PANews reported on January 15 that according to Beincrypto, Yuga Labs co-founder Greg Solano publicly denied rumors that the company planned to sell the copyright of the CryptoPunks series. This speculation was originally proposed by NFT researcher Wale Moca and sparked widespread discussion and controversy within the Web3 community.

Solano made it clear on the X platform: “A lot of people have approached us, especially in recent months, but this doesn’t mean we’re going to do anything. We will only consider it if we are sure it is a long-term and valuable deal for CryptoPunks.”

Although Solano has explicitly denied the rumor, the news was still enough to drive a surge in CryptoPunks market activity. The floor price of the series is now 40.38 ETH, a 24-hour increase of 12.2%.