The deal became one of the largest in the history of the entire NFT collection

​NFT CryptoPunks #5577 was sold for $7,7 million

10.02.2022 - 09:10

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What’s new? Another big deal took place with a non-fungible token (NFT) from the CryptoPunks collection. The image numbered 5577 was bought for ETH 2501 (about $7,7 million). In this, the buyer remained unknown, although the community believes that the token was purchased by Robert Leshner, founder of the Compound protocol.

What else is known about the deal? The token number #5577 is a 24 by 24 pixel cryptopunk image. NFT belongs to the category of tokens with rare characteristics, with a total of 24 of them in the collection. At the moment, according to the collection’s developer website, a similar token, number #4464, is up for sale. Its price is $8,93 million.

We mentioned another big purchase of punk from the CryptoPunks collection in December. Then an anonymous user bought NFT at auction under the number #4156 for 2500 ETH (about $10,2 million at the moment of purchase).

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