On October 28th, 2021 CryptoPunk 9998 was purchased on chain for 124,457 ETH, representing a new all time high art sale of $532,414,877 USD.
This transaction was executed by Ethereum address 0xef764BAC8a438E7E498c2E5fcCf0f174c3E3F8dB, making use of a flash loan to sell and return the Punk to themself within the same transaction.
This is the most powerful display of conceptual or performance art recorded and viewable via a block explorer to date. Etherscan provides the canvas for this masterpiece.
Transaction hash: 0x92488a00dfa0746c300c66a716e6cc11ba9c0f9d40d8c58e792cc7fcebf432d0.
