CryptoPunks NFT Portraits Sell for $16.9 Million at Christie s Auction
CryptoPunks is one of the earliest NFT projects created in 2017 by Larva Labs and they have since gained a lot of traction as collector’s items. By Edited by Gadgets 360 Newsdesk | Updated: 12 May 2021 16:20 IST
Photo Credit: Christie’s/ Larva Labs
CryptoPunk characters sold include one with rare attributes: blue face with glasses and the only alien
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The CryptoPunks NFT collection sold has 9 characters
It was part of 10,000 small-pixel portraits created by Larva Labs
A set of nine small pixel-art portraits out of a vault of 10,000 uniquely generated characters of people, zombies, and aliens, collectively called CryptoPunks, has sold for a massive $16.9 million (roughly Rs. 124.2 crores). This is said to be the second-largest non-fungible token (NFT) purchase after digital artist Beeple sold a jpeg image for $69 million (roughly Rs. 506.6 crores) in a simila