Matt Hall and John Watkinson

The project was started by a team of two Canadian software developers, Matt Hall and John Watkinson, who call themselves “creative technologists.” And many of the attributes they blended into CryptoPunks can be found throughout the NFT scene – any project, like Bored Apes or Pudgy Penguins, that has a limited mint of 10,000 tokens owes them a debt of gratitude. CryptoPunks is now a part of Ethereum’s aesthetics, and its intellectual property belongs to Larva Labs, the company Hall and Watkinson founded.