Digital Rescue Lab
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$20 displayed raised · 9 fund applications (2 curated · 2 funded) · 2 seasons · best rank #49 in Season 6
Community-funded rescue of orphaned NFTs. Recover, document, and preserve early crypto art for the public
ArchivingArtist SupportCommunity-drivenCultural HeritageDigital PreservationOpen Access arts-mediaclimate-ecologycommunity-economyculture-identity
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About
We rescue NFTs stranded by shut-down platforms like AsyncArt - fix media/display, repin files, publish conservation notes, and archive each work in a public “museum” so early crypto art stays visible.
Impact
It protects fragile digital cultural heritage, restores access for artists/collectors, pays the rescue labor fairly, and invites the public to actively participate in the preservation of this cultural moment
Progress
We’ve proven rescue is possible via the Arcana Crypto Tarot recovery and other projects, assembled an expert team, and mapped a pilot workflow and funding model for a repeatable pipeline of restorations. For ongoing progress: https://t.co/ZjtDZNdWhc
Team
We combine conservation strategy, crypto-art history, curation, and deep engineering - people who can actually restore the work, document it like conservation, and steward it publicly. We are all longtime members of the cryptoart community.
Funding
| Sales | Venus | S+V | Match | S+V+M | Venus extras | Prize | V2+M+P | V2/S | (V2+M)/S | (V2+M+P)/S | Raised | Available | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 6 | $590 | $1,260 | $1,850 | $1,200 | $3,050 | $0 | $40 | $2,500 | 2.1x | 4.2x | 4.2x | $2 | — |
| Season 7 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $20 | $20 | — | — | — | $20 | — |
| Total | $590 | $1,260 | $1,850 | $1,200 | $3,050 | $0 | $60 | $2,520 | — | — | — | $22 | — |
Fund applications
| Season | Fund | Status | Applied |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 6 | FWB Fund for Builders | submitted | 2026-01-20 |
| Season 6 | INTERSECTIONS Fund for Techno-Artists | submitted | 2026-01-20 |
| Season 6 | Venture Miner Fund for Vibe Coders | submitted | 2026-01-20 |
| Season 6 | Resonate Fund for Sonic Pioneers | submitted | 2026-01-20 |
| Season 6 | Freedom of Art Fund | submitted | 2026-01-20 |
| Season 7 | Cultural ARchive Fund for Spatial Storytellers | curated | 2026-07-09 |
| Season 6 | ODIN Fund for Decentralized Innovation | funded | 2026-01-20 |
| Season 6 | Regen Coordination Fund | funded | 2026-01-20 |
| Season 7 | Cryptoart Fund for Preservation & Practice | curated | 2026-07-09 |
Season totals as displayed on the platform's public accounting — not a statement of amounts paid out. V2 = Venus sales + Venus extras. The original page also broke each season down by fund drive and showed an Available (unclaimed) balance; that level of detail survives only on the preserved snapshots.
Platform page (offline): https://artizen.fund/index/p/digital-rescue-lab
Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/digital-rescue-lab
Wayback: leaderboard page ↗ · Wayback: platform page ↗
Not recovered: creator, drives, snapshot. Sources: "snapshot" = verbatim Internet Archive page · "platform metadata" = archived artizen.fund page metadata · "leaderboard" = the artizen.fyi public accounting tables · "match catalog" = the platform's public fund-matching catalog (captured 2026-10-15, generated 2026-09-07) · "community catalog" = a June 2026 platform scrape preserved in a community repo.
Top siblings
Projects that applied to the same funds.
| Project | Shared funds | Raised | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Labour Union of Higherdimensional Shapeshifters Collaborative transmedia experience (interactive movie) inviting Artizen community to rea… | Cryptoart Fund for Preservation & Practice, Cultural ARchive Fund for Spatial Storytellers, Freedom of Art Fund +5 | $360 |
| 2. | FutureZoo What if the most powerful force in conservation isn’t protection, but connection? | Cultural ARchive Fund for Spatial Storytellers, Freedom of Art Fund, FWB Fund for Builders +5 | $215,046 |
| 3. | Augmented Reality On-Chain Preserving digital culture through an on-chain registry of global stories and art works. | Cultural ARchive Fund for Spatial Storytellers, Freedom of Art Fund, FWB Fund for Builders +3 | $10,787 |
| 4. | International Artists Project Global Music Community uplifting artists born in every country of the world, preserving h… | Cryptoart Fund for Preservation & Practice, Freedom of Art Fund, FWB Fund for Builders +3 | $462 |
| 5. | Akuya I am an upcoming artist and this is my first track of the year, i need help for the produ… | Cultural ARchive Fund for Spatial Storytellers, Freedom of Art Fund, ODIN Fund for Decentralized Innovation +3 | $234 |
| 6. | Element of Chawaza Artistic fusion of culture, landscape, sound and tech that evokes a profound sensory expe… | Cultural ARchive Fund for Spatial Storytellers, Freedom of Art Fund, ODIN Fund for Decentralized Innovation +2 | $1,356 |
| 7. | The International Artists Project Documentary First Documentary to Tell the Stories of Music Artists Born in Every Country on Earth | Cultural ARchive Fund for Spatial Storytellers, Freedom of Art Fund, ODIN Fund for Decentralized Innovation +2 | $563 |
| 8. | Capitol Film Fest The biggest and fastest growing indie film, music and art festival in Abuja, Nigeria host… | Cryptoart Fund for Preservation & Practice, Freedom of Art Fund, FWB Fund for Builders +2 | $210 |
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