{"id":55560,"date":"2022-01-08T19:37:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T17:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55560"},"modified":"2025-09-04T02:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:09:15","slug":"moonpay-buys-cryptopunk-nft-for-900-eth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/moonpay-buys-cryptopunk-nft-for-900-eth\/","title":{"rendered":"MoonPay buys CryptoPunk NFT for 900 ETH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MoonPay, a provider of crypto-payment infrastructure, <a href= \"https:\/\/opensea.io\/assets\/0xb47e3cd837ddf8e4c57f05d70ab865de6e193bbb\/2681\">acquired<\/a> NFT CryptoPunk #2681 for 900 ETH (about $2.9 million at the time of the deal).<\/p>\n<p>The token is a pixelated image of a zombie punk in a purple cap with red-blue eyes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-01-08-v-15.21.33-1024x345.png\" alt=\"MoonPay buys CryptoPunk NFT for 900 ETH\" class=\"wp-image-160905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-01-08-v-15.21.33-1024x345.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-01-08-v-15.21.33-300x101.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-01-08-v-15.21.33-768x259.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-01-08-v-15.21.33-1536x517.png 1536w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-01-08-v-15.21.33-2048x690.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larvalabs.com\/cryptopunks\/details\/2681\">Larva Labs<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The moonpay.eth account on the OpenSea marketplace holds 16 NFTs, most of which are non-fungible tokens from the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2021, MoonPay <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/moonpay-raises-555-million-in-series-a-at-a-3-4-billion-valuation\">raised $555 million<\/a>. Following the Series A round, the startup&#8217;s valuation reached $3.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In December, MoonPay launched a concierge service to help celebrities and wealthy clients <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/moonpay-launches-nft-concierge-service-for-celebrities\">buy NFT and digital currencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 crypto news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MoonPay, a crypto-payment infrastructure provider, acquired NFT CryptoPunk #2681 for 900 ETH (about $2.9 million at the time of the deal).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55561,"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":[1432,1629,1213],"class_list":["post-55560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptopunks","tag-moonpay","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55560","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=55560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55562,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55560\/revisions\/55562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}