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See the [**Awesome CryptoKitties Bubble (Anno 2017) »**](https://github.com/cryptocopycats/awesome-cryptokitties-bubble)\n\n---\n\n\n![](i/punks-prints.png)\n\n\n\u003e Someday, owning a Matt \u0026 John's® punk V2 might signify just how early of an\n\u003e adopter you were into the world of blockchain and its thriving digital\n\u003e art scene. Or, they could just be a bunch of [24×24 pixel] images.\n\u003e\n\u003e -- [June 2017](https://mashable.com/2017/06/16/cryptopunks-ethereum-art-collectibles/)\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e There will be a desire and need to buy expensive [status symbols]\n\u003e in the digital realm [to \"flex\" how rich and stupid I am].\n\u003e What could be more desirable than a small [24×24]\n\u003e pixelated [knitted cap-wearing ape] face?\n\u003e Matt \u0026 John's® punk artwork [![](i/punk-8219.png) [#8219](https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/8219)] just sold for $176,000.\n\u003e\n\u003e -- [January 2021](https://decrypt.co/53519/an-ethereum-based-cryptopunk-artwork-just-sold-for-176000)\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e Ultra-rare alien [24×24 pixel] Matt \u0026 John's® punk V2\n\u003e sells for 605 ETH, or $750,000.\n\u003e The investment thesis. \"Aliens are the rarest form of Matt \u0026 John's® punk and\n\u003e we believe that the acquired Alien [![](i/punk-2890.png) [#2890](https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/2890), one of nine]\n\u003e will be prized by collectors over\n\u003e time and mature into an iconic digital art piece.\"\n\u003e\n\u003e -- [January 2021](https://cointelegraph.com/news/ultra-rare-alien-cryptopunk-nft-sells-for-605-eth-or-750-000)\n\u003e\n\u003e Matt \u0026 John's® punks are the Warhols® of the digital age.\n\u003e\n\u003e -- [February 2021](https://twitter.com/beaniemaxi/status/1360788595657818114)\n\u003e\n\u003e 10 000 Matt \u0026 John's® Punks V2, ≈13 500 Picasso® paintings. Do the math.\n\u003e\n\u003e -- [February 2021](https://twitter.com/0x_Capital/status/1360057260324577281)\n\u003e\n\u003e Matt \u0026 John's® Punks V2, [Ethereum Edition] are truly priceless - the rookie cards of [digital collectibles] (\"non-fungible tokens\").\n\u003e\n\u003e -- Mark Cuban, Billionaire, [February 2021](https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1358883725321383938)\n\u003e\n\u003e Our darling [Punks, Polkadot Edition] (\"SubstraPunks\")\n\u003e are going to be flying out to a [digital collectible] (\"non-fungible token\")\n\u003e exhibition in Beijing and Shanghai next month!\n\u003e\n\u003e  -- Substra Punkette, [Feburary 2021](https://twitter.com/SubstraPunk/status/1364186937251291144)\n\n\n\n**REMINDER: In the digitial world there are no originals! Every copy is a original and you cannot tell the difference\n(all 0s and 1s are the same). And, yes, you can always make as many (free) copies as you like (in a free world).\nClaiming that you can protect your exclusive rights to pixels because the record of ownership\nis stored in a public database is absurd.\nWithout laws and governments that help you with your rights - the claim is just\na meaningless series of 0s and 1s.  PS: Do you really own Matt \u0026 John's® Punks V2? (Spoiler: No.)\nCheck your license agreement with the LarvaLabs Crypto Bros - the pixel art license seller - and do NOT get fooled by the record of ownership.\nYou are a licensee and NOT an owner.**\n\n\u003e Warning: There is a project called [Punks, Binance Edition] (\"Binance Punks\")\n\u003e that has taken the art from Matt \u0026 John's® Punks V2  and is selling it as a copy on another blockchain.\n\u003e This is in no way an authorized [Larva Labs] project.\n\u003e\n\u003e -- [February 2021](https://twitter.com/larvalabs/status/1364041628508434432)\n\u003e\n\u003e Isn't an unauthorized edition the true authentic punk edition? Fuck the [Larva Labs $$$] hipsters\n\u003e and the [let's \"flex\" how rich and stupid I am] 24×24 pixel certified proof-of-ownership HODLers!\n\u003e\n\u003e -- Anonymous Punk\n\n\nBreaking News - Larva Labs Sending Out Copyright Violation Takedowns - How Punk is That?\n\n\u003e Subject: Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Takedown  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003e Date July 1, 2021 at 10:51\n\u003e\n\u003e My name is Mordecai Goldstein and I am the General Counsel of Larva Labs LLC [- a multi-million dollar crypto fraudster operator].\n\u003e A [digital pixel] image [sold via an unauthorized token] on your site\n\u003e is infringing on the copyright/intellectual property owned by our company.\n\u003e\n\u003e The original [24×24 8-bit pixel] images [that any 6-year old can redraw \"by hand\" in minutes¹],\n\u003e to which we own exclusive copyrights, can be found ~at http://larvalabs.com/cryptopunks~  [on the permission-less decentralized unstoppable undeletable blockchain - see the [CryptoPunksData contract²](https://github.com/cryptopunksnotdead/punks.sandbox/tree/master/punksdata)].\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e The unauthorized and infringing [\"punk\"] copy can be found at: ...\n\u003e\n\u003e [...] I seek the removal of the aforementioned infringing material from your servers\n\u003e and take down of the site. I request that you immediately notify the infringer\n\u003e of this notice and inform them of their duty to remove the infringing material immediately, and\n\u003e notify to cease any further posting of infringing material to your service in the future. [...]\n\u003e\n\u003e Thank you, \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003e General Consel, Larva Labs LLC\n\n\n\u003e [¹: Yes, you can! Draw your own free 24×24 avatars that you own 100% forever. Try the [Punk's Not Dead Pixel Drawing Tool](https://cryptopunksnotdead.github.io/) online.]\n\u003e\n\u003e [²: Yes, of course - the Larva Labs Crypto Bros uploaded all assets in August 2021 to send a message to the world. Don't ever think about stealing our exclusive pixel art!]\n\n\n\nAside:  Color By Number Books for Kids (Age 3 And Up)\n\n![](i/color-by-number-book.png)\n\nLet's look at the claim that 24×24 pixel punk images are copyrightable artworks (and not some computer-generated images)\nor as the \"Chief  Matt \u0026 John's® Punks (V2) Brand-Officer/Leader\"  Noah Davis (formely at Christie's - see [Punk It! Truly Historic (Con-)Art Sale. 104 Punks. 1 Lot.](https://cryptopunksnotdead.github.io/punkweek/2022-02-23-philip-the-intern-presents-not-sothebys-phunk-it-ii))  likes to say - modern fine art portraits (kind of a new [primitive fauve style](https://www.sothebys.com/en/art-movements/fauvism)).\n\nCan a kid age 3 and up copy (paint) Henri Matisse's \"Woman with a Hat\", in minutes?\nHow about a million dollar alien pixel punk?\n\nThe blurb of the Color by Number for Kids: Pixel Art Coloring Book for Kids Ages 3 and Up, Colorful Play Paperback ($6.99) - see above the cover with a 28x42 pixel artwork - reads:\n\n\u003e Every page is a surprise.\n\u003e Featuring full-page drawings of space, astronauts, animals,\n\u003e flowers, insects, natures, cars, princess and more!\n\u003e Provides hours of fun and creativity.\n\u003e These fun coloring pages will help children (Ages 3-8) master\n\u003e their numbers and improve their manual dexterity through coloring.\n\u003e Suitable for age 3 and up,\n\u003e Children will have fun matching the colors to the included color\n\u003e key, or making up their own color combinations.\n\nYes, let's repeat - suitable for age 3 and up!\n\nDiscuss:  Can you copyright computer-generated pixel images?\nOr How \"Original\" Is a 24×24 Pixel Image in 8-Bit Colors That Any ~6-Year~ 3-Year Old Can Redraw \"By Hand\" In Minutes?\nA Punk Clown Nose is a 2×2 Square of Red Pixels? A Punk Smile (Mouth Expression/Emotion) is a Single Black Pixel? A Punk Frown (Mouth Expression/Emotion) is .. guess how many pixels? And so on.\n\n\n\n\n\n# Awesome Matt \u0026 John's® Punks Bubble (Anno 2021)  - Modern 24×24 Pixel Crypto Art on the Blockchain\n\n\n##  Matt \u0026 John's® Punks (formerly CryptoPunks), Ethereum Edition\n\n10 000 unique collectible characters with proof of ownership stored on the ethereum blockchain.\n\n![](i/punks-zoom.png)\n\n\n\nSPOILER:  You can download all 10 000 right-facing punks\nin a 2400×2400 image (~ 830kb) for free.\nSee [`punks.png` »](https://github.com/larvalabs/cryptopunks/blob/master/punks.png). Yes, the originals¹!\nOr for something more punk try the 10 000 left-facing Phunks.\nSee [`phunks.png` »](https://github.com/cryptopunksnotdead/awesome-24px/blob/master/collection/phunks.png).\n\n\n¹: On the blockchain only\nthe punk index (e.g. 2890, 8219, and so on)\nas an integer number gets stored - and\none time only the \"Don't Trust, Verify\" SHA256 hash\nof the all-10 000-punks-in-one image in the [contract code »](https://github.com/cryptopunksnotdead/punks.contracts/tree/master/punks-v2#constants).\n\n\n\nQ: What is a Matt \u0026 John's® Punks (V2)?\n\nThe Matt \u0026 John's® punks (formerly known under the generic term/word/category \"Crypto Punks\")\nare 24×24 pixel art images, generated algorithmically. Most are right-facing punky-looking guys and girls, but there are a few rarer types mixed in: Apes, Zombies and even the odd Alien. Every Matt \u0026 John's® punk has their own profile page at the Larva Labs Crypto bros' website\nthat shows their attributes as well as their \"ownership\" \u0026 for-sale status.\n\n![](i/punks-banner.png)\n\n\n\nQ: Who are the con-art fraudsters and crypto bros' behind Matt \u0026 John's® Punks?\n\n[Matt Hall](https://github.com/megamattron) (b. 1974, Dundas, Canada) and\n[John Watkinson](https://github.com/pents90) (b. 1975, Thunder Bay, Canada) - two Canadians who grew up in Ontario\nand studied computer science majors at the University of Toronto - moved to New York in 1999 and nowadays (years later) the two-man team\nbehind [Larva Labs](https://github.com/larvalabs) in New York City, United States.\n\nJohn Watkinson was the driver of the pixel punks' look, adding wacky hair, pipes, and hats.\nHe figured the aesthetic would resonate with crypto enthusiasts.\n\n\n\n\n![](i/cryptopunks-creators.png)\n\n\n\u003e We're coming up on two years of the Matt \u0026 John's® punks launch.\n\u003e We thought Matt \u0026 John's® punks (formerly known under the generic term/word/category \"Crypto Punks\")\n\u003e  might be just a blog post, a couple weeks of\n\u003e interest and the end of it - and it's still going strong.\n\u003e\n\u003e -- Matt Hall ([April, 2019](https://www.artnome.com/news/2019/4/08/autoglyphs-generative-art-born-on-the-blockchain))\n\nMatt and John co-founded Larva Labs in 2005 and describe it on LinkedIn as\n\n\u003e a product studio, consulting company, and home for our wide\n\u003e range of experiments ...\n\u003e including large scale web infrastructure, genomics analysis software,\n\u003e an art project on the blockchain.\n\nMatt and John both studied computer science at the University of Toronto, Canada.\nJohn also went on to get a PhD in Electrical Engineering\nand Genetics at Columbia University, New York City, United States.\n\nThey both co-founded Docracy,\n\"the largest open-source repository of legal documents on the web\" in September of 2011, which was later acquired by eversign.\n\n\u003e At one point they tried to launch a legal-documents startup, but they failed to raise the needed money.\n\n\nLarva Labs was founded to create applications for the T-Mobile sidekick phone (remember that one?).\n\nAccording to LinkedIn, they wrote over fifty apps including best-selling ones.\n\nAccording to LinkedIn, both Matt and John also work in Google's creative lab.\n\n\n\u003e In 2011 they coded an app for Google called Androidify, which let people customize the company's green Android mascot into a personal avatar\nby selecting its skin tone, clothing, and accessories. The app was a surprise hit, and for a while fans of Google's operating system\nused the avatars as their profile pictures on Twitter.\n\n\u003e  Through that app and others, Watkinson and Hall developed a nostalgic look, rooted in the limited graphics of the computers they grew up with—simple, cartoonish shapes with clean lines and bright colors that seem to belong nowhere more than on a screen.\n\n(Quotes from [The 10,000 [Pixel Punk] Faces That Launched an Non-Fungible [Art] Token Revolution](https://www.wired.com/story/the-10000-faces-that-launched-an-nft-revolution/),  Wired, November 2021)\n\n\nQ: How were the punk images created?\n\n\u003e In the beginning it as just a 24×24 pixel Photoshop file with a whole bunch of layers...\n\u003e Once that was working we switched to a code based generator. At first it just randomly selected some stuff\n\u003e  to put on the head and then as we went further it got more complicated.\n\u003e  Eventually we had an Excel spreadsheet where you could put rules in to define which traits don't work together,\n\u003e and the expected rarities for each type and trait.\n\u003e For example, Aliens were supposed to be on average 10 out of 10,000 and there ended up being nine.\n\u003e\n\u003e -- John Watkinson from LarvaLabs during the [Charleston CryptoPunk Meetup 2023](https://youtu.be/7lFRDU8oFy8?si=ru_mOubYyTiqR28K\u0026t=650).\n\nWith a generator that was programmed to generate punks with a range of features and rarity.\nFor example, there are only 88 zombie punks, 24 apes, 9 aliens and exactly 1 alien punk smoking a pipe.\n\n\u003e John Watkinson had been working on designing a set of digital cards that were compelling enough to be worth collecting.\n\u003e  He made some basic heads, along with accessories to layer over them, and then worked away at a piece of software - the \"generator\"\n\u003e  in the generative art - that could compose thousands of unique but plausible faces.\n\u003e  Loosely inspired by his experience with Androidify, Watkinson played around with the characters' looks, adding hair styles, pipes, hats.\n\u003e  He zeroed in on a punky look, which he felt resonated with crypto enthusiasts' defiant bent.\n\u003e  \"I liked that it was very counterculture and sort of funky and kind of flying in the face of the establishment,\" Watkinson says.\n\n(Quotes from [The 10,000 [Pixel Punk] Faces That Launched an Non-Fungible [Art] Token Revolution](https://www.wired.com/story/the-10000-faces-that-launched-an-nft-revolution/),  Wired, November 2021)\n\n\nMatt \u0026 John's® Punks Trivia: Did you know - the 10 000 pixel art punk images in the 24×24 format get computer-generated from about a hundred building blocks (male face 1, crazy hair, clown nose, smile, etc.)\n\nPunks (Male 1/2/3/4 + Zombie/Ape/Alien + 63 Attributes)\n\n![](i/cryptopunks-assets_male.png)\n\nPunk(ette)s (Female 1/2/3/4 + 59 Attributes)\n\n![](i/cryptopunks-assets_female.png)\n\n\nYes, that's all the magic (and pixel art) of the billion dollar bitmap (2400×2400px) that houses all 10 000 (computer-generated) punks in the Matt \u0026 John's® series (V2)!\n\nBonus: In 2x zoom (48×48) \u003cbr\u003e\n![](i/cryptopunks-assets_male@2x.png)\n\n![](i/cryptopunks-assets_female@2x.png)\n\n\nNote: Since August 2021 the building block \"assets\" (e.g. male face 1, crazy hair, clown nose, smile, etc.) are now\nofficially stored \"on-chain\". See [Inside the CryptoPunksData Contract - All 133 Assets (11 Archetypes 'n' 122 Attributes) in the 24x24px Format For Easy (Re)Use \"Off-Chain\"](https://github.com/cryptopunksnotdead/punks.sandbox/tree/master/punksdata-assets).\n\n\n\n\nQ: Is the 24×24 Pixel Art Image stored on the blockchain?\n\nThe actual images of the punks are 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\nare the True Official Genuine Matt \u0026 John's® punks V2 by calculating an SHA256 hash on the punks image\n([`punks.png`](i/punks.png) - 2400x2400 - ~830kb) and comparing it to the hash stored in the contract.\n\n\n\u003e When the generator was nearly finished, John Watkinson joined Matt Hall in figuring out how to write the basics\n\u003e of a marketplace into their [Ethereum] contract, so that people could buy and sell punks.\n\u003e\n\u003e The biggest issue was getting their wares onto the Ethereum blockchain.\n\u003e If they uploaded each face individually, the transaction fees would be far too high.\n\u003e This was a problem. If the images weren't themselves on the blockchain, would anyone believe they owned a Matt \u0026 John's® punk?\n\u003e  John Watkinson and Matt Hall decided to go with an imperfect solution: a hash.\n\u003e  They fed a composite image of all the punks - the grid of 10,000 [pixel punk] faces - into a hashing algorithm called SHA-256,\n\u003e  which cranked out a 64-digit [hash] signature.\n\u003e  Matt Hall tucked the number into their [Ethereum] contract.\n\u003e  If anyone tried to tamper with the master image (by, say, transforming the pyrite of a stringy-haired goatee guy into the gold of an alien),\n\u003e  a skeptic could double-check the image by running it through that algorithm.\n\u003e  Only the original image, with every pixel precisely intact, would generate the [hash] signature.\n\n(Quotes from [The 10,000 [Pixel Punk] Faces That Launched an Non-Fungible [Art] Token Revolution](https://www.wired.com/story/the-10000-faces-that-launched-an-nft-revolution/),  Wired, November 2021)\n\n\n\n\u003c!--\nYou can generate this hash for the punks image file via a command line tool e.g.\n\n```\n$ openssl sha -sha256 punks.png\n```\n\nYou can use this hash to verify the image file containing all the punks:\n\n``` solidity\nac39af4793119ee46bbff351d8cb6b5f23da60222126add4268e261199a2921b\n```\n--\u003e\n\n\n**Update** August 2021 - Breaking news from LarvaLabs (Matt Hall and John Watkinson ) the original Matt \u0026 John's® punk devs:\n\n\u003e The Matt \u0026 John's® punks (formerly known under the generic term/word/category \"Crypto Punks\")\n\u003e  are now fully on chain! The images and\n\u003e attributes are now stored in the [CryptoPunksData contract](https://etherscan.io/address/0x16f5a35647d6f03d5d3da7b35409d65ba03af3b2#code).\n\u003e Read more in the [On-chain Matt \u0026 John's® punks](https://larvalabs.com/blog/2021-8-18-18-0/on-chain-cryptopunks) article.\n\nNote: The transaction (gas cost) fee for the contract creation is 0.08749 ETH (~$261.30) PLUS 266 follow-up transactions - each with its own (gas cost) fee -\nneeded to get the \"data\" on chain with calls to Set Palette, Add Composites, Add Asset, Add Punks, etc.\nand a last Seal Contract to seal off / make unchangeable.\n\n266 txns with total cost 4.049621405 ETH (~$12,260) according to [BokkyPooBah's spreadsheet calculation](https://twitter.com/BokkyPooBah/status/1428128493766807552).\n\nIf you are looking for the on-chain data (attributes or the pixel matrix / bitmap and so on) - the data is NOT in the contract source\nbut in the 266 transaction (txn) inputs.   See [punks.contracts/punksdata/transactions.txt](https://github.com/cryptopunksnotdead/punks.contracts/blob/master/punksdata/transactions.txt).\n\n\n\nQ: What about the Matt \u0026 John's® Contract V2?\n\nSee [Inside the Matt \u0026 John's® CryptoPunksMarket V2 Blockchain Contract / Service »](https://github.com/cryptopunksnotdead/punks.contracts/tree/master/punks-v2)\n\n\n\n### Types \u0026 Accessories\n\n\u003e  Alien update:\n\u003e There are currently 3 open bids against aliens totaling 1 876 ETH (~$2.46M USD). -- [Jan 26, 2021](https://twitter.com/larvalabs/status/1353914494012039169)\n\n\n**Punk Types _(5)_**\n\n| Type         | Count           |\n|--------------|----------------:|\n| Alien        |    9  ( 0.09 %) |\n| Ape          |   24  ( 0.24 %) |\n| Zombie       |   88  ( 0.88 %) |\n| Female       | 3840  (38.40 %) |\n| Male         | 6039  (60.39 %) |\n\n\n\n**Accessories _(87)_**\n\n| Accessory            | Count           | By Punk Type |\n| ---------------------|----------------:|--------------|\n| Beanie               |   44  ( 0.44 %) | Male (43) · Zombie (1) |\n| Choker               |   48  ( 0.48 %) | Female (48) |\n| Pilot Helmet         |   54  ( 0.54 %) | Female (54) |\n| Tiara                |   55  ( 0.55 %) | Female (55) |\n| Orange Side          |   68  ( 0.68 %) | Female (68) |\n| Buck Teeth           |   78  ( 0.78 %) | Male (78) |\n| Welding Goggles      |   86  ( 0.86 %) | Female (86) |\n| Pigtails             |   94  ( 0.94 %) | Female (94) |\n| Pink With Hat        |   95  ( 0.95 %) | Female (95) |\n| Top Hat              |  115  ( 1.15 %) | Male (112) · Zombie (2) · Ape (1) |\n| Spots                |  124  ( 1.24 %) | Male (73) · Female (51) |\n| Rosy Cheeks          |  128  ( 1.28 %) | Male (67) · Female (60) · Zombie (1) |\n| Blonde Short         |  129  ( 1.29 %) | Female (129) |\n| Wild White Hair      |  136  ( 1.36 %) | Female (136) |\n| Cowboy Hat           |  142  ( 1.42 %) | Male (139) · Ape (2) · Alien (1) |\n| Straight Hair Blonde |  144  ( 1.44 %) | Female (144) |\n| Wild Blonde          |  144  ( 1.44 %) | Female (144) |\n| Big Beard            |  146  ( 1.46 %) | Male (146) |\n| Red Mohawk           |  147  ( 1.47 %) | Female (147) |\n| Vampire Hair         |  147  ( 1.47 %) | Male (146) · Zombie (1) |\n| Blonde Bob           |  147  ( 1.47 %) | Female (147) |\n| Half Shaved          |  147  ( 1.47 %) | Female (147) |\n| Straight Hair Dark   |  148  ( 1.48 %) | Female (148) |\n| Clown Hair Green     |  148  ( 1.48 %) | Male (85) · Female (63) |\n| Straight Hair        |  151  ( 1.51 %) | Female (151) |\n| Silver Chain         |  156  ( 1.56 %) | Male (113) · Female (43) |\n| Dark Hair            |  157  ( 1.57 %) | Female (157) |\n| Purple Hair          |  165  ( 1.65 %) | Male (163) · Zombie (2) |\n| Gold Chain           |  169  ( 1.69 %) | Male (107) · Female (60) · Ape (1) · Zombie (1) |\n| Medical Mask         |  175  ( 1.75 %) | Male (107) · Female (65) · Zombie (2) · Alien (1) |\n| Tassle Hat           |  178  ( 1.78 %) | Female (178) |\n| Fedora               |  186  ( 1.86 %) | Male (184) · Ape (1) · Zombie (1) |\n| Police Cap           |  203  ( 2.03 %) | Male (200) · Zombie (2) · Ape (1) |\n| Clown Nose           |  212  ( 2.12 %) | Male (134) · Female (76) · Zombie (2) |\n| Smile                |  238  ( 2.38 %) | Male (234) · Zombie (4) |\n| Cap Forward          |  254  ( 2.54 %) | Male (248) · Zombie (3) · Ape (2) · Alien (1) |\n| Hoodie               |  259  ( 2.59 %) | Male (256) · Zombie (2) · Ape (1) |\n| Front Beard Dark     |  260  ( 2.60 %) | Male (255) · Zombie (5) |\n| Frown                |  261  ( 2.61 %) | Male (257) · Zombie (4) |\n| Purple Eye Shadow    |  262  ( 2.62 %) | Female (262) |\n| Handlebars           |  263  ( 2.63 %) | Male (261) · Zombie (2) |\n| Blue Eye Shadow      |  266  ( 2.66 %) | Female (266) |\n| Green Eye Shadow     |  271  ( 2.71 %) | Female (271) |\n| Vape                 |  272  ( 2.72 %) | Male (161) · Female (110) · Ape (1) |\n| Front Beard          |  273  ( 2.73 %) | Male (270) · Zombie (3) |\n| Chinstrap            |  282  ( 2.82 %) | Male (280) · Zombie (2) |\n| Luxurious Beard      |  286  ( 2.86 %) | Male (281) · Zombie (5) |\n| 3D Glasses           |  286  ( 2.86 %) | Male (205) · Female (78) · Zombie (2) · Ape (1) |\n| Mustache             |  288  ( 2.88 %) | Male (286) · Zombie (2) |\n| Normal Beard Black   |  289  ( 2.89 %) | Male (286) · Zombie (3) |\n| Normal Beard         |  292  ( 2.92 %) | Male (291) · Zombie (1) |\n| Eye Mask             |  293  ( 2.93 %) | Male (205) · Female (86) · Zombie (1) · Ape (1) |\n| Goat                 |  295  ( 2.95 %) | Male (292) · Zombie (3) |\n| Do-rag               |  300  ( 3.00 %) | Male (292) · Zombie (4) · Ape (3) · Alien (1) |\n| Shaved Head          |  300  ( 3.00 %) | Male (298) · Zombie (2) |\n| Peak Spike           |  303  ( 3.03 %) | Male (298) · Zombie (5) |\n| Muttonchops          |  303  ( 3.03 %) | Male (303) |\n| Pipe                 |  317  ( 3.17 %) | Male (186) · Female (130) · Alien (1) |\n| VR                   |  332  ( 3.32 %) | Male (242) · Female (88) · Zombie (1) · Ape (1) |\n| Cap                  |  351  ( 3.51 %) | Male (245) · Female (98) · Ape (4) · Zombie (3) · Alien (1) |\n| Small Shades         |  378  ( 3.78 %) | Male (372) · Alien (2) · Zombie (2) · Ape (2) |\n| Clown Eyes Green     |  382  ( 3.82 %) | Female (246) · Male (136) |\n| Clown Eyes Blue      |  384  ( 3.84 %) | Female (274) · Male (108) · Zombie (2) |\n| Headband             |  406  ( 4.06 %) | Male (304) · Female (96) · Zombie (4) · Alien (1) · Ape (1) |\n| Crazy Hair           |  414  ( 4.14 %) | Male (239) · Female (168) · Zombie (7) |\n| Knitted Cap          |  419  ( 4.19 %) | Male (305) · Female (101) · Zombie (7) · Ape (4) · Alien (2) |\n| Mohawk Dark          |  429  ( 4.29 %) | Male (279) · Female (146) · Zombie (4) |\n| Mohawk               |  441  ( 4.41 %) | Male (286) · Female (153) · Zombie (2) |\n| Mohawk Thin          |  441  ( 4.41 %) | Male (285) · Female (152) · Zombie (4) |\n| Frumpy Hair          |  442  ( 4.42 %) | Male (289) · Female (149) · Zombie (4) |\n| Wild Hair            |  447  ( 4.47 %) | Male (296) · Female (144) · Zombie (7) |\n| Messy Hair           |  460  ( 4.60 %) | Male (294) · Female (160) · Zombie (6) |\n| Eye Patch            |  461  ( 4.61 %) | Male (363) · Female (92) · Zombie (4) · Ape (2) |\n| Stringy Hair         |  463  ( 4.63 %) | Male (292) · Female (165) · Zombie (6) |\n| Bandana              |  481  ( 4.81 %) | Male (304) · Female (164) · Zombie (7) · Ape (4) · Alien (2) |\n| Classic Shades       |  502  ( 5.02 %) | Male (345) · Female (154) · Zombie (3) |\n| Shadow Beard         |  526  ( 5.26 %) | Male (516) · Zombie (10) |\n| Regular Shades       |  527  ( 5.27 %) | Male (393) · Female (128) · Zombie (4) · Ape (1) · Alien (1) |\n| Big Shades           |  535  ( 5.35 %) | Male (372) · Female (159) · Zombie (3) · Ape (1) |\n| Horned Rim Glasses   |  535  ( 5.35 %) | Male (388) · Female (142) · Zombie (4) · Ape (1) |\n| Nerd Glasses         |  572  ( 5.72 %) | Male (392) · Female (175) · Zombie (3) · Ape (2) |\n| Black Lipstick       |  617  ( 6.17 %) | Female (617) |\n| Mole                 |  644  ( 6.44 %) | Male (357) · Female (285) · Zombie (2) |\n| Purple Lipstick      |  655  ( 6.55 %) | Female (655) |\n| Hot Lipstick         |  696  ( 6.96 %) | Female (696) |\n| Cigarette            |  961  ( 9.61 %) | Male (557) · Female (392) · Zombie (11) · Ape (1) |\n| Earring              | 2459  (24.59 %) | Male (1498) · Female (933) · Zombie (22) · Alien (3) · Ape (3) |\n\n\n**Accessory Count (0 to 7)**\n\n| Accessories  | Count           |\n|--------------|----------------:|\n| 0            |    8  ( 0.08 %) |\n| 1            |  333  ( 3.33 %) |\n| 2            | 3560  (35.60 %) |\n| 3            | 4501  (45.01 %) |\n| 4            | 1420  (14.20 %) |\n| 5            |  166  ( 1.66 %) |\n| 6            |   11  ( 0.11 %) |\n| 7            |    1  ( 0.01 %) |\n\n\n(Source: [CryptoPunks Types and Attributes](https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/attributes))\n\n\n\n\n\n## More\n\n### Wrapped  Matt \u0026 John's® Punks (WPUNKS) V2\n\n437 punks are \"wrapped\" as \"standardized\" non-fungible tokens (ERC-721) for sale on  markets, see [Wrapped Punks](https://wrappedpunks.com/) for more.\n\n\nMarkets include:\n- [Wrapped CryptoPunks @ OpenSea](https://opensea.io/collection/wrapped-cryptopunks)\n\n\nWhat about the Wrapped CryptoPunks (WPUNKS) contract?\n\nSee [Inside the Wrapped CryptoPunks (WPUNKS) Blockchain Contract / Service »](https://github.com/cryptopunksnotdead/contracts/tree/master/wrapped)\n\n\n### Punk, the Shell Version\n\nThe (crypto) punk command line tool lets you\nmint your own 24×24 pixel punk images off chain\nfrom the True Official Genuine Matt \u0026 John's® punk sha256-verified original 10 000 unique character collection\n(in your shell terminal); incl. 2x/4x/8x zoom for bigger sizes\n\nTo use the `punk` (or `cryptopunk`) command line tool. Try:\n\n```\n$ punk -h\n```\n\nresulting in:\n\n```\nUsage: cryptopunk [options] IDs\n  Mint punk characters from composite (./punks.png) - for IDs use 0 to 9999\n\n  Options:\n    -z, --zoom=ZOOM   Zoom factor x2, x4, x8, etc. (default: 1)\n    -d, --dir=DIR     Output directory (default: .)\n    -f, --file=FILE   True Official Genuine Matt \u0026 John's® punks image (default: ./punks.png)\n    -h, --help        Prints this help\n```\n\nLet's mint punk #2890 and #8219:\n\n```\n$ punk 2890 8219\n```\n\nprinting:\n\n```\n==\u003e reading \u003e./punks.png\u003c...\n     \u003eac39af4793119ee46bbff351d8cb6b5f23da60222126add4268e261199a2921b\u003c SHA256 hash matching\n         ✓ True Official Genuine Matt \u0026 John's® punks verified\n==\u003e (1/2) minting punk #2890; writing to \u003e./punk-2890.png\u003c...\n==\u003e (2/2) minting punk #8219; writing to \u003e./punk-8219.png\u003c...\n```\n\nAnd voila!\n\n![](i/punk-2890.png)\n![](i/punk-8219.png)\n\nFind out more @ [**(Crypto) Punks, the Shell Version »**](https://github.com/cryptopunksnotdead/cryptopunks/tree/master/cryptopunks)\n\n\n\n### cryptopunks.csv - All 10 000  Matt \u0026 John's® Punks by ID with Type, Accessories \u0026 More\n\n(Crypto) punks dataset in comma-separated values (CSV) format\nin blocks of a thousand punks each\n(e.g.\n`0-999.csv`,\n`1000-1999.csv`,\n`2000-2999.csv`, and so on).\nThe data records for punks\nincl. id, type, count (of accessories), and accessories.\nExample:\n\n```\nid, type, count, accessories\n0, Female, 3, Green Eye Shadow / Earring / Blonde Bob\n1, Male, 2, Smile / Mohawk\n2, Female, 1, Wild Hair\n3, Male, 3, Wild Hair / Nerd Glasses / Pipe\n4, Male, 4, Big Shades / Wild Hair / Earring / Goat\n5, Female, 3, Purple Eye Shadow / Half Shaved / Earring\n...\n```\n\nFind out more @ [**cryptopunks.csv »**](https://github.com/cryptopunksnotdead/punks.attributes)\n\n\n\n### Punks Picasso Style (Generated with Pix2Pix A.I.)\n\n\u003e Artonymous Artikfakt writes:\n\u003e\n\u003e Playing around trying to generate some Punks [Picasso Style] with A.I. (artificial intelligence)\n\u003e using Pix2Pix [- a creative machine learning algorithm that turns a crude line drawing into an oil painting].\n\u003e These are all regenerated from the training set.\n\u003e Just did a quick test and will try to train it further over night. Lets see how it goes.\n\n![](i/punks-picasso.png)\n\n(Source: [Punks Picasso Style, Artonymous Artikfakt](https://twitter.com/artonymousart/status/1124808048453783553))\n\n\n\n\n### Famous Punks Look-Alikes\n\n[famouspunks.com](https://www.famouspunks.com/) -\na website dedicated to matching pixel punks with their celebrity lookalikes. You can find pretty decent matches for Hulk Hogan, John Waters, and, if you're being generous, Katy Perry in her blue hair days.\n\n![](i/famouspunks.png)\n\n\n\n\n## Classic or V1  - \"First Deploy\" - 10 000 More Punks\n\n\u003e When Matt \u0026 John's® punks launched, the contract was exploitable.\n\u003e Sellers didn't get paid. LarvaLabs quickly launched a fixed version of the contract, which everyone uses.\n\u003e\n\u003e But the V1 tokens are still out there.\n\nWhat about the punks V1 Contract?\n\nSee [Inside the CryptoPunks V1 Blockchain Contract / Service »](https://github.com/cryptopunksnotdead/punks.contracts/tree/master/punks-v1)\n\n### Wrapped Punks V1 (WPUNKS1)\n\nV1 punks are \"wrapped\" as \"standardized\" non-fungible tokens (ERC-721) for sale on  markets, see [Classic Punks](https://classicpunks.com/) for more.\n\nMarkets include:\n- [Wrapped CryptoPunks V1 @ OpenSea](https://opensea.io/collection/wrapped-cryptopunks-v1)\n\n\nWhat about the Wrapped CryptoPunks V1 (WPUNKS1) contract?\n\nSee [Inside the Wrapped CryptoPunks V1 (WPUNKS1) Blockchain Contract / Service »](https://github.com/cryptopunksnotdead/punks.contracts/tree/master/wrapped-v1)\n\n\n\n## Remakes\n\n### Punks, Polkadot Edition (\"SubstraPunks\")\n\n\u003e In 2020, the devs created the artist - okay fine, the algo - who drew the Substrapunks, as an homage to Matt \u0026 John's® punks.\n\u003e\n\u003e The team didn't expect their hackathon project to have any value. Just like  Matt \u0026 John's® punks - they gave them away to anyone who claimed one.\n\u003e  It took a while. Not many people believed, and even fewer people expected them to ever be worth anything!\n\u003e\n\u003e  Soon, people started buying and selling them - there was no market.\n\u003e  Someone made an online spreadsheet page to keep track of prices \u0026 trades - that was v1 of the marketplace!\n\u003e  No one really knew the value of different traits - most were available for a few dollars, but some were already 3 figures.\n\u003e\n\u003e -- Substra Punkette, Hello World! The Story So Far, [January 2021](https://twitter.com/SubstraPunk/status/1350480927093358593)\n\n\n\nPunks, Polkadot Edition (\"SubstraPunks\")\nis a remake\non the Polkadot blockchain - contracts built with the Substra(te) machinery -\nby Alexander Mitrovich \u0026 [Greg Zaitsev](https://github.com/gregzaitsev), [Usetech](https://github.com/usetech-llc), Moscow, Russia.\n\n\n10 000 unique character images are generated from a brand new set of face parts.\n\n![](i/punks-remake-polkadot.png)\n\n\u003e Punk images are auto-generated from 8 parts.\n\u003e Some of them are optional (like a beard or cigar), some are required (like the face).\n\u003e Some are uni-sex (like earrings or noserings), but some define the gender\n\u003e of the generated character (like lipstick or blonde hair for girls or a beard for boys).\n\u003e If the gender is not determined, the chance decides\n\u003e what it is going to be at the moment when they are generated.\n\u003e The component parts are:\n\u003e\n\u003e 1. Face (2 options: black and white)\n\u003e 2. Beard, optional (7 options)\n\u003e 3. Earrings, optional (3 options)\n\u003e 4. Eyes/sunglasses (5 options)\n\u003e 5. Hair (12 options)\n\u003e 6. Mouth (6 options)\n\u003e 7. Nose ring, optional (1 option)\n\u003e 8. Cigar or a pipe, optional\n\u003e\n\u003e The total combinations possible are 89 820, but the algorithm randomly picked 10 000 of them.\n\n![](i/punks-remake-polkadot-traits.png)\n\n\u003e I think a $1,000 USD price floor for Punks is going to happen, and probably this year.\n\u003e\n\u003e It sounds crazy, but that's 2.5 KSM per punk, and a KSM price of $400.\n\u003e\n\u003e Actually that sounds bearish!\n\u003e Considering punks have gone from 0.05 KSM to 1 KSM\n\u003e and Kusama (KSM) from $5 USD to $275 USD.\n\u003e\n\u003e Some updated market stats:\n\u003e\n\u003e - Total sales:  1352.23 KSM\n\u003e - Average price:  1.435488323\n\u003e - Highest Price:  75\n\u003e\n\u003e Approx. $3 million USD total market cap\n\u003e\n\u003e -- Substra Punkette, [February 2021](https://twitter.com/SubstraPunk/status/1363989463798587392)\n\n\u003c!--\n  more sources:\n   https://twitter.com/SubstraPunk/status/1363964943888957446\n--\u003e\n\n\nFind the open source code on github @ [`usetech-llc/substrapunks`](https://github.com/usetech-llc/substrapunks). (Note: includes the art generation algorithm / code).\n\n\n\n## Copypasta - Original or Copy? Cash Grab or Conceptual Art?\n\n_Good artists copy, great artists steal.  -- Pablo Picasso_\n\n\n### Punks, Binance Edition (\"Bunks\")\n\n\u003e Warning: There is a project called [Punks, Binance Edition] (\"Binance Punks\")\n\u003e that has taken the art from  Matt \u0026 John's® punks and is selling it as a copy on another blockchain.\n\u003e This is in no way an authorized [Larva Labs] project.\n\u003e\n\u003e -- [February 2021](https://twitter.com/larvalabs/status/1364041628508434432)\n\u003e\n\u003e Isn't an unauthorized edition the true authentic punk edition? Fuck the [Larva Labs $$$] hipsters!\n\u003e\n\u003e -- Anonymous Punk\n\n\n![](i/binance-punks.png)\n\nWhy Binance Punks exists:\n\n\u003e The initial Matt \u0026 John's® punks distribution was free to claim punks.\n\u003e This made it so that a few early non-fungible token (NFT) fans had all the fun and have made millions.\n\u003e Now people are more aware of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).\n\u003e We want to give everyone on Binance Smart Chain (BSC) a chance to be a part.\n\u003e\n\u003e To buy a Matt \u0026 John's® punk V2 costs $42,000 and to buy a Binance Punk costs $300. Punks for the people.\n\u003e\n\u003e This growth is insanity. Extremely unexpected. The winners have been selected!\n\u003e These punks sold out way faster than expected.\n\u003e\n\u003e In two hours we sold 10,000 bunks for $2.5 million.\n\u003e\n\u003e -- [February 2021](https://twitter.com/bscbunks/status/1363598505231720449)\n\u003e\n\n\u003c!-- more sources\n   https://twitter.com/bscbunks/status/1366887142060867594\n   https://twitter.com/bscbunks/status/1363680464536555521\n   https://twitter.com/bscbunks/status/1364033622127353857\n   https://twitter.com/bscbunks/status/1364039520254107651\n  --\u003e\n\n- BinancePunksMarket Contract (incl. Source Code) @ [0x5EA899dBc8d3CDE806142a955806e06759B05fB8](https://bscscan.com/address/0x5EA899dBc8d3CDE806142a955806e06759B05fB8)\n\n\nUpdates:\n\n\u003e We are embracing the [Bunks] meme. Our site is now hosted at [bunks.on.fleek.co](https://bunks.on.fleek.co)\n\u003e\n\u003e -- [February 2021](https://twitter.com/bscbunks/status/1364726517134221316)\n\u003e\n\u003e Bunk #3100: Alien (1 of 9) just sold for $48,000.\n\u003e\n\u003e -- [March 2021](https://twitter.com/bscbunks/status/1367340057888239616)\n\n\nFind out more @ [**bunks.on.fleek.co »**](https://bunks.on.fleek.co)\n\n\n\n## Punk #3100 - Conceptual Art Resale - Discuss: Can You Steal from A Robot? Who Cares About \"Provenance\"?\n\n\n\u003e By engaging their so-called  Matt \u0026 John's® punks [pixel] art with the Ethereum [blockchain] network,\n\u003e Larva Labs should be believers in the self-governing ideals of crypto.\n\u003e I question Larva Labs' motives [it's all about $$$, isn't it?],\n\u003e understanding of art, understanding of \"punk\" and understanding of crypto.\n\u003e\n\u003e -- Ryder Ripps, Conceptual Artist\n\u003e\n\u003e  o o o\n\u003e\n\u003e Matt \u0026 John's® punks [tokens] are sought after for their blockchain-ensured scarcity and computer-generated rarity.\n\u003e No two are alike. It's that point [that conceptual artist Ryder] Ripps attempted to press with his latest artistic statement,\n\u003e an effort to goad Larva Labs into taking copyright action, he said.\n\u003e\n\u003e On June 29, 2021  Ripps listed a [new art] token titled \"Punk #3100\" [for sale] on the Foundation [crypto market],\n\u003e a near-facsimile of an official punk by the same name.\n\u003e Ripps's version,  sold for 2.189 ETH (\\~$4,620 USD), was of slightly higher [4000×4000] resolution than the original [24×24],\n\u003e which last sold on March 11 for a record-breaking (at the time) 4,200 ETH (\\~$7,584,485).\n\u003e\n\u003e (Source: [Matt \u0026 John's® Punks Get Punked](https://www.coindesk.com/cryptopunks-get-punked))\n\n\n![](i/cryptopunk-3100-ryder-ripps.png)\n\n(Source: [Ryder Ripps @ Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/CQwdw5XLLwk/))\n\nThe copyright takedown letter by the million dollar Larva Labs fraudsters. How punk is that?\nCan you copyright machine-generated images?\nOr how \"original\" is a 8-bit 24×24 pixel image that any 6-year old can redraw \"by hand\" in minutes?\n\n![](i/cryptopunks-takedown-3100.png )\n\nRyder Ripps writes back:\n\n\u003e The claims of copyright violation should be rejected because:\n\u003e\n\u003e My use of the material is legally protected because it falls within\n\u003e the \"fair use\" provision of the copyright regulations.\n\u003e This work is transformative. If the complainant disagrees that this is\n\u003e fair use, they are free to take up the matter with me directly, in the courts.\n\u003e You, the Internet Service Provider (ISP), are under no obligation to settle\n\u003e this dispute, or to take any action to restrict my speech at the\n\u003e behest of this complaint. [...]\n\u003e\n\u003e (Source: [Ryder Ripps @ Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/CQzlRL3LXXK/))\n\n\nNote: If the creator of the work that was taken down believes the action was erroneous,\nthey can file an appeal and this puts the onus back on the company or person who filed the DMCA notice originally - and they\nnow have ten days to file a lawsuit supporting their claims - if they don't they then are essentially conceding that they don't have the legal position to support their initial action and the site in question is free to reinstate whatever was taken down.\nAnd again, because US Copyright law does specifically call out fair use and parody.\n\n\nLarva Labs backed down and the Foundation [crypto market] has reinstated [Ryder's Punk #3100](https://foundation.app/@ryder_ripps/cryptopunk-3100-52921).\n\n\u003e After fighting a DMCA notice served to me by Larva Labs on July 1st 2021,\n\u003e I won and on July 16th, Foundation reinstated my work (Punk #3100) - unequivocally proving\n\u003e my punk is more punk.\n\u003e\n\u003e It is impossible to \"copy\" an art token.\n\u003e\n\u003e (Source: [Punk #3100 – Rebirth @ Foundation](https://foundation.app/@ryder_ripps/cryptopunk-3100-rebirth-60312))\n\n\n\n\n## Phunks (Mirror / Left-Facing) Parody - Copyright (or Left) Wars\n\nPhunks face left on the right side of history.\nOriginal \"flipped\" from right-facing to left-facing punk art collection.\n\n(web: [cryptophunks.com](https://www.cryptophunks.com), twitter: [cryptophunks](https://twitter.com/cryptophunks))\n\n![](i/punks-banner.png)\n\n  \u003c=\u003e\n\n![](i/phunks-banner.png)\n\n\nThe purpose of Phunks is to poke fun at the high-brow, pompous group of people that are reflecting the \"old-school\" rules of art\ninto this new frontier of art tokens.\nPhunks want to test the limits of \"parody\" [with a new \"flipped\" art collection] and bias against centralized marketplaces,\nof provenance on the blockchain, censorship, while also setting out to unite strangers and collectors from around the world.\n\n(Source: [The Phunks Manifesto](https://phunks.medium.com/the-cryptophunks-manifesto-785c7348e558))\n\n\u003e 1,357 Phunk family members and growing. You can't stop the phunk.\n\u003e\n\u003e  o o o\n\u003e\n\u003e [Pixel Art] tokens thrive because of an authentic and organic growth in their communities.\n\u003e Were the Phunks original in their flipping [from right-facing to left-facing] of the punk art? Not really.\n\u003e But did they manage to create an authentic communal experience? Yep.\n\u003e I see them as parody, minimal as it may be, and a fun one.\n\n\nAnd another copyright takedown letter by the million dollar Larva Labs fraudsters. How punk is that?\n\n![](i/cryptopunks-takedown-phunks.png)\n\n\nPhunks comments:\n\n\u003e The OpenSea [crypto art reseller market] has received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) [takedown] from Larva Labs.\n\u003e We are witnessing copyright laws unilaterally applied in a [new crypto] world where decentralization\n\u003e and provenance should be paramount. Ironically, Phunks are the real punks in this fight for censorship resistance. History in the making.\n\u003e\n\u003e o o o\n\u003e\n\u003e  Dear LaraLabs,\n\u003e  the art token community deserves to hear from you directly.\n\u003e  Phunks parodied  Matt \u0026 John's® Punks V2 and opened the doors for over 1,000 new owners who learned and enjoyed punk's history and attributes.\n\u003e  Punks value have also increased during this time. Why are you threatened by Phunks?\n\u003e There was never malicious intent in passing off a Phunk as a Punk.\n\u003e\n\u003e No one has reportedly been \"scammed\", because anyone that visited our site knew it was a parody.\n\u003e As pioneers in the art token market, is provenance not one of your guiding principles? What is the goal\n\u003e behind the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown?\n\u003e\n\u003e (Source: [CryptoPhunks](https://twitter.com/cryptophunks), July 2021)\n\n\nAnd follows-up with an open \"Phunk is Punk\" letter to Larva Labs:\n\n\u003e In the words of your co-founder Matt Hall, the blockchain \"provides a layer of trust that removes the need for lawyers and middlemen.\"\n\u003e But over the last several weeks, we've seen that your actions speak louder than these words. You have called for lawyers and\n\u003e have ignored our public and private requests for an open dialogue regarding the DMCA issued to OpenSea requesting the delisting of Phunks.\n\u003e\n\u003e This letter aims to bring public attention to the issue(s) at hand. During these formative times in the NFT space,\n\u003e Phunks aims to push boundaries in order to set the foundation for a future\n\u003e where NFTs can leverage blockchain technology for its strengths: provenance and authenticity.\n\u003e\n\u003e Phunks poked fun at those who were applying the \"old-school\" rules of art into this new frontier of [non-fungible] tokens.\n\u003e Deceptive and fraudulent copycats should be mitigated, but Phunks has been a clear parody from the start\n\u003e with no reported cases of a user buying a Phunk thinking it was a Punk. In this project’s short lifespan thus far,\n\u003e Phunks have brought in over 1,000 new holders who learned about the Punks’ attributes and history.\n\u003e Some even went on to buy a Punk. Others are just happy to have joined a new and accessible community\n\u003e that embraces the philosophies that web3 was built on.\n\u003e\n\u003e Larva Labs: have you entertained the perspective that altpunk projects create incremental value for Punks\n\u003e by perpetually solidifying their legacy? Where do you draw the line on what is deemed parody and what is not? We’ve spoken with various attorneys who\n\u003e have agreed that \"parody\" and \"satire\" are legal areas that currently stand unclear in light of lawsuits involving Andy Warhol’s work.\n\u003e Do you believe that Warhol’s iconic Campbell’s Soup Cans and the commentary it generated crossed the line as well?\n\u003e\n\u003e Additionally, Larva Labs has not addressed their own community’s questions regarding IP ownership of  Matt \u0026 John's® punks.\n\u003e Do Matt \u0026 John's® punk V2 owners have commercial rights to their punks? Can punk owners permit the phunk of their punk to exist?\n\u003e Is Larva Labs planning to wipe a bunch of punk projects off of OpenSea now that they are a $100m+ company?\n\u003e The [non-fungible] token space, punk HODLers, and phunk HODLers need clarity, collaboration,\n\u003e and forward thinkers to pave the way for a decentralized future.\n\u003e\n\u003e It's time for an awakening in the [non-fungible] token community. It’s time to stand up to censorship resistance,\n\u003e for change beyond our pervasive web v2 systems, and for true decentralization.\n\u003e Phunks stand for these principles. What is truly punk can not be stopped. Long live phunks, on the blockchain, forever.\n\u003e\n\u003e \"If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.\" - Satoshi\n\u003e\n\u003e Yours Trustlessly, \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003e The Phunks\n\nMore reading about Phunks:\n\n[**Phunks: Just a Flip or a Movement?**](https://hackernoon.com/cryptophunks-just-a-flip-or-a-movement-4p2o372t)\nby Ani Alexander, July 2021\n\n\n\n\n\n## History\n\n\nMatt \u0026 John's® punk is one of the first \"Non-Fungible Token\" and was an inspiration for the Ethereum ERC-721 non-fungible token standard\nthat today powers most crypto art and collectibles on the blockchain.\n\nHow much did the punks cost when first released?  You could claim a punk (for \"free\")\nthat is, by simply paying the transaction fee of around 11 cents.\nNow, you have to buy a punk from someone else and need to pay the market rate.\n\n\u003e With the Matt \u0026 John's punks, where we gave away 9,000 of them, a large\n\u003e  number of them went to a few early people that just got on it and\n\u003e automated that process. -- Matt Hall ([April 2019](https://www.artnome.com/news/2019/4/08/autoglyphs-generative-art-born-on-the-blockchain))\n\n\n\n\n\n**Genesis Story**\n\n\u003e Matt \u0026 John's® punks started with a pixel-art character generator Watkinson\n\u003e began playing with in December 2016. It randomly mixed a selection of characteristics (sunglasses, skin colors, hair types, and so on) to come up with 10,000 24-by-24-pixel \"punks\" - a characterization that nods to the early '90s cypherpunks, cofounded by the late Timothy May. None look exactly alike, and certain types of punks turned out to be rarer than others.\n\u003e\n\u003e [..]\n\u003e\n\u003e \"We muddled our way through figuring out how an ERC-20\n\u003e token would look if it were not fungible,\" said Hall. After many attempts, they settled on putting the hash of each Matt \u0026 John's® punk's image file into its respective smart contract, including some \"marketplace functions\" that would allow people to buy and sell the punks. They posted their project to the Ethereum subreddit and Hacker News and waited for people to notice. Very few did. About 100 claimed a Matt \u0026 John's® punk [token],\n\u003e which Hall and Watkinson offered for free.\n\u003e\n\u003e Then, in June 2017, the pair got in touch with Mashable and told them about Matt \u0026 John's® punks. \"This Ethereum-based project could change how we think about digital art,\" read the headline above an image of a blond, glasses-wearing punk with the caption, \"Someone owns this picture.\"\n\u003e\n\u003e \"Things went crazy,\" said Hall. \"We went from having something like 8,600 Matt \u0026 John's® punks available to within 20 hours, they were all claimed.\" The pair had already reserved 1,000 for themselves \"just in case it becomes a thing.\"\n\u003e\n\u003e Watkinson got in on the action. The day the punks exploded, he sold one of his for a dollar. Someone bought it, so he sold another for $10. That sold, too, so he went up to $50, then $100. That same day, someone offered an alien punk for 10 ether, which at the time was $3,000. \"Boom, someone bought that,\" said Watkinson. \"I was just like, whoaaa. The day before that, we were like, will anyone care?\"\n\u003e\n\u003e (Source: [How Matt \u0026 John's® Punks' Creators Charmed the Art World and Paved the Way for Blockchain Art](https://breakermag.com/how-cryptopunks-creators-charmed-the-art-world-and-paved-the-way-for-blockchain-art/) by Jessica Klein, Breaker Mag, January 2019)\n\n---\n\n\u003e In their smart contract, they reserved the first 1,000 [pixel] punks for themselves.\n\u003e Hall published the contract to the blockchain and posted a link to their website on Twitter and Reddit.\n\u003e\n\u003e They were met, mostly, with silence. In the first five days, a handful of people, Calderon among them,\n\u003e found the project and snapped up the rarest Punks. \"We were feeling sort of silly,\" Watkinson says, when only a few dozen of them had been claimed.\n\u003e Then, on June 16, the tech site Mashable published a post with an eye-catching headline: \"This Ethereum-Based Project Could Change\n\u003e How We Think About Digital Art.\"\n\u003e\n\u003e Within 24 hours, all the punks were gone; one man who saw the post amassed 758 of them.\n\u003e\n\u003e (Source: [The 10,000 [Pixel Punk] Faces That Launched an Non-Fungible [Art] Token Revolution](https://www.wired.com/story/the-10000-faces-that-launched-an-nft-revolution/),  Wired, November 2021)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n## Articles\n\n2017\n\n[**This ethereum-based project could change how we think about digital art - Someone owns this picture.**](https://mashable.com/2017/06/16/cryptopunks-ethereum-art-collectibles/) by Jason Abbruzzese, Mashable, June 2017\n\n2019\n\n[**A Physical Model for Digital Art Ownership - The Matt \u0026 John's® Punks in their First Gallery Show.**](https://www.larvalabs.com/blog/2019-2-1-15-1/a-physical-model-for-digital-art-ownership-the-cryptopunks-in-their-first-gallery-show) by Larva Labs, February 2019\n\n\n[**Matt \u0026 John's® Punks Two Year Anniversary - A look at the activity and trends over the first two years of the Matt \u0026 John's® Punks.**](https://www.larvalabs.com/blog/2019-6-21-1-1/cryptopunks-two-year-anniversary) by Larva Labs, June 2019\n\n2021\n\n[**An Ethereum-based Matt \u0026 John's® Punk Artwork Just Sold for $176,000. Owning a pixelated avatar of a knitted cap-wearing ape is a status symbol, argues the user who paid thousands for it.**](https://decrypt.co/53519/an-ethereum-based-cryptopunk-artwork-just-sold-for-176000) by\nLiam Frost, Decrypt, January 2021\n\n\n[**Ultra-rare alien Matt \u0026 John's® Punk V2 sells for 605 ETH, or $750,000. Is the market getting overheated?**](https://cointelegraph.com/news/ultra-rare-alien-cryptopunk-nft-sells-for-605-eth-or-750-000) by\nAndrew Thurman, Coin Telegraph, January 2021\n\n\n[**The Cult of Matt \u0026 John's® Punks V2**](https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/08/the-cult-of-cryptopunks/) by Lucas Matney, Tech Crunch, April 2021 -- Ethereum's \"oldest non-fungible token project\" may not actually be the first, but it's the wildest\n\n\u003e One of the aliens [![](i/punk-7804.png) [Punk #7804](https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/7804)]\n\u003e was sold [for 4,200 Ether (about $7.5M)] [...]\n\u003e a century from now the blocky image sold would be seen as the \"Mona Lisa of digital art.\"\n\u003e\n\u003e The pixelated alien portraits belonged to an non-fungible token platform called Matt \u0026 John's® punks.\n\u003e In the world of non-fungible tokens, the platform is as close to ancient history as it gets,\n\u003e  meaning it’s almost four years old.\n\n\n[**10 things to know about Matt \u0026 John's® Punks, the original Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)**](https://www.christies.com/features/10-things-to-know-about-CryptoPunks-11569-1.aspx), Christie's, April 2021\n\n\u003e For the first time, 5,184 pixels' worth of a revolutionary non-fungible token project will go up for auction\n\u003e at a traditional auction house, courtesy of the project creators and pioneers [- Matt Hall and John Watkinson, founders of New York-based software company Larva Labs -] themselves.\n\u003e\n\u003e [...]\n\u003e\n\u003e  The Matt \u0026 John's® punks are a collection of 24x24, 8-bit-style pixel art images of misfits and eccentrics.\n\u003e  There are exactly 10,000 of them, each with their own ostensible personality\n\u003e  and unique combination of distinctive, randomly generated features.\n\u003e\n\u003e [...]\n\u003e\n\u003e As of early April 2021, over 8,000 sales had been recorded in the previous 12 months,\n\u003e with an average sale price of 15.45 ether ($30,412.40).\n\u003e The total value of all sales is 127,360 ether ($251,620,000) - and that value grows daily.\n\u003e\n\u003e In February, Matt \u0026 John's® punk #6965, a fedora-wearing ape punk, sold for 800 ether - equivalent to $1.5 million.\n\u003e And on 11 March 2021, Matt \u0026 John's® punk #7804, the previously mentioned pipe-smoking \"wise alien,\"\n\u003e was sold for the equivalent of $7.5 million - the highest amount ever paid for a punk at the time.\n\u003e\n\u003e [...]\n\u003e\n\u003e Larva Labs' set comprises nine Matt \u0026 John's® punks [![](i/punk-0002.png)[#2](https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/2),\n\u003e ![](i/punk-0532.png)[#532](https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/532),\n\u003e ![](i/punk-0058.png)[#58](https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/58),\n\u003e ![](i/punk-0030.png)[#30](https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/30),\n\u003e ![](i/punk-0635.png)[#635](https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/635),\n\u003e ![](i/punk-0602.png)[#602](https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/602),\n\u003e ![](i/punk-0768.png)[#768](https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/768),\n\u003e ![](i/punk-0603.png)[#603](https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/603),\n\u003e ![](i/punk-0757.png)[#757](https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/757)], all from their original collection [24 x 24 pixels each],\n\u003e in a single lot that highlights the series' best features: muttonchops, earrings, big shades, crazy hair, a hoodie, a mohawk and more.\n\u003e [...]\n\u003e Estimate: $7,000,000-9,000,0000.\n\u003e  Offered in 21st Century Evening Sale on 13 May at Christie's in New York.\n\n\n[**Christie's to Auction Off Nine Matt \u0026 John's® Punks Non-Fungible Tokens**](https://decrypt.co/65929/christies-cryptopunks) by Will Gottsegen, Decrypt, April 2021\n\n\u003e According to promotional materials, nine Matt \u0026 John's® punks are being auctioned together\n\u003e in a single lot at the 21st Century Evening Sale on May 13. [Estimate: $7,000,000-9,000,0000.].\n\n\n[**Ethereum User Bids $6.3 Million on 16 Matt \u0026 John's® Punks Within Minutes**](https://decrypt.co/65993/ethereum-user-bids-6-3-million-on-16-cryptopunks-within-minutes) by Tim Copeland, Decrypt, April, 2021 -- Ahead of a Christie's auction of nine Matt \u0026 John's® punks [non-fungible] tokens, one investor is prepared to pay big money to get his hands on a number of other punks.\n\n\u003e It's worth taking these valuations with a pinch of salt.\n\u003e Since there are so few sales of Matt \u0026 John's® punks, but such high valuations,\n\u003e it's not impossible that investors are making sales among themselves to drive up the value of their non-fungible tokens.\n\u003e This is one of the flipsides of the data being publicly available on the blockchain - it's accessible\n\u003e to anyone around the world, but it's possible for people to hide their identity behind multiple addresses.\n\n\n\n\n## Stats\n\n![](i/punks-sales.png)\n\nSales Stats\n\n- Number of Sales (Last 12 Months): 4 641\n- Average Sale Price (Last 12 Months): 5.60 ETH (~$9 621)\n- Total Value of All Sales (Lifetime): 25 990 ETH (~$45million)\n\n\n\nContract Stats\n\n\u003e The [CryptoPunksMarket] contract now holds 4,095 ETH (~$5.4M USD) in open bids and pending withdrawals. -- [Jan 26, 2021](https://twitter.com/larvalabs/status/1353915659453870080)\n\n\n\u003c!--\n![](i/punk-transactions-usd.png)\n--\u003e\n\n","projects_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/lists/cryptopunksnotdead%2Fawesome-cryptopunks-bubble/projects"}