The NFT art scene has detonated in recent months!
Nine out of ten most expensive NFT sales attended in the last six months alone.
Here are the most expensive sales to date.
10 - THE COMPLETE MF COLLECTION: $777,777 It's a Beeple masterpiece and features a video
of all the other artworks sold as part of its collection.
This NFT is unusual because it is also accompanied by a physical token.
In this case, a signed titanium backplate comprised a sample of Beeple's hair and a
certificate of ownership.
The token was the most valuable single edition token sold in Beeple's 'The 2020 Collection'
and was acquired by NFT art collector Tim Kang for $777,777!
9 - Hairy: 888,888 Musician, fashion designer, and entrepreneur
Steve Aoki lately collaborated with 3D illustrator Antoni Tudisco to produce the eclectic piece
known simply as 'Hairy.'
The NFT features a bespectacled blue monster bopping to one of Aoki's beats in a 36-second
clip.
It was sold for $888,888 in a then record-breaking auction for Nifty Gateway and entitles the
viewers to an Infinite Objects physical screen displaying the NFT.
8 - Not Forgotten, But Gone: $1 Million A modern artist from New York City WhIsBe
is the man behind a series of NFTs depicting gummy bears in various creative forms.
Although WhIsBe was initially known for his gummy bear murals throughout Brooklyn and
giant statues spread in public spaces throughout the world, he lately turned his artistic talents
to the world of NFT art.
For now, the 16-second video of a rotating gummy bear skeleton named "Not Forgotten,
But Gone" is the most expensive NFT designed by the artist and sold for a hefty $1 million
on Nifty Gateway.
7 - CryptoPunk #4156: $1.3 Million CryptoPunk #4156 is the next punk that managed
to net more than $1 million in a public auction.
CryptoPunks is a randomly generated set of 10,000 unique digital characters and is some
of the first examples of non-fungible tokens published on the Ethereum blockchain.
They were created by Matt Hall and John Watkinson from American game studio Larva Labs.
Like a bit more expensive CryptoPunk #6965, CryptoPunk #4156 is a rare ape-type token
but instead sports a blue bandana.
The average CryptoPunk was sold for $25,247 in the last 12 months, making CryptoPunk #4156
meriting the equivalent of 51.5 lesser CryptoPunks.
6 - Auction Winner Picks Name: $1.33 Million American DJ and dance music producer 3LAU
lately collaborated with digital collage artist Slimesunday to create Auction Winner Picks
Name—an NFT that traded for $1.33 million on Nifty Gateway.
The NFT carries a music video and dance track and qualified the buyer to choose the name
of both the initial NFT and the open edition NFTs newly sold on Nifty Gateway.
5 - CryptoPunk #6965: $1.54 Million The second CryptoPunk on our video, number
#6965, sports a funky fedora and an unimpressed look.
It sold for an unblamable $1.54 million in February.
The CryptoPunk is only one of just 24 ape Punks, the second rarest Punk type after the
alien.
Currently, CryptoPunk #6965 is once again for sale and is listed for $3.42 million.
If sold, the seller will get a tidy 122% profit!
4 - The First Tweet: $2.9 Million An NFT version of Twitter co-founder and CEO
Jack Dorsey's first tweet, which was the first-ever tweet on Twitter, was auctioned within March
2021 and ultimately sold for an eye-popping $2.9 million.
The token was minted through a platform known as Valuables, which allows users to craft
NFTs representing their tweets.
As part of his philanthropic deeds, Dorsey pledged to quickly convert 100% of the proceeds
to Bitcoin before donating it to Africa Response.
3 - CROSSROAD: $6.66 Million CROSSROAD is an NFT created by already famous
to you digital artist Beeple.
It features anti-Trump messaging and a big Donald Trump-like figure lying in a defeated
heap with profanities written across his naked body.
Although, it didn't always look like that.
The artwork was created to changes based on the outcome of the 2020 election.
Had Trump won, it would've drawn him wearing a crown and striding through flames.
Nifty Gateway, a famous marketplace for digital collectibles, brokered the $6.66 million sales
of the NFT between an anonymous buyer and its initial owner, Twitter user Pablorfraile.
The NFT was sold only four months after it was initially purchased, at roughly 10x its
first price.
2 - CryptoPunk #7804: $7.5 Million Thought we were done with the CryptoPunks?
Not quite.
The second most expensive NFT in history was CryptoPunk #7804.
And behind selling it stands Dylan Field, the CEO of design software company FigmaThe
NFT.
It was sold for an incredible $7.5 million!
Initially, CryptoPunks were given away for free.
But some CryptoPunks with particularly rare or beneficial features, such as the blue-skinned
pipe-smoking alien that is CryptoPunk #7804, has gone on to sell for huge sums.
This is also CryptoPunk #1651, which sold for a six-zero sum in February.
1 - Everydays: The First 5000 Days: $69.3 Million
And here is the record for the most expensive NFT ever sold and one of the most expensive
artworks ever sold!
It goes to EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS.
The artwork, made by famed digital artist Mike "Beeple" Winkelmann, sold for $69.3 million
at Christie's—the first time that the hoary auction house has ever sold a completely digital
artwork.
The NFT represents a collage of 5,000 of Beeple's more initial artworks, demonstrating his development
as an artist throughout his career.
It was bought by Vignesh "Metakovan" Sundaresan, who initially remained pseudonymous.
Still, he later revealed his identity, explaining that, "The point was to show Indians and other
people of color that they also could be patrons, and that crypto was a balancing power between
the West and the Rest.
The global south is rising."
The second-highest bidder on the piece was none other than Tron CEO and founder Justin
Sun, who bid a whopping $60.2 million before getting sniped at the last second by Sundaresan.