same level of respect afforded those of the traditional art world. Help artists, collectors, and the uninitiated to comprehend the changing reality of NFT ownership. Foreground new voices and foster dialogue between different creator communities. Offer the highest quality of art writing anywhere in the NFT space. For more information: www.rightclicksave.com.

About Sotheby's Institute of Art

Founded in 1969, Sotheby's Institute of Art (SIA) is the pioneer in the study of art and its markets. With campuses in New York, London, and Online, and a large array of developing programmes, SIA's academically innovative and professionally focused teaching philosophy enables students to acquire specialized knowledge of art's objects, histories, and markets to impact art and arts-related industries. For more information: www.sothebysinstitute.com.

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ClubNFT, a company building next-generation tools and services to discover, protect, and share NFTs, and NFT marketplace KnownOrigin today announced an integration partnership enabling all users of KnownOrigin to quickly and easily download a backup of their NFTs to their own computer, ensuring the safety and longevity of their collections no matter what may happen in the future.

Founded by Artnome's Jason Bailey and Chris King in 2021, ClubNFT's mission is to help protect artists and collectors from marketplace dependency for the safety and preservation of their NFTs, educate anyone interested in the space, and help collectors make good decisions about what to buy next, where, and why.

Founded by Andy Gray, David Moore and James Morgan in 2018, KnownOrigin is a marketplace to discover, buy and collect digital artwork & rare NFTs. The company was acquired by eBay in June of this year.

"NFT token longevity and technical quality is a problem which is not only often overlooked but often totally ignored. Building NFTs which last decades into the future is key to the success of the industry. We care deeply about the safety and longevity of our users' NFTs, which is why we follow Web3 best practices and have invested heavily in building a safe storage infrastructure, utilizing multiple IPFS providers. We're pleased to be working with companies like ClubNFT to help build tools and awareness around such crucial and important topics," said James Morgan, CTO at KnownOrigin.

At KnownOrigin.io, users will find a ClubNFT button for one-click access to quickly and easily obtain a backup. The service is free, trustless, and requires no wallet connection or transaction signing.

"Not all NFTs are stored equally, and we applaud KnownOrigin for its thoughtful, savvy use of IPFS rather than private servers for NFT artwork," said Jason Bailey, co-founder of ClubNFT. "Through our partnership, KnownOrigin is providing unprecedented assurance for its users and enabling them to control the destinies of their IPFS-based NFTs."

Independent research, verified by ClubNFT's own investigation, has shown that approximately half of Ethereum-based NFTs are stored on IPFS - including all of KnownOrigin's NFTs. The other half are stored on privately-owned web servers. ClubNFT's backup helps ensure the safety and longevity of the NFT's stored on IPFS, while those stored on private servers are impossible to protect.

Beyond the backup itself, ClubNFT will provide KnownOrigin users a number of insights into their collections:

• Which NFTs in their collection were minted following best-practices, using IPFS for off-chain content, and which were not
• Which marketplaces consistently follow these best practices, like KnownOrigin, and which do not
• A number of technical insights of interest to conscientious collectors

ClubNFT launched its backup tool at NFT NYC in June of 2022 and has backed up just under 5K collections, 1M NFTs, and 1.6M IPFS files.

About ClubNFT

CEO Jason Bailey (AKA Artnome) has been an important thought leader in the NFT space ever since he announced the arrival of the blockchain art market in 2017. He is proud to have been the first collector on SuperRare and to have advised dozens of other NFT marketplaces. Jason believes that, for NFTs to reach their full potential, the industry needs to go beyond marketplaces and start building the infrastructure and tools of the future. This belief drove Jason to recruit co-founder/CTO Chris King from Google and CFO/COO Danielle King, the former Manager of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, to launch ClubNFT. ClubNFT's mission is to build the next generation of NFT solutions to help collectors discover, protect, and share digital assets. For more information: www.clubnft.com.

About KnownOrigin

Founded in 2018 by James Morgan, Andy Gray and David Moore, KnownOrigin is an NFT marketplace designed to empower creators and collectors by giving them the ability to showcase, sell, and collect unique, authenticated digital items. The platform was acquired by eBay in June 2022.

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ClubNFT, the company building next-generation infrastructure solutions to discover, protect and share non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for digital artwork, announced $3M in seed funding; its official company launch; and its first solution, which will allow collectors to safeguard their NFT investments by downloading the media associated with all their NFTs in a single click. The company is headed by CEO/Co-Founder Jason Bailey, NFT Thought Leader, Collector and Founder of Artnome; CTO/Co-Founder Chris King, formerly of Google; and CFO/COO Danielle King, the former Manager of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA.

Recognizing the tremendous opportunities in providing infrastructure solutions for the NFT space, several investors joined the $3M seed round, co-led by Galaxy Digital and Galaxy Interactive, with participation from Red Swan Ventures, CMT Digital, Sfermion, Draper Dragon, Richard Entrup, and other angel investors. To date, the company has raised $3.875 million, including previous funding from Motown Capital and Bharat Krymo.

ClubNFT is building the next generation of tools for NFT collectors, including search, analysis, backup, recovery, appraisal, and curation — all integrated with and complementary to existing NFT marketplaces. The company's initial product is a free solution enabling collectors to quickly and easily download and store their digital art files to wherever they see fit. Without backing up the media files associated with their NFTs, collectors run the risk of losing the full value of their investments.

"ClubNFT will provide much-needed tools and solutions for the NFT collector community," said Jason Bailey, CEO of ClubNFT. "As a first step, we want to solve a major problem: collectors are at the mercy of third parties in backing up their NFT media. So, we are providing a free, automated way for collectors to download the media associated with all their NFTs in a single click to ensure that their NFT investments are safe."

Contrary to popular understanding, the actual artwork associated with the majority of NFTs is not stored on the blockchain. Billions of dollars of NFTs have media stored off-chain, and collectors, being unaware, exercise no control over the artwork. If a marketplace stops paying for storage, or experiences an outage or data loss, collectors stand to lose their digital artwork permanently.

"This market is sorely in need of infrastructure solutions for collectors to help them discover, protect and share their investments," said Richard Kim, General Partner, Galaxy Interactive. "The visionaries at ClubNFT are the ideal people to provide the needed foundation and help shape the future of the NFT industry."

Collectors can protect their NFT investments by signing up for the beta here.

About ClubNFT

CEO Jason Bailey (AKA Artnome) has been an important thought leader in the NFT space ever since he announced the arrival of the blockchain art market in 2017. He is proud to have been the first collector on SuperRare and to have advised dozens of other NFT marketplaces. Jason believes that, for NFTs to reach their full potential, the industry needs to go beyond marketplaces and start building the infrastructure and tools of the future. This belief drove Jason to recruit co-founder/CTO Chris King from Google and CFO/COO Danielle King, the former Manager of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, to launch ClubNFT. ClubNFT's mission is to build the next generation of NFT solutions to help collectors discover, protect, and share digital assets. For more information: www.clubnft.com.