Christie's auction house will sell nine rare NFT projects CryptoPunks in May – Bits Media

Christie’s auction house will sell nine rare NFT Cryptopunks, which were created in the first days after the launch of the project in 2017 year. The application has led to rising prices and to other NFT Cryptopunks.

According to the auction house Christie’s on Twitter, nine "rare" digital collectible items in the form of irremovable tokens (NFT) project Cryptopunks, will be sold at auction. Unique tokens are included in their own collection of the Larva Labs trading platform and will be exhibited at the 21st Century Evening Sale in May.

The numbers of all nine NFT do not exceed 1 000 - it means, that they were created at the dawn of the appearance of Cryptopunks in 2017 year. The numbers include 2, 532, 58, 30, 635, 602, 768, 603 and 757 With "Rare Alien" - a collection subject, which will also be put up for auction.

Such a decision Christie’s talks about, that NFT continue to attract the attention of traditional companies in the world of art. Competitive Auction House Sotheby’s, Founded for 22 years before Christie’s, Recently stated, What will sell the work of the artist PAK in the form of NFT at the Nifty Gateway site.

NFT is a tokenized version of a digital or real asset, in one copy. In March, the British auction house Christie’s held the first auction with a lot of NFT - the digital picture of the artist Beeple was sold for record $69.3 million.

The user Twitter Degendata wrote, that “Cryptopunks sellers are in a hurry to remove their NFT from the market” after the Christie’s statement, Therefore, the prices of tokens are "growing like crazy". According to him, The lower threshold of the price of NFT Cryptopunks has already grown to 5 ETH.