CryptoPunks clone PolygonPunks booted from OpenSea marketplace
PolygonPunks have been removed from leading NFT marketplace OpenSea, likely at the behest of CryptoPunks' creator Larva Labs. Leading NFT marketplace, OpenSea, has delisted the successful Polygon-based copy of CryptoPunks, Polygonpunks.According to screenshots of the marketplace taken shortly before the NFT collectibles were removed, PolygonPunks had emerged as the second-most popular collection on OpenSea by volume with roughly $37,000 worth of trade in 24 hours.With upset users vocal on social media, OpenSea’s Nate Chastain took to Twitter to explain the marketplace’s action, describing....
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According to the DMCA, PolygonPunks would have had to have claimed its material "was removed or disabled through mistake or misidentification." Nonfungible token marketplace OpenSea is once again listing the Polygon-based copy of CryptoPunks after a successful Digital Millennium Copyright Act counter notice. In a Sept. 28 announcement on Twitter, the PolygonPunks project said its nonfungible token, or NFT, collectibles were back on OpenSea after responding to a DMCA takedown notice from Larva Labs, the creator of CryptoPunks. The punks were booted from OpenSea in August after becoming one....
OpenSea, the world’s largest NFT marketplace, has delisted CryptoPunks V1 due to a legal dispute with Larva Labs. The 10K collectibles, which are breathtakingly similar to the renowned CryptoPunks NFTs, are derived from the same smart contract as Larva Labs’ collection. While more collectors were flocking to V1 CryptoPunks, the project was blacklisted by Larva […]
Many users bought Punks' NFTs on the basis that there were only going to be 10,000 of them, not potentially 20,000. Late Monday, popular nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, platform OpenSea once again delisted the CryptoPunks v1 collection, which spiraled into existence along with the iconic CryptoPunks v2 collection due to a smart contract bug. This was allegedly due to a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notice issued by CryptoPunks v2 developers Larva Labs to OpenSea. As the company is also the creator of the CryptoPunks v1 collection, this move has struck some as strange.LL has forced....
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On Saturday, August 28, the non-fungible token (NFT) project Cryptopunks crossed $1 billion in all-time sales. Cryptopunks joins the heavyweight NFT hitters Axie Infinity’s $1.6 billion and Opensea’s $3.53 billion. Three NFT Projects Have Sold More Than a Billion-Dollars in Sales The non-fungible token project Cryptopunks is now a billion-dollar NFT collection as statistics show all-time sales tapped $1.095 billion, according to dappradar.com data. Cryptopunks has a bunch of records on dappradar.com’s “top sales” page, in terms of NFT sales. Cryptopunks....