{"id":11300,"date":"2024-03-05T10:28:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T08:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/cryptopunk-sells-for-16-million-becoming-second-most-expensive\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T10:28:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T08:28:06","slug":"cryptopunk-sells-for-16-million-becoming-second-most-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/cryptopunk-sells-for-16-million-becoming-second-most-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"CryptoPunk Sells for $16 Million, Becoming Second Most Expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 4, CryptoPunk #3100, one of the nine so-called &#8220;alien punks,&#8221; was <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopunks.app\/cryptopunks\/details\/3100\">sold for 4500 ETH<\/a> ($16.03 million).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Opera-Snimok_2024-03-05_092646_cryptopunks.app_.webp\" alt=\"Opera-Snimok_2024-03-05_092646_cryptopunks.app_\" class=\"wp-image-227413\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: CryptoPunks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the CryptoPunks platform, this sale is the second most expensive transaction involving a CryptoPunk in the history of the NFT collection, both in dollars and in ether. <\/p>\n<p>The seller surpassed a previous offer of 4250 ETH, amounting to $14.56 million, made on March 1.<\/p>\n<p>The transaction moved CryptoPunk #3100 from third to second place in terms of value on the marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/data\/nft-non-fungible-tokens\/art-collectibles\/ethereum-art-and-collectibles-nft-trade-volume\">The Block<\/a>, last week&#8217;s CryptoPunk sales totaled $8.25 million.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/data\/nft-non-fungible-tokens\/art-collectibles\/ethereum-art-and-collectibles-nft-trade-volume\/embed\" title=\"Ethereum Art and Collectibles NFT Trade Volume\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the floor prices of leading collections\u2014Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunk\u2014fell by 57.6% and 13.8%, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>In February 2024, a rare non-fungible token #1726 from the BAYC collection was sold <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/rare-bayc-nft-sells-for-275-eth\">for 275 ETH<\/a> (~$688,000 at the time of the transaction).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 4, CryptoPunk #3100, one of the nine so-called &#8220;alien punks,&#8221; was sold for 4500 ETH ($16.03 million). Data: CryptoPunks. According to the CryptoPunks platform, this sale is the second most expensive transaction involving a CryptoPunk in the history of the NFT collection, both in dollars and in ether. The seller surpassed a previous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1432,1213],"class_list":["post-11300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptopunks","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}