Larva Labs’ Matt Hall: “Creating cryptopunks"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Matt Hall, founder of Larva Labs, to talk about creating cryptopunks (3:00), what he did before this (4:30), creating cryptopunks in 2017 (9:00), cryptokitties (11:00), how it works (12:45), giving them away (14:00), from zero to a $250m market (15:15), why NFTs took off (20:05), who is buying them (24:20), trying 50 other things before this (25:45), Autoglyphs (27:00) and what’s next (29:25).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:02.9	What is it all about?
0:04.5	Well, if I can't put this on my wall, like, why would I even want to own it?
0:07.7	Like, forget about the technology for a moment that makes it possible.
0:10.8	Like, why would I want to own?
0:12.2	I can't enjoy it, right?
0:13.7	Even show it off to people or make it a part of my home, you know, that is part of my identity.
0:18.6	But I think what that missed was that for a lot of people, their identity exists primarily
0:23.7	online already.
0:30.6	Hello and welcome to Danny the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and
0:34.9	inside the minds of the top people in tech.
0:37.3	I'm your host, Danny Forts,, the West Coast correspondent for The Sunday Times.
0:42.6	We have a fascinating episode for you this week.
0:46.1	On the program is Matt Hall, who is one half of the two-man design studio Larva Labs.
0:55.6	And you may know Larva because they're the guys behind Cryptopunks,
1:00.5	you know the pixelated little cartoon characters that have become just a total phenomenon
1:04.7	in the world of non-fungible tokens or NFTs.
1:08.7	So last month, Dylan Field, you may have read, he's the founder of Figma, he sold one for
1:14.4	$7.5 million.
1:17.9	And here's the thing.
1:19.3	There's only 10,000 of these crypto punks.
1:22.2	And many of them are now fetching bids for hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.
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