Amid the growing appetite for crypto risk, a single NFT has been sold for a whopping $16 million in Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH). What Happened: A bidder recently acquired CryptoPunk #3100, one of the nine “Alien Punks” in the series, for 4,500 ether, equivalent to approximately $16 million, reported Business Insider. This sale, which took place on March 4, is the second most expensive CryptoPunk sale to date. The CryptoPunk series, consisting of 10,000 algorithmically generated characters, gained prominence during the NFT boom of the pandemic era. An NFT is a digital item linked to the blockchain, …