Are CryptoPunks the Only Blue-Chip NFT? Scarcity, age, culture, and popularity significantly affect the base value of NFTs. For CryptoPunks in particular, all of these factors have set them up to become digital luxury items that have appreciated in value with time. As one of the first NFT collections, how has CryptoPunks held up in the current market?

How zkEVMs Can Keep Ethereum Competitive with Alternative Layer-1s. As emerging execution environments like Fuel and StarkNet gain developer mindshare, efforts to keep the EVM competitive by building a zkEVM are underway. While current efforts by Layer-2 teams like Polygon, Scroll, and zkSync will be the first to market, a zkEVM has the potential to solve Ethereum's scaling bottleneck at the core protocol level.