XCOPY is an anonymous digital artist who has made glitched, dystopian images exploring death and decay since around 2010, building an early following by posting them for free on Tumblr.,He became one of the earliest artists to sell his work as an NFT, launching editions on the marketplace Ascribe in early 2018.,
His early works VOID (2012) and DE$CENT (2013) were minted as genesis editions on Ascribe in 2018, priced from £1 and rising with each sale.,,When Ascribe shut down in the 2018 crypto downturn, the artwork files hosted on its private servers were lost, leaving early collectors holding tokens that pointed to nothing.,He also released Last Selfie (2018) and hello admin dm me (2019) on the marketplace KnownOrigin.Right-click and Save As guy (2018) pairs a hooded portrait rendered in flickering, glitch-pixelated style with the description “Why would I buy it when I can right click and save as?”, framed as an argument that digital files could nonetheless be made scarce and owned.The work's price rose from 1 ETH (about $90) at its 2018 mint to $7 million when it resold in December 2022.,
XCOPY has released much of his work under a Creative Commons Zero license, waiving copyright so it can be freely shared, cited and remixed.,,He minted his early one-of-one works on SuperRare.On Tezos, his piece REACHBACK sold for 5 XTZ (about $20) when minted on Hic et Nunc in 2020 and resold months later for more than 31,000 XTZ (about $125,000).His MAX PAIN AND FRENS series uses burn-and-claim mechanics that let collectors trade lower editions for scarcer ones, sustaining demand across new releases.
In 2025 he presented Coin Laundry at Art Basel Miami Beach's Zero 10 section, an installation of laundromat washing machines that dispensed tokens from his BUBBLE(S) series.,More than 2.3 million of these bubble-sprite tokens were claimed, with all but one designed to be randomly destroyed over the following ten years. The same year, SuperRare and The Doomed DAO presented a solo exhibition of his work, “Tech Won't Save Us”, at Offline Gallery in New York, alongside a satellite show in Vienna.
