When Noah Davis, the NFT specialist for Christie’s auction site, took over as CEO of CryptoPunks, he claimed he had no intention of updating the project’s goal and had asked the owners to a one-on-one meeting.
Noah Davis, Christie’s non-fungible token (NFT) expert, has announced that he will be departing in July to join Yuga Labs as the marketing lead for the CryptoPunks NFT assortment.
Davis announced the change on June 19 in a Twitter post, attempting to assuage concern for the future of one of the biggest NFT initiatives by stating that he “will not f*ck with the punk rockers.”
He encouraged CryptoPunk shareholders to meet with him at the NFT NYC event to discuss the program’s fate, and he stated that the new role would not interfere with his own NFT initiative.
Davis was in charge of Beeple’s “Everyday: The First 5000 Days” NFT, which sold for almost $69 million in March 2021, setting a new auction mark.
In March, Yuga Labs purchased the CryptoPunks label’s copyrights from Larva Labs, promising to hand over complete marketing rights to the proprietors, a commitment that has yet to be fulfilled.
In a tweet storm on June 19, Yuga Labs co-founder Wylie Aronow alias “Gargamel” acknowledged the delay, saying that it was “too important to expedite” and that contract conditions “will be going out in the next few days.”
With Davis’ departure announced and the new terms scheduled to take place soon, some are arguing that officials had a previous understanding of the facts, citing the label’s soaring sales volume as evidence.
According to OpenSea, 39 CryptoPunks collections have been sold ever since their release, for a total of 101 sales on June 19, up from only 19 the day before on June 18.
With NFTs, a condemned con artist “reimagines” herself
Anna Sorokin, a jailed scam artist and scammer who purported to be the affluent German heiress “Anna Delvey” to scam friends and companies of over $275,000 from 2013 to 2017, has begun an NFT library.
The series, titled “Reinventing Anna,” includes 2,000 NFTs for 0.1 Ethereum (ETH) each, or around $110. It’s true.
Duppies fans are the subject of a hacking scheme
On June 18, the Twitter account of Duppies, a planned Solana NFT initiative from the same group as the famous “DeGods” series, was hacked, with assailants posting a link to a “stealth launch” of the NFTs.
The link led to a fake website, and individuals who linked their accounts and tried to deposit had their wallets emptied completely. The assault cost one Twitter user 650 Solana (SOL), which is worth roughly $18,850.
Following the attack, “Frank,” the author of the planned collection, contacted security inspector “Code Monkey” on Twitter Spaces to describe how the assault happened.
According to the auditor, the intruder most likely used a specific SIM swap operation to enter the Duppies Twitter profile.
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