NFT Traders: ‘Christie’s F***ed up USD 17m CryptoPunks Sale’

These 9 CryptoPunks were auctioned at Christie's.

9 CryptoPunks sell for $17M at Christie’s auction house

Famed New York auction house, Christie’s hosted the sale of nine CryptoPunks NFTs for nearly $17 million. Despite the recent NFT frenzy starting to cool, prized nonfungible tokens with historical significance are still fetching multi-million dollar prices.On May 12, famed New York-based auction house, Christie’s, tweeted that an auction for nine tokens from pioneering NFT CryptoPunks had cleared for nearly $17 million combined.Despite the tokens fetching millions, some Twitter users speculated that the winning bidder scored a bargain.I thought they'd go for more myself also.— VeryBadAcid (@acid_very) May 12, 2021 CryptoPunks were launched by LarvaLabs in 2017, and were limited to 10,000 tokens in total.

CryptoPunks NFTs Sell For $16.9 Million At Christie's Auction

It’s the first big NFT sale at Christie's since the $69 million Beeple sale in March.

CryptoPunks NFTs Are Worth Nearly $2 Billion Now

Cryptocurrency enthusiasts are paying millions of dollars to get their hands on the 10,000 pixelated CryptoPunks NFTs.

Larva Labs Sells Out New NFT Batch, Triggers Worries of CyperPunks Value Drop

Larva Labs, the company behind digital collectibles known as CryptoPunks, are further expanding their foothold in the non-fungible token (NFT) market through their latest project, the Meebits, introducing a range of 3D avatars for virtual worlds, games, and virtual reality - and already selling out.

CryptoPunks Creators Just Launched Meebits, NFT Resales Already Top $3 Million

With Meebits, Larva Labs looks to replicate past success in the NFT market.

Nifty News: NFTs for Trump-haters, carbon offsets, fractionalized CryptoPunks and more

Hit Trump where it hurts by buying his Tweets to help out charities, a new scheme to enable NFT purchasers to offset carbon emissions, and get yourself a piece of a Punk. A group of anon uni students has come up with a way to hit former President Donald Trump where it hurts: by using his Tweets against him to raise money for charities they believe he "despises." 'Strategic Meme Group Incorporated' has set up the website Drumpfs.io to sell Trump's tweets, at least as recorded by the Trump Twitter Archive.

50 CryptoPunks NFTs Go Fractional in New Collection

You can now buy a fraction of a collection of 50 CryptoPunks, gaining exposure to one of Ethereum’s oldest—and most lucrative—NFT projects.

Ethereum User Bids $6.3 Million on 16 CryptoPunks Within Minutes

Ahead of a Christie’s auction of nine CryptoPunks NFTs, one investor is prepared to pay big money to get his hands on a number of other Punks.

Christie's to Sell 9 CryptoPunks, While USD 6.3M is Placed on 16 Punks

CryptoPunks. Source: A screenshot, christies.com Major auction house Christie's will hold a non-fungible token (NFT) CryptoPunks sale, while an unknown collector (possibly in making) placed millions of dollars in bids for sixteen Punks.

Christie’s to Auction Off Nine CryptoPunks NFTs

The notoriously pricey NFTs are part of the upcoming 21st Century Evening Sale.

CryptoPunks are taking over Miami

The popular NFT collectibles CryptoPunks are set to be showcased across Miami from April 12 as part of a month-long city-wide public art exhibition.

‘F-ck a Museum’: CryptoPunks NFTs Hit the Streets of Miami

CryptoPunks NFTs are selling for crazy amounts.

‘Silent crash’ as price floors collapse across NFT space

Prices are plummeting, and some holders might not even know it If prices plummet in an illiquid market, how soon before anyone notices? While fungible tokens traded on centralized and decentralized exchanges have significant transparency regarding price movements, nonfungible tokens can be harder to track.

NFTs: Overpriced crap or new art history?

Its been a heady few weeks for commerce and art. Surely a revolution is afoot and were too mired in the hot mess to see it right. With that proviso, here are two notes from the front lines. NFTs are cutting-edge, digital art aint Some folks say the non-fungible token (NFT) that allows a digital artwork to be possessed exclusively by a purchaser is traceable to the creation of Colored Coinsin 2012 or to CryptoPunks in 2017 even though the this market exploded just the other day. A page from Jules Antoine LissajoussA Study of the Optical Representation of Sound Vibrations, 1957   But digital art (DA) itself has an older pedigree. As early as 1857, the Frenchman, Jules Antoine Lissajous (18221880) published images of mathematically-designed Lissajous Figures by capturing lines created by sound harmonies with a camera.

NBA Top Shot Dipped in March, While CryptoPunks and Sorare Grew

Here's what the market data shows about how three of the biggest crypto collectibles platforms are riding the NFT boom.

'NFT' Surpasses 'Ethereum' on Google This Week as Trading Balloons

The CryptoPunks, one of the most popular NFTs.

New report predicts NFTs will explode in popularity during 2021

NFTs are pumping right now, with a new report identifying more NFT sales in the last 24 hours than during the entirety of 2020. Canadian-based analytics company NonFungible has released a report predicting that 2021 is poised for “a new Bull Market in the NFT industry.” Although NFTs have been around since ERC-721 was invented by William Entriken, Dieter Shirley, Jacob Evans, and Nastassia Sachs in January 2018, the sector largely remained an obscurity outside of hardcore crypto circles until the latter part of 2020.

NFT market top signal? Fake Banksy nets over $1 million in ETH sales

With a charity and some slapdash art theory as a cover, a copycat makes off with 512 ETH in NFT sales As the cryptoTwitter community debates the fair value of Cryptopunks and other NFTs rising to sky-high valuations, there’s at least one clear sign of the digital collectibles market growing irrational: an individual posing as Banksy, perhaps the most famous living artist, has netted over $1 million in ETH in NFT sales.  Starting on Sunday, Feb 14, frequent browsers of the NFT marketplaces Opensea and Rarible noticed an account named “Pest Supply” with branding and NFTs made in Banksy’s signature graffiti-stencil style.

Ethereum CryptoPunks Are Selling for Outrageous Sums of Money

A picture of a male “punk” sold for over 78 ETH (≈$136,000) this morning.

Over $100M in crypto collectible NFTs sold in last 30 days

From NBA TopShots to Hashmasks to CryptoPunks, collectible NFTs are selling like hotcakes.

CryptoPunk Bounties: Ark.Gallery Rolls Out Blind Bids on 8-Bit NFT Collectibles

Ark.Gallery is adding liquidity to the market for CryptoPunks by letting people place blind bids on the NFTs.

NFT Economy Grows Exponential: $1M in Non-Fungible Token Sales Last Week

While a number of people are focused on decentralized finance (defi), the non-fungible token (NFT) industry has also exploded in demand in 2020.

The Tokenized Metaverse: Non-Fungible Token Sales to Surpass $100 Million

On July 1, 2020, the partner of Polynexus Capital, Andrew Steinwold, detailed that the sales of blockchain-powered non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are about to cross the $100 million mark.