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A guide for elementary collectors of Cryptopunks

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Cryptopunks are on the rise, and new collectors might benefit from a guide for beginners.

The title of the article goes: "Cryptopunks' Guide to Junior Collector's Punks (A Beginning Collector "s guide to Cryptopunks) & have spent

God, Arbakh;

Cryptopunks are going public, and new collectors might benefit from a guide to newcomers, so I'm going to write one here. By the way, I suggest you study the official website before you read my articleCryptopunks website"And add their Discord group, which also has a simple FAQ:

Q: How did the punk image come into being?

A: We coded some code to create these corners, and then ran through the code all at once to create the 10,000 you see on the website.

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Q: How did they distribute it initially?

A: The developer keeps the first 1000 and takes the remaining 9000 for free (use gas to Claim).

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Q: Is it possible to have more than 10,000 punks?

A: No, the original punks were created to run on the Ethereum network, where code controls ownership. After that, we no longer have creative or proprietary control.

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Q: Are they ERC-721 tokens?

A: No. They predate the existence of the ERC-721 protocol, and in fact partly inspired the design of the 721 protocol. Punk's smart contract is a modified and adapted version of the ERC-20 to support exclusivity and market trading features.

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Q: Will they be able to convert to ERC-721?

A: Not really. From the previous Wrapper smart contract to a full migration to a new contract and a variety of solutions, there are more drawbacks to doing this than not doing it.

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Q: Can I buy it from OpenSea or any other exchange?

A: No, I'd better not. Since exchanges typically rely on ERC-721 protocol support, this is not a good fit. It's possible, but not yet.

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Q: What purse do you support (I leek, ready to flush!) ?

A: MetaMask is A common choice, but many people also use mobile wallets. At present, we are also optimizing the mobile terminal, and it can be used at present.

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Q: How do I buy a punk (I leek, cut me! Quick!) ?

A: You look at flips from this website,https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/forsale, or you can choose to quote.

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Q: What is the quotation mechanism? Can the owner be notified?

A: Quotation is equivalent to having A third party. You quote the quotation to the contract. The owner may receive notification if he registers on the site and allows notification by mail of quotes, or if the machine quote is his concern.

Punk is considered to be the first NFT work, Special Old Cannon, which, as mentioned above, predates the 721 Agreement. This article is going from the basics to a little more detail, and you can dig deeper yourself, so I'm not going to talk about pixel color codes or punk V1 here.

Attributes (race)

Let's start with the primary concerns of punk collectorsattribute:

As shown in the picture above, there are four types of punk (aliens, apes, zombies, and humans). Are non-humans male and female? Well, that's something to discuss. These attributes can be further subdivided into skin color, which can not be directly distinguished from search by the official website:

Other features are clearly outlined on the CP site. But it's also a little more subtle, because features and values are not just about rarity. Although some features are less common than others, they often carry a higher premium. Like Hoodie and 3D glasses. On the other hand, some features, such as Spots, that are rarely seen, are less attractive. Others don't think straight hair looks good.

Characteristics of the combination

The rarest combinations are a combination of seven features (just one) and zero features (eight in all), which make up the two largest deals in the top six as of this writing:

In general, after the rare combinations mentioned above, there are 11 of the 6 features, and then there are 333 of the 1 features, which are the most desirable (depending on the individual features of course). Of course, some of the five characteristics are more valuable than any of the individual characteristics. For each individual trait, the number of combinations with other traits can be up to 8 (from 0 to 7), and usually fewer (because some traits are gender limited and different). Floorpunk (the cheapest kind) is usually a combination of 2-4 features. Having a mole or an earring might make a clean 1 or 2 feature punk less popular. However, some characteristics can be hidden by other characteristics, and sometimes can be more valuable. Like #998 Punk hides buckteeth,CryptoPunks: Details for Punk #5949This punk has three hidden characteristics.

Characteristics of sex differences

Some features are only male punk, such as the Hoodie garment (who), Beanie (no eaves Beanie, I generally called three color cap), some characteristics of the female only punk, such as orange, red Mohawk hair, in addition some of them are men and women have some punk (for example, surgical masks, clown nose), of course, some men and women punk these features seem inconsistent, an obvious example is green clown hair:

Others are slightly different, like the big gold chain:

As you'll notice after you've been around for a while, you can subconsciously distinguish between men and women. Why? Take a closer look:

The female has a distinct chin

So are apes male? What about aliens? I won't speculate here...

Trading punk

There are mainly two places, Larvalabs site and Opensea. Since Opensea only identifies ERC-721, the punk of ERC-20 should be "wrapped" first. There are also "packaged" punks at Rarible, but due to poor regulation, it's possible to buy fake punks, so it's best not to trade there.

What is wrapping?

You can be inWrapped PunksPack your punks. You post the punk to a "wrapper contract" for custody, and in exchange, you get the ERC-721 token that represents the punk, and you can trade like any other NFT. The holder of this token can "unlock" it at any time in the future, and then receive the punk, at the same time, the token is destroyed. Wouldn't it be nice to be "packaged" to work with a program like NFTX called Defi, which provides liquidity to punks, and to be mining at the same time?

What is developer punk?

The punk developers themselves kept the first 1000 punks, and sometimes sold or bought them. All punks with numbers less than 1000 have an additional distinction of belonging to the Dev Punk. They usually sell at a premium you can nowHere,Buy it.