CryptoPunks

Profile (past & present)

Mediums

8-bit, Digital, Digital art, Generative, Generative art, Long-form generative art, NFT, Pfps, Pixel art, Software

Technologies

Algorithms, Blockchain, ERC-721, Ethereum, Generative, NFT, On-chain storage, Random number generator, Smart contract, Software

Exhibitions

10,000, CADAF, Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms, Money Talks: Art, Society & Power

Collected by

Museum of Modern Art, Erick Calderon (Snowfro), NODE Foundation, Winklevoss brothers, ClownVamp, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, ZKM Centre for Art and Media

Connections

Influenced

Default Punks, Mango-Grayscale-Dada

Featured

• 2026NODE | A Physical Space for a Digital World
• 2026NODE | Digital Art Finds a Home in Silicon Valley
• 2026New Shows to See Around The World
• 2025Larva Labs to Release Final Art Blocks Curated Project
• 2024What the Punk!
• 2023Rare Digital Art Festival #1 Anniversary: Larva Labs

Discussed

• 2026On Collecting | Ryan Zurrer, owner of 1OF1
• 2026A-Z of Digital Art 2026
• 2026Digital Art Acquisitions in 2025
• 2025Larva Labs on Quine and Code as Art
• 2025The Art of Money
• 2024What is the Future of Digital Fashion in Web3?
• 2023The Art of the Profile Picture Portrait
• 2023The Conversation | Artnome and Cozomo
• 2023Notes On Retrofuturism
• 2023The Aesthetic Measure of an NFT
• 2023When Generative Art Became Contemporary Art
• 2023thefunnyguys and Artnome on Le Random
• 2023Should Art Museums Collect NFTs?
• 2023ClownVamp and the Art of NFT Storytelling
• 2023Making Sense of the $40B NFT Market

Mentioned

• 2026From Code to Canon | The Chapters of Digital Art
• 2026The Voyager | David Em
• 2026Jehan Chu on the Collective Stewardship of Blue-Chip Art
• 2026Art Blocks Embraces AI Agents
• 2026RIGHT CLICK SAVE ANNOUNCES NEW ART & TECH QUARTERLY
• 2026Zero 10 Returns at Art Basel Hong Kong
• 2026Art on the Blockchain | An Entwined Market
• 2026THE CANONS OF DIGITAL ART
• 2026Sculpture Meets Digital Art Under the Moon
• 2025Infinite Images | The Art of Algorithms
• 2025Notes from the Avant NFT Underground
• 2025The Pixel Universe | Yosca Maeda
• 2025Nobody Works at the Canvas Museum
• 2024On net.art, postinternet, and CryptoArt
• 2024Art After NFTs
• 2024HELLO WORLD | The MoMA Postcard
• 2023Can Web3 Automate Equity?
• 2023An Interview with Snowfro
• 2023On Curation | Yusuke Shono
• 2023What Does “On-Chain” Really Mean?
• 2023On Generative Pixel Art
• 2023Pixel Art and the Age of Technostalgia
• 2023The Interview | Operator
• 2023For the Love of Squiggles
• 2023Data in the Year of the NFT
• 2023Are NFTs a Real Solution for Museums?
• 2023Are NFTs Really a Wild West?
• 2023How To Do Your Own Research
• 2023REPORT | NFT ART DAY ZRH
• 2023ROBNESS AND THE TRASH ART REVOLUTION
• 2023What are NFTs Anyway?