{"id":42343,"date":"2021-05-12T13:54:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T10:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42343"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:48:21","slug":"nine-cryptopunks-nfts-sold-at-christies-auction-for-nearly-17-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/nine-cryptopunks-nfts-sold-at-christies-auction-for-nearly-17-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine CryptoPunks NFTs sold at Christie\u2019s auction for nearly $17 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine non-fungible tokens (NFTs) from the CryptoPunks collection, numbered 2, 30, 58, 532, 602, 603, 635, 757 and 768, were sold at Christie\u2019s for $16.96 million, including the buyer&#8217;s premium.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AuctionUpdate?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AuctionUpdate<\/a> 9 rare CryptoPunks from Larva Labs\u2019 own collection makes history realizing $16,962,500 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qsPs5nqVYY\">pic.twitter.com\/qsPs5nqVYY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christie\u2019s (@ChristiesInc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristiesInc\/status\/1392282036417728519?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The auction marked Christie\u2019s second NFT sale. The first was Everydays: The First 5000 Days, which on March 11 <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/beeples-nft-sells-at-christies-for-69-3-million\">sold for a record $69.3 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CryptoPunks is one of the first NFT collections on the Ethereum blockchain, released by software developer Larva Labs in 2017. The tokens are eight-bit 24&#215;24-pixel images.<\/p>\n<p>The collection comprises 10,000 unique NFTs, whose market capitalization exceeded $1.95 billion, according to the Institute for the Future at the University of Nicosia.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, the meme character &#8216;No, I don&#8217;t want to&#8217; revealed his identity \u2014 he turned out to be American Connor Sinclair. He <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/10-guy-meme-connor-sinclair-to-sell-original-photo-as-nft\">will sell the original photo as an NFT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, multiple-time world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/floyd-mayweather-to-release-nft-collection\">announced the release of a collection of non-fungible tokens<\/a> in the run-up to his bout against YouTuber Logan Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine non-fungible tokens (NFTs) from the CryptoPunks collection, numbered 2, 30, 58, 532, 602, 603, 635, 757 and 768, were sold at Christie\u2019s for $16.96 million, including the buyer&#8217;s premium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42344,"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-42343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42343","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=42343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42345,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42343\/revisions\/42345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}