Archivist

The four eras of NFT history, their defining events, rarity relative to today’s total estimated supply, and some of their representative assets, projects and artists.

Sometimes it hits me that there are people here I’ve rarely or never met, who I talk to regularly behind pseudonyms, bound by passion alone, who I’d trust without hesitation to hold anything of value for me. And I believe they’d say the same. It’s a nice thing to sit with.

Collection highlight:

‘Sculpture-GAN’ by @videodrome (Sep. 6, 2017 - Physical - 1/1)

This project began as an attempt at generative architecture, but the lack of an appropriate dataset kept Robbie Barrat from pursuing that direction. Instead, he trained an unconditional GAN, inspired by 3D DCGAN, on 32x32x32 voxelizations of Thingi10k, a corpus of 10,000 3D-printable objects and sculptures, allowing it to generate abstract AI-made 3D shapes that could themselves be printed.

This work is the only GAN sculpture Robbie ever produced, printed on his own $300 3D printer in September 2017.

Gift of the artist to the Archivist collection, February 9, 2026.

🔗 github.com/robbiebarrat/s…

Owning assets is one thing. Arranging them is another. I put mine together over spare evenings and didn't expect much. A gallery makes you turn a list into a story, and it changes how you read your own collection. Especially if you collect across multiple mediums or protocols.

I finally acquired the piece I’ve always considered Counterparty’s masterpiece:

In Feb. 2015, Weex spray-painted a private key missing two characters, minted it as ‘KETF’ backed by a hash of the jpg, and dared Reddit to “STEAL THIS ART. CRACK ITS KEY”. Stolen within hours.