Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, has made his first profile-picture (PFP) NFT purchase, buying CryptoPunk #4953 for 113.7 ETH, which cost him $208,000. Beeple had previously tweeted that he was in the market for a punk and asked his followers what the best traits were for his purchase. CryptoPunks Brand Lead Noah Davis, who facilitated the record-breaking $69 million sale of Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5,000 Days in March 2021, confirmed the purchase. Beeple shared an original digital artwork titled A Punk Is Born featuring himself made up as his new punk, with CryptoPunk #4953 in the image. The punk’s rarity traits include a mohawk, clown green eyes, and a red clown nose, which is only present in 2% of Punks according to marketplace OpenSea. Data from analytics tool Deep Value NFT shows that only one other Punk with this trait is currently listed at about 91.7 ETH, or $169,800. Beeple’s purchase is the most expensive NFT sold in the past 24 hours according to data from CryptoSlam.
Beeple Makes His First NFT Purchase, a CryptoPunk for $208,000
