An investor has sold a CryptoPunk non-fungible token (NFT) at a nearly $10 million realized loss, reflecting the continued decline in the once-booming blue-chip NFT market.
A whale, or large cryptocurrency investor, sold a CryptoPunk NFT for 4,000 Ether ( data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://cointelegraph.com/ethereum-price” rel=”” target=”_self” text=”null” title=”https://cointelegraph.com/ethereum-price”>ETH) worth more than $6 million at the time of writing.
The investor originally purchased the NFT for 4,500 ETH, or roughly $15.7 million, a year ago, according to blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain.
“Did he only lose 500 $ETH($774K)? No—he actually lost $9.73M!” Lookonchain wrote in an X post….

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