Monday set a new single-day sales record for CryptoPunks, and August sales have already set a monthly record, with prices for the NFTs averaging nearly $200,000.
There are some very good reasons, it turns out, rooted in our deep, totally irrational animal brains.
Visa bought CryptoPunk 7610, one of 3,840 "female" punks.
NFT marketplace OpenSea saw record trading volume on Saturday and Sunday as CryptoPunks, ArtBlocks and Bored Ape Yacht Club prices soared.
As one of the earliest series of NFTs offered on the Ethereum blockchain, offers have ranged from $34,000 to $123,000.
Conceptual artist Ryder Ripps minted his own version of a CryptoPunk and was summarily hit with a copyright notification.
All nine CryptoPunks are among the first 1,000 NFT minted in the early days of creator Larva Labs.
The auction will feature an NFT by Kevin McCoy minted in May 2014.
All nine CryptoPunks are from mints below 1,000, meaning they began in the earliest days of the company's digital collectible creations.
Your grandpa probably didn't like rock. Your dad probably didn't like hip-hop. Dismissing NFT artworks out of hand reads roughly the same.