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CryptoPunks

10,000 unique collectible characters with proof of ownership stored on the Ethereum blockchain. The project that inspired the modern CryptoArt movement. Selected press and appearances include Mashable, CNBC, The Financial Times, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, The Paris Review, Salon, The Outline, BreakerMag, Christie's of London, Art|Basel, The PBS NewsHour, The New York Times in 2018 and again in 2021. The Cryptopunks are one of the earliest examples of a "Non-Fungible Token" on Ethereum, and were inspiration for the ERC-721 standard that powers most digital art and collectibles.

The CryptoPunks are 10,000 uniquely generated characters. No two are exactly alike, and each one of them can be officially owned by a single person on the Ethereum blockchain. Originally, they could be claimed for free by anybody with an Ethereum wallet, but all 10,000 were quickly claimed. Now they must be purchased from someone via the marketplace that's also embedded in the blockchain. Via this market you can buy, bid on, and offer punks for sale. Below, you'll find information about the status of each Punk in the market. Punks with a blue background are not for sale and have no current bids. Punks with a red background are available for sale by their owner. Finally, punks with a purple background have an active bid on them.

See the marketplace instructions below to acquire your very own punk. You should also join the Discord Chat, which includes a bot that announces all bids, offers and sales in realtime.

Overall Stats

Current Lowest Price Punk Available
26.24 ETH ($70,903.89 USD)
Number of Sales (Last 12 Months)
1,662
Total Value of All Sales (Lifetime)
1.16MΞ ($2.96B)
Value of Sales (24 Hours)
219.91Ξ ($572.8K)
Value of Sales (Week)
662.37Ξ ($1.68M)
Value of Sales (4 Weeks)
3.4KΞ ($8.71M)

Largest Sales
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Punk 1563
1
24KΞ ($56.25M)
Oct 03, 2024
Punk 5822
2
8KΞ ($23.7M)
Feb 12, 2022
Punk 7804
3
4.85KΞ ($16.41M)
Mar 20, 2024
Punk 3100
4
4.5KΞ ($15.94M)
Mar 04, 2024
Punk 3100
5
4.2KΞ ($7.58M)
Mar 11, 2021
Punk 7804
6
4.2KΞ ($7.57M)
Mar 11, 2021
Punk 0635
7
4KΞ ($12.51M)
Apr 25, 2024
Punk 2924
8
3.3KΞ ($4.45M)
Sep 28, 2022
Punk 4156
9
2.69KΞ ($3.31M)
Jul 15, 2022
Punk 5577
10
2.5KΞ ($7.7M)
Feb 09, 2022
Punk 4464
11
2.5KΞ ($2.6M)
Jul 12, 2022
Punk 4156
12
2.5KΞ ($10.26M)
Dec 09, 2021

Recent Transactions
Updated 14 seconds ago

Punk 5965
New bid of 22.50Ξ ($60,798)
Punk 1626
Offered for 37.99Ξ ($102,654)
Punk 9299
Offered for 34.95Ξ ($94,439)
Punk 5192
Offered for 37.50Ξ ($101,330)
Punk 7409
New bid of 30.50Ξ ($82,415)
Punk 7409
Offered for 47Ξ ($127,000)
Punk 5965
Offered for 26.24Ξ ($70,904)
Punk 5772
Bought for 34.44Ξ ($93,061)
Punk 5772
Offered for 34.44Ξ ($93,061)
Punk 5772
New bid of 32.90Ξ ($88,900)
Punk 1221
New bid of 45Ξ ($121,596)
Punk 8179
Offered for 33.33Ξ ($90,062)

For Sale

The lowest price punk currently for sale is 26.24 ETH ($70,903.89 USD).
Showing most recent offers, click here to see all 1,079.

Punk 5965Punk 2959Punk 7123Punk 6998Punk 7056Punk 7073Punk 8661Punk 5991Punk 7136Punk 6792Punk 8476Punk 5418Punk 7115Punk 7703Punk 6401Punk 2808Punk 6898Punk 7885Punk 8812Punk 0543Punk 1804Punk 4059Punk 8834Punk 3483Punk 9938Punk 3013Punk 5168Punk 1024Punk 1039Punk 1040Punk 1564Punk 4784Punk 7327Punk 1347Punk 7170Punk 1026Punk 5335Punk 4214Punk 4409Punk 4765Punk 6820Punk 9178Punk 0494Punk 2966Punk 7218Punk 8212Punk 8818Punk 6878Punk 5352Punk 2529Punk 3696Punk 8129Punk 8916Punk 8751Punk 3667Punk 2032Punk 3143Punk 7525Punk 8178Punk 8760Punk 7806Punk 2220Punk 8145Punk 5882Punk 8582Punk 4637Punk 7502Punk 8336Punk 9076Punk 2972Punk 8179Punk 9016Punk 9881Punk 6253Punk 1628Punk 1753Punk 5643Punk 1331Punk 3320Punk 7067Punk 1930Punk 3302Punk 9299Punk 0965Punk 2863Punk 4447Punk 9528Punk 1008Punk 1051Punk 1076Punk 1085Punk 1129Punk 3461Punk 3823Punk 5551Punk 5657Punk 2643Punk 9873Punk 1647Punk 2342Punk 6076Punk 6117Punk 8182Punk 8497Punk 7157Punk 2965Punk 5877Punk 8334Punk 1317Punk 6828

Bids

The average bid over the last year was 51.03 ETH ($137,901.00 USD).
The average currently open bid is 16.53 ETH ($44,677.26 USD).
Total value of all current bids is 859.77 ETH ($2,323,217.75 USD).
Showing most recent bids, click here to see all 52.

Punk 6915Punk 9962Punk 0704Punk 1626Punk 3373Punk 4418Punk 3970Punk 3474Punk 9103Punk 3443Punk 5746Punk 0685Punk 2151Punk 0443Punk 1064Punk 6685Punk 7146Punk 1863Punk 0106Punk 0412Punk 1804Punk 4811Punk 5432Punk 5991Punk 8351Punk 9368Punk 3100Punk 9747Punk 7056Punk 1681Punk 7803Punk 5822Punk 5919Punk 8511Punk 0669Punk 1482Punk 0456Punk 2022Punk 4109Punk 5052Punk 6981Punk 5676Punk 1024Punk 3307Punk 9546Punk 9954Punk 0096Punk 2338Punk 4394Punk 0741Punk 1309Punk 1563

Sales

The average sale price of a punk over the last year is 699.77 ETH ($1,890,867.73 USD).
The total value of punks sold over the last year is 117,918.49 ETH ($318,631,066.08 USD).
Showing most recent sales, click here to see all 26,118.

Punk 5772Punk 2257Punk 9589Punk 7769Punk 5508Punk 4381Punk 3970Punk 5432Punk 9589Punk 7123Punk 4700Punk 8836Punk 7077Punk 5064Punk 7077Punk 6792Punk 6170Punk 0705Punk 4420Punk 1923Punk 4420Punk 6223Punk 5491Punk 1338Punk 2755Punk 2755Punk 7427Punk 7922Punk 6858Punk 4568Punk 4376Punk 7922Punk 6356Punk 8514Punk 3143Punk 1587Punk 4480Punk 1175Punk 4089Punk 0237Punk 8651Punk 7427Punk 9962Punk 7703Punk 4640Punk 5051Punk 1914Punk 4281Punk 5185Punk 9016Punk 5508Punk 6785Punk 9141Punk 1626Punk 6153Punk 4871Punk 0692Punk 7808Punk 1663Punk 3459Punk 1452Punk 4891Punk 5551Punk 8340Punk 3380Punk 3097Punk 8659Punk 9662Punk 6031Punk 6883Punk 8135Punk 0586Punk 6409Punk 2755Punk 6604Punk 4537Punk 1073Punk 9425Punk 7157Punk 2632Punk 2632Punk 4537Punk 8123Punk 6583Punk 6153Punk 7952Punk 3274Punk 5055Punk 4164Punk 3682Punk 8205Punk 2164Punk 3082Punk 2503Punk 8135Punk 3342Punk 8178Punk 4576Punk 5882Punk 3342Punk 6318Punk 6583Punk 6170Punk 8331Punk 7476Punk 3654Punk 1659Punk 1184Punk 9060Punk 8325

Wrapped

721 punks are "wrapped" for sale on ERC-721 markets, see wrappedpunks.com for more details.
Showing by punk number, click here to see all wrapped punks or view them on OpenSea.

Punk 0014Punk 0197Punk 0318Punk 0349Punk 0352Punk 0402Punk 0423Punk 0431Punk 0441Punk 0471Punk 0488Punk 0489Punk 0547Punk 0608Punk 0628Punk 0675Punk 0705Punk 0717Punk 0729Punk 0853Punk 0880Punk 0927Punk 0952Punk 0974Punk 0983Punk 1035Punk 1054Punk 1068Punk 1071Punk 1093Punk 1140Punk 1166Punk 1167Punk 1209Punk 1235Punk 1246Punk 1247Punk 1288Punk 1306Punk 1308Punk 1313Punk 1322Punk 1364Punk 1366Punk 1372Punk 1393Punk 1405Punk 1411Punk 1414Punk 1417Punk 1426Punk 1434Punk 1441Punk 1449Punk 1453Punk 1461Punk 1462Punk 1467Punk 1473Punk 1500Punk 1512Punk 1514Punk 1561Punk 1571Punk 1593Punk 1596Punk 1612Punk 1621Punk 1623Punk 1644Punk 1670Punk 1678Punk 1693Punk 1702Punk 1707Punk 1716Punk 1719Punk 1733Punk 1747Punk 1754Punk 1769Punk 1776Punk 1785Punk 1803Punk 1818Punk 1820Punk 1824Punk 1830Punk 1849Punk 1866Punk 1867Punk 1873Punk 1887Punk 1906Punk 1940Punk 1956Punk 1976Punk 2008Punk 2020Punk 2039Punk 2041Punk 2046Punk 2055Punk 2067Punk 2074Punk 2100Punk 2119Punk 2127Punk 2146Punk 2152

What is a CryptoPunk?

The CryptoPunks are 24x24 pixel art images, generated algorithmically. Most are punky-looking guys and girls, but there are a few rarer types mixed in: Apes, Zombies and even the odd Alien. Every punk has their own profile page that shows their attributes as well as their ownership/for-sale status (here's an example).

What exactly is going on here?

Cryptocurrency was made famous by Bitcoin, but Bitcoin is designed just to transact and store ownership of Bitcoin itself. We are using a successor to Bitcoin called Ethereum which allows for arbitrary computer code to be executed on the blockchain and the results of the execution to be stored forever. This is pretty cool! Normally code is run on a server somewhere and you basically need to trust the person running the server. Ethereum lets everyone execute the code, show each other what result they got, and agree that the code was executed properly and fairly.

We have written code that lives on the blockchain that anyone can use to buy and sell Punks with anyone else in the world. An interesting aspect of this system is that we no longer have any control over the code running CryptoPunks! Once we released it onto the blockchain it became permanently embedded there and can no longer be modified by anyone. This is scary for us as developers because we worry about bugs, but it is also a very powerful feature of the system. It allows a user verify that there are indeed only 10,000 punks, check that we can't steal them from you, and basically make sure that everything we told you about the code is true.

How do I get a Punk?

  1. Download and install a Chrome browser plugin called MetaMask. This will allow websites (that you authorize) access to your Ethereum account.
  2. If you made a new account, buy some Ether. The MetaMask plugin has a button that will allow you to buy Ether from Coinbase.
  3. Once you have the plugin installed, this website will recognize it and add buttons that allow you to bid on, buy and sell punks directly in the interface.
  4. For example, you can buy Punk #5965 for 26.24 ETH ($70,903.89 USD).

Details and FAQ

  • Where are the images for the punks stored?
  • When originally released, the actual images of the punks were too large to store on the blockchain, so we took a hash of the composite image of all the punks and embeded it into the contract. You can verify that the punks being managed by the Ethereum contract are the True Official Genuine CryptoPunks™ by calculating an SHA256 hash on the cryptopunks image and comparing it to the hash stored in the contract.
  • Since then, due to some clever compression ideas and some help from friends of the punks we have managed to put the entire image and attribute data fully on chain. You can read more about the mechanisms and details of the process in the announcement blog post.
  • Are the punks an ERC-721 token?
  • No. The CryptoPunks pre-date the ERC-721 standard and are a custom contract, that means it doesn't comply with any standards. They are almost an ERC20 token. We support the methods that provide your balance so you can watch CryptoPunks as a token in your wallet and see how many you own. None of the other methods are the same since you're not transferring a simple balance, but need to reference which specific Punk you want to work with.
  • Where does the market data on this site come from?
  • The prices, bids and sales you see on this site are loaded from the Cryptopunks contract on the Ethereum blockchain. Because the Cryptopunks pre-date the ERC-721 standard (and all third party NFT marketplaces) we also needed to write a market so the punks could be transacted. We have no control over the contract governing this market, and have no access to any additional data beyond what the blockchain provides. In fact anyone else could write a web front end for it.
  • Do you charge any fees for transactions?
  • No. We charge no fees for Cryptopunks transacted through the built-in market beyond the ones charged by Ethereum (gas).
  • The contract source and more technical details are available on Github.

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