{"id":35254,"date":"2021-01-24T11:04:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T09:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35254"},"modified":"2025-08-29T00:26:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:26:56","slug":"rare-nft-sold-for-762000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/rare-nft-sold-for-762000\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare NFT sold for $762,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nine alien punks, released in 2017 as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), was purchased for 605 ETH \u2014 about $762 000 at the time of the sale.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Punk 2890 bought for 605 ETH ($761,888.57 USD) by 0x24c5eb from 0x6611fe. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p5IvIq3MnB\">https:\/\/t.co\/p5IvIq3MnB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cryptopunks?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cryptopunks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ethereum?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ethereum<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xq8Cl2imKV\">pic.twitter.com\/xq8Cl2imKV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CryptoPunks Bot (@cryptopunksbot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cryptopunksbot\/status\/1353058374816944134?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The buyer of the token put up for sale on Saturday, January 23, was FlamingoDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that invests in collectible digital items.<\/p>\n<p>Its representative Priyanka Desai told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/early-cryptopunk-digital-collectible-sells-for-762k-in-ether\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CoinDesk<\/a> that this is the organization&apos;s most expensive purchase to date. It has about 40 members, and the community&apos;s combined capital amounts to 4800 ETH.<\/p>\n<p>FlamingoDAO members approved the purchase within 25 minutes, Desai noted.<\/p>\n<p>The CryptoPunk acquired by the organization last sold in July 2017 for 8 ETH, or $2,127.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPeople regard it as a collectible that has significant importance in the history of NFTs,\u201d Desai said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The official FlamingoDAO Twitter account confirmed the purchase with a meme.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BwKa6481hm\">pic.twitter.com\/BwKa6481hm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83e\udda9FLAMINGO\ud83e\udda9 (@FLAMINGODAO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLAMINGODAO\/status\/1353062263154872320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There are a total of nine alien punks, created long before the famous CryptoKitties.<\/p>\n<p>On the new class of assets that NFTs have become, read Dmitry Bondar&apos;s series for ForkLog magazine. <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nfts-as-a-new-class-of-virtual-assets-a-first-look-part-one\">First<\/a> part \u2014 an introduction to the market of non-fungible tokens. <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nfts-as-a-new-class-of-digital-assets-bitcoin-and-collectibles\">Second<\/a> part discusses the deep kinship between cryptocurrencies and collectibles, and in <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nft-as-a-new-class-of-virtual-assets-prospects-part-two\">Third<\/a> \u2014 the prospects for NFTs.<\/p>\n<p>The creator of the animated series &#8216;Rick and Morty&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/creator-of-rick-and-morty-sells-debut-crypto-art-collection-for-1-65-million-in-ethereum\">sold the debut NFT collection<\/a> for 1300 ETH.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&apos;s news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news stream, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nine alien punks, released in 2017 as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), was purchased for 605 ETH \u2014 about $762,000 at the time of the sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1213],"class_list":["post-35254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35254","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=35254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35256,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35254\/revisions\/35256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}