Rare NFT Cryptopunk #5822 brought developers 8,000 ETH or almost $24 million.
One of the nine existing "alien" CryptoPunks was purchased for a whopping $23.8 million. The sale doubled last year's record of $11.8 million.
Record millions were paid by the head of the blockchain company Chain, Deepak Thapliyal. At the same time, the collector used DeFi - the Compound Finance protocol, taking out a loan as collateral for cryptocurrencies. For this credit, the NFT was purchased directly from CryptoPunks Larva Labs.
B June last year saw the first record sale of the CryptoPunk collection. Millionaire Shalom Mekenzie paid almost $12 million for CryptoPunk No. 7523.
The club of CryptoPunks owners is constantly replenished with famous names. The volume of secondary trade in the CryptoPunks collection amounted to more than $2 billion. At the same time, “alien” punks are incredibly rare: there are only nine of them.
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