Trying holds work from every project in the AB[500]. AB5D's register connects this collection to the public account Origin Art Museum. Alongside the complete set sits a history of exhibitions and museum-building: art gathered around a subject, placed in a shared space and opened to an audience. [1] [2]
- Profile
- Trying on Art Blocks
- Public account
- @OriginArtMuseum
- Linked wallets
- 0x9f39…288a · 0xa471…48a6
- Art Blocks
- 824 artworks
- AB[500]
- 609 works across all 500 projects
- abTDH
- 46,031,240 · +112,269 per day · method
A place to encounter the work
Origin Art Museum appears in the public exhibition record by 2021. Reporting published on 9 June that year placed MORROW Collective's inaugural GENESIS exhibition in its Cryptovoxels space, with the exhibition running through 20 June. MORROW brought artists and established galleries into a virtual setting for showing and collecting NFTs. Origin supplied a place within that encounter. [4]
The exhibition also survives in an institutional artist biography. Tselinny lists GENESIS at Origin Art Museum in Almagul Menlibayeva's exhibition history. The credit gives the virtual exhibition a place in the artist's wider exhibition history. Origin's role as a venue is part of that record. [5]
The Nakamoto Museum
A later project makes the curatorial role explicit. The Notkamoto project's museum page credits @OriginArtMuseum as the creator and curator of the Nakamoto Museum. Inspired by NOTKAMOTO, the museum celebrates NOTKAMOTO, NAKAMOTO and the wider influence of Pepes. [6]
Its published January 2023 account records 528 pieces by 201 artists, including 58 donated pieces, after six months of building that began in July 2022. These are historical museum figures, rather than a count of Origin's present holdings. The donations make the project especially interesting: a collection assembled around a shared subject also became a place for other people to contribute.
Here, collecting takes the form of an exhibition with a specific field of attention. The museum gathers variations and responses around a cultural reference, allowing visitors to see relationships that an isolated artwork cannot show.
The complete Art Blocks collection
Trying's Art Blocks record shows another kind of assembly. The profile displays 824 artworks. The AB5D register records 609 works within the AB[500], covering all 500 projects. The two totals describe different scopes: the profile includes work beyond the five-hundred-project index. [1] [2]
Art Blocks independently marks the Art Blocks 500 set as 100% complete. Its set page also records completion of Curated Series 1 through 8, Curated, Factory, Presents, Playground, Explorations and Collaborations. Completion here means holding a work from each collection in a set. It does not mean holding every edition or every trait. [3]
Individual works within the whole
The collection includes Ringers #212 and The Eternal Pump #12 by Dmitri Cherniak, alongside Fidenza #822 and Incomplete Control #80 by Tyler Hobbs. These give the broad collection individual points of focus: particular outputs within practices that helped define early Art Blocks. [2]
Snowfro
Dmitri Cherniak
Tyler Hobbs
Kjetil Golid
Still previews of four works from the linked collection. Images supplied by Art Blocks; they do not reproduce the interactive artworks.
The profile also displays works from Dario Lanza's Frank, Jeff Davis's Digital Sketch, Emily Nicoll's Geophylla and KALA's Raga.fm. These holdings extend the collection beyond the completed index. Read beside the set records, they suggest a collection with a historical structure and room for further discovery. [2]
Discovery and access
Origin's own public words offer a more direct account of what makes collecting worthwhile. In an 18 August 2026 post about Verse, the account praised the discovery it enables, the exposure it brings to artists and the removal of friction from collecting
. The emphasis falls on finding work and making the encounter easier. [7]
This gives the profile a useful connection between its two records. The Art Blocks sets make the breadth of a collection visible. The exhibition history shows work being gathered for an audience. Seen together, they invite a reading of the collector as a museum-builder: someone whose activities include assembling a body of art and giving it a public setting.
For AB5D, that combination deserves attention. A complete set holds many artistic approaches in relation to one another. An exhibition offers people a way into those relationships. Origin's museum projects and Trying's Art Blocks collection provide distinct, documented examples of those two contributions.