ElmonX
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| Founder(s) | Jacob Elmon, Brandon Elmon |
| Founded | 2020 |
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| Industry | Software development & Blockchain |
| Products | NFTs / Digital & Physical Collectibles |
| Website | [www.elmonx.com Official Site] |
ElmonX (formerly Vtail) is a digital collectibles and Web3 company that produces officially licensed non-fungible token (NFT) artworks, digital collectibles, and blockchain-based reproductions of cultural artifacts. Founded in 2020 by Brandon Elmon and Jacob Elmon, the company creates authenticated digital editions of artworks, historical objects, and contemporary works in collaboration with artists, estates, museums, image archives, and other rights holders.
Rather than operating as an open NFT marketplace, ElmonX positions itself as a curated platform that licenses intellectual property directly from artists and institutions and releases works in limited editions, frequently paired with augmented reality (AR) viewing and, in some cases, accompanying physical prints or merchandise. Its releases span two broad strands: collaborations with living contemporary artists, and licensed digital editions of historically significant fine-art works and cultural artifacts produced in partnership with the image archive Bridgeman Images.
History
[edit | edit source]ElmonX was founded in 2020 by Brandon Elmon and his son Jacob Elmon. Brandon Elmon had earlier and separately developed Vtail Genesis (2007), a distinct virtual-commerce venture exploring online retail and immersive digital-shopping environments; this was a prior project of his rather than a direct predecessor of ElmonX. The ElmonX brand is a registered trademark of the company VTAIL LTD.
Operating initially as Vtail, the company produced licensed NFT artwork and collaborated with artist Patrick Hughes to create digital editions of his reverse-perspective (“reverspective”) works. Hughes’s first releases appeared in 2022, including a collection on MakersPlace in July and a series on the VeVe platform in April. The company subsequently rebranded as ElmonX to emphasize its focus on licensed, authenticated digital art and direct partnerships with rights holders, a change the company linked to concerns about curation and authenticity in the wider NFT market.
In the years that followed, ElmonX expanded its roster of contemporary collaborators and secured licensing for a series of canonical artworks and artifacts, integrating augmented reality and interactive display features into its collectibles. During 2024 and 2025 the company developed its own marketplace and mobile applications further, introducing in-app purchasing and an in-app collectible-storage system (see Technology), and continued its program of licensed fine-art editions with releases such as a dual-format edition of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in November 2025. By 2026 ElmonX had moved further into multi-format releases that pair digital collectibles with physical art prints, and its co-founder had taken a leading role in a new Telegram-based collecting platform.
Products and services
[edit | edit source]ElmonX releases blockchain-based digital collectibles across several categories.
Digital art and masterwork editions
[edit | edit source]The company’s core offering is licensed NFT artwork and authenticated digital editions created in partnership with artists, estates, museums, and licensing organizations. Through a licensing arrangement with Bridgeman Images, ElmonX has released digital editions based on widely recognized works and cultural artifacts.
Digital collectibles
[edit | edit source]ElmonX produces limited-edition collectibles based on paintings, sculptures, historical artifacts, and cultural icons, issued in fixed edition sizes and sometimes including animated elements, artist proofs, or redeemable physical prints.
Augmented and virtual reality
[edit | edit source]The platform incorporates AR and VR features that allow collectors to view digital works within physical surroundings using compatible mobile devices.
Fashion and lifestyle
[edit | edit source]ElmonX has also explored “phygital” fashion and wearable collectibles that pair a physical item with a linked digital collectible. Examples include a Patrick Hughes t-shirt issued alongside a corresponding digital edition, and an “ElmonX Universe” apparel line.
Collaborations and releases
[edit | edit source]ElmonX has worked with contemporary artists, estates, museums, licensing organizations, and image archives, and has distributed work through its own website and app as well as third-party platforms including OpenSea, VeVe, and MakersPlace. The sections below describe its principal collaborations.
In addition to the collaborations detailed below, ElmonX’s roster of contemporary and street artists has expanded to include Pure Evil, Ralph Steadman, Rich Simmons, Sheeple, Aaron Bevan-Bailey (Play Attention), and the design partnership Hapshash and the Coloured Coat.
Patrick Hughes
[edit | edit source]Patrick Hughes, known for his “reverspective” technique, was the company’s first major collaborator and the artist with whom it has worked most extensively. His debut digital works were released in 2022.
These included a “Reverspective” collection on MakersPlace (the pieces Banksy of England, Pygmalion, and an open edition titled Exhibitionism) and a two-piece Series 1 on VeVe issued in 1,590 editions. A Series 2 followed on VeVe in 2023 in 600 editions. In 2023 ElmonX, as Hughes’s license holder, also released the animated 3D works Die and Rubik’s Cube in 330 editions each, later followed by L’Amour. The collaboration also extended to merchandise, including a physical Patrick Hughes t-shirt paired with a linked digital collectible.
Fine-art masterworks and cultural artifacts (Bridgeman Images)
[edit | edit source]Beginning in 2023, ElmonX released a series of licensed digital editions of canonical artworks and artifacts in partnership with Bridgeman Images. These included Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Sunflowers, Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker and The Gates of Hell, Edvard Munch’s The Scream, Michelangelo’s David, Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, and the funerary mask of Tutankhamun. The company also released editions associated with the painting Salvator Mundi and, in later drops, works associated with Salvador Dalí.
The masterworks program continued through 2025. In November 2025 ElmonX issued a dual-format edition of The Last Supper presenting both a restored and a pre-restoration interpretation of the work; the company stated the editions were not available for purchase within Italy owing to regional restrictions, and indicated that a combined physical edition was planned. A digital edition of Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man was released in the same period.
The licensed-art catalogue subsequently broadened to include digital editions of works by or after a wide range of historical artists, among them Gustav Klimt, Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Henri Matisse, Édouard Manet, Amedeo Modigliani, James McNeill Whistler, Antonio Canova, Frida Kahlo, and Hieronymus Bosch (including The Garden of Earthly Delights), as well as the bust of Nefertiti attributed to the sculptor Thutmose.
Trading cards and sports collectibles
[edit | edit source]In 2026 ElmonX expanded into digital trading-card collectibles, including editions based on the T206 Honus Wagner baseball card, among the most valuable trading cards in existence, released in May 2026 with several variant editions.
Cécile Plaisance
[edit | edit source]ElmonX collaborated with French artist Cécile Plaisance on digital editions released through MakersPlace, including a five-piece collection titled Iconic.
Zoobs Ansari
[edit | edit source]In April 2023 ElmonX released the first NFT collection by artist Zoobs Ansari, comprising digital editions of his 2011 mixed-media works God Save the Future Queen and King of Pop, which depict the Prince and Princess of Wales. The drop, timed to the couple’s twelfth wedding anniversary, included 333 standard editions of each work and 13 artist proofs accompanied by physical signed prints.
FREQ
[edit | edit source]ElmonX released a street-art-influenced collection with the artist FREQ, including the works Wanksy, Fukin Liberty, and The Immortal Banana.
Nick Walker
[edit | edit source]Street artist Nick Walker collaborated with ElmonX on digital editions including Mona Lisa and All I Ever Wanted Is My Name On Fire.
Nathan Sawaya
[edit | edit source]ElmonX licensed works by Nathan Sawaya, an artist known for sculptures built from LEGO bricks. A series titled Transfiguration, reframing his physical sculptures as digital “voxel” works, was released on VeVe in 2023, and the Small Skulls collection followed on OpenSea in May 2024 in 450 editions priced at £30 each.
Schoony and Asprey Studios
[edit | edit source]Other collaborations include Bitcoin Endgame with the artist Schoony, and a partnership with Asprey Studios reinterpreting Edvard Munch’s The Scream (licensed via Bridgeman Images). The Asprey Studios collaboration produced several editions across 2024 and 2025, among them Silver Scream, Asprey Scream Variations, and Scream Reflections. ElmonX has also released editions with the artist Zoé Moss, including the Look Mum series.
Licensed entertainment IP
[edit | edit source]Alongside its fine-art and contemporary-artist work, ElmonX has released collectibles based on licensed entertainment properties, including an Astro Boy collection in October 2024. Its partner releases, distributed through platforms such as VeVe, MakersPlace, and OpenSea, span from 2022 onward and include a phygital “Grenade” series issued in 2024.
Piet Mondrian × Doodles
[edit | edit source]In June 2026, ElmonX released Piet Mondrian × Doodles, a collection developed with the digital brand Doodles, the Piet Mondrian Estate / Holtzman Trust, and Bridgeman Images. The collection reinterpreted five of Mondrian’s abstract compositions, spanning his career through to his unfinished final work Victory Boogie Woogie, combining his geometric style with the visual language of Doodles. The release included animated digital collectibles and redeemable museum-quality physical art prints, and dropped on OpenSea on 4 June 2026. According to the companies, it was the first time the Mondrian estate had approved a collaboration reimagining the artist’s original works.
VeVe Stickerverse
[edit | edit source]Also in June 2026, co-founder Jacob Elmon was named Head of VeVe Stickerverse, a Telegram-native NFT sticker platform built on the TON blockchain and operated by Orbis Technology Limited. Announced at the NFC Lisbon conference on 4 June 2026, the platform lets users buy, collect, trade, and mint licensed digital sticker collectibles either off-chain within Telegram or on-chain on TON. Its first collection, VeVenaut, comprised 1,969 editions across three rarity tiers and sold out.
Selected collections and releases
[edit | edit source]The following table summarizes a selection of ElmonX releases. Edition sizes, prices, and dates are drawn from announcements and may vary between primary and secondary markets.
| Year | Collection | Artist / source | Platform | Notes |
| 2022 | Reverspective (Series 1) | Patrick Hughes | VeVe | 1,590 editions; first NFT release |
| 2022 | Reverspective, Banksy of England, Pygmalion, Exhibitionism | Patrick Hughes | MakersPlace | Limited editions of 10 |
| 2023 | Mona Lisa | Leonardo da Vinci (Bridgeman Images) | ElmonX | Licensed masterwork edition |
| 2023 | The Starry Night | Vincent van Gogh (Bridgeman Images) | ElmonX | Licensed masterwork edition |
| 2023 | Reverspective (Series 2) | Patrick Hughes | VeVe | 600 editions |
| 2023 | Iconic | Cécile Plaisance | MakersPlace | Five-piece collection |
| 2023 | God Save the Future Queen & King of Pop | Zoobs Ansari | ElmonX | 333 editions each + 13 artist proofs |
| 2023 | Wanksy, Fukin Liberty, The Immortal Banana | FREQ | ElmonX | Street-art collection |
| 2023 | The Thinker; The Gates of Hell | Auguste Rodin (Bridgeman Images) | ElmonX | Licensed sculpture editions |
| 2023 | The Great Wave off Kanagawa | Katsushika Hokusai (Bridgeman Images) | ElmonX | Licensed masterwork edition |
| 2023 | Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun | Bridgeman Images | ElmonX | Cultural-artifact edition |
| 2023 | Die & Rubik’s Cube | Patrick Hughes | ElmonX | 330 editions each |
| 2023 | Salvator Mundi (Original) | after Leonardo da Vinci | ElmonX | Licensed edition |
| 2023 | Transfiguration (Series 1) | Nathan Sawaya | VeVe | 450–600 editions per piece |
| 2023 | Moona Lisa | Nick Walker | ElmonX | 145 / 150 editions |
| 2024 | Small Skulls | Nathan Sawaya | OpenSea | 450 editions; £30 each |
| 2024 | L’Amour | Patrick Hughes | ElmonX | Limited edition |
| 2024 | Look Mum | Zoé Moss | ElmonX | Series release |
| n.d. | Bitcoin Endgame | Schoony | OpenSea | Limited edition |
| 2024 | Silver Scream (after The Scream) | Asprey Studios / Munch (Bridgeman Images) | ElmonX | Part of the Asprey Scream series |
| 2024 | Astro Boy | Licensed entertainment IP | ElmonX | Character collectible |
| 2025 | Vitruvian Man | Leonardo da Vinci (Bridgeman Images) | ElmonX | Licensed masterwork edition |
| 2025 | The Last Supper (dual: restored & pre-restoration) | Leonardo da Vinci (Bridgeman Images) | ElmonX | Two editions; not sold in Italy |
| 2026 | T206 Honus Wagner | Trading card (sports collectible) | ElmonX | Multiple variant editions |
| 2026 | Piet Mondrian × Doodles | Doodles (Mondrian/Holtzman Trust) | OpenSea | Five works + physical prints |
| 2026 | VeVenaut (VeVe Stickerverse) | Orbis Technology Ltd / Jacob Elmon | Telegram / TON | 1,969 editions; sold out |
Distribution
[edit | edit source]ElmonX has distributed its collectibles through its own website and mobile application and through third-party platforms. Contemporary-artist drops and masterwork editions have appeared on OpenSea, VeVe, and MakersPlace, with releases typically sold via timed primary sales, sometimes preceded by private sales or whitelists for existing collectors.
Technology
[edit | edit source]ElmonX uses blockchain technology to record ownership and provenance for its digital collectibles, combined with augmented reality visualization that allows licensed works to be displayed in a collector’s surroundings via compatible mobile devices. The company also uses digital certification and licensing systems intended to confirm that each release is authorized by the relevant artist, estate, museum, or rights holder. ElmonX has additionally stated that it funds tree-planting tied to sales through a partnership with the carbon-offset service Ecologi.
In 2025 the company updated its mobile applications to support buying limited drops directly in the app, in addition to its website releases.
Mobile applications
[edit | edit source]ElmonX has developed mobile applications that allow collectors to purchase, manage, and display digital collectibles, with support for AR viewing, animated works, and collection management. The Android application was released through Google Play, while the iOS application initially launched via Apple’s TestFlight program before wider release.