Update: Equally of Sept. 29, 2022, Opensea has relisted the PolygonPunks NFTs.

Leading nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea has delisted the successful Polygon-based copy of CryptoPunks, Polygonpunks.

According to screenshots of the marketplace taken shortly before the NFT collectibles were removed, PolygonPunks had emerged as the second-most pop collection on OpenSea by book with roughly $37,000 worth of trade in 24 hours.

With upset users vocal on social media, OpenSea's Nate Chastain took to Twitter to explain the marketplace'due south action, describing the incident every bit a "buyer condom issue."

Chastain notes that OpenSea does not verify projects accounted to comprise "lite homage" or "derivative collections," stating that information technology defers to the judgment of "the original IP creator" every bit to whether or non projects like PolygonPunks should be removed from the market place.

"It's a buyer safety issue where verifications get hands misconstrued every bit indicating a relationship to the source fabric that some users accept gotten confused past in the by."

Chastain's comments suggest that PolygonPunks may accept been removed from OpenSea at the behest of CryptoPunks' creator, Larva Labs.

Social media reports suggest OpenSea's Discord forum became overwhelmed by disgruntled users, at one point leading to the forum suspending the onboarding of new members.

Co-ordinate to DappRadar, CryptoPunks is the third-nigh popular NFT projection by merchandise volume, with more than $13 1000000 worth of tokens trading easily in the past 24 hours.

Related: OpenSea's daily volume is exceeding its 2022 total

PolygonPunks is not the just CryptoPunks derivative capturing the customs's imagination, with the Solana-based SolPunks also selling out on launch earlier fetching five-figure prices on secondary markets.

SolPunks are trading on the Solanart market, where they drove more than $one million worth of trade in 24 hours on Monday.

UPDATE: 8/10/21. PolygonPunks are no longer bachelor on the Cargo market place, according to the project spokesperson.