Punks will age like your father’s old watch, following the same arc as every timeless piece: from statement to stigma to staple. In their early days, Punks were identity. They carried weight. They represented: being early, being in tune, being part of the few who got it. Every OG had one, everyone else wanted one. Their golden age was their emerging age, when owning one meant something, when there was strong ethos behind them. Then came the peak. (For punks and NFTS as a whole) The celebrity buys, the Superbowl speculation, the saturation. Once that happened, the meaning collapsed. You could still buy a Punk, but you couldn’t buy what it once meant. Culture had moved from creation to consumption But every great artifact goes through that decay. First adored, then mocked, then rediscovered. That’s the rhythm of permanence. The world needs time to forget before it can remember with clarity. I think Punks will slowly return, moving from symbols of status to symbols of history As physical watches become heirlooms, digital ones will too. They’ll be collected for what they endured, not for what they were worth. ...