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The market for NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, had its best year ever in 2021, generating over $23 billion in trading volume. A look back at the biggest sales of the past year.
The NFT (or non-fungible token) phenomenon has boomed in 2021, driven by an exceptional sale in March. The latter marked the beginning of unbelievable amounts of money being spent to acquire an NFT, unthinkable until then.
Exceptional sales
The work is by the artist Beeple. Sold by Christie’s last March, “Everyday’s: The first 5000 days” sold for 42,329,453 ETH ($69.3 million). It is still the most expensive sale in NFT history. The artist Beeple, whose real name is Mike Beeple Winkelmann, pasted digital works that he made for 5,000 days in a row.
The second most expensive work in NFT’s 2021 sales is still by artist Beeple. “Human one” depicts an astronaut, in a transparent box. He walks in different environments, rather hostile. The work is composed of the physical box and its token, sold for $28.985 million, at Christie’s, during its fall auction.
From the third row, the seats are occupied by Cryptopunks. These are portraits of pixelated characters. Most of these portraits represent men and women, but others stand out for their rarity. Sometimes they take on the appearance of monkeys, zombies or even aliens. The project, conceived in 2017, is the brainchild of Larva Labs, a company founded by developers Matt Hall and John Watkinson. There are 10,000 digital Cryptopunks pieces available, but the one that sold the most bears the number #7523. It is a portrait of a punk alien (there are only 9 of them) with a cap, an earring and a mask covering his nose and mouth. Sold by Sotheby’s, it reached the sum of 11.8 million dollars.
At the foot of the podium is another Cryptopunk, number #3100. It was sold for 4200 ETH, or $7.58 million in March 2021. It was sold on Opensea, the world’s largest marketplace for NFTs on the Ethereum network. Currently, it is on sale for 35,000 ETH ($131 million). It represents an alien punk.
To finish this ranking, cryptopunk #7804 sold for 4200 ETH ($7.57 million). It is an alien with glasses and wearing a hat, smoking a pipe. A lot of celebrities have bought cryptopunks in their likeness, like Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg or Serena Williams.
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The market for NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, had its best year ever in 2021, generating over $23 billion in trading volume. A look back at the biggest sales of the past year.
The NFT (or non-fungible token) phenomenon has boomed in 2021, driven by an exceptional sale in March. The latter marked the beginning of unbelievable amounts of money being spent to acquire an NFT, unthinkable until then.
Exceptional sales
The work is by the artist Beeple. Sold by Christie’s last March, “Everyday’s: The first 5000 days” sold for 42,329,453 ETH ($69.3 million). It is still the most expensive sale in NFT history. The artist Beeple, whose real name is Mike Beeple Winkelmann, pasted digital works that he made for 5,000 days in a row.
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The market for NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, had its best year ever in 2021, generating over $23 billion in trading volume. A look back at the biggest sales of the past year.
The NFT (or non-fungible token) phenomenon has boomed in 2021, driven by an exceptional sale in March. The latter marked the beginning of unbelievable amounts of money being spent to acquire an NFT, unthinkable until then.
Exceptional sales
The work is by the artist Beeple. Sold by Christie’s last March, “Everyday’s: The first 5000 days” sold for 42,329,453 ETH ($69.3 million). It is still the most expensive sale in NFT history. The artist Beeple, whose real name is Mike Beeple Winkelmann, pasted digital works that he made for 5,000 days in a row.
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