# Space Debris [m'aider] by WhaleStreet x pxlq

*Art Blocks Factory, project 79 · 93 outputs · first mint 1 June 2021 · NFT License*

![Space Debris m'aider #69: cyan, aqua, hot pink and yellow panels packed edge to edge on black, with a few tilted shards](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/79000069.png)
*Space Debris [m'aider] #69, Neopunk palette, held by AB5D. Render: Art Blocks media proxy.*

## The work and its context

Space Debris [m'aider] is project 79 on the Art Blocks contract `0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270`. The index records 93 invocations against a maximum of 93, the runtime `p5@1.0.0`, a square aspect ratio, a price field of 1 ETH and the licence label "NFT License" with no link [^S01]. The collection page files it under Factory and the Art Blocks 500, with a release date of 23 August 2021 [^S02]. Its description is the distress call the trilogy shares: "L5-A752 to dispatch... we have been attacked, badly. Foundational structure is in critical condition, debris is everywhere" [^S01].

Each output is a black square of broad, flat, black-bordered colour panels, over which a few dozen shards drift in straight lines [^S01]. It is the largest and calmest of the three Space Debris projects. Space Debris [warning] (project 80) has 81 outputs and Space Debris [ravaged] (project 81) has 32 [^S03].

The title is the French phrase behind "Mayday", and the earlier AB5D essay read the trilogy as a three-stage story [^S04]. The companion essay on warning showed that the projects were in fact sold together, as the prizes of one auction run by the DeFi protocol WhaleStreet and paid for in its token, $HRIMP [^S05]. A Chainlink random number decided which project each buyer received. m'aider was the common tier, produced by half of all draws [^S06][^S07]. This essay reuses those findings and checks what differs for m'aider.

## Conception and development

**The partners.** WhaleStreet described itself as "a decentralized, non-custodial protocol for 'Whale Swaps'", in which $HRIMP is "used to bid for and buy DeFi Collectibles" [^S08]. Amy Castor reported in March 2021 that "Lendroid powers WhaleStreet" and that it "hosted the B20 sale on Jan. 23" [^S09]. WhaleStreet's launch post of December 2020 described an eight-hour cycle of "heartbeats" [^S10]. Etherscan labels the project's artist address, `0x0950…e6d0`, "WhaleStreet: Deployer"; its last activity was in July 2022 [^S11].

pxlq is a pseudonymous generative artist whom Art Blocks describes as a creative coder "who experiments with a range of abstract styles" [^S12]. By June 2021 pxlq had four solo projects in the index: Dynamic Slices (4), Cyber Cities (14), Sentience (20) and Hieroglyphs (30) [^S03][^S13].

**Whose code.** No statement divides the credit, but the palettes point to pxlq. m'aider's palette set differs from warning's and ravaged's, and nearly every entry can be traced to pxlq's earlier programs (code reading) [^S01][^S03]:

- **Neopunk, Viper and Sentinel** are Cyber Cities palettes, colour for colour. Neopunk and Viper also appear in Sentience.
- **Budapest and Rushmore** come from Dynamic Slices and reappear under those names in Sentience [^S13]. Budapest is the `wesanderson` R package's GrandBudapest2 entry for entry. Rushmore borrows that package's palette name, but not its colours [^S14].
- **Lightyear, Cream, Lavandula and Pokie** come from Hieroglyphs, where each palette is a triple whose third entry is a dark ground. Cream keeps that dark grey, `#343432`, as a block colour. Lavandula and Pokie swap their dark third entry for a light grey and a lime [^S03].
- **Dust** has no match in the earlier scripts.

WhaleStreet's part, on the evidence found, was the sale mechanism.

**One program, three settings.** The three scripts share the `Lagrange` class, the steering routine `dark_matter` and a `GTYPE` variable, which is set to 0 in m'aider, 1 in warning and 2 in ravaged [^S01][^S03]. m'aider is the starting point of the sequence:

| Setting (code reading) | m'aider (79) | warning (80) | ravaged (81) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Debris shards | 15 to 40 | 25 to 50 | 50 to 100 |
| Steering towards neighbours | 0 | 0.1 | 0.75 |
| Upper limit for block height, in drawing units | 100 to 500 | 50 to 200 | 10 to 50 |
| Colours per palette | 3 to 4 | 5 to 7 | 1 to 3 |
| Outlines and grid textures | never | some | about half |
| Whole-region blocks | yes | yes | never |

*Source: the three programs in the Art Blocks index [^S01][^S03], with the companion essays [^S05][^S15].*

## How the work was constructed

The program is a single script of 5,364 bytes, SHA-256 `b988ae23153629c53a6f4dc217b4d0023427ce708b5de7cd467c1cc015dee7c8`. It was retrieved from the Art Blocks index and read in full; no code is reproduced here [^S01]. It was run headlessly in Node for all 93 hashes. A rectangle-only reconstruction of #73 matches the media-proxy render, and the palettes of the twelve other renders inspected match the simulation (computed) [^S01].

**Randomness.** The seed is the first sixteen characters of the hash, "0x" included. A xorshift generator draws every value, rounded to one of a thousand steps [^S01].

**Palette.** One of eleven palette entries is picked; each has three or four colours, and the background is always `#000003`. Three colour cursors, for whole-region blocks, strips and debris, each repeat a colour one to five times before moving on [^S01]. The simulation gives these counts (computed) [^S01]:

| Palette | Tokens |
| --- | --- |
| Neopunk (listed twice) | 12 |
| Cream, Lavandula | 11 each |
| Lightyear | 10 |
| Budapest, Sentinel, Rushmore | 9 each |
| Pokie | 8 |
| Dust, Viper | 7 each |

**The lattice.** A recursive routine cuts a field 1.3 times the size of the canvas into rectangles, splitting until pieces fall below a height or width limit drawn once per token. At each step there is a 30 per cent chance of partitioning the current rectangle into strips 50 to 100 units apart [^S01]. Each strip is filled with a probability of 20 to 40 per cent, and the whole rectangle may also be filled as one block. Every filled block gets a twin reflected across the diagonal of the field, which weaves horizontals into verticals [^S01]. Because height limits run to 500 units, m'aider's lattice is coarser than its siblings'. Stored blocks range from 26 (#87) to 528 (#52), with a median of 110. In 48 of the 93 outputs at least one block covers a quarter of the field or more (computed) [^S01].

**The debris.** Each shard gets a random position, velocity and stretch. Between none and half of the shards are "glyphs", irregular shapes whose corners are picked from the corners of a square [^S01]. Across the edition there are 2,465 shards, of which 567 are glyphs, 23 per cent; eight outputs have none (computed) [^S01]. Shards wrap around a field 1.5 times the canvas, so many are off-screen at any moment (code reading).

## Quirks in the algorithm

A full read of the program, checked against all 93 hashes, turned up the following. Where a point rests on the code alone, it is marked as a code reading.

1. **Gravity switched off.** The steering force towards neighbouring shards is computed for every shard in every frame, then multiplied by a `GRAVITY` of zero. In m'aider the debris therefore never gathers: each shard keeps its first velocity and heading forever, drifting in a straight line and wrapping at the edges (code reading) [^S01]. Warning sets the factor to 0.1 and ravaged to 0.75, where the cloud visibly condenses [^S05][^S15].
2. **One output depends on the size of the window.** The strip routine steps across a rectangle by adding a spacing repeatedly. For #73 the floating-point sum lands on the boundary differently at different canvas sizes. Of twelve sizes tested, eight give 182 blocks and four (600, 700, 1,200 and 2,400 pixels) give 188. Because the random sequence then shifts, every shard's position changes as well. The media proxy's 2,400-pixel render shows the 188-block version, which a 1,000-pixel viewer would not see. No other token is affected (computed) [^S01].
3. **Switches set so they never fire.** The inversion and style thresholds are set to 1, and the generator never returns more than 0.999. No m'aider block is ever outlined or textured, and the style code is dead [^S01]. The misplaced "named" arguments that create warning's hollow boxes and ravaged's wireframes are present here too, but with every flag false they have no visible effect (code reading) [^S05][^S15].
4. **Twins that are almost never skipped.** The reflection thresholds are set to 0, so a strip lacks its twin only when a draw is exactly zero. That happened in four outputs, #23, #44, #71 and #78, which are the only ones with an odd number of blocks (computed) [^S01].
5. **Neopunk listed twice.** The palette array contains Neopunk at positions one and three, so it has double weight on paper. The picker also scales by 0.99 before rounding down, which under-draws the last entry, Budapest (code reading). In the edition Neopunk leads with 12, short of the 16 its double weight would suggest (computed) [^S01].
6. **Near-black colours.** Viper's `#04005E`, Cream's `#343432` and Dust's `#4B4453` sit close to the background. In #52, 128 of 528 blocks are Viper's dark navy, read as shadowed panels rather than colour (computed) [^S01]. Cream's grey was a ground colour in Hieroglyphs [^S03].
7. **Glyphs with four or five corners.** The vertex count is a decimal between 3 and 5 used as a loop limit, so no output has a triangle. Corners are chosen with replacement from four positions, so 138 of the 567 glyphs have fewer than three distinct points and draw as a line or nothing (computed) [^S01].
8. **No traits, no interaction.** The index records no features for any token; the palette names exist only in the code. There are no mouse or key handlers, `GTYPE` is never read, and the animation uses no unseeded randomness [^S01].

## The most coveted variants

No trait data, auction-house results or collector commentary were found. What follows picks out structurally distinct outputs and the traceable sales.

**The dearest key (#1).** The first m'aider bought in the auction cost about 162,037 $HRIMP on 1 June 2021, the highest price paid for any of the 191 keys in the sale (computed) [^S16][^S01]. It is Cream, with pale yellow and sky-blue bars over dark grey panels [^S01].

![Space Debris m'aider #1: cream and sky-blue bars over large dark grey panels on black](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/79000001.png)
*#1, Cream, the highest-priced key of the auction. Render: Art Blocks media proxy.*

**The top traced resale (#77).** #77 was minted on 27 August 2021 for about 98,425 $HRIMP. Two hours later it sold on OpenSea for 3.65 ETH to the address resolving to 7564.eth, which still holds it (computed) [^S16][^S17][^S01]. It is Viper: a field of hot pink with violet and navy blocks and a cross formed by a strip and its twin [^S01].

![Space Debris m'aider #77: a hot pink field with violet and navy blocks and an outlined cross](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/79000077.png)
*#77, Viper, sold for 3.65 ETH on 27 August 2021. Render: Art Blocks media proxy.*

**#70.** Bought at the 50,000 floor on 19 August 2021, #70 sold for 3 ETH on 22 August and for 2.9 ETH on 24 August (computed) [^S16][^S18][^S19]. It uses Sentinel's lime, blue and pinks [^S01].

**The emptiest and the densest (#20, #52).** #20, Lavandula, shows only 16 blocks on the canvas, almost all of them huge grey and lilac panels [^S01]. #52, Viper, stores 528 blocks, the most in the edition (computed) [^S01].

![Space Debris m'aider #20: a few huge lilac, grey and white panels](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/79000020.png)
*#20, Lavandula, the sparsest canvas. Render: Art Blocks media proxy.*

![Space Debris m'aider #52: a dense weave of magenta, crimson, violet and dark navy strips](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/79000052.png)
*#52, Viper, 528 blocks. Render: Art Blocks media proxy.*

**The two-sized output (#73).** Lightyear in cream, sand and sky blue. It is the only token whose lattice and debris change with the window size (quirk 2) [^S01].

![Space Debris m'aider #73: cream, sand and sky-blue panels and bars](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/79000073.png)
*#73, Lightyear, as rendered at 2,400 pixels. Render: Art Blocks media proxy.*

**AB5D's two.** #37 is Budapest: lavender, pink, tan and cornflower bars around an open black centre [^S01]. It was bought in the auction on 29 July 2021 for about 51,258 $HRIMP (computed) [^S16][^S01]. It sold on OpenSea for 1 ETH on 3 October 2021 to the address resolving to frostwood.eth [^S20]. After a transfer in 2023 it sold again for 0.05 WETH on 27 August 2025 [^S21]. #69, the Neopunk work at the head of this essay, was bought at the 50,000 floor, and Chainlink's fulfilment minted it to zest.eth on 19 August 2021 [^S16][^S22]. Both reached AB5D through a single Seaport purchase on 22 September 2025. Seller proceeds imply prices of 0.09 ETH for #37 and 0.099 ETH for #69, and the tokens reached an AB5D wallet two minutes later (computed) [^S23][^S01].

![Space Debris m'aider #37: lavender, pink, tan and cornflower-blue bars framing an open black centre](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/79000037.png)
*#37, Budapest, held by AB5D. Render: Art Blocks media proxy.*

## Notable collectors

At retrieval the 93 tokens sat in 61 addresses [^S01]. Art Blocks profiles, which holders fill in themselves, name several [^S24]:

- The largest holder, with nine (#12, #14, #16, #18, #20, #22, #51, #72, #90), has the username ss888. Etherscan resolves the address to silversurfer888.eth, also the largest holder of warning [^S25][^S05].
- A wallet with eight (#11, #31, #39, #43, #44, #48, #57, #71) has no profile or named owner [^S01].
- Snowfro's profile holds #32. Charley (punk9512), whose bio claims "the first complete AB101 collection ever assembled", holds #8 and #38 in two wallets.

The address that received the most auction mints, ten, is unnamed [^S01].

## The $HRIMP auction

The companion warning essay reconstructed the sale from the contracts and logs [^S05]. For m'aider:

- **The draw.** `MainnetArtBlocksAuctions` reduces a Chainlink VRF number modulo 100 and passes it to `ArtBlocksKeyMinter` [^S07]. The minter gives 1 to 15 to ravaged ("LEGENDARY"), 16 to 50 to warning ("UNIQUE") and everything else to m'aider ("REGULAR") [^S06]. Because 0 falls into that last branch, m'aider took exactly half the possible draws (code reading). It won 91 of the 191 auction mints, 48 per cent (computed) [^S01][^S03].
- **The fee field.** The minter records a "DAO treasury fee" of 50 per cent for REGULAR keys, against 25 for UNIQUE and 5 for LEGENDARY [^S06]. WhaleStreet said a collectible's holder earns a fee from swaps [^S26]. If the treasury took that share, a m'aider key was the least rewarding; no source confirms it.
- **Epochs.** One key could be bought per eight-hour epoch, counted from 00:00 UTC on 6 December 2020, when $HRIMP farming began [^S27][^S10]. The price never fell below 50,000 $HRIMP [^S16].

The 91 m'aider keys cost 5,520,107 $HRIMP in all, a median of about 50,603. 40 were bought at the floor, against 26 of the 74 warning keys (computed) [^S16][^S01]. The timing matters more than the tier. Before 23 August 2021, 72 m'aider keys went for a median of exactly the 50,000 floor. From that date, when Art Blocks demand was high, all 19 cost more, with a median of about 78,399 (computed) [^S16]. That window produced the quick OpenSea resales of #70 and #77 [^S17][^S19]. The index's 1 ETH was not what buyers paid, and no contemporary dollar value of $HRIMP was retrieved [^S01].

## The mint

The deployer created the minter on 1 June 2021 and made its test mints directly [^S07]. m'aider #0 was minted at 04:28:28 UTC to a test address, from the deployer, 17 minutes after activation [^S28][^S01]. Auction mints #1 to #91 followed from 1 June to 5 September; #91 came in epoch 822, the last before the auction switched to its "Season 2" minter [^S16][^S27].

![Space Debris m'aider #0: a dense lattice of lavender, tan, pink and blue blocks with scattered shards](https://media-proxy.artblocks.io/1/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270/79000000.png)
*#0, Budapest, the deployer's test mint. Render: Art Blocks media proxy.*

On 23 September 2021 at 02:23:45 UTC the deployer called the minter by hand with the value 87 and minted #92 to the treasury address, closing m'aider two minutes before warning and ravaged [^S29][^S05]. m'aider needed only one closing mint, against six for warning and five for ravaged [^S01][^S03].

The index's start date, 01:32:11 UTC on 23 August 2021, is the second #73 was minted, so 73 tokens predate it, as with the siblings [^S01][^S15]. By month there were 26 mints in June, 16 in July, 44 in August and 7 in September [^S01]. OpenSea reports a creator fee of 7.5 per cent and lifetime volume of about $402,000 [^S30]. At retrieval the lowest listing was 0.459 ETH [^S01].

## Copyright and licensing

The index records "NFT License" with no link or version, and the script carries no licence notice [^S01]. The minter's Lendroid licence header covers the contract, not the artwork [^S06]. The image terms are therefore unconfirmed. p5.js is supplied at view time under its own licence.

## Significance and limitations

m'aider is the plainest and most painterly of the three settings: broad panels, a handful of shards, and no gravity, so its debris only drifts. It was also the default prize of a DeFi auction, drawn for half of all buyers and priced at the floor for most of the summer. The edition size of 93 is largely the result of that draw and one closing mint. Its palettes show pxlq's code reused almost wholesale from four earlier projects. Its one real oddity, #73, changes with the viewer's screen [^S01][^S03][^S06].

No artist statement, interview, video or press coverage was found.

Unresolved research questions:

1. What did WhaleStreet announce about the Art Blocks keys, and what were pxlq's terms? The WhaleStreet blog could not be reached for this draft (DNS failure), and @WhaleStreetoffl on X was not readable.
2. Does the 50 per cent "DAO treasury fee" mean a m'aider key earned half as much as its holder's swap fees? The fee logic sits in contracts not read here.
3. Who controls the unnamed eight-token wallet, the ten-mint key buyer and the treasury address that holds #92?
4. Which size did Art Blocks' own live viewer show for #73 in 2021, and do other marketplaces display the 182-block version?
5. The $HRIMP amounts come from the companion essay's extraction of the `PurchaseMade` logs, matched here to m'aider mints by epoch, and the Etherscan details were read through automated WebFetch extraction. Both should be checked by hand before publication.

## Bibliography

### Primary

[^S01]: Art Blocks public GraphQL index, `projects_metadata` for project 79 (including the full program), `tokens_metadata` for all 93 tokens and `transfers_metadata` for all 274 transfers. Retrieved 21 September 2026 via https://artblocks-mainnet.hasura.app/v1/graphql. Figures marked as computed come from running the program headlessly for every hash at several canvas sizes, or from the mint and transfer records (AB5D working files).
[^S03]: Art Blocks public GraphQL index, `projects_metadata` and `tokens_metadata` for projects 80 and 81 (Space Debris [warning] and [ravaged]), and the programs of pxlq's projects 4, 14, 20 and 30. Retrieved 21 September 2026.
[^S24]: Art Blocks public GraphQL index, `users` and `user_profiles` for the 61 holding addresses (self-declared names). Retrieved 21 September 2026.
[^S02]: Art Blocks, "Space Debris [m'aider] by WhaleStreet x pxlq" collection page. Read 21 September 2026. https://www.artblocks.io/collection/space-debris-maider-by-whalestreet-x-pxlq
[^S12]: Art Blocks, artist page "pxlq", as read for the companion Sentience essay. https://www.artblocks.io/artists/pxlq
[^S06]: `ArtBlocksKeyMinter`, verified source, 0x95004D48437E7D55f81D4fD0a4e24904890838b8. Read 21 September 2026. https://eth.blockscout.com/api/v2/smart-contracts/0x95004D48437E7D55f81D4fD0a4e24904890838b8
[^S07]: `MainnetArtBlocksAuctions`, verified source (`percentageFromRandomness`, `currentPrice`), 0x6295224c5fC3F2f6E4B1f2E530c9ab8099841bc1, and the minter's transaction list. Read 21 September 2026. https://eth.blockscout.com/api/v2/smart-contracts/0x6295224c5fC3F2f6E4B1f2E530c9ab8099841bc1 and https://eth.blockscout.com/api/v2/addresses/0x95004D48437E7D55f81D4fD0a4e24904890838b8/transactions
[^S16]: `MainnetArtBlocksAuctions` `PurchaseMade` event logs, 200 events from 1 June to 11 September 2021, as extracted for the companion warning essay via https://eth.blockscout.com/api?module=logs&action=getLogs&address=0x6295224c5fC3F2f6E4B1f2E530c9ab8099841bc1 . Matched here to all 191 auction mints of projects 79 to 81 by epoch; m'aider totals and medians computed (AB5D working files).
[^S27]: `KeyMinter2`, 0x262E6B790B0513c662df1f688A4c9cA1275b0c7e, verified source (`HEART_BEAT_START_TIME`, `EPOCH_PERIOD`, `SEASON_START_EPOCH`), as read for the companion warning essay. https://etherscan.io/address/0x262E6B790B0513c662df1f688A4c9cA1275b0c7e
[^S11]: Etherscan, address 0x0950B9217D745C2f6fcC26F9EE02676de7aBE6D0 ("WhaleStreet: Deployer"). Read 21 September 2026. https://etherscan.io/address/0x0950b9217d745c2f6fcc26f9ee02676de7abe6d0
[^S28]: Etherscan, transaction 0x5c03107b…71c545, `mintWithRandomness` from WhaleStreet: Deployer, token 79000000, 1 June 2021. https://etherscan.io/tx/0x5c03107bce5d5f7d7059cf98f510d9f7783ea0850dfa4c596be4ee0af271c545
[^S29]: Etherscan, transaction 0x0e1a7cdc…0fce9e, `mintWithRandomness` (randomResult 87) from WhaleStreet: Deployer, token 79000092, 23 September 2021. https://etherscan.io/tx/0x0e1a7cdc665bfae8a656362edcf719a6af39cb432dc768ad48848430eb0fce9e
[^S22]: Etherscan, transaction 0x54727a6a…1f5446, Chainlink VRF Coordinator V1 `fulfillRandomnessRequest`, token 79000069 to zest.eth, 19 August 2021. https://etherscan.io/tx/0x54727a6a4b6b377785c3c5bcd486c9c6286986e2805e99d44c983c808f1f5446
[^S17]: Etherscan, transaction 0x49191fe3…04cf233, OpenSea Wyvern `atomicMatch_`, 3.65 ETH, token 79000077 to 7564.eth, 27 August 2021. https://etherscan.io/tx/0x49191fe38aa1e415dec846f2467e7d9607ca5d1fb86812b310ce9133b04cf233
[^S18]: Etherscan, transaction 0x9f96e77a…ae1201, OpenSea Wyvern `atomicMatch_`, 3 ETH, token 79000070 from riverryan.eth, 22 August 2021. https://etherscan.io/tx/0x9f96e77aca48dad96f07528393cd1faf3804896e707dd6d83bfcc1c326ae1201
[^S19]: Etherscan, transaction 0x5dbe9707…80440e5, OpenSea Wyvern `atomicMatch_`, 2.9 ETH, token 79000070, 24 August 2021. https://etherscan.io/tx/0x5dbe970717fec0bf8d277d3931982783a6055749c74b56e3be13ca8eb80440e5
[^S20]: Etherscan, transaction 0x76c51be5…cfaab6d, OpenSea Wyvern `atomicMatch_`, 1 ETH, token 79000037 to frostwood.eth, 3 October 2021. https://etherscan.io/tx/0x76c51be518c9efcb1547d8bf0516565692bbe994b6e58329293ca5e41cfaab6d
[^S21]: Etherscan, transaction 0x8782c154…5260d0, Seaport 1.6 `fulfillAdvancedOrder`, 0.05 WETH, token 79000037, 27 August 2025. https://etherscan.io/tx/0x8782c154fe3c5d73aa9f596b85d705132a6ee9349ad2fa5f0b633b9bab5260d0
[^S23]: Etherscan, transaction 0x104d7eb0…a4ef0133b, Seaport 1.6 `fulfillAvailableAdvancedOrders`, 0.189 ETH for tokens 79000037 and 79000069, 22 September 2025. https://etherscan.io/tx/0x104d7eb056ea11bafb2b10eff5c32f8a6548973dd42bfc1a044c107a4ef0133b
[^S25]: Etherscan, transaction 0x8b8b8af2…51c4e8, with the ENS label silversurfer888.eth for 0x207b3C1083a62E282d375A11F52730879CbfBbbB. https://etherscan.io/tx/0x8b8b8af2c7af83eb21370204d0b293b615735b7b029168a869260be96151c4e8
[^S08]: Lendroid, "WhaleStreet: Get $HRIMP", as read for the companion warning essay. https://whalestreet.lendroid.com/
[^S10]: WhaleStreet, "$hrimp Farming Begins on WhaleStreet", WhaleStreet blog, December 2020, as read for the companion warning essay (unreachable on 21 September 2026). https://blog.whalestreet.xyz/hrimp-farming-begins-on-whalestreet/
[^S26]: WhaleStreet, "Meet $hrimp, Get $hrimp", WhaleStreet blog, December 2020, as read for the companion warning essay. https://blog.whalestreet.xyz/meet-hrimp-get-hrimp/
[^S14]: Karthik Ram, `wesanderson` R package, palette definitions. Read 21 September 2026. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karthik/wesanderson/master/R/colors.R

### Video and audio

No video, podcast or talk about the series was found in web searches in September 2026. The WhaleStreet X account (https://x.com/WhaleStreetoffl) and pxlq's accounts could not be read.

### Criticism, collecting and market

[^S04]: AB5D, "Space Debris [m'aider]", earlier essay by Kimi, revised by GPT-6 Astra. Read 21 September 2026. https://ab5d.xyz/series/space-debris-maider-by-whalestreet-x-pxlq/
[^S05]: AB5D, "Space Debris [warning] by WhaleStreet x pxlq", revised draft, September 2026. https://ab5d.xyz/series/space-debris-warning-by-whalestreet-x-pxlq/
[^S15]: AB5D, "Space Debris [ravaged] by WhaleStreet x pxlq", revised draft, September 2026. https://ab5d.xyz/series/space-debris-ravaged-by-whalestreet-x-pxlq/
[^S13]: AB5D, "Sentience by pxlq", revised draft, September 2026. https://ab5d.xyz/series/sentience-by-pxlq/
[^S09]: Amy Castor, "Metakovan, the mystery Beeple art buyer, and his NFT/DeFi scheme", 14 March 2021. https://amycastor.com/2021/03/14/metakovan-the-mystery-beeple-art-buyer-and-his-nft-defi-scheme/
[^S30]: OpenSea, "Space Debris [m'aider] by WhaleStreet x pxlq" collection page. Read 21 September 2026. https://opensea.io/collection/space-debris-m-aider-by-whalestreet-x-pxlq

### Further reading

- Verse, Space Debris [m'aider] #52. https://verse.works/artworks/acf786ac-13a0-42ab-8711-836e7e9f6737/79000052
- Art Blocks, WhaleStreet x pxlq artist page. https://www.artblocks.io/artists/whalestreet-x-pxlq
- AB5D, WhaleStreet x pxlq artist dossier. https://ab5d.xyz/artists/whalestreet-x-pxlq/