# Resurgence of CryptoPunksᵛ¹

On December 13, 2021, a historical NFT collector named Leonidas released a[ timeline of Early NFTs on Ethereum](https://twitter.com/LeonidasNFT/status/1470397114169630726?s=20\&t=2B5eB0c1PPpXb4g38OF0ZA) on Twitter that included CryptoPunksᵛ¹ on it.&#x20;

Several initial Cryptopunk claimers saw the timeline and realized that the Cryptopunks they held on the V1 contract might still be valuable.&#x20;

This same week, completely separately, a claimant named [Psyborg](https://twitter.com/PsyborgNFT) and a developer called [FrankNFT](https://twitter.com/frankNFT_eth) had a discussion about the broken V1 contract and started discussing potential solutions.  On the 14th December 2022 Psyborg challenged Frank to create a wrapper and offered up a Punk for when the volume hit 1000 ETH.

Over the following two weeks, \~100 CryptoPunksᵛ¹ were sold in private trades to individual collectors in the historical NFT community which revived the market around them and created interest amongst the historical NFT community.&#x20;

On January 17, 2022 [FrankNFT](https://twitter.com/frankNFT_eth) published a new updated Cryptopunks V1 wrapper which included more accurate metadata to make searching easier. This wrapper also discarded the "stripe" used in Foobar's prior wrapper and instead used a lavender background as the differentiator, the color having been decided on by a community vote on Discord. A private fee-less marketplace was also developed.&#x20;

This kicked off a number of discussions around provenance and authenticity.

#### Marketplace links:

* [Opensea](https://opensea.io/collection/official-v1-punks)
* [Opensea Pro](https://pro.opensea.io/collection/official-v1-punks)
* [Private Marketplace](https://v1punks.io/)
* [Fee-less Marketplace](https://legacy.v1punks.io)

#### Old Wrapper Marketplace Links (Note: We highly encourage users to move their CryptoPunksᵛ¹ onto the newer wrapper):

* [LooksRare](https://looksrare.org/collections/0xF4a4644E818c2843Ba0AAbEa93af6c80B5984114)<br>

**HYPE SOUNDTRACK FOR CRYPTOPUNKSᵛ¹**

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