ORBIT.
Physical infrastructure for digital culture.
Carrying Ethereum's philosophy and culture into museums, galleries and Ethereum's ecosystem physical spaces through a decentralized system of digital art exhibitting devices.
Institutional & Technical Alignment
The opportunity
Ethereum Foundation wants to permeate the traditional art world — museums and galleries. Today, no one owns that mandate.
EF's institutional mandate
A new home for art and its relationship with traditional cultural institutions. The missing piece is physical, curatorial and technological execution.
ORBIT's fit
Six-plus years spent on exactly these problems: digital-art exhibition, onchain art ecosystems, and the bottlenecks of the White Cube.
A native alignment — EF brings the institutional line and ethos; ORBIT brings the infrastructure and decentralized systems to make it visible in the physical world.
The crisis of the White Cube
A convergent, rigid model ill-suited to a divergent digital culture.
Curatorial bottleneck
The White Cube acts as a centralized gatekeeper, restricting the entry of native-digital voices.
Technological stagnation
Spaces lack infrastructure and expertise to exhibit digital art correctly; iterative curation is impossible.
Rigid operational logics
Formats built for static physical media block continuous content and programming updates.
Institutional isolation
Digital art stays trapped in high-barrier spaces, financially insolvent and without mass public dialogue.
ORBIT in 60 seconds
The world's largest open network of digital-art exhibition screens.
What
A global decentralized network of physical Satellites — standard, replicable, fine-art-grade displays in public, private and institutional spaces.
Why
Fork the Canon. A distributed, non-authoritative, pluralistic culture aligned with Ethereum's ethos — hardware as artistic language, ergodic by design.
Track record
NEWTRO + VTV: 6+ years, +350 artists, +25 exhibitions, premium clients (Bright Moments, Le Meurice, MEP, NODE).
Institutional MVP — 15 screens
Three public nodes across three countries. Each node: four exhibition screens plus one curatorial-text screen.
France · Argentina · US/China
Deployed in strategic partner venues.
Screens per node
4 exhibition + 1 curatorial text.
Screens total
A continental proof of the institutional line.
Funding completes the screen line and deploys these nodes inside agreed institutional spaces — the first step of the art-world track.
Anatomy of a node
One node · five native-format screens · kinetic movement · a digital twin for remote curation.
01 · Iterative digital curation
Museums gain a practice that matches the medium — continuously updatable, iterated, programmatic.
From static to live
Why it wins
Digital art is inherently dynamic. The node's platform enables frequent, well-documented, onchain-verified curation — impossible under static formats.
Pluralism Engine · remote IoT management · public per-node calendar.
02 · A new revenue stream
Screen-time rental turns the node into a financed asset for the host venue.
Screen-time tiers
Transparent split
The museum's hosting income is automated via automatic fee redistribution.
03 · Institutional validation
The museum becomes the last step of an artist's journey — the legitimizing venue behind the great sale.
The relationship
The curation narrative belongs to the institution.
Artist journey
From network exposure to the museum-led sale.
Activating community
The audience becomes part of the network — and takes a piece of the curation home.
DIY refurbishing workshops
Hosted by the institutional spaces that will be a part of the MVP: participants build mirror nodes from recycled screens and low-cost hardware.
Permissionless, open-source manuals — an indexable cypherpunk act that helps grow the network.
Pedagogical talks
The refurbishing workshops can be paired with educational talks about the Ethereum ecosystem that reconnects the new audience (those who built the DIY nodes) with the museum's curation.
Mirror mode
As a result of the refurbishing workshops, participants will leave with a DIY home device that mirrors the museum's curatorial node — the venue's audience stays connected to the exhibition from their own homes, feeding measurable impressions.
Ecosystem MVP — 9 screens
Three nodes inside Ethereum-aligned spaces: 2 art + 1 text each.
Across the ecosystem
Ethereum Foundation · ETH Hubs · private Web3 offices (e.g. Lambda Class, Uniswap offices, etc).
Company nodes may be purchased or granted for the MVP by the Ethereum Foundation— by joining the network, these spaces will now have an autonomous digital art and cultural department through the ORBIT devices.
Node formula
Direct collecting
Remove the intermediaries. Reward artists directly.
Distributed — No Gatekeeping
Artists reach audiences directly. Value flows to the artist, at scale, without ORBIT's interference.
Non Convergent — No Authority
ORBIT doesn't act as a gatekeeping authority that decides what is exhibitted. The curations are approved by the public nodes.
ORBIT multiplies the distributed model into the physical world — a neutral infrastructure of screens that reward the artist directly as their work is exhibitted in multiple locations and is collected onchain. The ORBIT system only takes a minimum fee on each sale.
What nodes inside the ecosystem unlock
Where the network can go for Ethereum's internal culture and its allies — a horizon, not a commitment.
Cultural execution layer
ORBIT as the physical arm of EF's institutional line inside museums.
Onboarding & education
Permanent surfaces for Ethereum culture inside hubs and Web3 offices.
Inter-hub telepresence
Live visual portals connecting the nodes.
Collector funnel
Screens ending in direct NFT acquisition — an artist's first selling pipeline.
Fork the Canon
EF sponsors a plural, permissionless canon via visible infrastructure.
Event showcases
Deployments at Devcon / Devconnect as living case studies.
Three potentials, with use cases
1 · Execution layer
EF defines its own institutional art line; ORBIT deploys it. Nodes become "embassy displays" of Ethereum's ethos inside hubs, offices, museums and galleries.
Use case: EF-sanctioned collections physically touring ORBIT nodes.
2 · Education & onboarding
Screens double as art + Ethereum-101 surfaces in hubs and private offices (Lambda Class, Uniswap), growing onchain culture daily.
Use case: company nodes become their outsourced digital arts department.
3 · Collector funnel
From display to direct acquisition: public and mirror nodes end in NFT purchase, building Ethereum-native collecting.
Use case: a captured viewer at a node buys the minted work onchain.
Platform — MVP scope
The brain of the network, ready to run the 24 screens.
Scheduling
Reserve and calendar screen-time across public nodes.
Curation hub
Manage NFT works into accepted curation proposals; showcase with curatorial text and all the additional documentation.
Permissions
Exhibition rights and approval flows for proposals.
Automatic fees
Transparent split of screen-time fees across host / founder / ORBIT.
Scaling the narrative
Direct marketplace
A purchase funnel from the screen to NFT acquisition, across the whole network.
ORBIT aggregator
The global platform managing curation, redistribution and discovery across all nodes.
White-label landings
Tailor-made institutional landing pages titled "Powered by ORBIT."
Each institution gets its own outward-facing surface while everything runs on the shared ORBIT core.
Network MVP: 6 nodes / 24 screens
Museums & galleries · 3 nodes × 5 screens
EF & allies · 3 nodes × 3 screens
Measuring the node
Verified onchain, transparent to funders.
Base community
+350 artists trained · +25 exhibitions produced · +130 artists at Devconnect Buenos Aires 2025 · 72,332 mints & 56.2 ETH in collective sales.
The ask
Seed capital to finish hardware, software and activate the first nodes.
MVP seed
Path to sustainability
ORBIT is EF's execution layer for institutional art
EF owns the institutional line and the ethos. ORBIT makes it visible — in museums, galleries, hubs and Web3 offices — with infrastructure they never need to build.
Eth-aligned
Open-source, permissionless, pluralistic, property onchain.
Turnkey
Hardware, curation, platform and community handled end-to-end.
Provable
KPI and impact verified onchain, transparent to the Foundation.
Let's align interests
A concrete collaboration sketched out — refined together.
Ethereum Foundation
ORBIT
Next step: define the joint roadmap and the Nodes hosts — deployed together with the Ethereum Foundation.
Culturas en órbita
We build the infrastructure so Ethereum's culture can be physically seen — everywhere.