“JH photoshop sketch,” 2022, Jeanette Hayes

The traditions of commerce have changed. Check-outs no longer require checking accounts nor Amex cards, and cold hard cash is virtually a thing of the past. Quite literally by means of Venmo and crypto or less explicitly with social capital, payment forms have become as technological as they are transient. Inspired and somewhat flustered, HYPEBEAST prompted this group of visual artists to challenge these notions in their own disciplines: If one could conceive a new kind of currency, what would it look like? Would it revert back to ancient precious metals, speed forward into the meta-abyss, or be somewhere or something entirely different?