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Christie’s sells NFTs: this time there are the $ 9 million CryptoPunks\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A new auction of digital works of art in NFT could once again break the art market<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only a month has passed since the record auction<\/a> that saw Beeple<\/a> and Christie’s as protagonists and since then the world of art has undergone a real revolution: the phenomenon of Crypto Art has definitively exploded and now the English auction house is ready to sell, for the second time, works of art in NFT<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christie’s announced that on the evening of May 13 in New York during the Evening Sale dedicated to contemporary art, a batch of “CryptoPunks” – a cult series of NFT characters on the Ethereum<\/a> blockchain, will be on sale, estimated at between $ 7. and the $ 9 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created in 2017 by Matt Hall and John Watkinson<\/strong>, developers of Larva Labs<\/strong> (an agency specializing in technology projects), the \u201cCryptoPunks\u201d take the form of old 8-bit video game avatars. Each of them has its own appearance and differ from each other in the features of the face, the color of the eyes and \/ or hair and other physical characteristics that, after release, cannot be changed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Noah Davis, Christie’s specialist, the “CryptoPunks” are “the alpha and omega of the crypto movement”. For some, they symbolize the anti-establishment and rupture spirit that characterized Crypto Art in its early days and evoke the London punk scene of the 1970s or the dystopian atmospheres of films like “Blade Runner”.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet for others their meaning remains a mystery, so much so that Charles Stewart, CEO of Sotheby’s, even wondered if they were art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond these statements, however, it is necessary to underline how the high amount requested brings with it a double question: if on the one hand such an important sum can mean a further affirmation for the NFT market, on the other it is right to underline how may be a symptom of a cooling. It should be borne in mind that before the extraordinary sale of Beeple at Christie’s on March 11, another pair of “CryptoPunks” had been sold for $ 7.5 million each. A group of 9 is now expected to be beaten for the same amount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prices of NFTs, in fact, in the last period have started to decrease more and more: from the average $ 4,000 in mid-February, they have gone down to $ 1,400 in recent days, with an estimated drop of 70%. However, the demand for \u201cCryptoPunks\u201d remains high: recently, in fact, there have been 388 sales of these works which alone generated $ 20.5 million in total revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lot that will be sold in May brings with it a peculiarity that bodes well: the group of characters depicted also includes a very rare blue-skinned “alien” that belongs to a subset of the most sought after “punk”. In fact, there are only 9 examples of this family, making the work a real collector’s item that cannot be found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo credits: Nicolas Asfouri\/Afp Via Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you, are you curious to see a new record?\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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