Crypto Winter: Could the Web3 Revolution Be a Lifeline for Seattle Artists?

Catherine Harris-White, stage name SassyBlack, is apprehensive. It’s the fall of 2021, and life is tentatively unfurling into normalcy. The highly contagious omicron variant has yet to reach our shores, and Seattle venues that the electronic soul and funk artist warmed with her luscious vocals pre-pandemic are open, once more. But she’s gripped with nerves, because today, she will try something totally new: minting her first NFT.

Grasping what an NFT, or non-fungible token, even is proves a formidable hurdle for most people, given the intricate technological underpinnings and layers of abstraction. Of course, we’ll try. First, an NFT is not a piece of art—it is not the

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