Have you ever seen a pixelated avatar priced in the hundreds of millions at Christie’s? The new owner of this batch of digital gold is no small fry — it’s the star VC who made a 200-fold profit by betting on the Coinbase IPO. You should know, this guy is such a hard-hitter that he doesn’t even blink when buying Tesla stocks, and this time he’s directly pocketing the hardest currency in the blockchain world. What big moves are hidden here?
At three in the morning, while crypto OGs are lamenting the loss of the web3 spirit, champagne at the top-tier Manhattan gala has quietly been uncorked. The Ribbit operator has leaked the news: "This is what Sotheby’s should be for digital natives." They dare to be this bold; have they discovered a wealth code that the outside world cannot see?
Look at the setup they’ve laid out: the first move after the acquisition is to equip each pixel punk with a "digital fingerprint," playing the name artwork authentication routine in the real world. Even more incredible is their plan to create an online auction house, allowing the billionaires to bid on NFTs like they would on a Picasso — this is clearly aiming to recreate an art finance empire in the metaverse!
But beneath the surface, crises abound. Some have dug up data: NFT trading volume has plummeted by 70% this year. Is taking over now a bold move of high art or picking up the pieces from a fire? What’s more ruthless is that the DAO community is already conspiring to fork out a "true decentralized punk" with code. This ultimate game between traditional capital and crypto-native forces may be even more explosive than the Bitcoin fork wars of yesteryear.
Big shots in the circle are arguing fiercely now: will this be a shot in the arm for reviving NFTs, or a shovel to bury the ideals of web3? Even Vitalik has tweeted late at night: "When CryptoKitties become Wall Street’s leopards, we need sharper claws."
The keen-eyed have already noticed the clues: three weeks ago, crypto whales suddenly stopped selling off, and abnormal movements appeared in the on-chain data. This seemingly sudden trade has likely been long-planned. Someone boldly predicts: Ribbit’s bet this time is not just on JPEG images, but on the battle for discourse power in the digital world.
On the eve of this fierce collision between reality and the virtual, the fate of CryptoPunks may be rewriting the value scale of all human civilization. But when capital sharks stir up a storm, can the original spirit of crypto survive? The answer lies deep within those 10,000 pixel blocks on the blockchain.