{"id":38773,"date":"2021-03-11T19:21:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T17:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=38773"},"modified":"2025-08-30T06:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T03:20:37","slug":"unknown-buyer-purchases-cryptopunk-nft-for-4200-eth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/unknown-buyer-purchases-cryptopunk-nft-for-4200-eth\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown buyer purchases CryptoPunk NFT for 4,200 ETH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown user purchased one of the nine alien CryptoPunks, issued in 2017 as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Someone just bought CryptoPunk NFT for $7.5M. The CryptoPunks are 10,000 uniquely generated characters(24\u00d724 pixel images), created in 2017. Originally, they could be claimed for free by anybody with an Ethereum wallet. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vmgf8Wst9E\">https:\/\/t.co\/Vmgf8Wst9E<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BITELrxz9i\">pic.twitter.com\/BITELrxz9i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ICO Analytics (@ICO_Analytics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICO_Analytics\/status\/1370020040146186243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>NFT CryptoPunk 7804 cost the buyer 4,200 ETH \u2014 $7.5 million at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>There are a total of nine alien punks, created long before the famous CryptoKitties. In January 2021, FlamingoDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization investing in collectible digital items, purchased one of them for 605 ETH.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, March 11, Christie\u2019s sold Beeple\u2019s NFT <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/beeples-nft-sells-at-christies-for-69-3-million\">for $69.3 million<\/a>. This made the creator of the work \u201cEverydays: The First 5000 Days\u201d one of the most valuable living artists.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey put his first tweet up for sale as an NFT. Tron founder Justin Sun offered <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/jack-dorsey-puts-his-first-tweet-up-for-sale-justin-sun-offers-2-million\">$2 million for it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An NFT copy of Banksy\u2019s burned painting titled &#8216; Morons&#8217; sold at auction <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nft-copy-of-burned-banksy-painting-sells-for-228-eth\">for 228.69 ETH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown user purchased one of the nine alien CryptoPunks, released in 2017 as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1213],"class_list":["post-38773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"29","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38775,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38773\/revisions\/38775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}