Amazon to Introduce Air Delivery Service in Arizona via Drone 
China Secures Banned Nvidia Chips Amid US Export Restrictions, Tenders Reveal 
Philippines SEC Directs Google, Apple to Delist Binance App Over Investor Security Concerns 
Hong Kong Cracks Down on Crypto Scams as FTX Claims Ignite Market Surge 
ADM’s Suspended CFO to Resign After Accounting Probe 
SK Networks Sets Up AI Research Lab in Silicon Valley 
US Supreme Court Signals Support for Starbucks in Landmark Labor Law Case 
Asahi Kasei to Build EV Battery Plant in Canada to Supply Key Parts to Honda Motor 
Tesla Nears FSD Licensing Deal with Major Automaker, Hits 1.3 Billion Milestone 
Supreme Court appears open to Starbucks’ claims in labor-organizing case 
Tesla Wipes Out New Content Marketing Unit, Fired All Team Members 
Critical Update: Samsung Expands Network Band Support in Europe – Update Now for Uninterrupted Access 
Korean Military Considers iPhone Ban, Samsung Exempt for Security Reasons 
Mercedes Launches 2025 G-Class Electric with Four Motors and Revolutionary Tank Turns 
Apple Adds Eight Chinese Companies to Its Supply Chain After Axing Four 
Huawei Introduces Smart Driving Software Brand Qiankun 
CryptoPunks, a non-fungible token (NFT) project, reportedly exceeded the $1 billion mark in all-time sales and joined “Axie Infinity” with the achievement. This is the third NFT to hit more than a billion sales as Axie Infinity is second with $1.6 billion while Opensea is in the first place after earning a total of $3.53 billion.
As per Bitcoin.com, CryptoPunks is now a certified billion-dollar NFT collection as data shows it earned an all-time sales of $1.095 billion. Its highest amount of sales was recorded on Aug. 28 when it sold CryptoPunk #8888 for 888.8 ether which is equivalent to $2.87 million. It was added that CryptoPunk #9373 also brought in more than a million when it was sold for 499.99 ether on the same day, and this is roughly $1.63 million based on the ethereum exchange rates at that time.
The others that also contributed big time to raise the sales include Cryptopunk #2310 that was sold for $1.23 million or 380 ether. Cryptopunk #9100 that is worth $1.14 million or 350 ether, and Cryptopunk #7674 that costs $1.11 million or 342.69 ether. Apparently, CryptoPunks got the most sales among the NFT-based platforms in the last 7 days, and it was able to reach more than $1 billion sales not long after “Axie Infinity” achieved the same feat on Aug. 8.
In any case, Gadgets 360 reported that CryptoPunks consists of 10,000 Ethereum-based NFTs, and today, there are 2,888 unique wallets containing at least one of these NFT. Although most only have one and 75% of the owners have two, there is an entity that owns 254 CryptoPunks, and this is probably the only one that owns this much at this time.
Meanwhile, CryptoPunks are uniquely generated characters, and no two punks are alike. These were by Larva Labs in 2017, and initially, their developers, Matt Hall and John Watkinson, intended to use the NFT characters they called Punks for a videogame, but they decided to just release and market them as NFTs.
Out of the 10,000 Punks, 3,840 are females, and 6,039 are males. The Punks are not all people, but there are also zombies, alien and ape Punk characters. Finally, Hall and Watkinson are planning to keep 1,000 Punks for themselves then sell the rest.
