Before the sale to YugaLabs.
Before the historic Auctions at Christie's and
Sotheby's.
Before the multi-million dollar sales and all the craziness that ensued.
Before Meebits, and even before Autoglyphs.
Matt Hall & John Watkinson created CryptoPunks.
The historic, March 16, 2018 interview.
A wonderful, intimate window, that captured a much simpler, idealistic, innocent moment in time.
A long-time friend of Matt and John's, Judy Mam is the co-founder of DADA.art, a pioneer in the field of art NFTs and a digital art platform where people speak to each other through drawings, and co-creator of the Invisible Economy, an alternative economic system for the arts on the blockchain.
Kevin McCoy is the creator of Quantum, the first-ever image NFT (minted on May 3, 2014) which was auctioned alongside LarvaLabs' infamous Covid-Alien CryptoPunk at Sotheby's historic "Natively Digital" sale on June 10, 2021.
Kevin also co-founded the first-ever NFT Marketplace, Monegraph, originally launched on the Bitcoin network in the Summer of 2015.
"I had written 2000 songs before Ethereum was even invented. I wrote another 1500 before I learned about digital scarcity. But from the moment I saw CryptoPunks, I knew that Song-A-Day was a perfect fit."
Award-winning artist and Cryptoart pioneer, Eric is the creator of Unofficial Punks, launched in February 2021 as an homage to CryptoPunks. His project then quickly exploded into an organic social movement known as the alt-punks, which championed and popularized PFP project remixes and derivatives.
Starting in September of 2017, Sam Holt has been creating physical paintings of CryptoPunks on Canvas - which
makes him the world's first-ever creator of Alt/Derivative Punks.
Sam is also an OG collector of Punks and a long-standing member of the CryptoPunks community.
Sculptor Mark Graeffe explores the relationship between the digital and physical worlds by creating physical sculptures that offer an opportunity to gain a new perspective, deeper understanding, and enhanced enjoyment of the underlying digital work.
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