Matt Hall and John Watkinson are the Founders of Larva Labs, the product studio behind some of the oldest and most popular NFT projects to date. In June of 2017, Larva Labs launched CryptoPunks, which stands as one of the first NFT collections on the Ethereum blockchain. Since 2017, CryptoPunks has grown from a niche internet fad into one of the world’s most expensive and well-known collections. While it was not technically the first NFT project on Ethereum, it is one of the earliest and unarguably the most influential. In 2019, Larva Labs launched Autoglyphs, some of the first “on-chain” generative art on the Ethereum blockchain. In May of 2021, the company created the NFT project Meebits, which quickly secured top spots on ranking charts. CryptoPunks and Meebits sold to Yuga Labs in 2022. Though Larva Labs faced criticism over the years in relation to holder rights and V1 Punks, their overall impact on the community has been profound and positive.