On Saturday, CryptoPunk NFT #5822 was sold for 8,000 Ether, the equivalent of around $23.7 million. The sale eclipses the previous record from June 2021.
The CryptoPunks have been around since 2017. They can rightly call themselves co-founders of the NFT hype. They were the first at a time when there were no more NFTs. The optically rudimentary profile picture collection thus has legendary status.
Since then, dozens of the CryptoPunks “living” on the Ethereum blockchain have been sold for Ether equivalents of a million dollars or more. On Saturday ... Read even more