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August 1, 2022 - Yuga Labs has implemented a 5% royalty on secondary sales of Meebits.

CryptoPunks, considered to be the godfather of the 10,000 item generative PFPs, never instituted royalties when they debuted in 2017. The official CryptoPunks exchange, the only marketplace where Punks are traded, still do not enforce any royalties on secondary sales.

“SPW NFT” means each non-fungible token minted by a smart contract deployed to the Ethereum blockchain at address 0x0000000000003f07248DDFb9821770a8200EF77d, or one or more other smart contracts (including any replacement, upgraded or successor smart contract) we may designate from time to time in its sole discretion (each, a “SPW Smart Contract”) that is part of the CryptoPunk-related NFT collection entitled Super Punk World (the "Super Punk World Collection") created by the artist Nina Chanel Abney (the “Artist”) in collaboration with Yuga Labs and featuring artwork images respectively depicting characters created by the Artist (each artwork image, a “Character”).

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August 16, 2022 - Yuga Labs just gave CryptoPunks holders 'full commercial rights.' Here's everything to know about what you can and can't do with your Punks.

August 22, 2022 - With Meebits, Yuga changed the monetization, introducing the same royalty scheme that applies to the BAYC collection. There’s no royalties on secondary sales of Cryptopunks – yet – but that may change.

August 1, 2022 - Yuga Labs has implemented a 5% royalty on secondary sales of Meebits.

November 7, 2023 - Yuga Labs — owner of leading Web3 projects including Bored Ape Yacht Club, Cryptopunks and 10KTF — is making royalties automatic and reliable via a new partnership with NFT platform Magic Eden, which it recently ...

February 1, 2025 - “CryptoPunks will continue to be a very big pillar of the NFT community. They don’t need to evolve and nothing needs to happen for them to cement their place in history,” said Gmoney. Still, with Yuga at the helm, Punks will likely continue to change and evolve. Although Yuga gets a cut every time a Bored Ape is resold, Larva Labs didn’t implement a similar royalties system for CryptoPunks and Meebits.

November 9, 2022 - No one ever questioned the resale royalties. On the contrary, it was exciting to be part of an upcoming revolution for artists. While Cryptopunks and Cryptokitties were projects owned by companies with a particular business model, DADA was a weird hybrid of an art creation platform, an artist ...

May 3, 2024 - Larva Labs have no ongoing royalties on sales of CryptoPunks.

April 24, 2026 - NODE had previously received a $25 million grant in April 2025 from investor Micky Malka and Becky Kleiner to support its mission of "building the future of digital art." Malka, who serves as the foundation’s chair, stated that CryptoPunks ...

May 14, 2025 - As of May 13, the total value of the collection was close to $1.2 billion. Over the years, CryptoPunks have seen more than $3 billion in total sales. Each time one is sold, the holders of the intellectual property receive royalties.

May 13, 2025 - The CryptoPunks collection was launched in 2017 by Larva Labs, an NFT designer co-founded by Hall and Watkinson. Since then, the NFTs have clocked upward of $3 billion in sales, according to NODE. Each NFT sale creates royalties for the holders of the NFTs’ IP.

February 27, 2024 - This means that our collections ... creator royalties for any and all creators at the protocol level,” wrote Yuga Labs on X. Among those collections with a royalty filter are the Otherside Koda and Moonbirds Mythics collections, while Yuga’s most well-known and most-traded collections — CryptoPunks and Bored ...

February 26, 2024 - This not only significantly increased his earnings by discarding gallery commissions, but also offered proof-of-ownership to his buyers, all while maintaining the integrity of his art. Blockchain has thus transformed art ownership and artist royalties in the digital space. Cryptopunks, a digital ...

December 16, 2022 - The founders made a whopping $80 million after the conclusion of the auction. At that point, all 10,000 released CryptoPunks managed to reach a combined valuation of almost $2 billion.

August 10, 2022 - Alongside the acquisition in March, Yuga Labs also announced that the Web3 startup will grant full commercialization rights to CryptoPunks holders, enabling them to create projects and derivative products based on their owned artwork.

December 26, 2025 - The anchor was MoMA adding CryptoPunks and Chromie Squiggles, sparking a debate on how museums acquire work, what “validation” actually means, and why events like NFT NYC still miss the mark. From there the convo moved into collector reality, Tezos as a lower-friction lane for digital art, and whether royalties can be redesigned (including profit-only royalties) without killing secondary markets.