Yuga Labs will hire Noah Davis, a key member of Christie’s NFT team, as the brand leader of the CryptoPunks NFT project. Davis was behind Beeple’s famous “The First 5,000 Days” NFT, which sold for $69 million at Christie’s in March 2021. Noah Davis is Running CryptoPunks In a Twitter thread, posted Sunday, Noah Davis announced that he would be joining the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht NFT collection, Yuga Labs as brand leader for its recently-acquired collection CryptoPunks. I’m humbled and honored to announce I’ll be leaving my current post in July to steward the CryptoPunks as Brand Lead under the umbrella of @yugalabs before I say anything else it’s important to confirm what we WON’T be doing… simply put: I WILL NOT FUCK WITH THE PUNKS… 🧵👇🏻 — Noah (@NonFungibleNoah) June 19, 2022 At Christie’s, Davis was responsible for bringing Beeple’s piece ‘The First 5,000 Days’ to auction. At the time in March 2021, the sale made headlines for its $69 million price tag, a figure which put Beeple “among the top three most valuable living artists.” The announcement of the hire comes amid a rapid rise in the CryptoPunks collection’s floor price and trading volume. According to recent data, CryptoPunks’ sales volume had hit $10.4 million in the last 24 hours, a whopping 230% increase from yesterday. BAYC Co-Founder Garga Welcomes Davis In a nine-tweet thread, BAYC Co-Founder Garga also announced that Yuga Labs has hired Christie’s ...
