Ethereum Founder’s PFP Change Fuels +50% Surge In Milady NFTs

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Vitalik Buterin, a Canadian computer programmer, crypto investor, and co-founder of Ethereum, has updated his profile picture on his x account with an image from the popular web3 non-fungible token project, Milady Maker. Buterin’s surprise action has rapidly sparked some market frenzy in the Milady Maker NFT market, causing a surge in its floor price. The Milady Maker NFT floor has climbed over 100% in the past 24 hours.

BREAKING NEWS: @VitalikButerin just changed his PFP to a Milady

Send $ETH to 0 with haste 😭😂 pic.twitter.com/f3bCoGEeyK

— JBond (@jbondwagon) January 18, 2025

Milady NFT Floor Price Soars +50%

Data compiled by Coingecko.com, an on-chain crypto market data aggregator and a non-fungible token collection explorer, shows that the Milady Maker NFT collection has significantly surged in trading sales volume and floor price value. In the past 24 hours, the Milady Maker NFT series has recorded a trading sales volume of 1,004 ETH, equivalent to $3.3 million. During this period, Milady Maker NFT sales volume has surged by over 2,600%.

MIlady NFT chart

During this time, the Milady Maker NFT floor price has surged by over 55% from the previous day. The NFT floor climbed from 3.9ETH on January 19, 2025, in the morning and skyrocketed to as high as 6.38 ETH hours later. At the time of this publication, the Milady Maker is exchanging hands around 6.38 ETH. It has a market capitalization of 63,660 ETH, equivalent to $21 million.

Launched in September 2021, Milady Maker is a non-fungible token collection featuring a fixed supply of 10,000 generative neo-chibi-style profile pictures NFTs inspired by the street-style tribes of Y2K Japan. The collection is hosted on the Ethereum blockchain. The art for Milady NFTs is created by a digital artist named Sprite Bonkler, who has a childlike take on anime illustration and produces all of the art for Milady Maker.

Redacted Remilio Babies NFT Floor Price Rise +50%

Milady Maker NFT collection was created by the digital asset firm Remilia Corporation, whose chief executive officer is Charlotte Fang. Remilia is also the brainchild behind the Redacted Remilio Babies, a non-fungible token collection featuring a limited set of 10,000 NFTs hosted on the Ethereum blockchain network. In response to Vitalik Buterin’s PFP update, the Redacted NFT floor price has surged by over 50% from the past day. It has climbed from 0.77 ETH to as high as 1.44 ETH. At the time of publishing, the Redacted Remilio Babies NFT floor price is finding support at 1.02 ETH.

Redacted Remilia Babies

This is not the first time Milady Maker has been impacted by actions from notable industry leaders. On May 11, 2023, the floor price of the Milady NFT collection increased by over 57% within 24 hours after the CEO of X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk, tweeted a meme using the imagery of a Milady NFT. The message on the image said, “There is no meme. I love you.”

pic.twitter.com/4s6HwnCY74

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 10, 2023