1) Definitions Ethernaal: A collective made of artists shaped around the tattoo and blockchain industries, managing it´s own brand, marketplace, art collections, treasury, partnerships, gallery and museum curation. Decentralized Finance: an ambitious attempt to decentralize core traditional financial use cases like trading, lending, investment, wealth management, payment and insurance on the blockchain.

Not long ago we gave up ownership at the promise of everything for a small monthly fee, how enticing it seemed to smell but never hold all the content of the world. …

An important thing that is ever present in tattoo collectors’ minds is aftercare, there are a lot of aftercare routines that you can get into to ensure that your tattoo heals the best that it can. There are also some definite things to avoid to ensure that your new tattoo…

An art collection is first and foremost, just that — a series of objects that can be classified in some way or another as Art. Aside from this immediate commonality any collection will usually be bound by some other quality. Against the breadth of human artistic expression a collector will…

The traditional method of tattooing in Japan is called irezumi 入れ墨 (literally meaning ‘to enter the ink’) and it reaches back to 10,000 BC. The tattoos do not involve either stencil or machine, and are made by applying the ink directly to the skin. The significance of Japanese tattoos has…

Tattoo flash is an essential feature of tattoo culture. It is an illustration that has been printed, drawn or painted, and it is used to be shown to the clients while choosing the design. Clients can either pick a flash that the artist has created or ask for a custom…

Every tattooist is an artist and just like every art industry, getting started in the world of professional tattooing is not easy. Any prospective tattoo artist is realistically faced with two options: doing an apprenticeship or going solo. On the one hand you could find an apprenticeship where you learn…

This article aims to consider crypto money as a means of payment in the tattoo industry. During the last months, I’ve noticed that more artists, as well as different shops and services offering cryptocurrencies as an option for payment. For instance, taxi services in the UK, travel agencies — such…

A tattoo is an ancient form of body modification, which involves picking ink below the top epidermal layer, to create a permanent design below the surface of the skin. The art form of tattooing is at least 8,000 years old, and has developed through many stages and will inevitably continue…