Collectors

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

Calderon's way in was Bitcoin. His brother told him about mining it in 2013, and he set himself the goal of owning one full coin by the end of 2016, reaching it, by his own account, right at midnight on New Year's Eve. Ethereum's smart contracts changed the scale of the idea for him: "My brain literally exploded."¹

The decisive purchase was not a purchase at all. He found CryptoPunks through a Reddit post and claimed his in June 2017, one of the free claims that seeded the whole category.^2,3 He has said plainly what that moment meant: "I don't know that I would be here today if it wasn't for the CryptoPunks," and that he had never before had "that ability to assign ownership to something digital."³ In the same conversation he recalled telling people that "these things will be in museums one day," and added: "Now they are."³

Art Blocks holdings

The register's seven Snowfro wallets hold 3,013 AB[500] works and touch all 500 series, one of only two collectors in the register to do so, with the anonymous full-set holder Trying. Most of the depth is his own: 369 Chromie Squiggles, including #0 and #1, sit at the centre of the collection. Around them are the platform's first artists in quantity: 202 Paper Armada by Kjetil Golid, 84 Color Study by Jeff Davis, 64 Gen 3 by DCA and 61 Friendship Bracelets by Alexis André.

The rest of the curated canon is present in numbers few collectors match: 22 Singularity, 15 Ringers, 11 Subscapes, 11 Genesis, 10 Archetype, 9 Construction Token, 8 Elevated Deconstructions and 6 Fidenza, with single works of Incomplete Control and The Eternal Pump. Of the works still held, 1,961 were minted directly into these wallets and the earliest arrived on 27 November 2020, launch day. The collection is a founder's record of minting alongside his public, series by series, for five years.

A caution belongs with these figures. The register groups seven wallets under Snowfro, and the Art Blocks profile links more. Some may serve the platform as much as the man, so the totals are best read as the holdings of Snowfro's wallets rather than a private collection in the ordinary sense.

Associated holdings

Outside Art Blocks his collecting has a sentimental streak. Asked for his favourite NFT he named Stina Jones's 1up, a piece she sent free to three hundred people "to brighten their day."⁴ He is a member of Flamingo DAO, whose spokesperson credits the DAO's breadth of Art Blocks holdings largely to his membership.⁵

He has also begun to place work in institutions. In August 2024 he gave Chromie Squiggle #9999 to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,⁶ and a CryptoPunk given by Mara and Erick Calderon entered the Museum of Modern Art's collection in December 2025.⁷ The prediction he made about museums has become, in part, his own doing.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

No interview, essay or other public account by this collector was found in research for this atlas, so the chain record stands in for one.¹ The earliest work still in the wallet arrived on 15 March 2021. Most of the collection was assembled in 2021 and 2022, when 909 and 709 of the works still held arrived. Only 76 were minted directly; ss888 has collected mainly on the secondary market.

The wallet's ENS name is silversurfer888.eth, and its avatar is a CryptoVenetian from Bright Moments.^2,3

Art Blocks holdings

Only Snowfro holds more series ten deep: ss888 holds 58. The largest position is Gazettes by Redlioneye Gazette, 148 works, about one in seven of the edition. Then come Galaxiss (42), Tangled and I Saw It in a Dream (38 each), 27-Bit Digital (35), ByteBeats (31), Empyrean (30) and Inspirals, Gen 3 and Pathfinders (29 each). The artists held deepest are Redlioneye Gazette, Generative Artworks, Steve Pikelny, Radix, kai and DCA.

The famous series are almost absent. There is no Fidenza, Ringers or Archetype; there are five Chromie Squiggles, four Construction Token, nine Apparitions and one Singularity. Measured against edition size the weight falls on small factory editions: 13 of the 85 Incantation, and runs of the Space Debris variants. 188 of the 295 series held are Factory releases.

Associated holdings

No other holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources. The collection itself is the statement: an argument, made at scale, that the AB[500] is its whole breadth and not its headlines.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

VVD has been in crypto since 2013, drawn first to Bitcoin trading: "The volatility was exciting to me." He was among the original CryptoPunks claimers and one of the first CryptoKitties participants.¹ The pseudonym itself dates from 2021, the year it became one of the best-known names in the market.²

By September 2021 he described himself as owning more than two thousand NFTs and having spent "a little bit over $20 million" on them, while insisting on the horizon: "I'm very much a long-term collector."¹

Art Blocks holdings

His most expensive purchases that year were Art Blocks works: Ringers #377 for 350 ether and Archetype #213 for 320 ether.¹ Both are still in vvd.eth. Artnet's NFT 30 described him as a collector who buys Art Blocks in depth,³ and the wallet bears that out: 14 Ringers, 14 Archetype, 22 Pigments, 18 Subscapes, 14 Apparitions, 12 Construction Token, 8 Genesis, 8 The Eternal Pump, 8 The Wrapture, 7 Fidenza and 7 Chromie Squiggles.

The largest positions sit elsewhere, in projects bought as sets of attention rather than single trophies: 95 sail-o-bots, 81 The Blocks of Art, 64 Kai-Gen, 45 Alien Clock and 41 AlgoRhythms. Most of what remains arrived in 2021, 1,023 works in all, beginning on 14 May 2021; 217 were minted directly. He argued that year that "it's not very far off before we start seeing works like Fidenza or Ringers in places like the MoMA," and that art's valuation "is almost just a measure of mimetic desire."¹

Associated holdings

In August 2021 he was announced as the curator of Starry Night Capital, an NFT fund formed with the founders of Three Arrows Capital.⁴ He later set the limits of that relationship: "I bought a bunch of jpegs for them and curated the Starry Night Capital collection. That is the extent of our affiliation."² In November 2022 he opened Art of This Millennium, a gallery for digital art, describing his own collection then as about six thousand NFTs.⁵ He also collects Rare Pepes. His advice to others is brief: "Collect pieces of art that resonate."²

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

Flamingo grew out of members of The LAO and is supported by Tribute Labs. It opened to members in September 2020, when ether traded near $350, and its first NFT acquisition was land in Somnium Space.¹ Artnet reported a launch in October 2020 with a $25 million crypto war chest and advisers including Kevin McCoy and Devin Finzer.²

Its members include Snowfro, and the DAO's spokesperson has credited his membership with much of the breadth of its Art Blocks holding.¹ The stated philosophy is simple: "We much prefer being early; that's why we have over 10,000 NFTs."¹

Art Blocks holdings

The two Flamingo wallets in the register hold 2,530 AB[500] works across 136 series. The earliest still held arrived on 7 December 2020. The largest positions are Alexis André's Friendship Bracelets (750) and Snowfro's Chromie Squiggle (299), followed by Cosmic Reef (73), Vortex (62), Cargo (54), Colorspace (51) and Color Study (51).

The curated canon is held in quantity: 24 Ringers, 28 Pigments, 19 Elevated Deconstructions, 18 Meridian, 14 Genesis, 14 Unigrids, 13 Construction Token, 12 Archetype, 12 Gazers, 9 Singularity and 6 Fidenza. Unusually for a collector of this size, 2023 was its biggest year of acquisition: 1,322 of the works still held arrived then.

Associated holdings

Flamingo's collection extends well beyond Art Blocks, to more than ten thousand NFTs and an Alien CryptoPunk, #2890.¹ Members can spend up to 5 ether alone; larger purchases go to a vote in the DAO's Discord. Its spokesperson frames the collection as a long-term record: "Culture is upstream of everything. We are long-term oriented, and our collection and ethos reflect it."¹

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

No interview, essay or other public account by this collector was found in research for this atlas, so the chain record stands in for one.¹ The earliest work still held arrived on 17 February 2021, and 499 of the works still held arrived that year. Of the 889, 444 were minted directly into these wallets, the mark of a collector who joined drops rather than waiting for the secondary market.

Art Blocks holdings

Only ten series are held ten deep or more. The largest are Cryptoblots (27), Friendship Bracelets (19), Axo (18), Aerial View (17), Paper Armada (15) and Transitions (14). The artists held most are Alexis André, Daïm Aggott-Hönsch, Shvembldr, jiwa, Kjetil Golid and daLenz.

The canon is present in small quantities across nearly every name: Fidenza #127 and #334, three Archetype, four Gazers, four Apparitions, three Unigrids, two Subscapes, two Pigments, two Genesis, and single works of Incomplete Control (#31), Meridian, Elevated Deconstructions, Singularity, Construction Token and Chromie Squiggle. Weighted by edition size, the heaviest position is four of the 37 Woman, Life, Freedom.

Associated holdings

No other holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources.²

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

BlueFlame's public self-description is a profile line: "NFT Collector, Art Appreciator, Degen. Having fun on the blockchain for over a decade."¹ No longer account was found. The earliest work still held arrived on 8 February 2021; 235 of the works were minted directly.²

Art Blocks holdings

Like gnz0, BlueFlame collects across the set: 331 series, only eight held ten deep. The deepest positions are Fleur (24), Friendship Bracelets (23), CatBlocks (13), Democracity and Seadragons (12 each), Tout tracé (11) and Electriz and Wave Schematics (10 each). Alexis André, AnaPet, Generative Artworks, Shvembldr, Kristy Glas and Radix are the artists held most.

Among early works are four low-numbered Chromie Squiggles (#347, #354, #458 and #535), Genesis #38, Construction Token #41, Singularity #99, three Pigments and three Apparitions.

Associated holdings

BlueFlame keeps a vault and a hot wallet beside the main address (bfvault.eth and bfhot.eth), all three linked to the Art Blocks profile.³ No other roles are documented.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

A professional poker player for some fifteen years, Zeneca entered crypto in 2017 and moved into NFTs in 2021.¹ He has been unusually candid about why: "I would be lying if I said I first got into Art Blocks for the art. I did not. Aka, I came for the money."² A friend tipped him to mint and flip; his first mints did not sell.²

Something shifted. "One of my first ever NFT purchases was a piece of Art Blocks art," he wrote in June 2021, and of the work: "This art brings me joy. I don't get that from the art of my apes, or the art of my cats."³ By September he had a new description of himself: "I became an art collector."²

Art Blocks holdings

"I have minted every (Curated) drop since," he wrote in 2021,² and the record agrees: 296 of the works still held were minted directly into his six wallets, and the earliest still held arrived on 21 March 2021. The largest positions are later and less obvious than the canon: 36 Daisies, 30 Asemica, 27 Transitions, 23 Two Mathematicians, 17 Polychrome Music and 16 Para Bellum.

The canon is present in single works chosen with care: Archetype #48, Gazers #377, Subscapes #432, four Meridian including #536, and Chromie Squiggles #5846, #6223 and #9328. Fidenza #291, which he once showed as his own,³ is no longer in these wallets. He has admitted the weakness: "At a high level, I still have not gotten great at selling."¹

Associated holdings

Beyond Art Blocks he held Bored Apes and Cool Cats, and founded the education project ZenAcademy and The 333 Club in November 2021, winding both back in 2023.¹ His daily threads of Art Blocks updates in 2021 made his collecting a public education.⁴ On generative art his position has not moved: "I'm very bullish on generative art as a whole."⁵

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

No interview, essay or other public account by this collector was found in research for this atlas, so the chain record stands in for one.¹ The earliest works still held arrived on 27 November 2020, launch day, and 498 of the 770 were minted directly, nearly two thirds.

Art Blocks holdings

The foundation is Snowfro: 83 Chromie Squiggles, including the low numbers #62, #69, #215 and #237. Then the first months in depth: 33 Singularity, 15 Genesis, 15 Gen 2, 15 Ignition and 10 Construction Token. The curated canon follows: eight Ringers (among them #18, #39 and #87), seven Archetype including #154 to #158 in sequence, seven Elevated Deconstructions, seven Apparitions, seven Unigrids, five Pigments, Fidenza #35 and Subscapes #151.

Later depth sits in LeWitt Generator Generator (25), UMK (21) and Ancient Courses of Fictional Rivers (16). Weighted by edition size the heaviest position is 12 of the 133 Sigils.

Associated holdings

No other holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources.²

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

"Before this year, my experiences with crypto have mainly been on the investing/trading side, which started around 2017," he told Art Blocks in 2021.¹ Generative art was the door into collecting: "I began my journey through my involvement with generative art, which feels truly native to what NFTs offer."² He knew the platform's founder well: "Erick is a close friend and has had a vision for what Art Blocks could be for years now."¹

Unusually, he chose to collect under his own name. "I opted to be transparent about my identity early on when the stakes weren't very high," he said in 2022.³

Art Blocks holdings

He joined the Art Blocks curatorial board in late 2020 and later became an adviser.³ His stated test is visual: "I am drawn to work that I find strong aesthetically before anything."¹ The wallets show a collector of breadth rather than depth. The earliest work still held arrived on 28 November 2020, the day after launch, and 248 of the works were minted directly. Only eleven series are held ten deep or more, led by FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT (16), Gen 3 (14), AlgoBeats (13) and Bent, Color Study and Automatism (12 each).

The curated canon is present in small numbers: Fidenza #550 and #559, Ringers #63, #88 and #713, Archetype #367 and #439, Meridian #332 and #408, three Subscapes, The Eternal Pump #37 and seven Chromie Squiggles.

Associated holdings

His other collection is photography. His first serious photographic purchase was Reuben Wu's "Theory of Forms," followed by work from Alejandro Cartagena's "Suburbia Mexicana"; he generally buys one work per artist.³ "I try to collect work that resonates with my sensibilities more than anything," he has said.³ He wrote an introduction to NFTs for photographers in 2022,² and publishes selections from the collection at pixelpete.gallery.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

No interview, essay or other public account by this collector was found in research for this atlas, so the chain record stands in for one.¹ The earliest work still held arrived on 12 September 2021. Acquisition was steady for three years: 252 of the works still held arrived in 2021, 169 in 2022 and 148 in 2023. 210 were minted directly.²

Art Blocks holdings

The largest position is Alexis André's Friendship Bracelets (88). Depth otherwise runs through 2022 and 2023 releases: Speak To Me (22 of 290, the heaviest position by edition size), Glow and Aithérios (20 each), and Ingress, Flowers and Strata (12 each). Lisa Orth, RVig, Jason Ting, Jorge Ledezma and Paweł Dudko are the artists held most after André. Twenty-six of the series held are Presents releases.

The early canon is represented by Subscapes #200 and #355 and Pigments #196.

Associated holdings

No other holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources. An X account recorded against this collector in the AB5D register could not be tied to the wallet and is not cited here.

Every other collector in this archive is, in the end, a reader of the period. Matto is also one of its authors. Two of the five hundred projects that make up the AB[500], Ensō and FOCUS, are his. The wallet that holds them holds fifteen hundred more works by his peers. To profile Matto as a collector is therefore to describe a closed loop: an artist who entered the set, then set about collecting the set he had entered.

From the darkroom

Matto, who also takes the dharma name Shinkai, is a Buddhist multidisciplinary artist who came to generative art the long way around. Born in the early eighties, he learned the darkroom at eleven and a programming club's BASIC at twelve, and made what he now recognises as his first generative works in a high-school chemistry lab, running procedural, rule-bound experiments to invoke randomness and see what came out.¹ He trained in film and photography rather than code, taking a BS in Applied Sciences and an MFA in Film and Animation from the Rochester Institute of Technology before the digital tools caught up with the instinct.

That lineage matters for how the work reads. Long before the blockchain, art that was technical, procedural and rules-oriented was already his native language, learned through chemicals and light. The thread he names through all of it is not the algorithm but what survives it: the spirit in the work, the human connection beneath the system.¹ It is the analog-to-digital passage the AB[500] itself sits at the far end of, lived as a single career.

The Zenerative series

His body of on-chain work is a single sustained project, the Zenerative series of Zen-inspired generative art, made across Art Blocks, the plotter platform Plottables,⁵ and his own custom contracts. It opens with Ensō in March 2021, project 34 on the Art Blocks flagship: a thousand outputs that imitate the practice of painting an ensō in ink, drawing paper, brush, ink and flow from each transaction hash, a sumi-e painting performed by code.² FOCUS follows in October, project 181, an interactive and responsive piece built on the Zen principle of doing more with less, a constrained palette tuned to produce perceptual interactions rather than fixed pictures.³ Both carry the ab500 tag. Both are in the set this institution treats as one.

The series keeps going where most artists' early projects stop. Scratch (2023) turns the marks a sanding disc leaves on metal into plottable, CNC-cuttable drawings; Time Between the Lines is Thread Through the Mind (2024) is a meditative plotter-performance recorded in pen on paper; the 1/1 AnnoMetta is a canvas that shifts by the hour, day, month and year. The most recent, At the Still Point of the Turning World: Algorithmic Self Portrait (2025), takes its title from T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets and frames the whole enterprise as a search for calm inside structured chaos.⁴ Across digital, plotter and physical output, the subject is constant: presence, restraint, the still point.

The wallet

Set against that contemplative practice, the collecting looks almost paradoxical. The art is about doing less; the wallet does a great deal. More than fifteen hundred works across three hundred and seventy-eight projects sit across seven linked addresses, reaching from the genesis layer, Chromie Squiggles and Snowfro's send/receive, through curated peers like Piter Pasma's Skulptuur, and deep into the plotter vertical where his own practice lives.

The most telling holdings are his own. He keeps a hundred and twenty-eight of his FOCUS and forty-five of his Ensō, and among them the very first output of each, invocation zero, the genesis piece of his genesis project, never sold. An artist holding the opening token of his own debut is a small act with a large meaning: it treats the work as something to be kept and understood rather than only issued. Where Trying makes the argument through the structure of a complete set, and Schloss through a fund and a thesis, Matto makes it as a practitioner collecting among the people he shows beside.

Four works from Matto's wallets: his own Ensō and FOCUS, both in the AB[500], beside the genesis and curated works he collects.

Why he matters to the argument

The AB[500] thesis is that this period will be read, later, as the moment a medium was founded. Matto is the evidence that the period had insiders who were also its custodians: artists who made the work, then collected it, wrote about it, and held their own first outputs as if they already knew the set would be looked back on. He is a writer as well as a maker, publishing on the medium even as he adds to it.

It closes the loop this archive keeps drawing. The collection is the argument; in Matto, the author of part of the argument is also one of its most committed readers.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

Charley was already a CryptoPunks collector when he encountered Art Blocks through the CryptoPunks Discord in January 2021. His first Art Blocks mint was a fuzzy Chromie Squiggle. The interview traces his enthusiasm to the variety of generative projects and a longer collecting habit, from seashells to Pokémon cards. His OpenSea biography describes him as a CryptoPunk collector since 2019. His first cryptocurrency purchase is not documented in these sources. [3]

Art Blocks holdings

The AB5D register records 593 works across 467 of the first 500 Art Blocks projects. The interview documents an earlier milestone: his AB101 set, covering the sequence through project 100 across Curated, Playground and Factory.

Charley names his fuzzy Squiggle, a 720 Minutes incorporating his birth time and a fast The Eternal Pump as personal favourites. The article illustrates Ringers #56. He also describes selling a second Ringer to fund further collecting, the challenge of in-person Venetian mints and an early-morning auction for a work by Jeff. These are recollections from the interview, not a present-day inventory.

Completing a Chromie Squiggle Type Set

SquiggleDAO subsequently recognised @Punk9512 for completing a Chromie Squiggle Type Set, highlighting another collecting milestone alongside his broader Art Blocks collection. [2]

A Squiggle in physical form

On 24 June 2025, Charley shared a small sculpture made from one of his favourite Chromie Squiggles by Snowfro. He credited MONA (@monaverse) with providing the 3D model. The photograph shows the rainbow-coloured sculpture mounted on a stand beside the water, extending his engagement with the work into a physical object. [1]

Associated holdings

Charley’s OpenSea biography places his CryptoPunks involvement in 2019, before his discovery of Art Blocks. The 2021 interview describes two punks and around 0.5 ETH at the outset of his Art Blocks collecting, with proceeds from trading a punk reinvested into art. His broader wallet record extends into digital editions, generative art, early blockchain collectibles and artist-community passes. [3]

A review of the four wallets linked to his Art Blocks identity found the following selected holdings on Ethereum. The OpenSea profile displays one public wallet, so the profile and this consolidated review have different scopes. [4]

Collection or artist	Identifiable holdings	Reading the collection
XCOPY	MAX PAIN #5442/7394	An edition outside the Art Blocks ecosystem, adding a different visual practice to the collection.
Refik Anadol	Machine Hallucinations: Space, Mars / Still #76/96; Study for Unsupervised #296 and #657	Three indexed works across two contracts connect the holdings to Anadol’s machine-generated imagery.
Bright Moments	9 CryptoCitizens, including CryptoVenezian #34, CryptoParisian #643 and CryptoPatagonian #485	A group spanning multiple city-labelled editions, alongside the Art Blocks collaborations already present in the wallets.
GEN.ART	18 tokens in GEN.ART Drop and 2 in GEN.ART Collection, including Kakano #824, Imagination #351, Caesium Standard #1873 and Clines #1238	A substantial extension of the generative-art holdings beyond the AB[500] index.
CryptoKitties	Kottur Skookumtruck, Midnight Scrummynose and Common Gen 1 Mewt	Three tokens from the earlier blockchain-collectible ecosystem.
Dmitri Cherniak	Infinity Flowers selection passes #10 and #13	Selection passes are recorded as passes, not as completed Infinity Flowers artworks.
Botto	Access-pass token IDs 1 and 8	Access-related holdings; these do not establish ownership of a Botto one-of-one artwork.

The clearest pattern is continued collecting around generative art: GEN.ART and Bright Moments sit alongside the extensive Art Blocks holdings. XCOPY and Refik Anadol broaden that picture, while CryptoKitties places older blockchain collectibles in the same wallet group. This is an interpretation of the holdings, rather than a statement by Charley about his intentions.

This review covers selected ERC-721 and ERC-1155 records on Ethereum. It does not establish purchase intent, prices paid, a complete cross-chain inventory or current ownership of legacy CryptoPunks. Unidentified tokens and apparent promotional drops are excluded from the profile’s interpretation. Membership and selection passes are kept distinct from artworks.

The full interview

Loopify · The Loop News · preserved 31 July 2021

An interview with the first collector to complete a full set of the first 100 Artblocks projects.

An interview with Charley, who owns at least one of every single art blocks collection to date.

Meet Charley. The collector that ow Approximately worth 500 ETH for the 101 pieces that make up the first full set of the first 100 projects. That’s right. The first collector to own the first 100 artblocks collections.

Check out his collection here. As you can see he owns every single collection from curated, playground and factory. Here is an exclusive look into his reasoning and journey.

When did you find out about Artblocks?

I first heard about Artblocks in January this year in the Cryptopunks discord – just as so many of us. It was the time when people started to mint tons of Squiggles and Snowfro still had time to hang around. I looked into the concept and was stoked right from the beginning.

What drew you to complete the FULL collection?

Actually, I think this almost happened by accident. I have always been sort of a collector, whether it was seashells I found somewhere on the beach or Pokémon cards in my youth. When the new projects were released in mid-January, I was amazed by their variety and innovation. Just imagine how different Ignition and NimBuds are – still both generated along with the same principles of generative art. I couldn’t stop, wanted to be part of each facet of the story and so I continued to mint or purchase what I was still lacking.

After I found myself owning at least one piece of the first 50 or 60 projects, I was keen to go on with the first 100 ones (and maybe more). With Casey releasing project 100 as the last curated one to conclude season three, I thought this will be a worthy finale and called it the full AB101 set.

How did you meet ends to afford many of the pieces?

When I got into Artblocks, I had around 0.5 ETH to spend and two punks in stock. Still, I was pretty early to the party and gas wars did not really exist back then, so I could easily afford two pieces in a drop. I kept the one I liked more and was able to sell the second one quickly after, mostly for profit. In addition, I was flipping one of my punks and immediately reinvested the gains, too. I remember well how hard it was for me to let my second Ringer go, but it had to happen if I wanted to acquire more art.

Having said that, I know how critical some artists are when they see their art being traded for financial gain and I can feel this. Without flipping however, it would not have been possible for me to continue and support even more artists at the end. And what I really appreciate is that with based on this technology, they can participate in secondary sales as well.

How dedicated were you to complete a full set?

Well, sometimes it almost felt like a full-time job especially when we were approaching the last like ten projects that were still missing to complete my AB101 set (not talking about refreshing a page every few seconds for hours when The Eternal Pumps came out). Moreover, the drop mechanisms changed – e.g. Venetians can only be minted in person – and drop times were not always compatible with my schedule, too. When the portals were auctioned off at five in the morning my time, I had just received my second COVID vaccination the day before and was still suffering from some side effects. I still forced myself out of bed and was rewarded with a wonderful piece of art by Jeff.

What are your favourite pieces in your collection?

This is a really tough question because honestly, I like them all and when I start talking about them, I can’t stop anymore. However, three of the pieces are still somewhat special to me. The first one is my fuzzy Squiggle, my first Artblock mint. The second one is my 720 Minutes because it incorporates the time I was born. And last but not least, my The Eternal Pump with fast speed. It represents the excitement I still feel right before each drop.

Will you keep going to have a full set?

So far, I still managed to acquire one piece of each project. However, I’m fully aware that it will be impossible to continue forever and as soon as the first 1 of 1 of 1 will be minted, I may not be able to keep going with the series. In any case, I will continue to acquire more beautiful pieces of generative Artblocks art that I am looking forward so much to be released.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

The profile's one word, "fan," is the only statement on record.¹ The earliest work still held arrived on 16 August 2021, but the collection was largely built in 2022, when 479 of the works still held arrived. Only 59 were minted directly.²

Art Blocks holdings

This is a collection of depth in particular projects: 22 series are held ten deep or more. The largest positions are Good Vibrations (33), Metropolis (30), Edifice (29), Scoundrels (21), Himinn (20), Ieva (19), Chimera and Ancient Courses of Fictional Rivers (18 each), montreal friend scale (17) and phase (16). mpkoz, Aluan Wang, Ben Kovach, Robert Hodgin, Kristy Glas and Sarah Ridgley are the artists held most.

Eight Apparitions, four Pigments and Singularity #1009 are the earliest Curated works held. The Art Blocks profile records the AB500 Foundations Set Holder badge, for owning a work from each AB500 category.¹

Associated holdings

No other holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

Davis came to NFTs as an artist. "I ended up applying to SuperRare and getting accepted in 2019," he told Snowfro in 2021, and "I had no idea what I was doing and minted a few works of art here and there over the next year."¹ In 2020 he made a more concerted effort with his Abstract Token series,¹ and on 27 November 2020 Construction Token launched Art Blocks alongside Chromie Squiggle and Genesis.²

He joined the company months after its founding, later serving as Chief Creative Officer,³ and now describes himself as Strategic Advisor at Art Blocks and founder of Davis Editions.⁴ Before all of this he taught art for twenty years and wrote textbooks on design and colour.⁵

Art Blocks holdings

His two wallets hold 501 AB[500] works across 243 series. About a quarter are his own: Color Study (35), Rhythm (21), Drawings for a Monument (19), Schema with DRIFT (18), Rectangles (for Herbert) (11) and ten Construction Token, including #0, #1 and #2. The rest is a collection of his peers, begun on launch day: 279 of the works still held were minted directly, and the earliest arrived on 27 November 2020.

He holds 20 Chromie Squiggles, among them #2, #12 and #14, and Genesis #3 and View Card #0 from 2020, with 17 send/receive, 8 Apparitions, 4 Subscapes, 3 Ringers, 3 Archetype, 2 Fidenza and single works of Meridian, Gazers, Elevated Deconstructions and Unigrids. His Art Blocks profile records him as a holder of the full Curated Series 1 to 8 set and the AB500 Foundations set.⁴

Associated holdings

He co-founded the Generative Art Foundation and has made physical and screen-based work with Bright Moments,⁶ where his Portal (Series 095) was first shown. His account of what on-chain work demands: "Art Blocks has a rigorous requirement that all aspects of the work must be on-chain."⁶

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

The Art Blocks profile's bio, "Lover of generative art," is the only statement verified as drCCO's own.¹ The earliest work still held arrived on 27 February 2021, but the collection's growth is recent and steep: 202 of the works still held arrived in 2024, 743 in 2025 and 245 so far in 2026. Only 82 were minted directly.²

Art Blocks holdings

With 392 series, drCCO holds work from more of the set than anyone in the top fifty except Snowfro and Charley. The largest positions are RVig's Flowers (110), Friendship Bracelets (75), Liquid Ruminations (47), Gumbo (39 of 400), Kai-Gen (33), Casey REAS's 923 EMPTY ROOMS (29) and Paper Armada (25). Twenty-seven series are held ten deep.

The early canon appears in single works: Gazers #916, Chromie Squiggle #1716, Meridian #241, Genesis #75, two Subscapes, two Pigments and twelve Apparitions. The Art Blocks profile records set-holder badges for Curated Series 4 to 8, the Explorations set and the AB500 Foundations set.¹

Associated holdings

An X account with a matching name describes a collector of generative art, AI art and photography, but nothing self-published links it to these wallets, so it is not cited here. No other roles are documented.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

No interview, essay or other public account by this collector was found in research for this atlas, so the chain record stands in for one.¹ The profile's one line is an invitation: "Check out my vault."² The earliest work still held arrived on 14 April 2021; 251 of the works still held arrived in 2021, and 132 were minted directly.

Art Blocks holdings

The collection averages fewer than two works per series. Himinn and Gen 3 are the only series held ten deep; Empyrean (8) and send/receive (7) are next. Alexis André, Generative Artworks, DCA, Snowfro, Daniel Catt and Jason Ting are the artists held most.

The canon is held one at a time, almost completely: Fidenza #222, Ringers #960, Meridian #780, Gazers #858, Incomplete Control #33, Singularity #441, Construction Token #283 and Pigments #844, with four Chromie Squiggles, two Subscapes and two Apparitions. The Art Blocks profile records set-holder badges for Curated Series 4 and 6 and the AB500 Foundations set.²

Associated holdings

No other holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

The wallet's OpenSea profile, joined in July 2021, carries a single link, to an oncyber gallery called jell888.¹ No interview, essay or other public account by this collector was found in research for this atlas, so the chain record stands in for one.² The earliest work still held arrived on 27 June 2021, and 259 of the works still held arrived that year. Only 29 were minted directly.

Art Blocks holdings

The collection is concentrated in releases of 2021, which account for 78 of the 107 series. The largest positions are MODNAR WOLF's Dear Hash, (51 of 365) and Pandelune's Orthogone (48), then Apparitions (19), Subscapes (17, including #34, #49 and #58), Loie Hollowell's Contractions (17), Casey REAS's CENTURY (15), Ecumenopolis and Click (13 each) and Spectron (12).

Single canonical works include Meridian #419, Gazers #608, Singularity #928, Construction Token #417 and #422, and Chromie Squiggles #218, #567 and #3352.

Associated holdings

No other holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources. An X account with the same handle is suspended and nothing ties it to the wallet.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

punk6529 has been involved in crypto since 2013, and the museum he built is described as having one of the largest NFT collections across all major categories, with a distinctive focus on generative art.¹ He is careful to separate it from his fund: "The 6529 Museum is not part of the fund, it is a permanent collection and I am not selling."²

Art Blocks holdings

In September 2021 he described the strategy: collect horizontally across Art Blocks "to show the spectrum of output across AB Curated projects," and vertically in Chromie Squiggles. "I don't think you can introduce Art Blocks without introducing the Squiggles," he wrote, and "It has been, however, a long-standing 6529 Museum goal to have a vertical collection of Chromie Squiggles."³

The three museum wallets hold 540 AB[500] works across 130 series, 103 of them Curated. Fidenza #313 was bought in August 2021, answering the "tulip mania" jibe: "Yes, I did, in fact, buy a tulip."⁴ Three more Fidenza (#119, #835, #877) sit beside it, with three Incomplete Control, four Meridian, three Ringers, ten Gazers and ten Chromie Squiggles. The largest positions are Kai-Gen (20) and Casey REAS's CENTURY (19).

Ringers #879, "The Goose," bought at Sotheby's in June 2023 for $6.2 million, belongs to the 6529 NFT Fund, not the museum, and is not in these wallets.⁵

Associated holdings

The wider collection holds more than two thousand works, including XCOPY's "summer.jpg" and Refik Anadol's "Living Architecture: Casa Batlló."⁴ The fund, a separate entity, follows a stated thesis: "buy the highest quality art you can afford and hold it for the longest time possible."²

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

No interview, essay or other public account by this collector was found in research for this atlas, so the chain record stands in for one.¹ The ENS name, jdhvault.eth, is the wallet's own primary name.² The earliest work still held arrived on 23 July 2021; most arrived in 2022, 636 works, and 2023, 256. Only seven were minted into this wallet.

Art Blocks holdings

This is one of the most concentrated large holdings in the top fifty: 1,241 works in 73 series, 17 works per series. Dmitri Cherniak's Ringers is the centre, with 49 works including #1, #12, #17, #90 and #101, about one in twenty of the edition. Beside it are 48 Chromie Squiggles (#183, #230, #330 and #499 among them) and seven Fidenza (#519, #602, #623, #756, #875, #983 and #985).

The largest position by count is Friendship Bracelets (650), with deep runs in Color Study (92), entretiempos (47), Cosmic Reef (45), Departed (19) and Colorspace (18). Weighted by edition size the heaviest are 13 of the 200 siempre en mí, siempre en ti and 19 of the 350 Departed.

Associated holdings

No holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources for this wallet.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

No interview, essay or other public account by this collector was found in research for this atlas, so the chain record stands in for one.¹ The earliest works still held arrived on 24 February 2021, and 291 of the 379 arrived that year. Ninety were minted directly.²

Art Blocks holdings

Fidenza is the signature: fifteen works, among them #13, #102, #160, #260 and #285. Around it the collection holds Curated work of 2021 in depth: Eccentrics (24), I Saw It in a Dream (18), The Opera (17 of 256, the heaviest by edition size), Divisions (17), Enchiridion (15), Flowers (15) and flora, fauna, false gods & floods (12). Radix, Steve Pikelny, Michael Connolly and Luke Shannon are the artists held most after Hobbs.

Single canonical works include Archetype #29, #540 and #572, Meridian #248, #281 and #403, Ringers #572, Singularity #899 and Construction Token #454.

Associated holdings

No other holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

The Art Blocks profile's bio is the single word "dreamer."¹ The earliest work still held arrived on 5 January 2021, and 256 of the works still held arrived that year; 216 were minted directly.²

Art Blocks holdings

Sixty-two of the 88 series held are Factory releases. The largest positions are RVig's Flowers (29), Invasion Percolation (14), MODNAR WOLF's Dear Hash, (14), Star Flower (12), Blockbob Rorschach (11), and Color Study, Click, Scoundrels and Ouroboros (10 each). Weighted by edition size the heaviest is 8 of the 126 Augury.

From the early Curated programme HANS holds five Pigments (#94, #193, #241, #289 and #959) and Singularity #1015.

Associated holdings

No other holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

The profile's bio says "collector."¹ No interview, essay or other public account by this collector was found in research for this atlas, so the chain record stands in for one.² The earliest works still held arrived on 27 November 2020, launch day, among them Construction Token #243, #244 and #248, minted that day. Three hundred and one of the works still held arrived in 2020; 426 were minted directly.

Art Blocks holdings

The collection is the first weeks of the platform held in depth: 248 Chromie Squiggles, 46 Construction Token, 37 Dynamic Slices, 28 Unigrids, 18 Elevated Deconstructions, 11 NimBuds, 10 HyperHash and 4 of the 41 View Card, with five Ringers and Genesis #202 and #206. Seven of the 35 series held were released in 2020.

The later positions are few and large: Friendship Bracelets (188), Through the Window (50) and celestial cyclones (17).

Associated holdings

No other holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

cdb's public profile is a single line: "Collector | 🦩 @FLAMINGODAO | 😜 @neon_dao | @tributelabsxyz."¹ The earliest work still held arrived on 13 December 2020, and the Art Blocks record shows a Chromie Squiggle minted on 30 November 2020.² Of the works still held, 312 arrived in 2021 and 167 were minted directly.

Art Blocks holdings

Snowfro dominates: 126 Chromie Squiggles. The rest of the collection follows the platform's first year: 17 Singularity, 15 Ignition, 12 27-Bit Digital, 12 Cyber Cities, 11 Elementals, 6 Genesis and 6 Unigrids. The Ringers are a run, #458, #459, #461, #462 and #465 among eight held. Fidenza #129, #325 and #544, four Archetype, three Elevated Deconstructions, three Subscapes and Gazers #787 complete the canon.

Later depth sits in Friendship Bracelets (42), Color Study (20) and send/receive (17).

Associated holdings

cdb names Flamingo DAO, Neon DAO and Tribute Labs in the profile line above, without stating a role.¹ Flamingo has its own entry in this part of the atlas.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

No interview, essay or other public account by this collector was found in research for this atlas, so the chain record stands in for one.¹ The profile points to neffnet.net, and the ENS avatar is Void #320 by Alexis André.^2,3 The earliest work still held arrived on 19 February 2021; 211 of the works still held arrived that year, and 106 were minted directly.

Art Blocks holdings

The collection is spread evenly across 181 series, with Augmented Sequence (12) the only one held ten deep. Then mecha suits and Paper Armada (9 each), OnChainChain (8), Void and Friendship Bracelets (7 each), and Ensō, CENTURY, Electriz and Himinn (6 each). Alexis André, Steve Pikelny, hideo and toiminto are the artists held most.

Early works are single: Chromie Squiggle #3989, Construction Token #409, Pigments #151, Subscapes #380 and two Apparitions.

Associated holdings

No other holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

"It was in April of 2011, I was reading up on one of the financial market blogs and saw a story that caught my attention." Within a week he had bought Bitcoin.¹ His name comes from the economist Ludwig von Mises, and his background is traditional finance.²

His first NFT was a Gods Unchained card in October 2019, "just a training ground for when I discovered CryptoPunks." He bought sixty Punks in the first month.² In the Punks Discord he met Snowfro: "Around September or October of 2020, Snowfro began talking about his new generative art platform, Art Blocks... I knew I had to be involved when Art Blocks launched to show my support for Snowfro."¹

Art Blocks holdings

His first Art Blocks mint was DCA's Genesis #183,¹ and it is still in his wallets, with the earliest works dating from 27 November 2020. He sat on the early curation board,³ and has described his test plainly: "Often my criteria would be something like, would I be willing to hang this piece on my wall?"¹ He was early to Chromie Squiggles too, minting hundreds of them.^2,4

The three wallets linked to his profile hold 397 AB[500] works across 151 series, 103 of them Curated. Depth runs through the first months: 31 Cryptoblots, 18 Dynamic Slices, 9 Singularity, 9 Chromie Squiggles, 8 Ignition, 7 Genesis, 7 Ringers and 7 Gazers, with Fidenza #142, #198, #592 and #917, five Meridian, Incomplete Control #6, The Eternal Pump #3 and Spectron #1. "For me having one of something is pretty much the same as having none," he has said.¹

Associated holdings

He still held seventeen CryptoPunks in 2024, alongside works by XCOPY, Beeple, Tyler Hobbs and DEAFBEEF; he sold Autoglyph #392 for 375 ether in 2021.² He has bought an early Manfred Mohr and visited Mohr's studio.¹ His summary of the project: "I'm really trying to assemble a collection of early, historically significant and culturally relevant art and collectibles from this golden era of digital assets."¹ Or, more briefly: "I'm a blockchain historian in a sense."²

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

No interview, essay or other public account by this collector was found in research for this atlas, so the chain record stands in for one.¹ The name is the vanity prefix of the main address, 0x17920c7e…, which carries the ENS name 0x1792.eth.² The earliest work still held arrived on 3 February 2022, a later start than most of the top fifty; 259 of the works still held arrived that year.

Art Blocks holdings

None of the platform's famous early series is held. Instead the collection concentrates on 2022 and later: Marcelo Soria-Rodríguez's entretiempos (51), Alexis André's Departed (38 of 350, the heaviest by edition size), ixnayokay's Implications (26) and because unless until (12), Joshua Bagley's Spotlight (24), VES3L's Seedlings (18), Erratic (14), Thomas Lin Pedersen's Screens (12) and Facets (11).

Nine series are held ten deep. Factory and Presents releases account for 44 of the 68.

Associated holdings

No other holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

The only name this wallet's owner has published is the OpenSea username TheoHMP.¹ No interview, essay or other public account by this collector was found in research for this atlas, so the chain record stands in for one.² Among the works held in this snapshot, the earliest recorded arrival is 6 December 2023; 570 arrived in 2024 and 180 in 2025. These are transfer observations for current holdings, not a complete purchase history. A transfer alone does not establish a sale or its price.

Art Blocks holdings

Twenty-six series are held ten deep, and Curated releases make up 75 of the 141. The largest positions are Friendship Bracelets (29), ippsketch's Bent and mpkoz's Bokeh (26 each), Olga Fradina's Naïve (23), because unless until (22), Ode to Roy (20), Memories of Digital Data and Trichro-matic (19 each), Spaghetti Bones (18) and Dreams (15). Joshua Bagley, Alexis André, mpkoz, MountVitruvius and ippsketch are the artists held most.

Low numbers stand out: Bent #2, Apparitions #3 and #15 among nine Apparitions, 720 Minutes #4 and Jiometory No Compute #1.

Associated holdings

No other holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources.

Most collectors buy what they love. A few buy what they believe will matter. Derek Edward Schloss does something rarer: he funds the medium as a venture capitalist, collects its foundational works as a holder, and writes its history as an essayist. The fund, the wallet and the writing are not three hobbies. They are one argument made three ways.

The fund

Schloss is a managing partner at Collab+Currency, the crypto venture firm he runs with Stephen McKeon. Trained as an attorney, a former startup founder and an instructor at the University of Oregon's business school, he entered the blockchain space in 2018 advising startups and directing a blockchain research organisation, and by 2020 was running the fund.¹ Collab+Currency made early investments in the infrastructure of the digital-art economy itself: SuperRare, Art Blocks, Async Art, Rarible, Metaversal and PROOF.² He is also a founding member of Flamingo DAO, the collector collective that assembled one of the most valuable NFT collections in existence.²

This matters for how you read the wallet. A venture investor's discipline is to identify the foundational layer early and hold through the noise. Schloss applies the same discipline to art.

The gallery

In 2022, Schloss and his partners, Stephen and Michelle McKeon and Maddy Page, opened Glitch in Marfa, Texas: an analog gallery for digital art, a physical room in the high desert for objects that otherwise live only on-chain.⁶ The choice of town is not incidental. Marfa is where Donald Judd went to build a permanent home for minimalism, and placing a generative-art gallery there puts the medium in that lineage: artists and institutions claiming physical ground for work the established world was slow to house.

Glitch's signature format, Every 30 Days, exhibits a single culturally significant digital work for a month at a time, in the gallery window in Marfa and simultaneously over a livestream, paired with long-form writing about it. The first season ran a full year and included XCOPY's Right-click and Save As guy; a second season, 30 Days in Marfa, brought artists into the gallery for a residency.⁷ It is, in physical space, close to the act AB5D performs on the web: take one significant work and argue for it in words.

The genesis thesis

His stated view is precise about where the foundation lies. In his reading, the two artists who carried on-chain generative art into the mainstream are Larva Labs and Snowfro, the pioneers a future history will trace the medium back to. He calls the Chromie Squiggle an endlessly fascinating genesis project.³ He and McKeon argued the case publicly in an essay, "Punks, Squiggles, and the Future of Generative Media," placing CryptoPunks and the Squiggle at the root of a fifty-year generative-art lineage that runs back through Molnár and Nake.⁴

The wallet is that thesis in holdings. Of more than two thousand works, over half are authored by Snowfro: roughly five hundred of heart + craft, three hundred of send/receive, two hundred and twenty-eight Chromie Squiggles, and the LIFT self-portrait. This is not breadth-collecting in the manner of a completist. It is depth of conviction in a single origin point, accumulated the way an investor accumulates a position.

Four Snowfro works held in the wallet, rendered live from the chain.

Art as a network good

The investor's frame also explains why he thinks the foundation holds. Schloss treats the strongest on-chain works as network digital objects with few external dependencies, and reaches for the comparison most venture investors would: Bitcoin and gold. In periods of macro uncertainty, capital moves toward things that preserve value without counterparty or execution risk, and he sees that same behaviour beginning to reach the purely on-chain end of generative art. Snowfro's design choices are what make the comparison hold for him: resolution independence, minimal dependencies, and works that remain art objects without a team required to sustain their value in perpetuity.⁵

From there the argument becomes economic. The contemporary art market, he notes, is a roughly two-trillion-dollar asset class, sustained because hundreds of thousands of ultra-high-net-worth individuals use art to diversify and store wealth. His bet is that the same logic, supercharged by on-chain ownership, pulls that capital toward generative art over time. The leading indicator he watches is institutional: by his count the Chromie Squiggle now sits in eight or nine major museums, with digital work showing at the MoMA and LACMA.⁵

Why he matters to the argument

The AB[500] thesis is that this period will be read, later, as the moment a medium was founded. Schloss is the figure who is already acting on that reading from inside the market: funding the rails, sitting on the board that selected the Art Blocks Curated Collection, building a room for the work in the desert, holding the genesis works in depth, and writing about them as they enter the record. When he was named to the Curation Board, he framed the job as being there to help surface the generative artworks being made around the world.⁸ Where Trying makes the argument anonymously, through the structure of a complete set, Schloss makes it in public, through a fund, a board seat, a gallery, a DAO and a byline. He is the period's investor-historian, and his wallet is a thesis statement.

The collection is the argument; this is one of the people building the institutions that will carry it.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

No interview, essay or other public account by this collector was found in research for this atlas, so the chain record stands in for one.¹ The vault's ENS record carries the name "Dinosaur."² The earliest work still held arrived on 2 April 2021, and 278 of the works still held arrived that year. Only 22 were minted directly.

Art Blocks holdings

Aaron Penne is held deepest, with 40 Apparitions and 15 Return, then Jorge Ledezma's Aithérios (24), Ode to Roy (16), Void (14), Elementals and Subscapes (13 each), Divisions (12) and 70s Pop Series One and Messengers (11 each). Measured against edition size, Return is the heaviest position.

The canon is unusually strong in Matt DesLauriers: nine Meridian, including #14, and thirteen Subscapes. Chromie Squiggles #18 and #58, Construction Token #13, Ringers #597, Archetype #414 and three Singularity follow. First outputs are a theme: The Blocks of Art #1, Messengers #1 and Radiance #1.

Associated holdings

No other holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

jwpe discovered Bitcoin in 2013 and has collected NFTs since late 2017, when friends made CryptoCats; he still holds them. An early crypto-art purchase was a 2018 print by the street artist Ludo referring to the Bitcoin logo.¹

"Art Blocks was my entry point, and Terraforms (2021), a work by the Mathcastles studio, is where I'm at today," he said in 2026.¹ He is honest about the start: "I collected Art Blocks pieces that I could afford and appreciated aesthetically, and made zero attempt to understand the code that generated them."¹

Art Blocks holdings

His three wallets hold 351 AB[500] works across 129 series. The earliest still held arrived on 22 November 2021, and 259 arrived in 2022: "I lament missing the early days of Art Blocks in 2021."¹ The deepest positions are Matty Mariansky's Para Bellum (18) and Matto's FOCUS (17), then 3 Minute Meditations and Time Atlas (7 each). The canon appears in single works: four Meridian, Incomplete Control #11, Archetype #480 and Chromie Squiggle #9050.

"I am quite sentimental, and would often hold onto certain pieces, even when they became worthless, which was most of the time," he has said.¹

Associated holdings

He was part of the team supporting the Tribute Labs DAO network, which includes Flamingo, and his attention is now on Mathcastles' Terraforms, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, and on-chain computational work.¹ "One consistency in my approach over the years has been collecting at the edge of what I am able to grasp conceptually."¹

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

metamix's public self-description is brief: "punk degen" on X, and on OpenSea a line of binary that decodes to "hello, world."^1,2 The earliest works still held arrived on 17 March 2021, when the wallet minted Apparitions #446 and bought Archetype #37.³ In February 2022 most of the collection moved to a second wallet.

Art Blocks holdings

Of the 152 series held, 90 are Curated, an unusually high share. The canon is present almost in full, in single works: Ringers #43, Archetype #37, Fidenza #92, #295 and #708, Chromie Squiggles #954, #3831 and #9429, Elevated Deconstructions #193, Construction Token #114, Genesis #471, Gazers #637, Singularity #131, Unigrids #121 and Subscapes #374.

Depth is reserved for a few: RVig's Flowers (42), Paolo Tonon's Panelscape (26), Transitions (20), Matto's Ensō and send/receive (14 each), Organized Disruption (13), Radiance and Immaterial (12 each) and Rinascita (11). The collecting continues: 128 of the works still held arrived in 2025.

Associated holdings

No other holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

The wallet's OpenSea profile, username UltraRareAF, dates from September 2021 and its bio reads "AI project: UltraRare69.eth."¹ No interview, essay or other public account by this collector was found in research for this atlas, so the chain record stands in for one.² The earliest work still held arrived on 27 January 2022, and 258 of the works still held arrived that year.

Art Blocks holdings

The largest position is Friendship Bracelets (97). Depth otherwise sits in Cole Sternberg's the spring begins with the first rainstorm (34 of 487, the heaviest by edition size), Thereidoscope (24), makio135's Hōrō (21), Total Strangers (17), Kristy Glas's Scoundrels (15) and CatBlocks (13), and Wave Schematics (15).

The standout is a cluster of first outputs: Hashtractors #1, #2 and #3, with three more Hashtractors and four Pigments, also by Darien Brito.

Associated holdings

No other holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources. The X account once linked from the OpenSea profile no longer resolves.

Entry into blockchain and crypto art

No interview, essay or other public account by this collector was found in research for this atlas, so the chain record stands in for one.¹ The earliest work still held arrived on 31 July 2021. Most of the collection arrived in 2022, 213 works, and the collecting has resumed: 28 of the works still held arrived in 2026. Ninety-six were minted directly.

Art Blocks holdings

The largest positions are Joshua Bagley's Spotlight (30), Cooper Jamieson's Placement (27), Jason Ting's Glow (17), Democracity (10), WAWAA's Freehand (9) and LeWitt Generator Generator (8). Weighted by edition size, two of the 37 Coalition weigh most.

Rituals - Venice, by Aaron Penne with Boreta, is held from its event edition, and the early canon appears in Apparitions #998 and Pigments #677 and #817.

Associated holdings

No other holdings, roles or affiliations are documented in public sources.²