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CryptoPunks Catch Fire Again

Metaversal Weekly Recap: CryptoPunks surge, Pump.fun slumps.
CryptoPunks Catch Fire Again
William M. Peaster William M. Peaster
Aug 2, 2025 • 2 min read
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This week, CryptoPunks recorded its strongest 7-day volume stats in over a year and briefly crossed the $200k floor price mark for the first time since March 2024.

Driving some of the buy pressure? Renewed interest in the wake of Ethereum holding company GameSquare's purchase of rare ape 'Punk #5577 for its corporate treasury.

Now the grand question is which companies might follow suit with their own 'Punk bids. More ETH treasury strategies are all but inevitable, but top Ethereum NFTs have officially entered this conversation, too.

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William M. Peaster

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William M. Peaster, Senior Writer, has been with Bankless since January 2021. Immersed in Ethereum since 2017, he writes the Metaversal newsletter on the onchain frontier, covering everything from AI projects to crypto games, as the team’s lead NFT analyst. With a background in creative writing, he writes fiction and publishes art on Ethereum in his free time.

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