Get in the Crystal

“Are you on the list? We’re at capacity.” I wasn’t. The election night party at Sovereign House, a new-right event space in downtown Manhattan, was co-sponsored by Polymarket, the Thiel-backed online betting market, and Remilia Corporation, a crypto collective that during the pandemic bootstrapped a hundred-million-dollar NFT collection—“Milady,” featuring a cutesy, underage anime face—out of a hyper-online esoteric-fascism meme page. When I saw the party announcement weeks ago I felt a sinking feeling and simply avoided it. At 10 p.m. on election night, after it had become clear which way things were going, I decided to go.