9 CryptoPunks sell for $17M at Christie’s auction house

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Famed New York auction house, Christie’s hosted the sale of nine CryptoPunks NFTs for nearly $17 million.

Despite the recent NFT frenzy starting to cool, prized nonfungible tokens with historical significance are still fetching multi-million dollar prices.

On May 12, famed New York-based auction house, Christie’s, tweeted that an auction for nine tokens from pioneering NFT CryptoPunks had cleared for nearly $17 million combined.

Despite the tokens fetching millions, some Twitter users speculated that the winning bidder scored a bargain.

CryptoPunks were launched by LarvaLabs in 2017, and were limited to 10,000 tokens in total. The NFTs depict randomly generated pixelated portraits with unique features inspired by the London punk movement, such as hair styles, jewellery, and sunglasses.

Ahead of the auction, Christie’s teamed up with non-profit and urban art proponent SaveArtSpace to display CryptoPunks in public spaces in New York. The public exhibition, dubbed Pixelated, is showcasing 193 CryptoPunks from May 10 until June 6, and expands a similar public exhibition of CryptoPunks held in Miami during April.

Adult streaming platform, CamSoda, is also jumping on the CryptoPunk bandwagon, announcing it will host a live no-reserve auction of CryptoPunk #7060 on May 13. Auction attendees must deposit the grand total of at least $1 worth of crypto assets into their CamSoda account to participate. 

CamSoda’s vice president, Daryn Parker, stated: “Right now we are in the midst of a NFT gold rush. NFTs are crypto’s hottest investment space so far in 2021, with millions in trades and rare collectibles like CryptoPunks selling for huge sums.”

“Given how CryptoPunks have captured the mainstream crypto zeitgeist, we wanted to make one easily accessible to our users,” he added.

In February, Christie’s auctioned famed digital artist Beeple’s “Everydays” NFT collection for more than $69 million.

Source: Christie’s / Larva Labs

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