nft specialist desk

For artists, collectors,
and the people who fund both.

Mints, royalties, primaries, secondaries, dealer-vs-investor classification, and Schedule C optimization for full-time creators. The CPA team your gallery accountant secretly calls when something on-chain breaks.

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your filing path

Two paths. Pick the right one.

artist · creator · full-time

Schedule C path

Selling your own work, taking commissions, generating royalties — you're a self-employed business in the eyes of the IRS. We elect Schedule C, deduct studio expenses, and quarterly-pay your way through the year.

  • Mint income (primary sales)sch C · ord. income
  • Secondary royalty incomesch C · ord. income
  • Studio rent & utilitiessch C · expense
  • Hardware & softwaresch C · sec 179
  • Self-employment taxsch SE
  • Quarterly est. tax filingsform 1040-ES
  • Mint as own work · cost basis$0 (your labor)
collector · curator · investor

Capital-gains path

Buying and holding NFTs you didn't create. Treated as collectible capital assets — long-term gains capped at 28% (collectible rate), short-term at ordinary income.

  • Buy & hold (mint or secondary)cost-basis event
  • Sale to next ownersch D · cap event
  • Long-term hold ≥ 1 year28% collectible rate
  • Short-term holdordinary income rate
  • Loss harvest opportunity−$3K/yr ord. offset
  • Gas fees on mintbasis addition
  • Gallery storage / insurancebasis addition
royalty timeline · cross-marketplace

Royalties tracked across every marketplace.

Most artists discover at tax time that they have ten thousand dollars of royalty income they never claimed because OpenSea, Blur, and Foundation each report differently — and most don't generate a 1099.

Our system pulls royalty events from every contract you've ever deployed and aggregates them into one Schedule C-ready ledger.

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// royalty receipts · 2025 ytd$184,420 total
Static Hours #0421resale · 2025-09-14
opensea · 2.5%
+0.42 ETH
sch C
Quiet Field #0014resale · 2025-09-12
blur · 1.0%
+0.18 ETH
sch C
Vellum #1148resale · 2025-09-09
foundation · 10%
+1.84 ETH
sch C
Lichen #0917primary · 2025-09-04
manifold · primary
+4.20 ETH
sch C
Static Hours #3320resale · 2025-08-28
opensea · 2.5%
+0.84 ETH
sch C
artist deductions · most-missed

Twelve write-offs creators usually forget.

$1

Studio rent

Square-footage-prorated rent for studio space, even if it's a corner of your apartment.

sch C · line 20
$2

Hardware

iPad, Mac, monitors, drawing tablets — Section 179 same-year expensing up to $1.16M.

sec 179 · sch C
$3

Software

Adobe, Procreate, Cinema 4D, AI tools, font licenses — fully deductible.

sch C · line 22
$4

Gas fees · minting

Every mint transaction's gas cost is part of the cost basis or COGS for that piece.

cost basis
$5

Marketplace fees

OpenSea, Foundation, Manifold platform fees are deductible against royalty income.

sch C · line 17
$6

Travel · gallery shows

Travel to exhibitions, NFT.NYC, conferences — flights, hotels, 50% of meals deductible.

sch C · line 24
$7

Health insurance

Self-employed health-insurance deduction reduces AGI directly — full premium amount.

sch 1 · line 17
$8

Solo 401(k)

Up to $69K per year tax-deferred in a one-person 401(k) for solo artists.

retirement deduct.
$9

Reference / inspiration

Books, prints, museum memberships — research material is a real business expense.

sch C · line 22
$10

Collab payouts

If you split sales with collaborators, those payouts reduce your gross — but require 1099-NEC.

sch C · line 11
$11

Custom contracts

Smart-contract development costs (Solidity engineer, audit) capitalized over 36 months.

amortizable asset
$12

Studio utilities

Electric, internet, phone — prorated by studio square footage for home-studio artists.

sch C · line 25
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Drop your wallet, we'll pull every primary sale, secondary royalty, and mint cost-basis event across every marketplace. Most artists discover $5K–25K in unreported royalty income.

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