The $500M CryptoPunk: Why This Record-Breaking NFT Sale Isn’t Quite What It S...
If you thought CryptoPunk sales were lucrative, one of the most recent Punk sales will certainly catch your eye. There’s certainly a lot you can buy with $500 million dollars. Does someone just love the JPEG? While we can never rule it out, there’s more than what meets the eye behind this record-shattering NFT sale. […]
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A CryptoPunk NFT has just set the record for the highest-selling punk so far. The collection which is more than three years old had been in obscurity for the longest time but with the rise of NFT popularity, they have become one of the most valuable collections in the NFT space. In a recent sale, CryptoPunk #5822 has set the record for the high-selling punk after selling for $23 million. CryptoPunk #5822 Sells For 8,000 ETH The CryptoPunk #5822 which had sold for 8,000 ETH, more than $23 million had been bought by the CEO of Chain, Deepak Thapliyal. It is the most expensive CryptoPunk NFT....
“NFTs are dead,” said the previous owner of the COVID Alien artwork once the auction closed. Luxury auction house Sotheby’s made waves on social media on Thursday following the sale of one rare CryptoPunk.In a tweet from Sotheby’s, the auction said CryptoPunk #7523 — also known as “COVID Alien” — sold in its London salesroom for roughly $11.8 million. According to the auction house, this sale represents a new world record for a single CryptoPunk artwork.CryptoPunks, which predate the bulk of the nonfungible token (NFT) craze in 2021, are often small, pixelated depictions of people, apes,....
Despite the massive downturn in the NFT market, CryptoPunk 4464’s $2.6 million price tag signals that top NFT projects are still managing to attract some serious attention. Despite a major decline in trading volume across the broader non-fungible token (NFT) market, a single CryptoPunk has sold for a whopping 2,500 ETH which equates to a price tag of just over $2.6 million.The $2.6 million transaction makes the sale of CryptoPunk 4464 — one of just 24 ape-themed CryptoPunks — the largest NFT sale of the last 30 days across the entire market. Punk 4464 bought for 2,500 ETH ($2,615,224.91....
At a highly anticipated upcoming auction, one ultra-rare CryptoPunk will get some additional stage time at the luxury auction house, Sotheby’s. Sotheby’s Will Sell The CryptoPunk Sotheby’s stated today in a Tweet that the sale of CryptoPunk #7530, better known as “Covid Alien,” will take place during a “special, standalone” auction. The Punk was originally […]
The buyer, most likely in an attempt to snatch up the valuable piece before everyone else, paid an Ethereum miner 22 ETH to prioritize their bid. A crypto user was able to net roughly $80,000 in less than a day after purchasing a CryptoPunk for less than a penny.According to blockchain records made available through Larva Labs, an unknown user purchased CryptoPunk number 3860 for 99 wei — worth next to nothing — earlier today after the artwork featuring a male character smoking a cigarette had sold for 30 Ether (ETH) on Thursday — roughly $69,369 at the time. The user was then able to....