Early AI Art | NFT Collections

Collections

The Early AI Art Collections represent the most cohesive and ambitious projects of the sector.
Unlike isolated one off works, these collections were launched as dedicated smart contracts.
The artist’s idea is expressed not as a single image, but as an interconnected series that forms a cohesive narrative.
This format allows the artist to push ideas further iterating, experimenting, and revealing multiple perspectives on a single concept.

Lost Robbies

July 2018 · 300 works

Robbie Barrat’s seminal GAN portrait series from 2018. Distributed via Gift Cards for free at Christies Art and Tech Summit most remain lost to this day.

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Alternate Universes

Nov 2018 · 36 works

Four Early AI editions: In Search of Satori, Guardians of the Galaxy, Buddha Dreams in Color, and The Doorway.

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Realiti

May 2019 · 186 works

Created by Atay Ilgun in May 2019, 186 dreamlike portraits inspired by Grimes song Realiti. Featured by Sotheby’s for its role in Early AI Art history.

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Bloemenveiling

May 2019 · 80 works

Anna Ridler’s Bloemenveiling is a conceptual piece where metadata loss becomes part of the artwork’s meditation on memory and impermanence.

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Digital Art Collective

June 2019 · 214 works

Created by the artist “Bitcoin” in June 2019, this 214-work series spans multiple AI tools and styles. It is an eclectic record of experimentation in the medium’s formative years.

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AI Crypto Art

Aug 2019 · 70 works

Minted in August 2019, this 70 work series explores the emerging GAN aesthetic at the intersection of AI and dark cultural events.

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Bloemenveiling Series B

Sep 2019 · 100 works

Continuation of Anna Ridler’s Bloemenveiling project, extending the series meditation on memory, impermanence, and the fragility of metadata.

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GANdinsky 3D

Sep 2019 · 3 works

A micro series of just three works, minted September 2019. GAN generated abstractions inspired by Kandinsky, reimagined in three dimensions.

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DeepBlack

Sep 2019 · 3073 works

Trained on a corpus of classical masterpieces, it reinterprets centuries of art history through neural vision. The collections was minted in tranches from 2019 to 2021.

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EtherIslands

Oct 2019 · 54 works

Minted October 2019 by “Bitcoin,” this 54 work set used Nvidia GauGAN to conjure island paradises. Scarce and highly coveted among Early AI collectors.

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The Yetepey Series

Oct 2019 · 287 works

A prolific series capturing the artist’s evolving dialogue with neural networks across two formative years. The series contains both still and animated artworks.

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Abstract Art Collection

Nov 2019 · 80 works

Minted November 2019 by “Bitcoin,” this 80 work series explores AI abstraction at a time when the tools were still unpredictable, producing compositions that balance chaos and control.

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GANergy

Nov 2019 · 59 works

Minted November 2019, GANergy stands out for its vibrant palette and kinetic abstractions. Opensea bids cannot be accepted on this contract so most trading is done OTC.

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GeneA.I.dols

Nov 2019 · 559 works

Collection of AI Generated faces. Unfortunately most have no image due to lost meta data. 559 works (101 have Art, 458 have lost metadata).

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Zori.ai

Nov 2019 · 25 works

Zori is an early Anime GAN portrait series by Ivan Jacobs, a medical doctor who has studied AI since 2008. A custom model generates original anime faces intended as characters for an RPG world.

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Crypto Portraits

Dec 2019 · 45 works

Crypto Portraits is a collection by digital artist Hans Benzin (known as ProofOfArtwork). Minted throughout 2019 and 2020 the collections features AI Generated portraits.

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AI Human Art

Jan 2020 · 69 works

Minted January 2020 by “Bitcoin,” this 69 work series has a distinctive, slightly abstract look which is a result of the era’s nascent AI techniques

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Shortcuts

Jan 2020 · 48 works

Shortcuts is a collection of 48 AI generated artworks minted in early 2020 by the crypto artist called Shortcut. Each piece is an experiment in GAN driven creativity, highlighting how subtle tweaks in latent variables can produce a wide range of visual outcomes.

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CryptoWeirdos

Feb 2020 · 200 works

CryptoWeirdos is a collection of 200 AI generated characters minted in February 2020. It was created by the prolific 2018 SuperRare Artists known as Albert.

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CryptoAI

Mar 2020 · 45 works

Created in March 2020 by a holder of CryptoWierdos, this collection follows a similar style to CryptoWeirdos. 45 Works created using the same AI tool.

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Generative

Mar 2020 · 104 works

Generative is an umbrella collection of 104 NFT artworks minted in March 2020. The collection utilises the same base image but with different AI imaginations of it.

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Bastard GAN Punks

April 2020 · 74 works

Bastard GAN Punks (V1) is a collection of AI generated punk characters created by Berk Özdemir in April 2020. Consisting of 76 “bastardized” CryptoPunks, this series was produced by training a GAN on Larva Labs’ original 10,000 CryptoPunks dataset.

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AI Abstract

May 2020 · 28 works

AI Abstract is a limited collection of 28 AI generated abstract artworks from mid 2020 that emphasises vibrant colour and texture.

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BlackBox Dolls

Jul 2020 · 14 works

BlackBox Dolls is a boutique NFT series of 14 works minted in July 2020, exploring the intersection of AI and fashion.

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GANdoodle Specimens

Jul 2020 · 15 works

GANdoodle Specimens is a collection of 15 GAN generated doodle artworks by digital illustrator Stina Jones, released in July 2020. GANdoodle Specimens stands out for its character and charm.

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BugGAN

Sep 2020 · 8 works

BugGan is a micro collection of 8 AI generated artworks from September 2020 that focuses on insect like forms and bug inspired creations. The art works blend and morph features of insects into imaginative new creatures, yielding surreal hybrids.

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Legacy 0xmons

Oct 2020 · 169 works

The precursor to the 0xmons universe, Legacy 0xmons was an early experimental release exploring AI generated monsters inspired by Pokémon. Like other AI projects of the time, the artworks are stored off-chain and rely on centralized servers. Creator Owen Shen (also the founder of Sudoswap) envisioned encoding this data on chain, a concept that would be fully realised shortly after in the main 0xmons release.

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0xmons

Dec 2020 · 341 works

0xmons brought AI generated art on chain, enabling its neural network artworks to be permanently embedded on the Ethereum blockchain. Inspired by Pokémon, the collection consists of 341 one of one pixel monsters, each featuring an AI generated name, epithet, and lore, alongside a unique GAN generated animation, encoded on chain at the owner’s discretion. 0xmons contains the first known on chain AI images, preserving these early AI creations for as long as Ethereum exists.

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NFT Tracks

Dec 2020 · 19 works

Minted December 2020 by “Bitcoin,” NFTTracks comprises of 19 AI Generated Audio Files. The songs created span a number of Genres, and it is regarded as the First AI Music Collection.

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The Fountain Art

Dec 2020 · 501 works

Created by artist Bård Ionson as an homage to Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, the series used a StyleGAN2 model trained on images of toilets to produce its final artworks.

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Retroactive Mints

Retroactive mints occupy a unique niche in the AI Art timeline. They are outputs generated in the early years of the medium (2015–2020) but only minted to the blockchain recently. They are often retroactively minted due to their cultural significance, as in the case of AlignDraw (created in 2015, minted in November 2023), which was the first text to image art generator.

alignDRAW

Nov 2023 Mint · Created 2015 · 2,709 works

Created in 2015 by Elman Mansimov, alignDRAW is the first text to image model, a proof of concept that foreshadowed today’s AI image tools. Revived with by Fellowship in 2023, the project has since entered the Worcester Art Museum collection and been exhibited at Art Basel.

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DeepDreams

Apr 2024 Mint · Created 2015 · 7 works

DeepDreams features seven original images from Alexander Mordvintsev, creator of DeepDream. Publicly released in 2015, Google’s DeepDream helped introduce neural image synthesis to a global audience and set a visual language that shaped Early AI art.

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A Book from the Sky

Jul 2024 Mint · Created 2015 · 530 works

Created in 2015 by Gene Kogan, A Book from the Sky is an early experiment in generative AI trained on nearly a million handwritten Chinese characters. The model learns underlying strokes, forms, and textures, then synthesizes new glyphs that never existed in the source data.

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Evolved Hallucinations

Oct 2024 Mint · Created 2017 · 1,000 works

Conceived in 2017 Trevor Paglen’s Evolved Hallucinations asks what computer vision might look like if it were trained on allegory, symbolism, and metaphor rather than simple labels. Paglen builds models with image vocabularies drawn from literature, philosophy, poetry, folklore, and spiritual traditions. The result is a body of images that embraces ambiguity and tests the limits of perception in machine vision.

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2021 Collections

From 2021 onwards, the number of AI generated art NFT collections grew significantly. The tools for creating AI art became more accessible, and the infrastructure for minting NFTs became easier to use.
The table below is based on extensive research into known 2021 AI art NFT collections. Supply figures reflect the current supply at the time of recording. Some contracts may still be mintable, so their supply could increase in the future up to the maximum supply defined by the contract.

145,076 NFTs Documented

161 Collections

2021 AI Art Archive

All dates All contract types All classifications

Collection Name	Date	Supply	Contract Type	Classification	Link
Alejandro & Taylor – Mirage Gallery	Jan 2021	128	Custom Contract	Original	View
De-generative Punks	Jan 2021	28	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Trash Royale	Feb 2021	20	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
MONTREAL AI	Feb 2021	556	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
AI Imagination	Feb 2021	77	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
AI Worlds by Claire Silver (Genesis)	Feb 2021	1	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
CryptoMERZ: Artificial Intelligence	Feb 2021	46	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
TrippyFace Collection	Feb 2021	88	Custom Contract	Original	View
mew_psd	Feb 2021	77	Custom Contract	Original	View
SYNFTs	Mar 2021	342	Custom Contract	Original	View
Entropyseeds	Mar 2021	1,579	Custom Contract	Original	View
Early Works – Alejandro & Taylor	Mar 2021	59	Custom Contract	Original	View
Artificial Intelligence Fine Art	Mar 2021	30	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Artificial Intelligence Art	Mar 2021	1,001	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Artificial Intelligence Art V2	Mar 2021	1,001	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
BASTARD GAN PUNKS V2	Mar 2021	11,303	Custom Contract	NFT Derivative	View
AI generated Japanese Ukiyo-e	Mar 2021	16	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Crypto AI Huskies	Mar 2021	17	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Picasso Punks	Mar 2021	1,001	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Punkassos	Mar 2021	139	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Artificial Paintings AI	Mar 2021	177	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
AIDA – Artificially Intelligent Digital Art	Mar 2021	55	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
SimpsonsGAN	Mar 2021	9,876	Opensea Shared Contract	Other Derivative	View
PixelGAN	Mar 2021	9,943	Opensea Shared Contract	Other Derivative	View
RickMortyGAN	Mar 2021	100	Opensea Shared Contract	Other Derivative	View
Picasso Kongz	Mar 2021	630	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Louvre Punks	Mar 2021	206	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
OiledPunks	Mar 2021	250	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
GanMasks	Mar 2021	261	Custom Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Sophia the AI robot	Mar 2021	370	Custom Contract	Original	View
Salvador Dali – Van Gogh	Apr 2021	30	Custom Contract	Original	View
ArtSquares by Gallery0	Apr 2021	202	Custom Contract	Original	View
The Art Masks	Apr 2021	627	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
KandinskyPunks	Apr 2021	251	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Painted3DPunks	Apr 2021	97	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Punkenheim	Apr 2021	69	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Dali Art Punks	Apr 2021	111	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Picasso Banksy	Apr 2021	99	Opensea Shared Contract	Other Derivative	View
Bored Ape Picasso Club	Apr 2021	35	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Artificial Intelligence Art Works	Apr 2021	100	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Infected Mushroom	May 2021	160	Custom Contract	Original	View
Artyfish – Generative AI Art	May 2021	32	Custom Contract	Original	View
The Joyful Paintings	May 2021	205	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Picasso Kongz Flipped NFT	May 2021	397	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Picasso Kitties – Limited Edition	May 2021	398	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Elohim AI Abstracto	May 2021	243	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Louvre Bored Apes	May 2021	26	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
EternalBloom	Jun 2021	23	Custom Contract	Original	View
Artificial Paintings Physical	Jun 2021	26	Custom Contract	Original	View
Bored Picasso Ape	Jun 2021	151	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Regenz	Jul 2021	7,911	Custom Contract	NFT Derivative	View
XWAVE Forever	Jul 2021	73	Custom Contract	Original	View
Ciphersquares Official	Jul 2021	3,619	Custom Contract	Original	View
Picasso Ape Gang	Jul 2021	480	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
VqGan AI Unique Art	Jul 2021	253	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
skomra-721	Jul 2021	29	Custom Contract	Original	View
NFT Sprites	Aug 2021	61	Custom Contract	Original	View
Crypto Native – Mirage Gallery	Aug 2021	979	Custom Contract	Original	View
Dart Art Abstract	Aug 2021	1,111	Custom Contract	Original	View
Broke Outside Yacht Club	Aug 2021	24	Custom Contract	Original	View
Daniel Von Fange – SciFi Sketchbook	Aug 2021	20	Custom Contract	Original	View
bitGANs	Aug 2021	513	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
ETH AI	Aug 2021	88	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
GAN ROSS	Aug 2021	333	Opensea Shared Contract	Other Derivative	View
Bard's Freaky Faces	Aug 2021	50	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
AUTUMNS	Aug 2021	88	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
ai-seascape	Aug 2021	500	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Fantasy Scapes AI	Aug 2021	555	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Noun GAN Study	Aug 2021	64	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Miron AI	Aug 2021	55	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Next Gen AI Art	Aug 2021	319	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Picasso Planets	Aug 2021	499	Opensea Shared Contract	Other Derivative	View
Liminal Realms	Aug 2021	35	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
AI Art Animations – 4K 60 FPS	Aug 2021	65	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
PicassoMeebits	Aug 2021	235	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
AI Fountain	Aug 2021	346	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
metaGAN – Series 1 – Zombie Punks	Aug 2021	220	Custom Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Maxon Bollocks	Sep 2021	3,883	Custom Contract	Original	View
Solon NFTs	Sep 2021	2,089	Custom Contract	Original	View
GenHall	Sep 2021	2,725	Custom Contract	Original	View
WeirdAIPaintings	Sep 2021	609	Custom Contract	Original	View
This Shard Does Not Exist	Sep 2021	514	Custom Contract	Original	View
Colearn pAInt V1	Sep 2021	120	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
AiDentity	Sep 2021	498	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Creatures of GAN	Sep 2021	50	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Picasso Weird Whales Club	Sep 2021	1,021	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
AI Masterworks	Sep 2021	104	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Abstract Color Field GAN	Sep 2021	250	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
The GANS Collective	Sep 2021	244	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Picasso Pimps	Sep 2021	500	Opensea Shared Contract	Other Derivative	View
PROJECT ARGO	Sep 2021	500	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Pixel Planets by PixelGan	Sep 2021	992	Custom Contract	Original	View
777 Deadly Sins	Sep 2021	130	Custom Contract	Original	View
renaiss.art	Sep 2021	1,294	Custom Contract	Original	View
Generative Alchemy Lab	Sep 2021	3,490	Custom Contract	NFT Derivative	View
GAN APES	Sep 2021	1,774	Custom Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Fireman_NFT & PeterArt18	Sep 2021	16	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Forest Flowers	Sep 2021	104	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Colours and Shades	Sep 2021	127	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Neural Planets	Sep 2021	24	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
8/24 Collection!	Sep 2021	8	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Infinites AI	Sep 2021	511	Custom Contract	Original	View
FusionApes	Sep 2021	4,196	Custom Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Spells for Looters	Sep 2021	30	Custom Contract	Original	View
Impermanent Digital	Sep 2021	4,441	Custom Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Big Gandarellies, a Gan Collection by Larko Larkorelli	Sep 2021	247	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Singularity by AIIV	Oct 2021	1,000	Custom Contract	Original	View
Beyond Humanity (Official)	Oct 2021	4,434	Custom Contract	Original	View
Sun Blocks – Genesis	Oct 2021	532	Custom Contract	Original	View
Lenia NFT – Artificial Life	Oct 2021	202	Custom Contract	Original	View
Floating Cities by PixelGan	Oct 2021	400	Custom Contract	Original	View
Pixel Elements by PixelGan	Oct 2021	300	Custom Contract	Original	View
Eponym	Oct 2021	9,993	Custom Contract	Original	View
The GANS Machine – Live with GANSY	Oct 2021	132	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
CrispyPunks	Oct 2021	500	Opensea Shared Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Agent1	Oct 2021	9,990	Custom Contract	Original	View
Mythologicals	Oct 2021	1,000	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
HEARTS R US	Oct 2021	35	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
GAN Nature	Oct 2021	447	Custom Contract	Original	View
Ghouls n GANs	Oct 2021	666	Custom Contract	Original	View
Speedrun AI	Oct 2021	100	Custom Contract	Original	View
Ghost in the Machine	Oct 2021	291	Custom Contract	Original	View
GAN Faces	Oct 2021	447	Custom Contract	Original	View
Machine Hallucinations	Oct 2021	1,000	Custom Contract	Original	View
Homes of Argleton Lane	Oct 2021	99	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Imaginarium AI	Oct 2021	57	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
GAN Space	Oct 2021	269	Custom Contract	Original	View
Revenants by Alethea AI	Oct 2021	100	Custom Contract	Original	View
Bastard GAN Apes	Oct 2021	1,124	Custom Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Afterlife (Impermanent Digital)	Oct 2021	1,607	Custom Contract	Original	View
Sweet Dreams Genesis	Oct 2021	47	Custom Contract	Original	View
AiVATAR	Oct 2021	5,975	Custom Contract	Original	View
Ivory Dreams	Nov 2021	11	Custom Contract	Original	View
Generative Alchemy Lab	Nov 2021	800	Custom Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Synthetic Dreams by Refik Anadol	Nov 2021	1,000	Custom Contract	Original	View
Yamashita Gan	Nov 2021	69	Custom Contract	Original	View
Alien Genesys	Nov 2021	333	Custom Contract	Original	View
Magical Artworks	Nov 2021	269	Custom Contract	Original	View
GoApeShit	Nov 2021	100	Custom Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Visions Collection	Nov 2021	378	Custom Contract	Original	View
Potion Punks	Nov 2021	1,025	Custom Contract	NFT Derivative	View
256 AI Vision	Nov 2021	32	Custom Contract	Original	View
EMETH OFFICIAL PROJECT	Nov 2021	641	Custom Contract	NFT Derivative	View
Surprised by AI	Nov 2021	58	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Pixlr Genesis	Nov 2021	1,137	Custom Contract	Original	View
EpoStory by Eponym	Nov 2021	1,398	Custom Contract	Original	View
Sun Blocks Training 1	Nov 2021	186	Custom Contract	Original	View
Midjourney (AI)	Dec 2021	91	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
A.I. Impressionism	Dec 2021	98	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
AI Angels NFT	Dec 2021	200	Custom Contract	Original	View
Richard Korean landscape painting	Dec 2021	20	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
Ai.Morpheus	Dec 2021	100	Opensea Shared Contract	Original	View
NewDayTomorrow	Dec 2021	460	Custom Contract	Original	View
Complexio	Dec 2021	251	Custom Contract	Original	View
Synthopia	Dec 2021	1,319	Custom Contract	Original	View
Light and Dark	Dec 2021	100	Custom Contract	Original	View
Davinci from AI Maker Labs	Dec 2021	1,326	Custom Contract	Original	View
Human Nature by Harry Files	Dec 2021	280	Custom Contract	Original	View
DotCom Seance	Dec 2021	492	Custom Contract	Original	View
The GANS Machine 2 – Live with GANSY	Dec 2021	349	Custom Contract	Original	View
Super Gapes	Dec 2021	131	Custom Contract	NFT Derivative	View

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