{"id":209574,"date":"2021-12-28T23:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T23:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=209574"},"modified":"2021-12-28T16:28:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T16:28:19","slug":"these-300-cryptopunks-may-be-lost-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/these-300-cryptopunks-may-be-lost-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"These 300 CryptoPunks may be lost forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CryptoPunks are among the most cherished and valuable NFTs on the market. Released by the Larva Labs studio in June 2017 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for free<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the 10,000 profile picture NFTs quickly became popular among the crypto crowd and virtually exploded in value over the years. Today, the lowest price for a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/cryptopunk-nft-worth-over-850000-sold-in-error-for-less-than-20000\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Punk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> currently for sale is 66 ETH, approximately $258 000 at the moment of writing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But are there really 10 000 Punks available to the market today?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5 Punks are lost for sure<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a tweet <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/punk9863\/status\/1475688604836016129\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">thread<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/punk9863\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@punk9863<\/span><\/a>,<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as many as 300 CryptoPunks may be lost forever; five of these are definitely known to be lost due to the owner's mistakes. Indeed, there are only five known &#8220;burnt&#8221; Punks in existence. One &#8220;alien&#8221; Punk was burnt inadvertently by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArtOnBlockchain\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@ArtOnBlockchain<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, two Punks were sent to the token contract (a grave mistake, in effect burning the token) and two Punks were sent to a malformed address and thus burnt (an equally bad mistake).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reason why we can assume the rest of the 300 CryptoPunks are lost, as pointed out by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@punk9863<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is because there hasn't been any activity on their owner's wallet for the past three years. &#8220;Over 50 wallets that hold Punks haven't done any transaction in the past 1000 days, including outside of the CryptoPunk marketplace,&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@punk9863<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tweets. A plausible reason for this is that the wallet owners lost their wallets (private keys).<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_209583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209583\" style=\"width: 1902px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-209583 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/account-holding-141-punks-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Possibly Lost CryptoPunk NFTs\" width=\"1902\" height=\"1456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/account-holding-141-punks-1.jpeg 1902w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/account-holding-141-punks-1-300x230.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/account-holding-141-punks-1-1024x784.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/account-holding-141-punks-1-768x588.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/account-holding-141-punks-1-1536x1176.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1902px) 100vw, 1902px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-209583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lost(?) account holding 141 CryptoPunks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four of those wallets hold more than ten Punks. One of them holds 141 Punks. These 50 wallets hold in total close to 300 Punks, including one &#8220;zombie,&#8221; 26 &#8220;hoodies,&#8221; twelve &#8220;3D,&#8221; and five &#8220;Tiara.&#8221; These are among the rarest types of CryptoPunks and are believed to be more valuable than others. Not all Punks are equal.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Some collections are pretty dope, like 0x51306877c61df89ad7b165d6206eb636276d1083, the absolute 3D chad,&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@punk9863<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> continues.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lost Punks worth $100 million<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are these 300 Punks really lost? It's impossible to say <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@punk9863 tweets<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but their owners have not transacted for over three years, although they had an economic interest to at least claim their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/meebits.larvalabs.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">meebits<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, sought after <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/looking-into-the-nft-crystal-ball-of-2022\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NFTs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that were given to crypto owners for free.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_209584\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209584\" style=\"width: 336px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-209584 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cryptopunk2838.png\" alt=\"Cryptopunk NFT\" width=\"336\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cryptopunk2838.png 336w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cryptopunk2838-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/cryptopunk2838-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-209584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CryptoPunk #2838 is known to be lost forever.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nevertheless, the market can only assume that those Punks are lost. At the current floor price for Punks, the lowest price for any Punk, the 300 or so assumed lost Punks are worth something in the realm of 20 000 ETH or about $80 million at the moment of writing. However, many of the assumed lost CryptoPunks are not so-called floor Punks, in which case the total value should be north of $100 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@punk9863<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, this may even be a low estimate.&#8221;I've only taken wallets that have not transacted for over three years into account. Other estimates, based on unclaimed meebits, forecast over 500 lost Punks.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All in all, there may be &#8220;only&#8221; 9500 CryptoPunks left.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CryptoPunks are among the most cherished and valuable NFTs on the market. 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