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Bharat Krymo got into crypto in 2013 - not because he saw a financial opportunity, but because of the quality of the people it was attracting. More than a decade later, that person-to-person connection remains the defining feature of his collecting practice. He went down the rabbit hole of digital art and NFTs not by following the market but by following relationships.
Bharat Krymo is an angel investor with a diverse portfolio, including 6529 Holdings, who has been involved in crypto since 2013. His entry into digital art collecting came through the same logic that drove his early crypto involvement: the quality of the community, the directness of artist-collector relationships, and the sense of participating in something that was genuinely new. He has been a consistent voice for collecting that prioritises connection and conviction over trends - and his longevity in the space gives that perspective real weight.
The rabbit hole metaphor is apt: the deeper you go into digital art collecting, the more there is to understand - and the harder it becomes to explain what drew you in in the first place. Bharat Krymo's account of going down that hole is instructive because he entered it through relationships rather than markets. This conversation explores what it looks like to build a collecting practice over more than a decade in crypto, what changes when markets cycle dramatically, and what the artist-collector connection actually provides that other forms of engagement don't.
Person-to-person connection as collecting foundation
Krymo's initial appeal to crypto was the quality of the people - direct, intellectually serious, willing to engage across backgrounds. This orientation toward human connection shaped his collecting practice in ways that purely market-driven approaches don't produce.
Angel investing and art collecting as parallel practices
Both involve backing people and ideas before they're proven - reading character, evaluating conviction, and making decisions under uncertainty. Krymo brings the investor's discipline to collecting while avoiding the investor's detachment.
6529 Holdings and ecosystem thinking
His involvement with 6529 reflects a broader commitment to the infrastructure and culture of digital art and NFTs - not just individual works but the systems that make the space function. That ecosystem orientation is rare and valuable.
Longevity through cycles
Having been in the space since 2013 means Krymo has navigated multiple boom-and-bust cycles. His perspective on what survives those cycles - what collecting commitments remain meaningful when prices aren't rising - is among the most valuable in the conversation.
Longevity in digital art collecting is rare. Most accounts come from people who arrived in 2020 or 2021 - at the peak of hype - and their perspectives are inevitably shaped by that context. Krymo entered earlier, stayed through the corrections, and has kept going. That track record produces a quality of understanding that's very difficult to fake.
Unlocked is the podcast by 100 collectors - the global network for digital art collectors. Each episode, we speak with artists, curators, collectors, and builders shaping the digital art world. No market speculation. No hype. Just honest, substantive conversations about art, practice, and what it means to collect today. New episodes release throughout the year. Find Unlocked on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. 100 collectors is a membership network. [Explore membership →]
