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The Next Era of Art Blocks

Metaversal Weekly Recap: Art Blocks 500, GONDI's $1M USDC loan.
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William M. Peaster William M. Peaster
Aug 8, 2025 • 2 min read
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Ethereum's generative art capital, Art Blocks, just formalized its first era.

That's because this week, the platform's team announced Art Blocks 500, a finite catalog of 500 projects across their Curated, Playground, Factory, and other main release series.

Currently, the project is at 495 collections, with five to go before November 2025: 2 final Curated drops and 3 community-focused Explorations. After this, the first 500 collections will get the "glass case” treatment, and the AB team will shift their focus from new launches to preservation and elevation efforts.

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William M. Peaster

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William M. Peaster, Senior Writer, has been with Bankless since January 2021. Immersed in Ethereum since 2017, he writes the Metaversal newsletter on the onchain frontier, covering everything from AI projects to crypto games, as the team’s lead NFT analyst. With a background in creative writing, he writes fiction and publishes art on Ethereum in his free time.

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