Beeple’s $69.3 Million Collage and 14 Other Pricey NFTs Dominating the Market
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are taking the art and tech worlds by storm — and some of the top works are raking in sales prices rivaling established living artists like Jeff Koons and David Hockney. Last week, an NFT by the digital artist Beeple, “Everydays: The First 5000 Days,” sold for a record $69.3 million and is now the third highest-valued artwork sold by a living artist. Meanwhile, characters from Larva Labs’ CryptoPunks NFT collective — a set of 10,000 unique characters, known as Punks, created by a pixel-art character generator and tied to the Ethereum blockchain — have dominated the list of highest-selling NFTs under Beeple’s work, with the top-selling Punk recently going for nearly $8 million. In other words, crypto art and NFTs are making big-money moves and the momentum only continues to grow as more pieces are minted and sold. Below is a list of the 15 highest-selling NFTs, as of Wednesday. (Still have no clue what NFTs are? No worries. Check out TheWrap’s explainer here.) Note: Due to the rapidly moving NFT market, some of the pieces included in this list may have undergone another sale following the publication of this article. As of Wednesday, one...
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