There are two improbabilities in this CryptoPunk NFT sale:
- Punk was sold for $56 million, pnas our specialist even had to go to the blockchain to verify this amount - 24,000 ETH, so the amount is correct.
- The second funny thing is that it's Punk Female - blue-eyed. Quite an odd case, as sexism is usually rampant in punks.
We spent a long time looking into the details of what happened, and here's what we established:
- This NFT was listed for sale just a few weeks ago for less than 30 ETH, making this sale just with a cosmic price jump.
- There's some murky history associated with this blue-eye on the blockchain, specifically in 2021 this punk was “sold” for $532M in some questionable transaction.
So it's a good shot at a sales record, but experts doubt the reality of the deal. And the media should be advised to study the primary materials better - there is clearly some kind of fraud here. Usually in such cases, the Western media suspect money laundering, but we are unlikely to know what was really there.