Assembly Curated is a curated fine-art photography NFT platform and community that began stewarding fine-art photographers in the blockchain space in 2021 and launched its dedicated marketplace in 2022. Assembly Curated's Twitter Score is 16 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #62,576 among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Assembly Curated was co-founded by Shane Lavalette and Ashlyn Davis Burns and operates as an NFT offshoot of Assembly. The platform presents curated collections designed to preserve artistic process, context, provenance, and long-term value on the blockchain. Its marketplace is built on Ethereum with ERC-721-compatible functionality, supporting royalty transfers, lazy minting, and auction bidding. The implementation is also compatible with collections and smart contracts created through Manifold.
Assembly Curated released photographer Alec Soth's genesis NFT collection, a 55-image series titled Dog Days, Bogotá, which sold out in just under two and a half hours. By April 2022, the platform had launched fifteen NFT drops featuring fine-art photographers. Assembly Curated won a bronze award at the 2023 Best of Swiss Web Awards and collaborated with Art Blocks on the 2023 exhibition Collecting the Future: Photography and Generative Art on the Blockchain. Assembly Curated has published 2,883 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 9 accounts a total of 19 times.
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The accounts that follow Assembly Curated include 72 founders, 14 angel investors, 53 influencers and 3 VCs. Among its notable followers are Erick Snowfro LAO, Art Blocks, Winny, 9GAGCEO, Justinaversano and Justin Trimble.