BASTARD GAN PUNKS is an AI-generated Ethereum NFT art collection that remixes the original CryptoPunks by running them through a StyleGAN2 model to produce entirely new derivative characters. BASTARD GAN PUNKS's Twitter Score is 51 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #20,384 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
BASTARD GAN PUNKS was founded by Berk Özdemir, who trained StyleGAN2 on the 10,000 original CryptoPunks to generate the collection, which is not affiliated with Larva Labs. The first AI-generated punks were minted in April 2020, with the collection becoming available on OpenSea in October 2020. A V2 collection followed in March 2021, comprising 11,305 NFTs split between 847 animated GIF "Hype" pieces and 10,458 still PNG "Calm" pieces, with descriptions generated by a GPT-2 model trained on punk and emo song lyrics. Holders of V2 NFTs receive full copyright permission for both the artwork and its description, including commercial use.
BASTARD GAN PUNKS is affiliated with Unofficial Punks and is backed by FloorDAO. A notable charitable dimension of the project saw 234.556 ETH from discounted proxy-contract mints sent directly to charities. The ecosystem extends to a $BGAN NFTX vault token and a $BASTARD ERC-20 token airdropped to BGAN holders. Governance of the project sits with BastardDAO, established in November 2021, which operates through community proposals executed by elected signers. BASTARD GAN PUNKS has published 9,725 posts and has been mentioned by 113 accounts a total of 571 times.
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