It’s been a difficult couple of months, folks—I’ll readily admit that.

Anyone who expects immediate great success with the launch of something new will likely be sorely disappointed. And while I admit I had dreams of seeing a rise in interest in my NFTs, the results of 2 months of time that my artwork has been available for sale on OpenSea has been worse than I ever imagined.

Not a single piece sold.

I expect a good part of this failure is due to lack of exposure and massive marketing hype. Although I did my best to engage with folks on Twitter and Instagram, marketing is neither my forte nor my interest. Silly as it sounds, I’m an artist, not a marketer. I simply want people to like my art and buy it.

The other real challenge I need to raise is the current home for my art, OpenSea, has been a regular source of problems. While I understand they are experiencing rapid growth, having my support requests sit in queue for SIX WEEKS unanswered is beyond unacceptable.

Their environment’s foundational problems like inaccurate floor pricing, missing tags, and incomplete filtering parameters I believe very likely turned away many perspective buyers—or potentially prevented people from finding my artwork in the first place.

But let’s move on. The core of this post is not about failures or endings; it’s about new beginnings: effective this last week, I have requested that OpenSea cancel my NFTs that are currently listed for sale. (There’s another huge issue right there in dealing with them. It’s unbelievable that I, the artist, don’t have the ability to remove unsold items from their site. Instead, I have to send an email support request and wait for a reply. Considering the last issues took multiple weeks for a response, I have very little faith that this effort will be resolved quickly.)

And now for the exciting news: I have decided to move all my current and future artwork off of the Ethereum/Polygon blockchain, and onto Cardano. The efficiency of Cardano, it’s minuscule gas fees, and the growth of the CNFT communities are my biggest motivators.

This will take a little time to work out, but not only am I looking to engage with the best Cardano NFT (CNFT) exchanges out there (looking to you, jpg.store!), but the launch of the Pavia metaverse and my engagement in that project has given rise to a slew of new CNFT ideas for future artwork.

So stayed tuned: the next blog posts should cover my progress as I explore how to breathe new life into Kommander Kat and related kin!