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By Taylor Locke, CNBC • Updated on May 12, 2021 at 3:13 pm Dia Dipasupil | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images In a historic NFT auction, a collection of CryptoPunks sold for nearly $17 million on Tuesday at Christie's. Not a bad sale price for NFTs that were originally giveaways. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. CryptoPunks are an assortment of 24x24 pixelated avatars, each one of a kind with unique features and accessories. They began as one of the first NFT projects in 2017. In fact, CryptoPunks' creators, Lar...

By Taylor Locke, CNBC • Updated 1 hour ago Dia Dipasupil | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images In a historic NFT auction, a collection of CryptoPunks sold for nearly $17 million on Tuesday at Christie's. Not a bad sale price for NFTs that were originally giveaways. Download our NBC DFW mobile app for Apple or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. CryptoPunks are an assortment of 24x24 pixelated avatars, each one of a kind with unique features and accessories. They began as one of the first NFT projects in 2017. In fact, CryptoPunks' creators, Larva Lab ...

CryptoPunks NFT bundle goes for $17 million in Christie’s auction A lot of 9 CryptoPunks portraits ended up selling for just under $17 million in a Christie’s auction Tuesday evening, marking another substantial moment for NFT art sales. The lot of pixelated portraits were from the collection of the NFT platform’s co-creators Matt Hall and John Watkinson. The CryptoPunks platform is one of the first NFT projects on the Ethereum blockchain. Back in 2017, ten thousand of the procedurally generated characters were given away for free. In the years since, a vibrant NFT community has develop...

The nine Punks are being sold as one lot. May 10, 2021 Nine CryptoPunks being offered at Christie's 21st Century Evening sale on May 13, 2021. Courtesy of Christie's. This week, CryptoPunks are the talk of the town. Christie’s is auctioning off a single lot of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, representing a collection of nine CryptoPunks at its 21st century evening sale on May 13 in New York. The auction house expects the lot to go for between $7 million and $9 million, either in actual dollars or cryptocurrency—though, let’s be honest, most likely it will sell for cryptocurrency. The simp...

CryptoPunks Owner Debuts New NFT Project Dubbed Meebits May 4 2021 · 18:48 UTC | Updated May 4 2021 · 18:49 by Benjamin Godfrey · 3 min read Photo: Larva Labs Blog You have successfully joined our subscriber list. Larva Labs is looking to build a marketplace where owners of Meebits can easily trade their assets with one another, mimicking the market being designed to support CryptoPunks. The brain behind the iconic CryptoPunks Non-Fungible Token (NFT) project, Larva Labs are pushing forth a new game-changing innovation Dubbed Meebits. As detailed in a blog post published by Larva Labs ...