Websea Celebrates Runestone Artist Léo Caillard & His New Collection ‘The Block’

As the cryptocurrency space continues to grow and transform, Websea has emerged as a go-to digital asset trading platform that aims to educate the global youth about the potential of blockchain while providing a seamless way to interact with the vast world of Web3.

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It has proved time and again that it’s not only a crypto exchange; it’s a platform that offers its users several earning opportunities by introducing a unique business model that enables users to create multi-faceted value for the Websea ecosystem while collectively enjoying the benefits of its growth.

Websea is a young and exciting ecosystem of entertainment, gaming, and social interaction. To spearhead a new generation of Social Exchange, the platform creates promising solutions, supports artists, and encourages innovation.

Working towards this vision, Websea recently hosted a chatting session on X (Previously Twitter) with the talented artist Léo Caillard, who’s behind the popular NFT project Runestone, drawing an incredible audience of nearly 30,000 participants.

Launched in mid-March, Runestone has rapidly become a popular NFT project on the Bitcoin blockchain, attracting 77,000 owners and seeing a 350% price increase in just the past two weeks, with its floor value now at 0.085 BTC.

A booming project in the Web3 industry, Runestone is a decentralized, transparent, and volunteer initiative that currently ranks as the second-largest NFT project with a market cap of $655.4 mln, surpassing $434.5 mln BAYC.
Listed on the NFT marketplace MagicEden, Bitcoin Ordinals-based Runestone was airdropped to the early users of the Ordinals protocol, which made it possible to create Bitcoin NFTs by attaching data to specific satoshis.
This top NFT collection on the Ordinals ecosystems is the brainchild of Leonidas, the founder of Ord.io, a platform to browse and vote on ordinal inscriptions. After Runestone’s successful airdrop, Leonidas is now preparing to airdrop a “Dog” meme coin to Runestone holders. With this move, the idea is to bring the market-wide meme coin mania to the largest blockchain and onboard new people to Bitcoin.

Meanwhile, Runestone creator Léo Caillard is launching his new project, The Block. A rising star in the traditional art industry who has previously collaborated with the Louvre museum is all set to grant the space with yet another Bitcoin-based collection that will be launched at Magic Eden on April 11th. For this sale, Runestone holders will be automatically whitelisted, for which a snapshot of addresses will be taken 24 hours before the mint.
This is Léo Caillard’s first Ordinals collection with 1000 pieces, each having a mint price of 0.015 for Runestone holders and 0.02 BTC for the general public.
This collection contains three different blocks, each with unique mechanics that allow its holders to convert them into real, exclusive, and unique marble sculptures. Of the total, 600 pieces will be of The White Marble Block, 300 pieces of The Black Marble Block, and 100 pieces of The Orange Marble Block.

Owning the block gives one the right to claim the handmade, high-end physical art piece. And when converted, the Blocks are burned, leading to a deflation of the Ordinals collection.
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In a chat with Websea on Tuesday, Léo Caillard detailed the origin of his collection, describing how it all began with the concept of inscribing something very heavy with tons of details, high definition, and pure 3D files.

With Runestone, he wanted to merge the modern and the classic, allowing one to simultaneously be in the past and the future. He associated the project with vitality, life, and longevity.

Now, with the Block collection, he is blending digital and physical artwork to elicit emotions and share something special with the viewer. The only difference lies in the tool or medium users; everything else, he asserts, remains the same.

He also wants to open a dialogue between digital and physical art, as he believes it will be the next big move in the art world, and the market and institutions need to be prepared for it.

Léo Caillard, renowned for his marble sculptures carved in his Parisian studio, explained that just like his physical pieces that last beyond a lifetime and communicate with future generations, his digital artwork, too, will be preserved through millennia.
While many people outside the blockchain space see this as market speculation, Léo Caillard contends it’s more than just that — it’s a meaningful and artistic place that is seeing just the beginning of amazing creativity and will be much bigger than what we see right now.
As for choosing to go with the Bitcoin blockchain, he believes it is the “most resilient” in terms of long-term digital data. This allows him to create something that’ll remain for centuries with hopes to see his digital work become a symbol of the 2000s.