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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
42 ETH ($87,052.98 USD)
Number of Sales (Last 12 Months)
1,964
Total Value of All Sales (Lifetime)
1.21MΞ ($3.1B)
Value of Sales (24 Hours)
860.37Ξ ($1.78M)
Value of Sales (Week)
3.1KΞ ($6.24M)
Value of Sales (4 Weeks)
9.09KΞ ($18.8M)
Top Punk Owners
All Punk Types and Attributes

Largest Sales
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Punk 1563
1
#1563
24KΞ ($56.25M)
Oct 03, 2024
Punk 5822
2
#5822
8KΞ ($23.7M)
Feb 12, 2022
Punk 7804
3
#7804
4.85KΞ ($16.41M)
Mar 20, 2024
Punk 3100
4
#3100
4.5KΞ ($15.94M)
Mar 04, 2024
Punk 3100
5
#3100
4.2KΞ ($7.58M)
Mar 11, 2021
Punk 7804
6
#7804
4.2KΞ ($7.57M)
Mar 11, 2021
Punk 0635
7
#635
4KΞ ($12.51M)
Apr 25, 2024
Punk 2924
8
#2924
3.3KΞ ($4.45M)
Sep 28, 2022
Punk 4156
9
#4156
2.69KΞ ($3.31M)
Jul 15, 2022
Punk 5577
10
#5577
2.5KΞ ($7.7M)
Feb 09, 2022
Punk 4464
11
#4464
2.5KΞ ($2.6M)
Jul 12, 2022
Punk 4156
12
#4156
2.5KΞ ($10.26M)
Dec 09, 2021

Recent Transactions
Updated 15 seconds ago

Punk 4390
New bid of 42Ξ ($87,053)
Punk 5107
Offered for 150Ξ ($310,903)
Punk 4390
New bid of 41.90Ξ ($86,846)
Punk 4390
Offered for 43.49Ξ ($90,141)
Punk 8058
New bid of 39.60Ξ ($82,079)
Punk 8058
New bid of 39.60Ξ ($82,079)
Punk 9068
New bid of 39.90Ξ ($82,700)
Punk 9068
Offered for 43.70Ξ ($90,577)
Punk 9068
Transferred to 0xe59a7b
Punk 9068
Transferred to 0x000000
Punk 4653
New bid of 95Ξ ($196,906)
Punk 2978
Offered for 77Ξ ($159,597)

For Sale

The lowest price punk currently for sale is 42 ETH ($87,052.98 USD).
Showing most recent offers, click here to see all 979.

Punk 7662Punk 6193Punk 6480Punk 8089Punk 9088Punk 6481Punk 2043Punk 8730Punk 4390Punk 8249Punk 9068Punk 5338Punk 4875Punk 7020Punk 2517Punk 6689Punk 3771Punk 8237Punk 3593Punk 8688Punk 1817Punk 3846Punk 5295Punk 1930Punk 8384Punk 2666Punk 7136Punk 8381Punk 2265Punk 8716Punk 1341Punk 5036Punk 5190Punk 7975Punk 3992Punk 0791Punk 3843Punk 4950Punk 4243Punk 1129Punk 5500Punk 1762Punk 3762Punk 8058Punk 3634Punk 5882Punk 9072Punk 7233Punk 7729Punk 2642Punk 1107Punk 5760Punk 5864Punk 6485Punk 8145Punk 3547Punk 1870Punk 9735Punk 2699Punk 0233Punk 0491Punk 0831Punk 1317Punk 1446Punk 4458Punk 6035Punk 9659Punk 0538Punk 3342Punk 4035Punk 4758Punk 4914Punk 5087Punk 5322Punk 5396Punk 5888Punk 8086Punk 8535Punk 9779Punk 5643Punk 1812Punk 6878Punk 1647Punk 8398Punk 4520Punk 4837Punk 1331Punk 5921Punk 6774Punk 9356Punk 6406Punk 6794Punk 3331Punk 5495Punk 8987Punk 0588Punk 9856Punk 8832Punk 7323Punk 9695Punk 3339Punk 6948Punk 7083Punk 9060Punk 7339Punk 5285Punk 7158Punk 2567Punk 6968Punk 0570

Bids

The average bid over the last year was 11.25 ETH ($23,321.14 USD).
The average currently open bid is 81.15 ETH ($168,206.33 USD).
Total value of all current bids is 892.69 ETH ($1,850,269.58 USD).
Showing most recent bids, click here to see all 11.

Punk 0281Punk 4653Punk 4346Punk 7163Punk 7143Punk 6406Punk 3843Punk 4390Punk 7425Punk 9068Punk 0685

Sales

The average sale price of a punk over the last year is 615.09 ETH ($1,274,885.66 USD).
The total value of punks sold over the last year is 108,773.35 ETH ($225,453,424.02 USD).
Showing most recent sales, click here to see all 27,109.

Punk 7163Punk 2301Punk 5068Punk 8249Punk 1369Punk 2735Punk 7919Punk 3997Punk 8168Punk 6718Punk 1369Punk 2672Punk 5076Punk 2362Punk 6724Punk 7274Punk 1695Punk 7632Punk 7571Punk 7018Punk 7067Punk 4824Punk 6801Punk 3067Punk 7402Punk 7060Punk 3052Punk 4411Punk 3465Punk 5026Punk 9881Punk 2672Punk 7942Punk 4240Punk 2967Punk 5418Punk 3007Punk 7402Punk 9735Punk 7029Punk 5999Punk 9243Punk 9143Punk 6338Punk 5541Punk 6801Punk 6634Punk 5418Punk 3865Punk 7160Punk 9381Punk 9985Punk 1750Punk 4171Punk 0325Punk 7998Punk 9381Punk 7922Punk 7386Punk 4849Punk 1762Punk 3296Punk 7161Punk 5372Punk 3912Punk 7136Punk 2991Punk 7440Punk 2714Punk 8968Punk 7036Punk 9062Punk 3698Punk 4220Punk 6892Punk 1817Punk 3843Punk 3038Punk 6273Punk 7703Punk 7160Punk 5541Punk 6480Punk 3736Punk 6746Punk 9062Punk 1501Punk 6585Punk 4116Punk 7143Punk 5418Punk 0325Punk 7113Punk 6193Punk 1834Punk 1031Punk 3296Punk 3067Punk 6689Punk 0638Punk 0364Punk 5418Punk 2741Punk 7703Punk 7803Punk 3965Punk 4398Punk 9567Punk 3067Punk 5418

Wrapped

648 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 0053Punk 0197Punk 0239Punk 0275Punk 0318Punk 0349Punk 0352Punk 0402Punk 0423Punk 0431Punk 0441Punk 0471Punk 0488Punk 0489Punk 0522Punk 0547Punk 0608Punk 0628Punk 0675Punk 0729Punk 0853Punk 0880Punk 0927Punk 0952Punk 0983Punk 1054Punk 1068Punk 1093Punk 1140Punk 1166Punk 1167Punk 1209Punk 1228Punk 1246Punk 1247Punk 1288Punk 1306Punk 1308Punk 1322Punk 1363Punk 1366Punk 1372Punk 1393Punk 1395Punk 1405Punk 1411Punk 1414Punk 1417Punk 1426Punk 1429Punk 1434Punk 1441Punk 1449Punk 1453Punk 1461Punk 1462Punk 1467Punk 1473Punk 1500Punk 1512Punk 1514Punk 1561Punk 1571Punk 1593Punk 1612Punk 1621Punk 1623Punk 1644Punk 1670Punk 1678Punk 1693Punk 1702Punk 1707Punk 1716Punk 1719Punk 1733Punk 1747Punk 1754Punk 1769Punk 1776Punk 1785Punk 1796Punk 1803Punk 1818Punk 1824Punk 1830Punk 1849Punk 1866Punk 1867Punk 1873Punk 1887Punk 1906Punk 1938Punk 1940Punk 2020Punk 2039Punk 2041Punk 2046Punk 2055Punk 2067Punk 2074Punk 2100Punk 2119Punk 2127Punk 2146Punk 2152Punk 2158Punk 2167Punk 2172

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 #7662 for 42 ETH ($87,052.98 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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