CNBC

An NFT collector accidentally destroyed a $129,000 CryptoPunk: 'This is truly a devastating mistake for me'

With one wrong move, a non-fungible token (NFT) collector made a very costly mistake. On March 25, Brandon Riley tweeted that he accidentally destroyed his CryptoPunk #685, an NFT he had purchased ...
Artnet

How an NFT Collector Lost His CryptoPunk in a Hack—and Recovered It With Fundraising Help From His ‘#CommUNITY’

As you read this, CryptoPunk #3706, the subject of a January 3 hack that saw it furtively swiped from its holder’s crypto wallet, is safely back with its rightful owner, CryptoNovo. How it was ...
Artnet

Did a CryptoPunk NFT Just Sell for $500 Million? Sort of, in a Transaction That Illuminates How the NFT Market Differs From the Art Market

On Thursday night, a CryptoPunk with wild hair and black lipstick, traits that aren’t particularly rare as far as the pixelated NFT characters go, sold for an eye-popping half a billion dollars—in ...
Shacknews

Individual buys CryptoPunk NFT from themselves for record $530 million

A cryptocurrency transaction made some serious waves on Thursday night when a CryptoPunk non-fungible-token (NFT) was purchased for an unfathomable $530 million or 124,460 Ethereum (ETH). This would ...
TweakTown

CryptoPunk Alien NFT sells for $23.6 million (8,000 ETH)

Chain.com CEO Deepak Thapliyal just purchased CryptoPunk#5822 for $23.6 million, or 8,000 ETH, making it the most expensive NFT in the CryptoPunk collection. This is also the fourth largest NFT ...