e30d #3 - All Roads Lead To Punks (Larva Labs) Object: CryptoPunk #1478 Artist: Larva Labs Owner: Snowfro Date: July 2023 In 2017, a two-person game design studio called Larva Labs launched a digital art experiment on the Ethereum blockchain. The project paid tribute to London’s early ‘70s punk scene, cypherpunks, and pixel art. It came in the form of 10,000 unique, randomly assembled, 24x24 pixel art characters featuring an assortment of humans, zombies, apes, and aliens. Simply, CryptoPunks encompassed multiple innovations in one project: - They brought generative art to the Ethereum blockchain. - They inspired the very category of unique digital objects and blockchain-based media. - They created the first marketplace for exchanging unique digital objects. Centuries from now, as digital historians draw a line back through time, they’ll eventually land in the same place: All roads lead back to the Punks.