9 Amazing Facts About CryptoPunks NFTs That You Didn’t Know

Cryptopunks are one of the most publicised and well-known NFT projects. And they are highly valuable as they were one of the first NFT implementations.

While the majority of NFTs are images stored on IPFS and recorded on blockchain, Cryptopunks are unique in the sense that each of the 10,000 “punks” (which are 24×24-pixel images) is coded onto a blockchain.

Here are some of the amazing facts about the CryptoPunks NFT Collection:

1. Cryptopunks, developed by Larva Labs, were given away for free when the project launched in 2017. The sole condition for ownership was an Ethereum wallet.

2. John Watkinson and Matt Hall are the designers and developers of this NFT collection. The project began as an experiment with the intention of entertaining people, but it rapidly grew into something much larger and more valuable.

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3. Watkinson and Hall modelled the punks on the mid-1970s London punk scene, William Gibson’s 1984 science fiction novel Neuromancer, the 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner, and the cyberpunk movement ( which originated from the French electronic music duo Daft Punk).

4. Each of the 10,000 CryptoPunks (6,039 male and 3,840 female) was algorithmically created by computer code, thus no two characters are precisely same, with certain attributes being rarer than others.

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5. There are 696 punks wearing hot lipstick and 303 with muttonchops. There are 286 punks wearing 3-D glasses, 128 with rosy cheeks, 94 with pigtails, 78 with buck teeth, and 44 with a beanie.

6. The majority of the 10,000 cryptopunks are humans; however, there are three special types: zombies (88), apes (24), and aliens (9).

7. The blockchain developers, working for Larva Labs, gave away 9,000 cryptopunks for free, while they kept 1,000.

8. Celebrities like Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, and Serena Williams, among others, own CryptoPunks.

9. An anonymous user sent CryptoPunk #5364 to the Ukraine government’s public Ethereum wallet address on March 2, 2022, as a donation to help fund the Ukrainian government’s defence against the Russian invasion.

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