Out of the 10,000 CryptoPunk NFTs, only 38% are women. (The gender disparity is a topic for another occasion!) On November 28, 2021, a female CryptoPunk #4016 sold for 100 ETH ($436,000).
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NFT is the 2021 Word of the Year, says Collins Dictionary
It’s been quite a year for NFTs, from the highest sale ever in March 2021 ($69M for Beepe’s Everydays: The First 5,000 Days) to the highest quarter in sales ($10.7 billion) to the highest market cap for one collection ($2 billion for the Larva Labs’ CryptoPunks). Not surprisingly, Collins Dictionary named NFT the 2021 Word…
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Visa buys CryptoPunk #7610 for 49.5 ($165,000)
From August 23, 2021: “Over the last 60 years, Visa has built a collection of historic commerce artefacts—from early paper credit cards to the zip-zap machine. Today, as we enter a new era of NFT-commerce, Visa welcomes CryptoPunk #7610 to our collection.” You can check out CryptoPunk #7610 on OpenSea. The content license for CryptoPunk…
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Commercial Use: Why don’t more businesses adopt the Bored Ape Yacht Club license and allow buyers to make commercial uses of NFTs?
If you’ve heard me give talks about NFTs and the accompanying licenses that come with the sale, you know that it’s common for NFT licenses to prohibit the buyer from making commercial uses of the associated content or artwork. It’s typical to limit the buyer of an NFT to noncommercial uses of the work. For…
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CryptoPunk #7557 mistakenly sold for only 4.44 ETH ($19,366), well below its value
On Nov. 1, CryptoPunk #7557 was sold for only 4.44 ETH ($19,366), well below its value, which now is receiving offers over $1 million. It’s unclear what happened. But Benzinga speculates that the seller meant to offer the NFT for sale at “4444 ETH or $19.5 million.” (Benzinga) Perhaps. But the last sale on July…
Read MoreCryptoPunks NFTs surpass $1 billion in sales
Larva Labs, founded by software developers Matt Hall and John Watkinson in 2017, is the creator of the pixelated CryptoPunks NFTs. In 2017, the CryptoPunk NFTs sold for between $1 and $34. In 2021, the CryptoPunks are selling for anywhere between $500,000 to $11.7 million. You can find–and buy!–the CryptoPunks at Larva Labs.
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