{"id":57411,"date":"2022-02-09T09:54:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T07:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=57411"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:36:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:36:20","slug":"sothebys-to-auction-104-cryptopunks-nfts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/sothebys-to-auction-104-cryptopunks-nfts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sotheby\u2019s to auction 104 CryptoPunks NFTs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The auction house Sotheby\u2019s will hold a sale of a set of 104 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) from the CryptoPunks collection.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CryptoPunks get the Sotheby\u2019s treatment. Our next <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SothebysMetaverse?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SothebysMetaverse<\/a> sale \u2018Punk It! 104 CryptoPunks. 1 Lot.\u2019 will be a landmark LIVE Evening Auction on February 23. A truly historic sale for an undeniably historic NFT project. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LAu6j8Atu3\">pic.twitter.com\/LAu6j8Atu3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sotheby\u2019s (@Sothebys) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sothebys\/status\/1491094798526476288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The auction will be held on February 23 in a live-auction format in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Participants are also promised a VIP Punk dinner and an afterparty with DJ Seedphrase.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, the Larva Labs team launched the CryptoPunks project consisting of 10,000 24&#215;24-pixel NFT images. Initially, many NFTs from this collection were distributed for free.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2021, Sotheby\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sothebys-sells-bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-set-by-yuga-labs-for-24-4-million\">sold a set of 107 NFTs from the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection<\/a> by Yuga Labs for $24.4 million. The final price significantly exceeded the top estimate of $18 million.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2021, an unknown <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/rare-cryptopunk-nft-sells-for-a-record-10-3-million\">purchased<\/a> a rare CryptoPunk #4156 for 2,500 ETH (about $10.26 million at the time of the deal).<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022, the crypto-payments infrastructure provider MoonPay <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/moonpay-buys-cryptopunk-nft-for-900-eth\">purchased<\/a> NFT #2681 from the same collection for 900 ETH (about $2.9 million).<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 23, Sotheby\u2019s will auction a set of 104 CryptoPunks NFTs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57412,"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":[526,1432,1213],"class_list":["post-57411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-auction","tag-cryptopunks","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57411","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=57411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57413,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57411\/revisions\/57413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}