Christie’s NFT expert will lead CryptoPunks, fake heir launches NFT collection
Noah Davis, the NFT (nonfungible token) specialist at auction house Christie’s, has said he will leave the position in July to take up a position as brand leader for CryptoPunk’s NFT collection with Yuga Labs.
Announcement On Sunday in a Twitter thread, Davis tried to interrupt all the owners’ concerns about the future of one of the oldest NFT projects, and said that he “does not want to fuck with the punks”.
What does that mean? That means no punks on lunch boxes or gruesome TV shows / dirty movies. That means no hasty tools or thoughtless air drops. This means that if you love your punks because they are what they are (just punks), then you and I see eye to eye …
– Noah (@NonFungibleNoah) June 19, 2022
He invited CryptoPunk owners to plan a chat with him about the project’s future at the NFT NYC event and said the new position would not take away from his own NFT project.
Davis is responsible for the record-breaking auction of Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5000 Days NFT, which sold for over $ 69 million in March 2021.
Yuga Labs bought the intellectual property for the CryptoPunks collection from Larva Labs in March, and said it would hand over all commercial rights to the owners, a promise that has not yet been realized.
However, Yuga Labs co-founder Wylie Aronow aka Gargamel addressed the wait in a series of tweets on Sunday, writing it was “too significant to rush” and that new terms “will be rolled out over the next few weeks.”
With the announcement of Davis’ move and the new terms that will soon take effect, there are some who do claim that insiders had prior knowledge of the information, with reference to the increasing sales volume of the collection.
Okay, so no one’s going to take up the obvious insider trading that has happened in the last 48 hours?
Diagram: @ punk9059 pic.twitter.com/beNkWbAc2Y
– Chainleft (@ChainLeftist) June 19, 2022
According to OpenSea, 39 sales of the CryptoPunks collection have taken place since the announcement, with 101 sales in total on Sunday, up from the only 19 sold the day before, on Saturday.
Convicted fraudster “reinvents” himself with NFTs
Convicted swindler and swindler Anna Sorokin, who from 2013 to 2017 pretended to be the wealthy German heiress “Anna Delvey” to defraud acquaintances and businesses for over $ 275,000, has started an NFT fundraiser.
Entitled Reinventing Anna, the collection contains 2,000 NFTs for 0.1 Ether (ETH) each, or approximately $ 110 at the time of writing. It is marketed as a way for “fans to interact with Anna” and gain access to private “ask-me-anything” with Sorokin.
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The collection will contain 20 “gold edition cards”, which give owners the opportunity for a one-on-one phone call or personal visit with the so-called “famous socialist.”
The name of the collection is a play on Inventor Anna Netflix drama miniseries released earlier this year, inspired by Sorokin’s story.
“I see this first drop as an opportunity to connect directly with my audience and take responsibility for the story that has largely been out of my control,” Sorokin wrote in an Instagram post regarding the collection.
However, it is unknown how NFT holders will be able to visit her in person. Since March 2021, Sorokin has been held by the US Immigration and Customs Administration for violating her visa and is facing deportation to Germany.
Duppies followers targeted in phishing scams
Duppies, an upcoming Solana NFT project from the same team as the popular “DeGods” collection, had their Twitter account hacked on Saturday, with attackers tweeting a link to a “stealth mint” of the NFTs.
The link was a phishing site, and users who connected to their wallets and tried to turn on, got their wallet drained by all means. A Twitter user wrote they lost 650 Solana (SOL), worth around $ 18,850, from the attack.
In Twitter Spaces after the attack, the creator of the upcoming collection became known as Frank along with security auditor Code Monkey to explain how the attack happened.
The auditor said that the attacker probably gained access to Duppy’s Twitter account in a targeted SIM exchange attack.
The attack works by fraudsters contacting the phone provider of the mobile number holder and tricking the operator to change the mobile number to a SIM card they have control over. From there, the attacker can bypass any two-factor authentication on the account and gain access.
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Despite warnings from the nation’s authorities, the number of NFT and digital collection platforms in China has quadrupled since February 2022, from just over 100 to over 500, according to local state-owned media.
