Thousands of NFT collections exist in the world, but none are quite as iconic as the pixelated CryptoPunks launched in 2017. These low-key avatars have become status symbols and show no signs of losing their shine. Quotidian Marketing even picked up their own punk - CryptoPunk 4762 - to secure a place on what might just be the most important NFT collection on the Ethereum blockchain.
Check out this list of CryptoPunk data points to get a sense of the power this NFT collection represents.
- CryptoPunks are a piece of Internet history and predate the ERC-721 token standard for NFTs.
https://nftnow.com/guides/cryptopunks-guide/ - CryptoPunks were conceived by Canadian software developers and Larva Labs founders Matt Hall and John Watkinson.
https://nftnow.com/guides/cryptopunks-guide/ and https://twitter.com/matthall2000 and https://twitter.com/pents90 and https://twitter.com/larvalabs - Created as pixelated images of misfits and non-conformists, CryptoPunks were inspired by the London Punk movement of the 1970s.
https://nftnow.com/guides/cryptopunks-guide/ - CryptoPunks were conceived to test dynamics of scarcity and demand.
https://nftnow.com/guides/cryptopunks-guide/ - CryptoPunks are a collection of 10,000 uniquely generated characters - no two are exactly alike.
https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks - The official and genuine image of all of the CryptoPunks that have been created can be found at the CryptoPunks Github.
https://github.com/larvalabs/cryptopunks - Each CryptoPunk NFT is an intangible digital asset that exists only by virtue of the ownership record maintained on the Ethereum blockchain.
https://licenseterms.cryptopunks.app - There are 87 total attributes available in the CryptoPunks collection, which are represented 316.54 times with a standard deviation of 288.15.
https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/article/31949-non-fungible-tokens-as-an-alternative-investment-evidence-from-cryptopunks?ref=hackernoon.com - A CryptoPunk may possess from zero to seven attributes.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/attributes - The most common CryptoPunk attribute is the “Earring”, which is seen in 2,459 CryptoPunks.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/attributes - The rarest CryptoPunk attribute is the “Beanie”, possessed by only 44 CryptoPunks.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/attributes - There are only nine “Alien” CryptoPunks.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/attributes - There is only one Alien with a pipe!
1 Alien Punk smoking a pipe. - There are only 24 “Ape” CryptoPunks.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/attributes - There are only 88 “Zombie” CryptoPunks.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/attributes - Female CryptoPunks are more rare than male CryptoPunks, at 3,840 females Punks vs. 6,039 male Punks.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/attributes - The first 1,000 CryptoPunks were reserved for the project’s developers and are known as the “Dev Punks.”
https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/article/31949-non-fungible-tokens-as-an-alternative-investment-evidence-from-cryptopunks?ref=hackernoon.com ... update 9-20-2022: LarvaLabs actually kept the first 1008 punks. The first one claimed by the public was the 1009th claim.
https://twitter.com/seanbonner/status/1569444612737232898 and https://seanbonner.medium.com/top-10-misconceptions-about-v1-cryptopunks-e6dbca739f5d - Some CryptoPunks have no distinctive features, and they are often referred to as the “Genesis Punks.” There are only eight zero attribute CryptoPunks.
https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/article/31949-non-fungible-tokens-as-an-alternative-investment-evidence-from-cryptopunks?ref=hackernoon.com and https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/search?query=%220+Attributes%22 - Only one CryptoPunk, #8348, has seven attributes, making it the rarest CryptoPunk. It has a cigarette, earring, mole, buck teeth, classic shades, a top hat, and a big beard. CryptoPunk #8348 is owned by @seedphrase.
https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/article/31949-non-fungible-tokens-as-an-alternative-investment-evidence-from-cryptopunks?ref=hackernoon.com and https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/8348 and https://twitter.com/seedphrase - A total of 4,501 CryptoPunks have three attributes, making this attribute count the most common and accounting for almost half of all existing CryptoPunks.
https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/article/31949-non-fungible-tokens-as-an-alternative-investment-evidence-from-cryptopunks?ref=hackernoon.com - All CryptoPunk sales can be seen here: https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/sales.
- All CryptoPunks for sale can be seen here: https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/forsale.
- All active CryptoPunk bids can be seen here: https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/bids.
- The CryptoPunk marketplace charges no transaction fees! The contract source and technical details can be viewed on Github here: https://github.com/larvalabs/cryptopunks.
- Initially, CryptoPunks were given away for free to whomever wanted them.
https://nftnow.com/guides/cryptopunks-guide/ - CryptoPunks were minted by a smart contract deployed to the Ethereum blockchain at address 0xb47e3cd837ddf8e4c57f05d70ab865de6e193bbb (the “CryptoPunks Smart Contract”).
https://licenseterms.cryptopunks.app ... updated 9-20-2022: This was the mint contract 0x6Ba6f2207e343923BA692e5Cae646Fb0F566DB8D, the current (referenced) was an airdrop…
https://twitter.com/tpeox/status/1569458228593070082 - When originally released, the actual images of the Punks were too large to store on the Ethereum blockchain, so a hash of the composite image of all the punks was taken and embeded into the contract.
- On June 9th, 2017, CryptoPunks was released by Larva Labs.
https://v1punks.io/ and https://nftnow.com/guides/cryptopunks-guide/ - June 9th, 2017, was the first time CryptoPunks were tweeted about by the official channel.
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts/status/873173289455288320 - From June 9th to June 17th, 2017, Hemba was the largest claimant of CryptoPunks at over 1000 Punks!
https://seanbonner.medium.com/top-10-misconceptions-about-v1-cryptopunks-e6dbca739f5d and https://twitter.com/soldthebottom - On June 12th, 2017, the first CryptoPunks collectibles were produced.
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts/status/874361206110380033 - On June 16th, 2017, Mashable wrote a story about CryptoPunks… within hours every Punk available was minted.
https://mashable.com/article/cryptopunks-ethereum-art-collectibles - On June 17th, 2017, the marketplace function on the CryptoPunks contract was enabled. It was at this point that a bug was discovered - the V1 contract had an error in the code. Larva Labs decided to create a duplicate contract and airdrop V2 Punks to their original V1 claimants.
https://blog.seanbonner.com/2022/02/13/explaining-cryptopunks-versions/ and https://twitter.com/seanbonner - On June 23rd, 2017, the CryptoPunk V2 contract was published. Note that Larva Labs didn’t send the new Punks to the current Punk holders – they sent Punks to the claimers. So if you claimed a V1 Punk and gave it to a friend, you got the V2 Punk, they didn’t. Because the V1 Punks were not really sellable, everyone kind of forgot about them, and all focus was put on the V2 ones that people could easily trade.
https://blog.seanbonner.com/2022/02/13/explaining-cryptopunks-versions/ and https://twitter.com/seanbonner - On June 23rd, 2017, the ONE Alien Punk with a Pipe was claimed by @straybits1, which he later sold for 12eth on January 10th, 2018. Good trade?
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/7804 and https://twitter.com/straybits1 ... updated 9-26-2022 - @straybits1 actually claimed the Alien Punk with a Pipe on June 9th, 2017 - https://twitter.com/straybits1/status/1574114264121774080?t=Nzc-4RcgX3mO-Sh0tBrr7Q&s=19 and https://etherscan.io/tx/0xe448519facc04b033755ec33091f2ab422f6568c1d5376fb5fd7e9a4bd07ca7a and also from @straybits1, "This was quite literally the first NFT pfp I'd ever used, and never not used one since." - https://twitter.com/straybits1/status/1574151684875767808 - On September 12th, 2017, LarvaLabs moved the CryptoPunk collection to their own Ethereum node.
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts/status/907613810361602048 - On September 17th, 2017, CryptoPunks were featured in their first music video.
https://twitter.com/songadaymann/status/909437173824442368 - In 2017, LarvaLabs sold CryptoPunk #0 for 0.98ETH!
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts/status/1215311104974389256 - In January 2018, attorney Eric Adler—who registered the CryptoPunks’ copyright license—posted an article about attempting to reconcile the licensing confusion around the project. He recalled that Larva Labs co-founder John Watkinson reportedly “wanted each crypto-owner of a Punk to also be the copyright owner.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20180828075612/http://pnwstartuplawyer.com/crypto-punks-copyright/ and https://decrypt.co/88041/cryptopunks-ip-complaints-punk4156-10m-ethereum-nft-sale - On January 13th, 2018, CryptoPunks were featured in the NY Times.
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts/status/952225789830991872 - On January 29th, 2018, CryptoPunk co-founder Matt Hall was informed at the R.A.R.E Digital Art Festival (during the Q&A session) that his claim that CryptoPunks were the first NFT on Ethereum was inaccurate as CurioCards launched several months earlier. Matt responds saying “Argh! We didn’t know so we just said it and figured if we were wrong someone would tell us, guess I have to change the slides now — so we were the second NFT.” We know that there were at least eight NFT projects launched on Ethereum prior to CryptoPunks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FGtjwsTzYQ&t=1240s and https://twitter.com/matthall2000 and https://seanbonner.medium.com/top-10-misconceptions-about-v1-cryptopunks-e6dbca739f5d - On March 4th, 2018, Larva Labs filed a visual copyright registration for “CryptoPunks” citing a publication date of June 9th, 2017. So in 2018, LarvaLabs is on legal record stating that CryptoPunks launched on June 9th, not June 23rd, and that registration remains active today.
https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=1&ti=1,1&Search%5FArg=cryptopunks&Search%5FCode=TALL&CNT=25&PID=ZsHB0HsYyFk_3xchlYVo4DBBDe2K4&SEQ=20220919150950&SID=1 and https://seanbonner.medium.com/top-10-misconceptions-about-v1-cryptopunks-e6dbca739f5d - On June 9th, 2018, CryptoPunks celebrated its 1st anniversary.
- On October 4th, 2018, CryptoPunks were featured in their first art exhibit.
https://www.katevassgalerie.com/news/perfect-amp-priceless-value-systems-on-the-blockchain and https://katevass.medium.com/ultimate-cryptopunks-buy-one-if-you-dare-2fde53484c0e and https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d135e45c526970001811e69/t/6032c1f459eef05b52057003/1613939189043/1st+issue+of+12+punks.pdf ... note credit to Hemba - https://twitter.com/soldthebottom - In 2019, CryptoPunk co-founder Watkinson reportedly wrote in the CryptoPunks Discord channel that the company had adopted the NFT License created by Dapper Labs.
https://decrypt.co/88041/cryptopunks-ip-complaints-punk4156-10m-ethereum-nft-sale and https://www.theouterrealm.io/blog/cryptopunks-copyrights - Towards the end of February 2019, CryptoPunks were exhibited at the Finissage.
https://katevass.medium.com/ultimate-cryptopunks-buy-one-if-you-dare-2fde53484c0e and https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d135e45c526970001811e69/t/6032c235dba7f915ea75fece/1613939254205/CRyptoPunks2nd+issue.pdf ... note credit to Hemba - https://twitter.com/soldthebottom - On June 9th, 2019, CryptoPunks celebrated its 2nd anniversary.
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts/status/1142190186010435584 and https://www.larvalabs.com/blog/2019-6-21-1-1/cryptopunks-two-year-anniversary - On September 24th, 2019, CryptoPunk #8348 - which has seven traits and is the rarest CryptoPunk - sold for 26.4ETH, or $4400!
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksbot/status/1176600414868971520 - On May 19th, 2020, CryptoPunk #8348 - which has seven traits and is the rarest CryptoPunk - sold for 85ETH, or around $18k.
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksbot/status/1262986409364852736 - May 23rd, 2020, was the first 100ETH CryptoPunk sale.
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksbot/status/1264423942732886016 - On June 9th, 2020, CryptoPunks celebrated its 3rd anniversary.
- In 2021, the first ERC-721 wrapper for V1 CryptoPunks was developed by @0xfoobar so that V1 Punks could be traded safely on modern marketplaces.
https://v1punks.io/ and https://notlarvalabs.com/v1punks and https://blog.seanbonner.com/2022/02/13/explaining-cryptopunks-versions/ and https://twitter.com/seanbonner and https://seanbonner.medium.com/top-10-misconceptions-about-v1-cryptopunks-e6dbca739f5d and https://etherscan.io/address/0xf4a4644e818c2843ba0aabea93af6c80b5984114 and https://twitter.com/0xfoobar - All V1 Punks for sale can be seen here - https://notlarvalabs.com/v1punks/forsale
- All V1 Punks can be seen here - https://notlarvalabs.com/v1punks/all
- On January 6th, 2021, gmoney tweeted about his record(in USD) 140ETH CryptoPunk purchase.
https://twitter.com/gmoneyNFT/status/1347023737166696448 - Historical Punk Sales - On January 23rd, 2021, CryptoPunk #2890 was sold for 605ETH, or $761.89k.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/2890 - Historical Punk Sales - On February 18th, 2021, CryptoPunk #4156 was sold for 650ETH, or $1.25mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/4156 - Historical Punk Sales - On February 19th, 2021, CryptoPunk #6965 was sold for 800ETH, or $1.54mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/6965 - Historical Punk Sales - On February 22nd, 2021, CryptoPunk #6487 was sold for 550ETH, or $1.05mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/6487 - Historical Punk Sales - On February 22nd, 2021, CryptoPunk #2140 was sold for 400ETH, or $731.6k.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/2140 - On February 25th, 2021, Logan Paul bought CryptoPunk #2294 for 110ETH, or $163k. - https://nftnow.com/collectibles/from-celebrities-to-ceos-meet-15-of-the-most-famous-cryptopunk-holders/ and https://twitter.com/LoganPaul
- In early March 2021, Mark Cuban bought CryptoPunk #869 “for an undisclosed sum.”
https://nftnow.com/collectibles/from-celebrities-to-ceos-meet-15-of-the-most-famous-cryptopunk-holders/ and https://twitter.com/mcuban - Historical Punk Sales - On March 2nd, 2021, CryptoPunk #2140 was sold for 750ETH, or $1.18mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/2140 - On March 3rd, 2021, Beeple tweeted about CryptoPunks.
https://twitter.com/beeple/status/1367337699355611136 - Historical Punk Sales - On March 11th, 2021, CryptoPunk #3100 was sold for 4.2kETH, or $7.58mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/3100 and https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts/status/1370123086926913550 - Historical Punk Sales - On March 11th, 2021, CryptoPunk #7804 was sold for 4.2kETH, or $7.57mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/7804 and https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts/status/1369836227617230852 - Historical Punk Sales - On March 12th, 2021, CryptoPunk #3011 was sold for 400ETH, or $726.46k.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/3011 - Historical Punk Sales - On March 13th, 2021, CryptoPunk #3393 was sold for 500ETH, or $954.65k.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/3393 - In March 2021, electronic music artist 3LAU bought CryptoPunk #6708 for 29.99ETH, or $50k.
https://nftnow.com/collectibles/from-celebrities-to-ceos-meet-15-of-the-most-famous-cryptopunk-holders/ and https://twitter.com/3LAU - On March 23rd, 2021, @0xfoobar tweeted about the V1 CryptoPunk exploit: “TL;DR - when a buyer purchased a punk, the ETH deposited in the contract could be withdrawn only by the *buyer*, not by the seller. So buy(), withdraw(), repeat.”
https://twitter.com/0xfoobar/status/1374604091263905794 - In early April 2021, Shopify founder Tobi Lutke purchased CryptoPunk #1719 for 20ETH, or $48k.
https://nftnow.com/collectibles/from-celebrities-to-ceos-meet-15-of-the-most-famous-cryptopunk-holders/ and https://twitter.com/tobi - Historical Punk Sales - On April 3rd, 2021, CryptoPunk #8865 was sold for 450ETH, or $1.58mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/8865 - On April 8th, 2021, the largest single wallet of Punks held 488 CryptoPunks.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/08/the-cult-of-cryptopunks/ - Historical Punk Sales - On April 8th, 2021, CryptoPunk #6704 was sold for 380ETH, or $785.47k.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/6704 - On April 8th, 2021, the CryptoPunk collection was spread among only 1,889 wallets.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/08/the-cult-of-cryptopunks/. - Historical Punk Sales - On April 18th, 2021, CryptoPunk #2306 was sold for 461ETH, or $975.13k.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/2306 - Historical Punk Sales - On April 19th, 2021, CryptoPunk #2484 was sold for 480ETH, or $1.08mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/2484 - In April 2021, Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) bought CryptoPunk #6095 for 55ETH, or $127k.
https://nftnow.com/collectibles/from-celebrities-to-ceos-meet-15-of-the-most-famous-cryptopunk-holders/ - Historical Punk Sales - On April 27th, 2021, CryptoPunk #3011 was sold for 667ETH, or $1.76mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/3011 - Historical Punk Sales - On May 2nd, 2021, CryptoPunk #2066 was sold for 500ETH, or $1.46mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/2066 - On May 10th, 2021, Christies tweeted about their CryptoPunk auction.
https://twitter.com/ChristiesInc/status/1391871914776354820 and https://www.saveartspace.org/pixelated - Historical Punk Sales - On May18th, 2021, CryptoPunk #1190 was sold for 400ETH, or $1.38mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/1190 - On June 9th, 2021, CryptoPunks celebrated its 4th anniversary
- In late June, 2021, Serena Williams was given CryptoPunk #2950 by her husband and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.
https://nftnow.com/collectibles/from-celebrities-to-ceos-meet-15-of-the-most-famous-cryptopunk-holders/ and https://twitter.com/serenawilliams and https://twitter.com/alexisohanian - Historical Punk Sales - On July 1st, 2021, CryptoPunk #1119 was sold for 400.04ETH, or $846.26k.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/1119 - Historical Punk Sales - On July 4th, 2021, CryptoPunk #1886 was sold for 450ETH, or $1.06mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/1886 - Historical Punk Sales - On July 5th, 2021, CryptoPunk #6297 was sold for 520.69ETH, or $1.17mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/6297 - Historical Punk Sales - On July 29th, 2021, CryptoPunk #6649 was sold for 450ETH, or $1.04mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/6649 - Historical Punk Sales - On July 29th, 2021, CryptoPunk #2329 was sold for 450ETH, or $1.04mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/2329 - Historical Punk Sales - On July 30th, 2021, CryptoPunk #5217 was sold for 2.25kETH, or $5.45mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/5217 - Historical Punk Sales - On July 30th, 2021, CryptoPunk #2140 was sold for 1.6kETH, or $3.76mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/2140 . - Gary Vaynerchuk bought CryptoPunk #2140 from Pranksy for 1600ETH, or over $3mil.
https://nftnow.com/collectibles/from-celebrities-to-ceos-meet-15-of-the-most-famous-cryptopunk-holders/ and https://twitter.com/garyvee and https://twitter.com/pranksy - In July 2021, Ryder Ripps recreated CryptoPunk #3100 by hand in 4000×4000 and minted it on several platforms. Foundation was served with a DMCA notice by Larva Labs, the company who made CryptoPunks, and were forced to delist Ryder’s NFT. Ryder appealed the take down and won his appeal in mid-July 2021.
https://foundation.app/@ryder_ripps/foundation/60312 and https://blog.seanbonner.com/2021/07/20/apes-punks-phunks/ and https://twitter.com/seanbonner and https://www.instagram.com/p/CQwdw5XLLwk/ and https://www.instagram.com/p/CQzlRL3LXXK/ - In July 2021, Draft Kings’ Shalom Meckenzie purchased CryptoPunk #7523, also called “Covid Alien”, for $11.8mil in an off-chain sale via auction house Sotheby’s.
https://twitter.com/readDanwrite/status/1403339034764644354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1403339034764644354%7Ctwgr%5Eff1e3ef0be9d8f9fe88a67dce9d956034307f3ef%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdecrypt.co%2F73360%2Fdraftkings-billionaire-why-i-paid-11-8-million-for-a-cryptopunk-nft and https://decrypt.co/73360/draftkings-billionaire-why-i-paid-11-8-million-for-a-cryptopunk-nft and https://twitter.com/KellyCrowWSJ/status/1403005298625978369 and https://www.forbes.com/profile/shalom-meckenzie/?sh=789bd74743e9 and https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/7523 and https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/natively-digital-cryptopunk-7523/cryptopunk-7523 - Historical Punk Sales - On July 30th, 2021, CryptoPunk #3831 was sold for 850ETH, or $2.08mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/3831 - Historical Punk Sales - On July 30th, 2021, CryptoPunk #8472 was sold for 700ETH, or $1.71mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/8472 - Historical Punk Sales - On July 31st, 2021, CryptoPunk #6649 was sold for 810ETH, or $1.98mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/6649 - In late July 2021, Steve Aoki bought CryptoPunk #6473 for 65ETH, or $160k. One month later he sold Punk #6473 for 300ETH, or over $900k.
https://nftnow.com/collectibles/from-celebrities-to-ceos-meet-15-of-the-most-famous-cryptopunk-holders/ and https://twitter.com/steveaoki - In August 2021, Larva Labs signed a representation deal with Hollywood agency UTA to bring its properties to other entertainment formats.
https://decrypt.co/79895/cryptopunks-go-hollywood-larva-labs-signs-talent-agency-uta and https://decrypt.co/88041/cryptopunks-ip-complaints-punk4156-10m-ethereum-nft-sale and https://twitter.com/unitedtalent?lang=en and https://twitter.com/larvalabs - In early August 2021, FaZe Banks bought CryptoPunk #9258 for 88ETH, or $220k.
https://nftnow.com/collectibles/from-celebrities-to-ceos-meet-15-of-the-most-famous-cryptopunk-holders/ and https://twitter.com/Banks - Historical Punk Sales - On August 3rd, 2021, CryptoPunk #8620 was sold for 400ETH, or $1.02mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/8620 - Historical Punk Sales - On August 4th, 2021, CryptoPunk #7252 was sold for 1kETH, or $2.53mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/7252 - Historical Punk Sales - On August 6th, 2021, CryptoPunk #2338 was sold for 1.5kETH, or $4.32mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/2338 - Historical Punk Sales - On August 7th, 2021, CryptoPunk #8805 was sold for 420.69ETH, or $1.29mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/8805 - In mid-August, 2021, Odell Beckham Jr. bought CryptoPunk #3365 “for an undisclosed sum.”
https://nftnow.com/collectibles/from-celebrities-to-ceos-meet-15-of-the-most-famous-cryptopunk-holders/ and https://twitter.com/obj - On August 18th, 2021, CryptoPunks went fully “on-chain”, meaning both the NFT and the images themselves are kept on the Ethereum blockchain.
https://larvalabs.com/blog/2021-8-18-18-0/on-chain-cryptopunks and https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts/status/1428099416326557696 - On August 23rd, 2021, the financial services company Visa bought CryptoPunk #7610 for $150k.
https://usa.visa.com/visa-everywhere/blog/bdp/2021/08/18/nfts-mark-a-1629328216374.html and https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/7610 and https://twitter.com/VisaNews/status/1429745230023208969 - In August 2021, Cuy Sheffield, Visa’s head of crypto, said that CryptoPunks had become a “cultural icon for the crypto community.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/visa-buys-cryptopunk-nft-150-113605249.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEMQzJUy92D_eKsgEFZSAaQRBh45JAc_1KuZipJK1pLIIDpCRI9-lZQNkn_GvVug5bx0I8vS_2LdNY-IjthnfUeUQH34GHrs0nVt9htKI4bHWSAIkEm0MzNTJKACCBgJibMfUp4YnDXCveNO9XeX3PDJt6ohccYI9Z7rxgWg-Sra and https://twitter.com/cuysheffield - Historical Punk Sales - On August 24th, 2021, CryptoPunk #7252 was sold for 1.6kETH, or $5.33mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/7252 - Historical Punk Sales - On August 27th, 2021, CryptoPunk #9052 was sold for 500ETH, or $1.57mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/9052 - Historical Punk Sales - On August 28th, 2021, CryptoPunk #9373 was sold for 499.99ETH, or $1.62mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/9373 - Historical Punk Sales - On August 28th, 2021, CryptoPunk #2310 was sold for 380ETH, or $1.24mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/2310 - Historical Punk Sales - On August 28th, 2021, CryptoPunk #8888 was sold for 888.80ETH, or $2.87mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/8888 - Historical Punk Sales - On August 29th, 2021, CryptoPunk #6817 was sold for 480ETH, or $1.53mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/6817 - Historical Punk Sales - On August 30th, 2021, CryptoPunk #9952 was sold for 388.88ETH, or $1.23mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/9952 - On September 1st, 2021, De-Rong Kong of the National Taiwan University - Department of Finance and Tse-Chun Lin of the University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, published (and later revised on August 26th, 2022) a paper titled “Alternative Investments in the Fintech Era: The Risk and Return of Non-fungible Token (NFT)” in which a focus was made on CryptoPunks.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3914085 and https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=221000002093123074122117100111064009026035041077088070077010089068093066121081103113107032044122020126111021119113119083108115022032092079036123103089124118065079079023008077119117066031067065026091002122107125000084116098119015083086099005065069072005&EXT=pdf&INDEX=TRUE - In early September 2021, Jason Derulo bought CryptoPunk #1961 for 104ETH, or $357k, in a purchase coordinated by de’Medici.
https://nftnow.com/collectibles/from-celebrities-to-ceos-meet-15-of-the-most-famous-cryptopunk-holders/ and https://twitter.com/jasonderulo and https://twitter.com/CozomoMedici - Historical Punk Sales - On September 4th, 2021, CryptoPunk #6275 was sold for 1.32kETH, or $5.12mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/6275 - Historical Punk Sales - On September 4th, 2021, CryptoPunk #6275 was sold for 1kETH, or $3.98mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/6275 - Historical Punk Sales - On September 11th, 2021, CryptoPunk #8857 was sold for 2kETH, or $6.63 mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/8857 - On September 13th, 2021, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian displayed his CryptoPunk at the MetGala.
https://mashable.com/article/met-gala-cryptopunk-serena and https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/1437572963495206916 - Historical Punk Sales - On September 29th, 2021, CryptoPunk #6721 was sold for 449ETH, or $1.27mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/6721 - Historical Punk Sales - On October 3rd, 2021, CryptoPunk #4220 was sold for 450ETH, or $1.53mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/4220 - On October 20th, 2021, music artist Marshmello bought CryptoPunk #8274 for 130ETH, or $504k.
https://nftnow.com/collectibles/from-celebrities-to-ceos-meet-15-of-the-most-famous-cryptopunk-holders/ and https://twitter.com/marshmello/status/1450876993340272640 - Historical Punk Sales - On October 23rd, 2021, CryptoPunk #4992 was sold for 450ETH, or $1.81mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/4992 - On October 24th, 2021, “Wolf of Wall Street” Jordan Belfort purchased CryptoPunk #6033 for 102.49ETH, or $418k.
https://nftnow.com/collectibles/from-celebrities-to-ceos-meet-15-of-the-most-famous-cryptopunk-holders/ and https://twitter.com/wolfofwallst - Historical Punk Sales - On October 27th, 2021, CryptoPunk #1422 was sold for 500ETH, or $2mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/1422 - On November 5th, 2021, Mike Novogratz tweeted about his CryptoPunk purchase.
https://twitter.com/novogratz/status/1456653167068860420 - Historical Punk Sales - On November 8th, 2021, CryptoPunk #561 was sold for 500ETH, or $2.38mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/561 - Historical Punk Sales - On November 9th, 2021, CryptoPunk #9129 was sold for 387ETH, or $1.85mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/9129 - On December 2nd, 2021, Tycoon tweeted: “The CryptoPunks don’t have to do anything but exist.”
https://twitter.com/0xtycoon/status/1466458728824074242?s=21 and https://twitter.com/0xTycoon - On December 3rd, 2021, @econoar tweeted: “I don’t think Punks need to sell out, have a roadmap, or compete with other NFTs in a clout measuring contest. However, I do think Larva Labs should turn over the license and IP to the community. Let those who got it here take over.”
https://twitter.com/econoar/status/1466972689357099011 and https://twitter.com/econoar - On December 5th, 2021, DeFi Pulse co-founder Scott Lewis tweeted: “CryptoPunks are the Wright Brothers airplane of NFTs. Not literally the first non-fungible token ever attempted, but the first non-fungible token that ever flew. And they inspired a movement that is redefining the idea of art. Maybe you don't care about owning that. I do.”
https://twitter.com/scott_lew_is/status/1467564013672411144 and https://twitter.com/scott_lew_is - On December 9th, 2021, Nouns founder Punk4156 sold his namesake Punk for over $10mil on complaints about the ethos and utility of CryptoPunks. He told Decrypt today that it was “time to move on” following frustration over Larva Labs and the project’s future.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/4156 and https://twitter.com/punk4156 and https://twitter.com/nounsdao and https://twitter.com/cryptopunksbot/status/1469044254081228803 and https://decrypt.co/88041/cryptopunks-ip-complaints-punk4156-10m-ethereum-nft-sale and https://twitter.com/richerd/status/1469119839683821573?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1469119839683821573%7Ctwgr%5E8b5d13c21c3dbef72b488035dad3dd9361c1f706%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdecrypt.co%2F88041%2Fcryptopunks-ip-complaints-punk4156-10m-ethereum-nft-sale - Historical Punk Sales - On December 17th, 2021, CryptoPunk #9953 was sold for 399.69ETH, or $1.58mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/9953 - Heidi Klum’s CryptoPunk #3653 was purchased for 80ETH, or $323k.
https://nftnow.com/collectibles/from-celebrities-to-ceos-meet-15-of-the-most-famous-cryptopunk-holders/ - Snoop Dogg is the owner of CryptoPunk #3831.
https://www.benzinga.com/money/cryptopunks-watchlist-celebrities-and-influencers-who-own-punks?utm_source=insights and https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/3831 and https://twitter.com/SnoopDogg - Hayden Adams, the founder of Uniswap, is the owner of CryptoPunk #6055.
https://www.benzinga.com/money/cryptopunks-watchlist-celebrities-and-influencers-who-own-punks?utm_source=insights and https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/6055 and https://twitter.com/haydenzadams - Historical Punk Sales - On January 6th, 2022, CryptoPunk #2681 was sold for 900ETH, or $3.07mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/2681 - On January 17th, 2022, the current wrapper used to trade V1 CryptoPunks was developed by @frankNFT_eth.
https://twitter.com/frankNFT_eth and https://etherscan.io/txs?a=0x282bdd42f4eb70e7a9d9f40c8fea0825b7f68c5d&p=136 and https://etherscan.io/address/0x282bdd42f4eb70e7a9d9f40c8fea0825b7f68c5d and https://etherscan.io/tx/0xf7132661519e08b5804c22f0d0846146c645229dd803f85d81a417bce44992da and https://blog.seanbonner.com/2022/02/13/explaining-cryptopunks-versions/ and https://twitter.com/seanbonner and https://seanbonner.medium.com/top-10-misconceptions-about-v1-cryptopunks-e6dbca739f5d - On January 18th, 2022, Luisa Schaar and Stylianos Kampakis, PhD published a paper titled, “Non-Fungible Tokens as an Alternative Investment: Evidence from CryptoPunks.” in the Journal of The British Blockchain Association, January.
https://doi.org/10.31585/jbba-5-1-(2)2022 and https://jbba.scholasticahq.com/article/31949-non-fungible-tokens-as-an-alternative-investment-evidence-from-cryptopunks?ref=hackernoon.com - In late January 2022, Larva Labs secretly wrapped a bunch of V1 CryptoPunks and sold them for 210ETH, then went on the attack saying that V1 Punks were not legitimate.
https://decrypt.co/92155/cryptopunks-controversy-creators-apologize-v1-ethereum-nft - The 39 V1 Cryptopunks that were wrapped and sold by LarvaLabs are referred to as the “Rainforrest Punks” (as Larva Labs donated money to “save rainforests” as an apology to its community to selling the V1 Punks) and have become especially desirable among some collectors in what is basically the Streisand Effect for Web3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect and https://blog.seanbonner.com/2022/02/13/explaining-cryptopunks-versions/ - On January 25th, 2022, Larva Labs tweeted its first response to V1 Punks: “‘V1 Punks’ are not official Cryptopunks.”
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts/status/1486092138534387712 - Historical v1-Punk Sales - On January 25th, 2022, v1-Punk #7252 was sold for 100ETH.
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x282bdd42f4eb70e7a9d9f40c8fea0825b7f68c5d/7252 - Historical v1-Punk Sales - On January 25th, 2022, v1-Punk #2924 was sold for 139.12ETH.
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x282bdd42f4eb70e7a9d9f40c8fea0825b7f68c5d/2924 - Historical Punk Sales - On January 26th, 2022, CryptoPunk #3783 was sold for 450ETH, or $1.12mi.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/3783 - Historical v1-Punk Sales - On January 28th, 2022, v1-Punk #8498 was sold for 120ETH.
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x282bdd42f4eb70e7a9d9f40c8fea0825b7f68c5d/8498 - Historical Punk Sales - On January 30th, 2022, CryptoPunk #7121 was sold for 1.18kETH, or $3.08mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/7121 - Historical v1-Punk Sales - On January 30th, 2022, v1-Punk #2132 was sold for 165ETH.
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x282bdd42f4eb70e7a9d9f40c8fea0825b7f68c5d/2132 - On January 30th, 2022, @NFTethics commented on the actions of Larva Labs regarding the V1 Punk sale: “So one of the founders of @LarvaLabs (LL) sells all 40 of his V1 Punks less than a week ago (for 260 ETH) via a 2nd wallet, and then LL releases an official statement that they are worthless.”
https://twitter.com/NFTethics/status/1487818777869828096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1487818777869828096%7Ctwgr%5E197761cb972f9b6aa69def26df80ed94d3f735dd%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnounft.com%2F2022%2F02%2F03%2Fv1-cryptopunks-copyright-drama-escalates-after-recently-selling-v1-punks-larva-lab-now-sends-dmca-notice-alleging-v1-punks-infringe-is-copyright-lawsuit-against-v1-owners-next%2F and https://twitter.com/NFTethics and https://twitter.com/larvalabs and https://nftevening.com/v1-cryptopunks-twitter-user-claims-the-larva-labs-is-not-a-fan-of-blockchain/ - Historical v1-Punk Sales - On January 31st, 2022, v1-Punk #6297 was sold for 150ETH.
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x282bdd42f4eb70e7a9d9f40c8fea0825b7f68c5d/6297 - Historical v1-Punk Sales - On January 31st, 2022, v1-Punk #8909 was sold for 160ETH.
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x282bdd42f4eb70e7a9d9f40c8fea0825b7f68c5d/8909 - Historical v1-Punk Sales - On January 31st, 2022, v1-Punk #8219 was sold for 250ETH.
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x282bdd42f4eb70e7a9d9f40c8fea0825b7f68c5d/8219 - Historical v1-Punk Sales - On January 31st, 2022, v1-Punk #9368 was sold for 150ETH - later resold February 1st for a nice profit!
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x282bdd42f4eb70e7a9d9f40c8fea0825b7f68c5d/9368 - Historical v1-Punk Sales - On February 1st, 2022, v1-Punk #9368 was sold for 300.6ETH.
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x282bdd42f4eb70e7a9d9f40c8fea0825b7f68c5d/9368 - In early February 2022, Larva Labs sent a DMCA to OpenSea regarding the V1 Punks, and OpenSea complied with the request by taking down their listing of the V1 Punks.
https://blog.seanbonner.com/2022/02/13/explaining-cryptopunks-versions/ - On February 2nd, 2022, NFT investment fund Meta4 Capital announced that it purchased a pair of V1 CryptoPunks: one for 1,000 ETH (almost $2.8 million) and another for 200 ETH (about $556,000).
https://twitter.com/Meta4Capital/status/1488866216261218306 and https://twitter.com/Meta4Capital/status/1488866235940966409 and https://www.meta4.capital/ and https://twitter.com/straybits1 - On February 2nd, @cobie commented on the Larva Labs sale of V1 Punks: As he puts it, “they dumped on people and now they’re trying to make what they dumped as worthless as possible.”
https://www.newsbtc.com/news/ethereum/what-are-the-cryptopunks-v1-and-how-can-they-disrupt-the-market/ and https://twitter.com/cobie/status/1488975560248381444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1488975560248381444%7Ctwgr%5E61e36bc8dfd2284fc3bf297fc5c7b5f7aa1249c0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsbtc.com%2Fnews%2Fethereum%2Fwhat-are-the-cryptopunks-v1-and-how-can-they-disrupt-the-market%2F and https://twitter.com/cobie - On February 2nd, 2022 @Loopifyyy commented on the Larva Labs sale of V1 Punks: “this is the craziest shit i've seen in a while. Lmao. LarvaLabs are probably going to DMCA the "V1 CryptoPunks" collection from OpenSea after selling hundreds of ETH worth of them to buyers. An exercise that "it's not legitimate" so they are going to take action.”
https://twitter.com/Loopifyyy/status/1488955060981624833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1488955060981624833%7Ctwgr%5E197761cb972f9b6aa69def26df80ed94d3f735dd%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnounft.com%2F2022%2F02%2F03%2Fv1-cryptopunks-copyright-drama-escalates-after-recently-selling-v1-punks-larva-lab-now-sends-dmca-notice-alleging-v1-punks-infringe-is-copyright-lawsuit-against-v1-owners-next%2F and https://twitter.com/Loopifyyy and https://twitter.com/Loopifyyy/status/1488956129375768581 - On February 2nd, 2022, @iamDCinvestor commented on the actions of Larva Labs regarding the sale of V1 Punks: “tbh, i have never seen any team bungle a project with such desirable IP as @larvalabs has done with CryptoPunks… at this point, i do think the move is to convey individual IP rights to “official” Punk NFT holders a la BAYC… that’d nullify most of the mess they’ve created.”
https://twitter.com/iamDCinvestor/status/1489092866194518018 and https://twitter.com/iamDCinvestor and https://twitter.com/larvalabs - On February 2nd, 2022, @chopper__dad commented on the actions of Larva Labs regarding the V1 Punk sale: “.@larvalabs just dumped 210 eth worth of v1punks on buyers that they will be taking legal action against. You can't make this shit up.”
https://twitter.com/chopper__dad/status/1488977005647257603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1488977005647257603%7Ctwgr%5E2647d31509502e5f97dfd9818c1c0df708d63a2a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdecrypt.co%2F92155%2Fcryptopunks-controversy-creators-apologize-v1-ethereum-nft and https://twitter.com/chopper__dad and https://twitter.com/larvalabs - On February 2nd, @Anonymoux2311 commented on the actions of Larva Labs regarding the V1 Punk sale: “I knew what I had to do. It is time to sell punk 2311. I wouldn't own stock in a company where the executives constantly tripped over their own feet. Not going to do it here either.”
https://twitter.com/Anonymoux2311/status/1488973013135593473 and https://twitter.com/Anonymoux2311 and https://twitter.com/larvalabs - Historical v1-Punk Sales - On February 3rd, 2022, v1-Punk #4178 was sold for 200ETH.
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x282bdd42f4eb70e7a9d9f40c8fea0825b7f68c5d/4178 - Historical v1-Punk Sales - On February 5th, 2022, v1-Punk #6145 was sold for 120ETH.
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x282bdd42f4eb70e7a9d9f40c8fea0825b7f68c5d/6145 - On February 7th, 2022, Edward Lee, professor of law and director of program in intellectual property law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, published a research paper titled, ‘The Cryptic Case of the CryptoPunks Licenses: The Mystery Over the Licenses for CryptoPunks NFTs’, in which he attempted to clarify the question of what rights CryptoPunks owners have to their avatars.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3978963 and https://decrypt.co/88041/cryptopunks-ip-complaints-punk4156-10m-ethereum-nft-sale - Historical Punk Sales - On February 9th, 2022, CryptoPunk #5577 was sold for 2.5kETH, or $7.7mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/5577 - On February 10th, 2022, Brian L. Frye of the University of Kentucky - College of Law; Dogecoin DAO Legal Scholarship Page published a paper titled, ‘Are CryptoPunks Copyrightable?’
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4029323 and https://twitter.com/brianlfrye - On February 11th, 2022, V1 Punks tweeted that their Counter-DMCA notice had “been lodged with OpenSea as we believe it is our right to trade these historical V1 CryptoPunks.”
https://twitter.com/v1punks/status/1492128196149624837 - Historical Punk Sales - On February 12th, 2022, CryptoPunk #5822 was sold for 8kETH, or $23.7mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/5822 - On March 7th, 2022, Hugo Inzirillo of the Napoleon Group CREST - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, published a paper titled, “Constructing a NFT Price Index and Applications” in which CryptoPunks were discussed.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.08966.pdf - On March 11th, 2022, Yuga Labs acquired the IP of the CryptoPunks and Meebits NFT collections from Larva Labs.
https://larvalabs.com/blog/2022-3-11-18-0/yuga-labs-acquires-cryptopunks-and-meebits and https://twitter.com/yugalabs and https://twitter.com/yugalabs and https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts - When Yuga Labs acquired the IP of the CryptoPunks and Meebits NFT collections from Larva Labs, Yuga also acquired 423 CryptoPunks and 1,711 Meebits.
https://mirror.xyz/0xEc9f53fA69682833FBd760C104B5D61aE29221E0/Km81y6Mc3O5LzS0wnrghVIV0HnZgLOd4wsnfcGw3_2I and https://twitter.com/yugalabs and https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts - As part of the deal between Larva Labs and Yuga for rights to CryptoPunks, some 1000 V1 Punks were acquired by Yuga. Almost immediately after the deal between Larva Labs and Yuga, the V1 Punk collection was reinstated on OpenSea.
https://blog.seanbonner.com/2022/02/13/explaining-cryptopunks-versions/ and https://opensea.io/collection/official-v1-punks - Historical v1-Punk Sales - On March 24th, 2022, v1-Punk #7458 was sold for 160ETH.
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x282bdd42f4eb70e7a9d9f40c8fea0825b7f68c5d/7458 - On March 28th, 2022, Punks V1 tweeted about the project’s history.
https://twitter.com/v1punks/status/1508451588301545474 - Historical Punk Sales - On April 13th, 2022, CryptoPunk #7756 was sold for 1.05kETH, or $3.23mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/7756 - On June 9th, 2022, CryptoPunks celebrated its 5th anniversary
- Historical Punk Sales - On June 18th, 2022, CryptoPunk #2964 was sold for 444ETH, or $439.18k.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/2964 - On June 19th, 2022, Noah Davis announced his hiring by Yuga Labs as Brand Lead for CryptoPunks.
https://twitter.com/NonFungibleNoah/status/1538584141419143168 and https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts and https://twitter.com/yugalabs - Historical v1-Punk Sales - On June 20th, 2022, v1-Punk #2711 was sold for 250ETH.
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0x282bdd42f4eb70e7a9d9f40c8fea0825b7f68c5d/2711 - Historical Punk Sales - On June 22nd, 2022, CryptoPunk #8531 was sold for 825ETH, or $867.08k.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/8531 - On June 23rd, 2022, CryptoPunks celebrated its 5th anniversary.
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts/status/1540096401941618694 and https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts - Historical Punk Sales - On June 29th, 2022, CryptoPunk #7971 was sold for 398.95ETH, or $442.49k.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/7971 - Historical Punk Sales - On July 12th, 2022, CryptoPunk #4464 was sold for 2.5kETH, or $2.62mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/4464 - Historical Punk Sales - On July 15th, 2022, CryptoPunk #4156 was sold for 2.69kETH, or $3.31mil.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/4156 - On August 15th, 2022, Yuga Labs gave licensing rights to CryptoPunk NFT holders.
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts/status/1559284220442320897 and https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts and https://twitter.com/yugalabs - The IP rights agreement for CryptoPunks can be found at
https://licenseterms.cryptopunks.app. - https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts - Designed to enable both commercial and non-commercial use of one’s CryptoPunk, in any form and in any media, the Yuga Labs IP rights agreement grants an “exclusive, universe-wide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works based upon, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, and otherwise use and exploit, Your CryptoPunk Art.”
https://licenseterms.cryptopunks.app and https://twitter.com/yugalabs and https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts - Launched August 2022, NFTiff was CryptoPunks’ first derivative collection.
https://blockworks.co/tiffany-co-turns-cryptopunks-into-12-5m-luxury-jewelry-sale/ and https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts - In August, 2022, Unique Network announced its plan to fractionalize CryptoPunk #3042 to more than 56,000 shares of ownership, called “shards.”
https://cointelegraph.com/news/a-slice-of-the-punk-cryptopunk-nft-to-be-split-into-56-000-pieces and https://twitter.com/Unique_NFTchain - As of September 9th, 2022, the CryptoPunks collection was spread among 3,600 wallets.
https://opensea.io/collection/cryptopunks - On September 9th, 2022, there were 526 “wrapped” CryptoPunks.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/leaderboard + https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/wrapped - On September 9th, 2022, there were 1,131 CryptoPunks listed for sale.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/forsale - As of September 9th, 2022, the largest CryptoPunk holder was 0xa858ddc0445d8131dac4d1de01f834ffcba52ef1, owner of 423 CryptoPunks.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/accountinfo?account=0xa858ddc0445d8131dac4d1de01f834ffcba52ef1. - As of September 9th, 2022, @Wilcox_NFT owned 215 CryptoPunks.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/leaderboard and https://app.ens.domains/name/wilcox.eth/details and https://twitter.com/wilcox_nft - As of September 9th, 2022, Gary Vaynerchuk owned 62 CryptoPunks.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/leaderboard and https://app.ens.domains/name/garyvault.eth/details and https://twitter.com/garyvee - As of September 9th, 2022, Cyrus owned 23 CryptoPunks.
https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/leaderboard and https://opensea.io/Cyrus - As of September 9th, Snowfro, founder of ArtBlocks, owned 11 CryptoPunks.
https://www.benzinga.com/money/cryptopunks-watchlist-celebrities-and-influencers-who-own-punks?utm_source=insights and https://twitter.com/ArtOnBlockchain and https://twitter.com/artblocks_io - On September 9th, 2022, CryptoPunks tweeted about the first-ever Punks Grant, involving the creation of a “newsletter capturing important events along with networking opportunities in the [CryptoPunk] community.
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksnfts/status/1568378581813760000?t=Y5aW0353k5f_jO06ddS1LQ&s=03 - On September 10th, 2022, Steve Aoki tweeted about his purchase of CryptoPunk #6748.
https://twitter.com/steveaoki/status/1568524689126957057 - On September 25th, 2022, @0xTycoon deployed a helper contract to fetch CryptoPunks metadata, including SVGs, all on-chain.
- Historical Punk Sales - On September 28th, 2022, CryptoPunk #2924 was sold for 3,300 ETH, or $4,451,633.94 USD.
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksbot/status/1575238937081221128?t=4czec4iXncyIluSRlxo_wQ&s=19 and https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/2924 - On September 28th, 2022, @briandcolwell was able to reunite the v1 and v2 CryptoPunk #4762 token pair! 4762 = 4762.
https://twitter.com/BrianDColwell/status/1575214189731188736 and https://v1punks.io/token/ETHEREUM:0x282bdd42f4eb70e7a9d9f40c8fea0825b7f68c5d:4762 and https://twitter.com/BrianDColwell/status/1575537405842505729 - As of September 29th, 2022, there have been twelve v-1 Punk sales at 100ETH or more (according to Opensea).
https://opensea.io/collection/official-v1-punks?search[sortAscending]=false&search[sortBy]=LAST_SALE_PRICE - As of September 29th, 2022, there have been 1,016 CryptoPunk sales at 100ETH or more (according to Opensea).
https://opensea.io/collection/cryptopunks?search[sortAscending]=false&search[sortBy]=LAST_SALE_PRICE - As of September 29th, 2022, there have been fourteen CryptoPunk sales at 1000ETH or more (according to Opensea).
https://opensea.io/collection/cryptopunks?search[sortAscending]=false&search[sortBy]=LAST_SALE_PRICE - Historical Punk Sales - On October 1st, 2022, CryptoPunk #5944 was sold for 980 ETH, or $1,283,927.40 USD.
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksbot/status/1576273426599362565?t=sZqyFvaltY6vzIqHhFiLaw&s=19 and https://cryptopunks.app/cryptopunks/details/5944 - Historical Punk Sales - On October 11th, 2022, CryptoPunk #8958 was sold for 333ETH.
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksbot/status/1579914725764509696 - Historical v1-Punk Sales - On October 12th, 2022, v1-Punk #2329 was sold for 77ETH.
https://twitter.com/v1salesbot/status/1580253478911619073 - Historical Punk Sales - On October 18th, 2022, CryptoPunk #9476 was sold for 370ETH.
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksbot/status/1582378061835608064 - Historical v1-Punk Sales - On October 22nd, 2022, v1-Punk #6297 was sold for 94ETH.
https://twitter.com/v1salesbot/status/1583905306148339713 - Historical v1-Punk Sales - On October 22nd, 2022, v1-Punk #6915 was sold for 180ETH.
https://twitter.com/v1salesbot/status/1584059060986712064 - Historical Punk Sales - On October 26th, 2022, CryptoPunk #924 was sold for 475ETH.
https://twitter.com/cryptopunksbot/status/1585314863366160384
For further reading
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