To illustrate the market power of NFTs, here is a short list of best-selling NFTs in the digital world so far according to their purchasing value:
- Everyday: The First 5000 Days
A piece of digital art known as Everyday: The First 5000 Days is created by Mike Winkelmann aka Beeple. The artwork that refers to a collage of 5,000 Beeple’s earlier creations was sold for a jaw-dropping price of $69.3 million.
- Crypto Punk #7523
The most expensive Crypto Punk piece of digital art was purchased for the value of $11.8 million at Sotheby’s by an Israeli entrepreneur. Crypto Punks are a set of 10.000-pixel digital art characters created in 2017 by Larva Labs. Crypto Punk #7523 defied all expectations due to the purchasing price.
- Crypto Punk #7804
In March 2021, a digital artwork presenting an alien with a forward cap, shades and a pipe was sold for the price of $7.56 million
- Crossroads
The popular artist Beeple sold his artwork for the price of $6.6 million at Nifty Gateway, an online marketplace for digital art.
- World Wide Web Source Code
The founder of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners Lee, decided to sell an NFT presenting the original source code. The artistic representation of the source code was sold for the price of $5.4 million.
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