About Lost Punks

Lost Punks lets you ask: which CryptoPunks stepped out for a pack of smokes and never came back?

Rather than declaring any individual punk lost, Lost Punks lets you set your own threshold to see what fits. A punk is considered lost in this view when both are true:

  1. The punk hasn’t moved on the chain in N+ years.
  2. The wallet currently holding it hasn’t signed an outbound Ethereum transaction in M+ years.

Lost Punks indexes both contracts. The V1 contract (where claims happened in June 2017) was effectively dormant until a wrapper made V1 punks safely tradeable in 2022, so V1 has a much higher dormancy rate than V2. You can search either contract independently, however looking up details for an individual punk will show you the status of both.

What this isn’t

  • It’s not a claim that any specific punk is lost forever. A wallet that’s been silent for 8 years could still be operated by someone who simply hasn’t needed to move anything.
  • It doesn’t count punks already known to be burned. Those are documented on Burned Punks and are excluded from results here.
  • It only knows about Ethereum activity. A wallet’s last outbound transaction is the strongest signal we have without inferring intent.

How fresh is the data?

The on-chain snapshot was last refreshed on July 1, 2026.

Data refreshes happen automatically once a month, though we may also trigger a refresh manually if needed. A monthly cadence is intentional: the dynamics here are slow. Active wallets tend to stay active and inactive wallets tend to stay inactive: a wallet doesn’t flip from “moves punks weekly” to “silent for five years” overnight. The events that actually change a punk’s status here are rare wake-ups of long-dormant wallets, and catching those within a month is plenty.

Credits

Built by Sean Bonner. Punk imagery from the CryptoPunks marketplace. Sister projects: Burned Punks and Museum Punks.