Second-most expensive CryptoPunk ever sells — for the second time — in March

The second most expensive CryptoPunk ever sold for 4,850 ETH, worth $16.42 million, on March 20. 

CryptoPunk #7804 is one of nine so-called "AlienPunks" within the 10,000 total NFT collection. It beat out the March 4 sale of CryptoPunk #3100 for 4,500 ETH ($16.03 million), which was, at the time, the second-most expensive CryptoPunk sale ever. Now, the CryptoPunk #7804 is the second second-most expensive CryptoPunk sale to occur this month. 

The most expensive CryptoPunk of all time remains CryptoPunk #5822, which sold for 8,000 ETH worth $23.7 million on Feb. 12, 2022.

According to The Block's Data Dashboard, CryptoPunks generated $7.03 million in trade volume between March 10 and March 16 and $25.52 million in sales the week before. 

CryptoPunks is the intellectual property of Yuga Labs , the creator of the popular NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club. Originally created by Larva Labs, Yuga purchased the rights to CryptoPunks in March 2022.