OpenSea once again delists CryptoPunks V1 as legal battle heats up

Late Monday, popular nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, platform OpenSea once again delisted the CryptoPunks V1 collection, which spiraled into existence along with the iconic CryptoPunks V2 collection due to a smart contract bug. This was allegedly due to a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notice issued by CryptoPunks V2 developers Larva Labs to OpenSea. As the company […]

Battle for authenticity heats up in world's most popular NFT collection

In a Discord post published on Wednesday, Matt Hall, the core developer at Larva Labs, the entity behind the popular CryptoPunks v2 and, initially, CryptoPunks v1 nonfungible tokens (NFT) collections, announced he would be “taking appropriate steps” in the following days regarding the alleged copyright infringement of “both the art and the CryptoPunks name” of […]

CryptoPunks creators sign with top Hollywood agents, as sales top $305M in a week

Larva Labs, the team behind the outrageously popular NFT project CryptoPunks, has penned a deal with Hollywood agents United Talent Agency (UTA). According to an Aug. 31 article from the Hollywood Reporter, UTA will represent Larva Labs for intellectual property (IP) deals in TV, film, video games, licensing and publishing. Two other NFT projects from […]

$85 million ‘Meebits’ NFT project exploited; attacker nabs $700,000 collectible

Legendary NFT developers Larva Labs were the victims of an exploit this morning, as an attacker found a way to mint a rare NFT worth over $700,000 from the “Meebits” collection.  The attacker, 0xNietzsche, teased the exploit on Twitter this morning, saying he anticipated making “$300,000 per hour” throughout the duration of the attack. He […]