{"id":48911,"date":"2021-09-05T12:44:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T09:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48911"},"modified":"2025-09-02T09:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:50:57","slug":"collector-nets-1-22-million-from-cryptopunk-resale-in-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/collector-nets-1-22-million-from-cryptopunk-resale-in-one-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Collector nets $1.22 million from CryptoPunk resale in one day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An NFT collector, Pranksy, bought a zombie Punk from the popular CryptoPunks collection for 1000 ETH \u2014 about $3.9 million at the time of the deal. On the same day he sold the NFT for 1320 ETH (~$5.12 million).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The number 1 rule in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFTs?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NFTs<\/a>, is always remain liquid. Always.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v8rDGkJfPl\">https:\/\/t.co\/v8rDGkJfPl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BFcUG7Wque\">pic.twitter.com\/BFcUG7Wque<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pranksy \ud83d\udce6 (@pranksy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pranksy\/status\/1434173576681336834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe first rule of NFTs is to always stay liquid. Always,\u201d he commented on the purchase.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pranksy acquired CryptoPunk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larvalabs.com\/cryptopunks\/details\/6275\">#6275<\/a> on September 4, just eight hours after the token was put up for sale. Its high price is due to rare attributes. <\/p>\n<p>The NFT is one of 88 zombie Punks in a collection of 10,000. The token also features the attributes \u201cshadow beard\u201d (present in 526 Punks) and \u201cdark Mohawk\u201d (present in 429 Punks).<\/p>\n<p>The Pranksy NFT turned out to be so rare that on the same day he received an offer for 1600 ETH (~$6.27 million). Later the collector sold the token for less \u2014 for 1320 ETH.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"902\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/punk.png\" alt=\"Collector nets $1.22 million from CryptoPunk resale in one day\" class=\"wp-image-148247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/punk.png 902w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/punk-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/punk-768x324.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><figcaption>Transaction history for token #6275. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larvalabs.com\/cryptopunks\/details\/6275\">Larva Labs<\/a>.<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to CryptoSlam, in the last 24 hours the aggregate trading volume for CryptoPunk tokens stood at $17.82 million. Half of that was from trades of Punk #6275.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase of the NFT for 1320 ETH was the seventh-largest deal for tokens from the Larva Labs collection conducted on a public marketplace. In first place is the alien Punk #3100, sold for 4200 ETH (~$7.58 million at the time of the deal). <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"587\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/topsales-1024x587.png\" alt=\"Collector nets $1.22 million from CryptoPunk resale in one day\" class=\"wp-image-148248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/topsales-1024x587.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/topsales-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/topsales-768x441.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/topsales.png 1093w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larvalabs.com\/cryptopunks\/topsales?sortByUSD=false\">Larva Labs<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The absolute record belongs to NFT CryptoPunk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larvalabs.com\/cryptopunks\/details\/7523\">#7523<\/a>, also known as the COVID Alien. In June <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sothebys-sold-the-covid-alien-cryptopunk-nft-for-11-8m\">the auction house Sotheby\u2019s sold the token for 4520 ETH<\/a> ($11.8 million at the time of the deal).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Pranksy paid $335,000 for an NFT, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/collector-pays-335000-for-banksy-nft-authenticity-of-the-work-questioned\">allegedly belonging to the anonymous artist Banksy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">VK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An NFT collector, Pranksy, bought a zombie Punk from the popular CryptoPunks collection for 1000 ETH \u2014 about $3.9 million at the time of the deal. On the same day he sold the NFT for 1320 ETH (~$5.12 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48912,"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-48911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"6","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48911","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=48911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48913,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48911\/revisions\/48913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}