John Watkinson is a software developer and co-founder of Larva Labs, best known for creating CryptoPunks, one of the earliest NFT collections on Ethereum. John Watkinson's Twitter Score is 186 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #2,623 (top 1%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
John Watkinson co-founded Larva Labs alongside Matt Hall, forming its two-person founding team. In June 2017, Larva Labs released 10,000 algorithmically generated CryptoPunks tokens on Ethereum, a project that became a foundational reference point for the broader NFT market. In March 2022, Yuga Labs confirmed it had acquired the intellectual property of the CryptoPunks and Meebits collections from Larva Labs. In May 2025, NODE acquired the full IP of CryptoPunks. John Watkinson currently serves on the Punks Advisory Board for NODE Foundation.
John Watkinson has 26,182 followers as of August 2026 and has published 302 posts. John Watkinson has been mentioned by 142 accounts a total of 317 times.
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