“Yesterday a dream came true” said Arsonic.

One half of the artist duo Zeblocks, creators of the first ‘NextGen 6529’ generative collection ‘Pebbles’, fulfills a long anticipated mission: complete a full Pebbles Palette set with no shortcuts.

The artist shares that he made approximately $32,000 from the initial collection sale and spent $300,000 to complete this endeavor. “Now it’s simple: keep building until our bags can retire us.”

The final piece to Arsonic’s set may be the most interesting, a summer.jpg Palette (7 exist). After a long developing conversation with collector Lotsofreasons, the deal was done. A package including ‘BULL RUN’ by Beeple and ETH, making the implied value (24.5 ETH) a record for the collection. In speaking to him, Lotsofreasons shared that he decided to part with it for two main reasons: (1) it is good for the 6529 ecosystem and (2) Arsonic is a positive force in the community at large.

Here’s a fun twist. Arsonic is the second full set to be completed in a week. Collector punksladsmemes.eth completed the first ever in a private deal with Ruskin for $100,000 USD just prior. The final piece was a Lunar Chuckles Palette (5 exist).

Two full Pebbles sets. A milestone week for the collection. While three more are technically possible, in Arsonic’s words: “punk6529 is probably the only other person who could make a 3rd”.

Auction Countdown In Real Time:
Twenty Lot secondary auction event ‘V001’ counts down at Verse and concludes at 2:00pm ET. Current high bids are ‘Gazers #344’ by Matt Kane at $31,280 USD, ‘Chromie Squiggle #4454’ by Snowfro at $17,215 USD, and ‘Farmland’ by Grant Yun at $13,971 USD.

Institutional Poetry:
Barcelona Museum MACBA acquires ‘Ropa sucia’ by Ana María Caballero. Caballero says “this wasn't a donation: poetry (en español) trans/acted. an indescribable feeling to see a project I spent two yrs developing join such a significant collection” and thanks Transient Labs and photographer Luis Gaspar.

Diaries of the Space:
Need listening material this week? The Culture Vault architect Raoul Pal joined Steven Bartlett’s popular ‘The Diary of a CEO’, artist Jack Butcher and Toledo Museum of Art Director Adam Levine joined ‘The DAM Show’, and it’s worth revisiting a ‘Tetragrammaton’ bonus episode in which the mic reversed and Ledger Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers interviewed host Rick Rubin.

[L] ‘Ringers #361’ by Dmitri Cherniak: 13.5 WETH
1 of 54 Yellow Body Ringers in the 2021 Art Blocks Collection, it was originally minted for 0.1 ETH ($131 USD at the time).

[M] ‘The Doomed’ by XCOPY: 40.5 ETH
The 100 edition artwork, minted in 2018 on KnownOrigin, pushes forward. It is acquired by sophicnick.eth via Gondi, adding it to a collection including ‘Grifter #463’ and a ‘The Doomed DAO’ token.

[R] ‘BrinkWorks #009’ by Bryan Brinkman: 0.35 ETH
Part of the nearly sold out ‘Brink.Works’ 1/1/100 collection, the artwork represents a year in the artist’s world: soulbound token, quarterly edition airdrops, 1/1/X finale airdrop, and access to a token gated chat.