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The pseudonymous NFT collector Cozomo de' Medici has given Lacma what it says is the largest collection of its kind in a US museum.

“With this gift, my goal was to help bridge the worlds of on-chain art and contemporary art, which until now have existed separately,” Cozomo de’Medici said in a statement. “As one of the first museums to support artists’ experimentation with technology, it’s fitting that Lacma would receive this first museum collection of blockchain art.” The self-described “grand patron of the digital arts” first emerged on the crypto scene in August 2021 and built a collection of NFTs worth more than $17m. An investigation by Vice [suggests](https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kvnba/shocking-snoop-dogg-is-not-a-white-nft-influencer-in-italy)that the real Cozomo is a white man who has spent far more time in Italy than the Doggystyle creator. Last June, the museum reiterated its support of digital art with a new acquisition fund for such works by women artists, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) revealed today (13 February) a promised gift of 22 artworks minted on the blockchain—a collection that it says is the first and largest of its kind to enter an American art museum.