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The Collectors of The Line

14 September 2026·5 min read

Every artist on The Line has a board now. Six hundred and eighty-six of them, recomputed nightly, each ranking the collectors of one artist by TAO... time-weighted patronage, 69 a day per 1/1 held, 4.2 per edition copy. Sold subtracts. Given keeps.

Put all 686 boards side by side and a different question becomes answerable. Not who collects an artist. Who collects The Line.

We ran it. 129,937 wallets hold TAO somewhere on the register. Here is who holds it widest, and deepest.

Two ways to be everywhere

The first surprise is that breadth and depth are different lists with different leaders.

ethdotco.eth is the widest collector on The Line. TAO on 136 artists' boards... one of every five artists here. 121 1/1s, 87 edition copies, collecting since late 2022.

techbubble.eth is the deepest. On 87 boards, but a top-10 collector on 41 of them, and top-3 on 24. Nearly half the artists techbubble collects would list that wallet among their most committed patrons.

Wide and deep are genuinely different practices. One is a survey of the whole gallery. The other is conviction, repeated.

The widest

Distinct artists where the wallet holds TAO, top ten:

#CollectorArtistsTop-10sTop-3s1/1sEditionsSince
1ethdotco.eth136371612187Nov 2022
20x6d7c…7a4211211120Jun 2024
3nightmancom.eth10492154597Aug 2021
4tacita.eth102115122560Oct 2022
5norcalguy.eth943017144290Mar 2021
60x6f66…9f8d9423136300Mar 2025
70xf495…ebdb921083153Jul 2026
8mintface.eth8912571202Nov 2021
9techbubble.eth874124126104Aug 2021
10killianmoore.eth87204396May 2021

Row 7 is worth a look on its own: 92 artists collected since July of this year. Someone is walking The Line fast.

The deepest

Top-10 placements across all boards, top ten:

#CollectorTop-10sTop-3sArtists1/1sEditionsSince
1techbubble.eth412487126104Aug 2021
2ethdotco.eth371613612187Nov 2022
3norcalguy.eth301794144290Mar 2021
40x6f66…9f8d2313946300Mar 2025
50xf329…aa69201546154106Jul 2022
6alphatrilogy.eth1997434266Nov 2021
7gigachadpepe.eth19657104181Oct 2021
86529museum.eth1887196407Oct 2021
9norcalguy2.eth18664356295Dec 2021
10vvd.eth17770239489Jul 2021

norcalguy across two wallets: 48 top-10 placements. If any single collector holds the most artists' front rows on The Line, it is probably him.

The heaviest, measured properly

Summing raw TAO across boards mostly measures open-edition supply... a handful of wallets hold thousands of copies of a single edition and would top any raw table without collecting widely at all. So for weight we count distinct works held, not copies.

#CollectorWorksArtistsTop-10s1/1sEditionsSince
1circleoffrens.eth1,504111,503280Mar 2023
2sundayfunday1,3312361,1611,136May 2023
30x6f66…9f8d63094236300Mar 2025
4barn.harv.eth556841402266Dec 2021
50x625e…a52f5342714931,558Jul 2026
6vvd.eth5157017239489Jul 2021
7cyborgnomadvault.eth51216450394Apr 2022
8norcalguy2.eth5016418356295Dec 2021
9adventurous-irl.eth500461097587Apr 2022
10eritaqua.eth41514334792Nov 2022

The wallet that tops the raw-TAO table holds ten distinct works and 10,001,788 copies of an edition. It does not appear here at all.

Artists collect too

716 artist wallets hold TAO on other artists' boards. The Line's artists are some of its best collectors:

#ArtistCollectsTop-10s1/1sEditions
1norcalguy.eth94 artists30144290
2mintface.eth891271202
3killianmoore.eth8724396
4deltasauce.eth6745781
5abrahanny.eth6711845
6sumofprimes.eth66975239
7wildalps.art62344122
8brynnalise.eth5501268
9rachelstwood.eth541033108
100x0a1c…ba0751569335

Jason O'Neill (jasonophoto.eth) deserves a line of his own: 13 top-10 placements as a collector while minting under his own board. Artist-patrons are the connective tissue of this place.

How this was counted

From the 686 public TAO boards as of 5–6 September 2026. Wallets holding TAO > 0; marketplace, escrow and burn addresses excluded; each artist's own wallet excluded from their own board; alias boards of the same artist collapsed. Sixteen percent of rows are banked TAO... days kept from works since given away, per TAO's rules... which is why some totals sit beside empty holdings. Multiple wallets belonging to one collector are shown separately, never merged. Every number here is readable on the boards themselves... this is the register, arranged.

Your own place in it: every artist page carries the full board. Find yourself, or start.

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