{"id":247391,"date":"2021-05-12T07:13:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T04:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/9-cryptopunks-sell-for-17m-at-christies-auction-house\/"},"modified":"2021-05-12T07:13:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T04:13:36","slug":"9-cryptopunks-sell-for-17m-at-christies-auction-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/9-cryptopunks-sell-for-17m-at-christies-auction-house\/","title":{"rendered":"# 9 CryptoPunks sell for $17M at Christie\u2019s auction house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># 9 CryptoPunks sell for $17M at Christie\u2019s auction house <\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-5a136f3a>Despite the recent NFT frenzy starting to cool, prized nonfungible tokens with historical significance are still fetching multi-million dollar prices.<\/p>\n<p>On May 12, famed New York-based auction house, Christie\u2019s, tweeted that an auction for nine tokens from pioneering NFT CryptoPunks had cleared for nearly <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristiesInc\/status\/1392282036417728519\">$17 million<\/a> combined.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the tokens fetching millions, some <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> users speculated that the winning bidder scored a bargain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I thought they&#8217;d go for more myself also.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 VeryBadAcid (@acid_very) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acid_very\/status\/1392315040921960450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>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.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the auction, Christie\u2019s teamed up with non-profit and urban art proponent SaveArtSpace to display CryptoPunks in public spaces in New York. The public exhibition, dubbed <em>Pixelated<\/em>, is showcasing 193 CryptoPunks from May 10 until June 6, and expands a similar public exhibition of CryptoPunks held in Miami during April.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Join the Punk Hunt! We&#8217;ve teamed with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saveartspace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@saveartspace<\/a> to present Pixelated, a month-long, New York City-wide public art exhibition of Larva Labs&#8217; CryptoPunks.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for the location of each CryptoPunk ahead of our sale of 9 CryptoPunks tomorrow: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eGzzDKlN2R\">https:\/\/t.co\/eGzzDKlN2R<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uANRFujqCI\">pic.twitter.com\/uANRFujqCI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christie&#8217;s (@ChristiesInc) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristiesInc\/status\/1391871914776354820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CamSoda\u2019s vice president, Daryn Parker, stated: \u201cRight now we are in the midst of a NFT gold rush. NFTs are crypto\u2019s hottest investment space so far in 2021, with millions in trades and rare collectibles like CryptoPunks selling for huge sums.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven how CryptoPunks have captured the mainstream crypto zeitgeist, we wanted to make one easily accessible to our users,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Christie\u2019s auctioned famed digital artist Beeple\u2019s \u201cEverydays\u201d NFT collection for more than $69 million.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2021-05\/7b692b99-5b02-4f0a-8367-17e0bdf8b9a7.JPG\"><figcaption style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Source: Christie\u2019s \/ Larva Labs<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"defi_newsletter\"><\/template><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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On May 12, famed New York-based auction house, Christie\u2019s, tweeted that an auction for nine tokens from pioneering NFT CryptoPunks had cleared for nearly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDUvZjkzZjhiMzItMjk0MS00ZDk1LTk4YmUtNzg1MTY3OWFhZjc1LmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[95118,116,67880,117],"class_list":["post-247391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-nft","tag-art","tag-auction","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}