No announcement. No press release.
No one was watching.

A contract landed on Ethereum.
10,000 faces appeared out of nowhere.

Four days later, they said it
was a mistake. That it didn't count.

The blockchain disagreed.

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Cryptopunks V1 — collector's piece. Background color #A79AFF is the signature color of this site.
V1 Cryptopunk — collector's piece
Genesis archive entry
Collection Page

CryptoPunks V1

This page gathers the V1-specific on-chain reference points that used to live on the homepage. It is the collector-facing entry for the original contract history, the wrapped trading layer, and the provenance argument that sits at the center of this site.

V1 Cryptopunk
On-Chain Reference
V1 Chain Data
Block
#3,842,489
Date
June 9, 2017
Contract
0x6Ba6f2207e343923BA692e5Cae646Fb0F566DB8D
Wrapped
0x282bdd42f4eb70e7a9d9f40c8fea0825b7f68c5d
Tokens Minted
10,000
Official Status
Original On-Chain Version
Chain Status
ON (Ethereum)
Collector Note

The provenance case.

V1 remains important because it anchors the chronology. Whether a market, a creator, or a later narrative privileges another version does not erase the fact of the initial deployment. For a collector interested in NFT history, that first trace on Ethereum remains the essential point of reference.

This page will evolve over time as the archive grows. For now, it serves as a clean landing page for the main identifiers, the wrapped contract used for trading, and the broader thesis that historical context matters.