I mapped 4,000 CryptoPunks holders to see how the OG NFT community connects.
Same rules as before - if two wallets own NFTs from the same collection, they're linked. But the Punks ecosystem tells a completely different story.
Average degree of 75 (vs 6.4 in my last post) means each Punk holder shares collections with ~75 other holders. That's over 10x more connected! The Punks community isn't just wealthy - they're incredibly active collectors with similar taste.
Here's the wild part: average path length is only 2.14. That means you're typically just 2 hops away from any other Punk holder. Pick any two random Punk owners - they probably have a mutual friend. It's like the entire ecosystem is one giant group chat.
Network diameter of 6 means the furthest apart any two holders can be is 6 connections. For context, Facebook's entire global network has a diameter of about 4-5. So 4,000 Punk holders are almost as tightly connected as billions of Facebook users.
The density here is insane - this isn't just a community, it's practically a small town where everyone knows everyone. Compare this to the fragmented clusters in my previous analysis. Punks holders move as a pack.
TL;DR: If NFT communities were cities, most collections look like sprawling suburbs with distinct neighborhoods. CryptoPunks is Manhattan - dense, connected, and everyone's in everyone else's business.
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#cryptopunks community:
https://t.co/qlSps410mL will allow any Punk owner to easily wrap and unwrap again. We have refactored the codebase and improved the UI.
The new UI is live already at https://t.co/G3MigND7A9
As part of the Punks Restoration Project the hand off of the CryptoPunks wrapper from @robi_air and his team at @arkgallerydao to @yugalabs is now complete. Punk holders can use https://t.co/uhJ7R9cP3e as the official home of the Punk wrapper moving forward.