Noah Davis, the non-fungible token (NFT) specialist at Christie’s auction house, has said he will be leaving his role in July to take up a role as brand lead for CryptoPunks’ NFT collection with Yuga Labs..
when announcing the movement on Sunday in a Twitter thread, Davis tried to allay any anxieties the owners had regarding the future of one of NFT’s oldest projects, saying that he’s “not going to f**k punks.”.
What does that mean? It means no Punks on lunchboxes or cringe TV shows/shitty movies. It means no arbitrary rushed utility or thoughtless airdrops. It means if you love your Punk(s) because they are what they are (just Punks) then you and I see eye to eye…
— Noah (@NonFungibleNoah) June 19, 2022
What does that mean? It means there will be no punks in shitty TV shows or movies. It means that there will be no arbitrary and hasty utilities, no thoughtless launches. It means that if you love your Punk(s) because they are what they are (just Punks), then you and I understand each other.
He invited CryptoPunk owners to schedule a talk with him about the future of the project at the NYC NFT event. and said the new position would not detract from his own NFT project.
Davis is responsible for the record-breaking Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5000 Days NFT auction, which sold for over $69 million in March 2021.
Yuga Labs acquired the intellectual property of the CryptoPunks collection from Larva Labs in March, saying it would hand over full commercial rights to the owners.a promise not yet fulfilled.
However, the co-founder of Yuga Labs, Wylie Aronow aka Gargamel, addressed the delay in a series of tweets on Sunday, explaining that it was “too important to rush” and that the new terms “will roll out in the next couple of weeks”.
With the announcement of the Davis move and the new conditions coming into effect shortly, Some allege that insiders had prior knowledge of the information, citing the increasing sales volume of the collection.
Ok so no one’s going to address the obvious insider trading that happened in the last 48 hours?
Chart: @punk9059 https://t.co/56s56D5Nw1 pic.twitter.com/beNkWbAc2Y
— Chainleft (@ChainLeftist) June 19, 2022
So no one is going to address the blatant insider trading that has occurred in the last 48 hours? Graphic: @punk9059 https://t.co/56s56D5Nw1 pic.twitter.com/beNkWbAc2Y
According to OpenSea, since the announcement there have been 39 sales of the CryptoPunks collection, with 101 sales in total on Sunday, compared to only 19 sold the day before, on Saturday.
Convicted scammer ‘reinvents’ herself with NFTs
The convicted scammer and swindler Anna Sorokin, who between 2013 and 2017 posed as the wealthy German heiress “Anna Delvey” to swindle acquaintances and businesses out of more than $275,000, has started a collection of NFTs.
Entitled Reinventing Anna, the collection features 2,000 NFTs for 0.1 Ether (ETH) each, or about $110. at the time of writing this article. It is marketed as a way for “fans to interact with Anna” and agree to a private “ask me anything” with Sorokin.
The collection will feature 20 “gold edition cards,” granting owners the chance for a phone call or in-person visit with the so-called “renowned socialite.”.
The name of the collection is a pun on the Netflix drama miniseries Inventing Anna, released earlier this year.whose theme is inspired by the story of Sorokin.
“I see this first release as an opportunity to connect directly with my audience and take charge of the narrative that has been largely out of my control”Sorokin wrote in an Instagram post about the collection.
Nevertheless, it is unknown how NFT holders will be able to visit it in person. Since March 2021, Sorokin has been held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for overstaying her visa and faces deportation to Germany..
Duppies followers are the target of a phishing scam
Duppiesan upcoming Solana NFT project from the same team as the popular “DeGods” collection, suffered a hack of his Twitter account on Saturday, in which the attackers they tweeted a link to a “stealth minting” of NFTs.
The link was a phishing website, and users who connected their wallets and attempted to mint the NFTs had their wallets emptied of all funds. a Twitter user wrote that he had lost 650 solanas (SOL), worth about $18,850, because of the attack.
In the Twitter spaces after the attackthe creator of the soon-to-be-deployed collection known as Frank teamed up with security auditor Code Monkey to explain how the attack happened.
The auditor said that the attacker probably accessed the Duppies Twitter account in a targeted SIM swapping attack.
The attack involves fraudsters contacting the carrier of the mobile number holder and tricking them into exchanging the mobile number for a SIM card under their control. From there, the attacker can bypass any two-factor authentication on the account and gain access..
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