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The non-fungible token appears to take an upside trajectory again this new month after gaining significant momentum in July 2025. The NFT market began showcasing potential signs of a surge over the weekend after a rare Bored Ape non-fungible token sold for +600 ETH, or equivalent to over $2.3 million. In yet another incident, a punk non-fungible token collection has been sold for over $2.5 million. Rare Punk NFT Sells For $2.5M Data gathered by Cryptoslam.io, a multi-chain crypto market data aggregator and a non-fungible token collection explorer, which collects its data from more than 20 blockchain networks, shows a rare punk has exchanged hands for a huge sum in the past few hours. Late yesterday, data shows that an anonymous NFT investor has bought CryptoPunk #1021 NFT for 720 ETH, equivalent to over $2.5 million. The Punk #1021 is part of CryptoPunks, a globally acknowledged non-fungible token collection featuring a fixed supply of 10,000 pixilated NFTs hosted on the Ethere...

Refik Anadol, a renowned media artist and the co-founder of Refik Anadol Studio and Dataland, has launched a new non-fungible token collection. The media artist unveiled his NFT collection earlier this week. This non-fungible token collection has gained massive traction among traders. Since launch, its floor price has skyrocketed by +50%, rising from 2.78 ETH to 4.40 ETH at the time of publishing. Wonderful to see Biome Lumina reaching new highs in the secondary even before reveal and many other announcements! Thank you all very much! pic.twitter.com/Sr5YMdXwOX — Refik Anadol (@refikanadol) May 16, 2025 Refik Anadol Drops A New NFT Collection Earlier this week, Refik Anadol launched a new non-fungible token series on the Ethereum blockchain network known as Dataland – Biome Lumina. The Dataland NFT Collection, Biome Lumina, is the first series of 1,000 unique living paintings on blockchain by Refik Anadol Studio for Dataland. The Biome Lumina NFT Collection represents ...

Yuga Labs, the digital asset incubation studio and the team behind the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club and Mutant Ape Yacht Club non-fungible token collections, has finally sold the intellectual property (IP) for the CryptoPunks NFT collection. The digital asset firm, which acquired Punks IP in 2022, has sold it to Infinite Node Foundation (NODE), a nonprofit focused on digital art. Speculation about Punks’ IP sales began looming in January 2025. Yuga Labs Sells Punks IP To NODE In a May 13 blog post, Yuga Labs confirmed that it has finally sold the intellectual property (IP) for the CryptoPunks non-fungible token collection to Infinite Node Foundation (NODE). The acquisition of CryptoPunks NFT IP, plus its additional $25 million endowment, establishes NODE as “the most well-capitalized non-profit dedicated solely to digital art in the United States of America. The Infinite Node Foundation (NODE) is pleased to announce the acquisition of the intellectual property of @crypto...