Three friends unearth Larva Labs $25,000 Meebit NFT

After astir a year, 3 radical person yet cracked the Larva Labs concealed treasure hunt.

Andrew Badr, a Twitter user, named Apely.eth, and an anonymous 3rd idiosyncratic each worked unneurotic to decode the puzzle, revealing backstage keys to a pig Meebits worthy 10 ETH. The backstage keys were enshrined wrong a integer artwork.

Badr narrated the acquisition connected Twitter. According to him, it started erstwhile Proof, an creator collective, did an NFT driblet of 20 artworks by 20 anonymous artists. One of the pieces successful the drop, the Grail #11, turned retired to person been made by Larva Labs.

This is the communicative of however @larvalabs, the creators Cryptopunks, hid a concealed NFT prize astir a twelvemonth ago—and however a mates friends and I precocious solved the puzzle to assertion it.

— Andrew Badr (@andrewbadr) March 14, 2022

Grail #11 was a mathematically generated creation that soon became the astir invaluable successful the collection. On March 5, a Proof Discord idiosyncratic called “iceman” noticed the antithetic signifier astatine the apical of Grail #11 and called attraction to it.

Badr saw this connection and realized that iceman mightiness beryllium up to something. So helium wrote a codification turning the Ls connected the creation into binary codes of 0s and 1s. 

Meebits pig had the hint

He past utilized American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), which interprets the binary codes into 128 English characters and got this hidden message, “SECRET IS IN THE PIG NUMBERS, LL.”

After immoderate investigations, helium was capable to place that this connection referred to the Meebits pig. So, Badr recruited his friends, 1 of whom was Apely.eth, to assistance with the hunt. 

The 3 of them identified the pigs wearing jerseys and collected each the numbers connected the jersey. Then they utilized assorted means specified arsenic ASCII, mod 2, Caesar Cyphers, and basal 32 to construe the jersey numbers.

After days of trying to spot if the jersey numbers mean something, they discovered if they arranged the Meebits based connected the jersey number. They ended up with a 64 digit string, which was an Ethereum backstage key. The backstage cardinal led to a wallet containing Meebit #2858 and 0.025 ETH.

Apely besides corroborated Badr’s revelation portion besides hinting that helium would beryllium looking guardant to uncovering much puzzles successful aboriginal NFTs of Larva Labs.

Recently, Larva Labs sold the rights of CryptoPunks and Meebits NFT postulation to its rival successful the industry, the creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club, Yuga Labs.