AB5D

ss888

The second-largest holding, and no public voice.

ss888 ranks second by abTDH, behind only Snowfro. The single wallet, silversurfer888.eth, holds 2,037 AB[500] works across 295 series, built almost entirely from the long tail of the set rather than its famous names.

Collector
ss888 · silversurfer888.eth
Holdings
2,037 AB[500] works · 295 series · 1 wallet
abTDH
303,220,685 · · method
2,037
AB[500] works
295
Series
58
Series held ten deep
303,220,685
abTDH

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

ss888 across the AB[500]

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.

Notes

  1. Art Blocks public index, tokens and transfers for the wallets the AB5D register groups under this collector, read 14 October 2026. artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app ↩
  2. Art Blocks profile, ss888. artblocks.io ↩
  3. ENS record for silversurfer888.eth (0x207b…bbbb). ensdata.net ↩