One of the crypto investors became the owner of the most expensive NFT from the CryptoPunks collection. For this he had to
What is known
At the beginning of summer 2021 at Sotheby's auction forNon-fungible token #7523 (Alien) was purchased for $11.8 million. It became the most valuable NFT from the CryptoPunks collection, which includes 10,000 avatars in the form of humans, aliens and other creatures.
Punk 9998 bought for 124,457.07 ETH ($ 532,414,877.01 USD) by 0x9b5a5c from 0x8e3983. https://t.co/dmT6jDRC1W #cryptopunks #ethereum pic.twitter.com/UQlmm1oqkj
- CryptoPunks Bot (@cryptopunksbot) October 28, 2021
One of the crypto investors decided to become happythe owner of the most expensive NFT from CryptoPunks. To do this, he took out a loan, put up for auction the # 9998 token of the Larva Labs studio for $ 532.4 million (124,547.07 ETH) and bought it from himself, after which he returned the borrowed funds. The purchase fee was $ 800 (0.19 ETH).
Some recent large bids were done the same way.The ether is offered and removed in a single transaction. So, while technically briefly valid, the bid can never be accepted. We’ll add filtering to avoid generating notifications for these kinds of transactions in the future. 2/2
- Larva Labs (@larvalabs) October 29, 2021
Alas, the owner of the most expensive NFT from the collectionCryptoPunks was a shrewd investor for a short time. Larva Labs said the transaction was illegal because the seller and the buyer are one and the same person. In the future, the company plans to add a filtering system that will not rank such operations in the top. So # 7523 (Alien) continues to be the most expensive non-fungible token from CryptoPunks.
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