The art canon is essentially the blockchain provenance proven conventional timeline of artists who are considered the Glitch Masters. In 2021, XCOPY was anointed through stratospheric sales in the hundreds of eth. In the past five years there are now a tight garrison of artists who are vying to enter the Glitch Canon. Here are some of the contendoors.
Reylar's Irrepressible Energy
Reylar's Dam (Line 197) is the kind of artist that's so hot you'll be jumping on the spot viewing his work on The Line. He has built a modern Aztec ruin, surrounded by lava as his digital homage to home. His portrait is the first you'll encounter with the words 'Get off your fuckin' phone' emblazoned above his head.
You probably know Reylar (Line 197) better for the epic, annual portrait of all the characters of crypto in a single artwork. Steadily, every year that portrait grows and while we celebrate the growth in the space, the Cryptoart & NFTs Class of 2025 jpeg weighed in at 375MB.
Veiled Amadon
Amadon (Line 196) is a contradiction of vibe in that he is both a proponent of privacy yet highly visible in his own discourse of art. He exhibited 'No Rioters' on a billboard in Hong Kong that was taken down for containing hidden messages. You can now see the work on The Line.
Placed opposite is a green line, stretching to the heavens. In the foreground 'Doppelganger' surfaces some of the power possible with smart contracts, as Amadon (Line 196) empowers collectors to switch the artwork within its NFT frame. If you believe privacy and blockchain go hand in hand, then Amadon's 4am alley-like glitch vibe might be the narrative that explains what the tech geeks cannot.
C4rdinal's Explosive Glitch
The clue is in the name -- C4 is a type of explosive, and that allegory drives the vertical vermilions into the night sky. With so much of the digital canvas dedicated to these orange rays of glory, the contrast with the scene below shows how bright glitch and dark corners play tricks on your eyes that you can't look away from.
Eyes pierce on subjects competing for attention with a blood red background. Scenes of religion, of gospel, oceanic travel and early saloon lore are easily mixed with crypto themes of hype. C4rdinal (Line 199) is at ease with subject matter and has found a veritable feast of stories to tell through a highly reductive palette that frees the mind to explore the moment.
Night Glitch Tokyoluv
Tokyoluv (Line 219) snaps the reality of Tokyo's futurism, and then pushes it a step further into the future. Glitch creates the future Tokyoluv sees for Japan before the rest of us do. His scenes keep the viewer at street level -- you're exploring these back alleys while simultaneously imbibing on pixels that only existed in Tokyoluv's mind.
There are over 200 works on The Line 219, giving both a depth and breadth to Japan's epicentre of modern culture that glitch fell in love with. Tokyo Luv (Line 219) is considered in the release of his work and some of the 1/1s minted in 2025 do not disappoint.
Matty Furious About Early Internet
The 50th artist accepted into SuperRare needs no introduction. Matty Furious (Line 303) literally was early to this whole thing that the 2021 circus called the metaverse. He was already building 3D artefacts to join his cacophony of scenes and similitude to adorn his 1998 digital mind. The designed internet that only the WayBack Machine remembers is where Matty Furious (Line 303) lives every day.
If you haven't heard of Matty Furious (Line 303) before, it's because your brain has been normie-pilled by the ultra grail blue chip fandoom march. Take a step back and pay homage to your elders on The Line with Matty Furious -- if you can get it to load... the place is pushed to its very 56k dial-up limits.
Sit with Stranger Solemn
A disc jockey of glitch sitting with his pastels and purples in a dimly lit corner of the party -- that's how I believe any first meeting with Stranger Solemn (Line 512) should eventuate. The appreciation of the square format for glitching within suits both The Line for exhibiting and the newsfeed we have relied on for the past 5+ years. Skull-lit individuals where emotion is carried through facial construction and glitch glimmers make for an intimate one-on-one relationship with the work.
Looking at recent works, there is play with perspective, an even deeper K-hole of black to fall into, making each synaptic fire of glitch that much more palpable.
His Artwork His Line
The earliest cryptoart has a wholesome feel in general, mixed with nostalgia and future all at once. Having these artefacts minted to the blockchain means we have a better chance to keep them alive than the Web1.0 era. His Artwork (Line 556) is that kind of artist -- acquired early for the provenance, stayed for the work.
"He is a sane man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head." -- G.K. Chesterton
JakNFT
JakNFT (Line 599) is bigly popular and crossed over huge with Hoodies and Dos Hoodies in 2021. While you can enjoy the Hoodies and their pfp era simplicity on The Line 4, we set up a separate line for 'Light in the Dark' that asks a lot of the viewer. The viewer looks up to the sky and an incomprehensible series of events follows that takes a few loops to start to realise where you are standing. JakNFT (Line 599) has no trouble narrating the big picture, even though he is perhaps more well known for his crypto themed musings.
Glitch Canon Summary
There are always names I miss -- because the Glitch Canon is far from nailed down. Missing Max Capacity (Line 698) or ROBNESS (Line 700) almost discredits the entire article in its early cryptoart validity. Missing Underscore (Line 16) or Kero (Line 31) seems like I hadn't kept up with the new names. And missing ACK (Line 459) and XCOPY will make those overinvested by a lot wish the devs would do something different. But hey, we write, we share and if you've got something to say, do it on LARP chat, where artists debate with artists what matters and why.
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