- Collector
- 6529 Museum · operated by @punk6529 · 6529museum.eth
- Status
- Permanent collection, separate from the 6529 NFT Fund
- Holdings
- 540 AB[500] works · 130 series · 3 wallets
- abTDH
- 59,486,012 · · method
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