MoMA adds eight CryptoPunks (2017) and eight Chromie Squiggles (2020) to its permanent collection—donated by their creators (Larva Labs and Erick Calderon), collector communities, and DAOs including SquiggleDAO. Building on the museum’s 2023 acquisition of Refik Anadol’s Unsupervised (2022) and Ian Cheng‘s 3FACE (2022), the acquisition marks another institutional stamp for on-chain art. “The moment we’ve been building toward has arrived,” notes pseudonymous collector Cozomo de’ Medici, who donated a Punk, on X.