Async Art
Collectors could own and change individual layers of an artwork
A San Francisco-area platform for programmable art on Ethereum, where a work was split into a master image and separately owned layers that collectors could alter.
- Capital raised (announced)
Recorded announced backing; this is separate from cash received, customer deposits and money recovered.
Funding
| Round | Date | Announced | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 2021 |
Announced is what was said at the time. Cash actually received is rarely disclosed and is not assumed to match.
People
| Name | Role | Period | Now | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conlan Rios | — | Artist (specifically a writer) | Oct 2026 |
Timeline
February 2020
29 April 2021
Artists supplied alternative musical layers, and collectors could change the resulting composition within those choices. The release announced a browser player and credit-card access.
23 October 2023
After much deliberation, it is with heavy hearts that we announce Async Art is winding down operations over the next few months.
How it ended
Async Art announced on 23 October 2023 that it was winding down operations over the following months. It stopped taking new submissions that day and said its market would stop supporting purchases by the end of 2023. The company said the NFTs remained on-chain and pinned on IPFS, and that it would try to launch a simplified viewer for its dynamic pieces.
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Sources
11 sources behind this page.
- 1Async launches programmable music · Async via PR Newswire · Apr 2021
- 2Async Art Secures Over $2 Million in Seed Funding · Asynchronous Art, Inc (press release via PR Newswire) · Feb 2021
- 3Over $2 million in seed funding secured by NFT marketplace · CoinJournal (repeats the company's press release) · Feb 2021
- 4Portfolio of Conlan Rios · Conlan Rios (personal site)
- 5Async Art announces its plan to cease operations · DappExpert
- 6async-contracts: contributors · GitHub
- 7GitHub profile: conlan · GitHub (self-published profile) · Sep 2026
- 8Async Art Bids Farewell: The End of an Era · NFT Culture · Oct 2023
- 9Pioneering Creator Platform 'Async Art' Closes Operations · NFT Plazas
- 10X account lookup: @AsyncArt · twitterapi.io (X data provider)
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- 11X search: @AsyncArt posts, 23 October 2023 · twitterapi.io (X data provider)
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