Code generates art. Art generates code.

‘Quine’ by Larva Labs generates 3,607.31 ETH or ~$14.8M USD as the final Art Blocks curated release.

477 of the collection’s 497 artworks were available via a 24 hour auction, with the lowest winning bid ending at 7.5625 ETH.

After the auction’s conclusion, the secondary market takes over, seeing 715.53 ETH in volume, with overall lowest list at 5.299 ETH.

Highlight Sales:

Three of the collection’s five “X Chromes” sell, with each having the collection’s rarest set of colors. Sales are for 10.9, 8.7, and 7.1 ETH.

Two of the collection’s seven “Pseudo-Quines” sell, with each having infinite unique generations. One sells for 8.69 WETH to showsupnaked.eth and the other sells for 8.9 ETH before being resold for 10 WETH.

Six of the collection’s fifteen “Perfect-Quines” sell, with each reproducing itself exactly. Sales are for 9.4, 7.74, 7.5, 7.5 6.9, and 6.15 ETH.

Larva Labs announces that 25% of ‘Quine’ proceeds are destined for NODE Foundation and “their mission of supporting the continued stewardship of CryptoPunks and the broader digital art space”.

After thanking contributing parties including Art Blocks, Snowfro, Shillr, Jonnie Hallman, and Stone, they close with a thank you to collectors “for such a wonderful reception to something that we thought might be a bit too nerdy, but turned out to be just nerdy enough!”