Jeff Davis Drops Progression, OpenAI Teases Wallet and more
A recap of the key trends, news, apps, and art shaping crypto culture and markets this week.
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Welcome to another edition of the hidden gems. If you are new here, this is where I share interesting trends, apps, NFTs and content that caught my eye over the past week.
Let’s get into it…
💎 Gem of the Week
Progression by Jeff David
Generative artist and Art Blocks strategic advisor Jeff Davis just released a new collection called Progression. This was one of my only generative (coded) art mints of the year — and also my first Jeff Davis piece.
Jeff’s one of those artists who can create super minimal collections built around a single, focused idea. He usually approaches projects with clear design intent and strategy, often sharing deep details about how the algorithm works.
Here is my mint.
The project explores how colors interact when placed in different sequences — horizontal and vertical strips that shift your perception. Each color feels like a note in a song, building rhythm and tension. Some combinations blend smoothly and add depth, while others create sharp, jumpy contrasts that push and pull your eyes across the canvas.
It’s inspired by artists like Paul Klee (who saw color as music), Josef Albers (who studied how colors affect each other), Mark Rothko (master of mood through color), and Gene Davis (striped visual rhythms).
Learn more about Progression here and check the full collection on Art Blocks.
📰 News of the Week
OpenAI x Visa x Stablecoin Wallet x Worldcoin
This week brought some big news from OpenAI — and no, I’m not talking about their new 4o model that can recreate text in images or spit out Ghibli-style animations with scary precision.
I’m talking about stablecoins — and a wallet integration in partnership with Visa.
This is a major signal for the crypto space, highlighting the increasingly powerful combo of AI and blockchains. While we can only speculate on what this integration will do in the short term (besides transferring digital money), it likely ties into what I wrote a few months back in The Crypto AI Agent Market: Beyond Hype and Memes.
It’s also a moment where Worldcoin starts to make more sense. Their whole mission of verifying proof of human becomes more relevant by the day. We’ve seen a wave of smart bots — aka AI agents — flooding social platforms in recent months. As the models get more advanced, this starts to affect both user experience and platform security.
I haven’t personally used or seen Worldcoin integrations in action yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if “proof of human” becomes a must-have layer for every social internet app — not just in Web3.
Source: CoinDesk
✍️ Kaloh’s Newsletter
In case you missed it…
This month, I published three issues covering NFTs (where do non-fungible tokens stand in the current fungibles wave?), DeFi (how can you provide liquidity to decentralized protocols and earn fees?), and Digital Art (what would I collect with 2 ETH today?).
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That’s it for this week hidden gems.
Until next time,
- Kaloh