As AI expands to create infinite digital items, blockchain will be the backbone to authenticate and understand which have meaning and value and why. In this new era, CryptoPunks will be ancient relics from a pre-historic time. The first CryptoPunks will be even more ancient.
@v1punks are the originals, @cryptopunks are the official. I love collecting the original v1 tokens that were claimed in 2017 but the official collection and community are what built punks into what they are today. I promise it's okay to like & support both💜
The 1952 Topps baseball card set is iconic. Suppose the set was first released with all cards missing their backside print, and then they were fixed and re-released as the official set. The first release would also be iconic.
v1 CryptoPunks are the first release of CryptoPunks.
CryptoPunks, released June 9 2017, are widely considered the most influential NFT collection ever produced.
Artists Matt Hall & John Watkinson, through their company Larva Labs, created 10,000 uniquely generated characters inspired by the London punk scene, cypherpunk movement and Daft Punk.
An experiment in artificial rarity & ownership recorded on the Ethereum blockchain, CryptoPunks would inspire the ERC-721 token standard and help birth the industry we know today.
The impact of their work has changed the lives of many in our space & seen artists all over the world benefit from a new, direct, means to earn a living from their trade, via NFTs. Early claimants and collectors worldwide have seen their lives completely transformed by Punks & many of the most influential and accomplished in our space now choose to use a Punk as their online identity.
To date CryptoPunks have featured in multi-million dollar auctions by both Christie's and Sotheby's and been donated to museums across the world including ICA Miami, LACMA and Centre Pompidou. In 2024, a first-of-its-kind feature-length documentary film is set to be released chronicling the CryptoPunks story.