Someone Just Paid $4.5M for a CryptoPunks Ethereum NFT Despite Bear Market
It’s the fourth-highest CryptoPunks sale when measured in ETH, and a surprising pickup in a time of declining NFT sales.
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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