Ever so often we can hear people talking about NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens and, from Beeple to Tyler Hobbs & Art Blocks, many artists have put their unique digital works at auction and sold them for very large sums of money.
The 30 most expensive NFT artworks so far
They seem to be the new digital frontier of art and are increasingly popular. The most expensive artwork ever, Everydays by Beeple, was sold for almost 40,000 Ether, which is now worth around 100 million euros.
Purchase price: 1337 ETH Sale date: 08/05/2021
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- Jader Liberatore
- 01 October 2021
It’s a trend already beyond the boundaries of art in the strictest sense of the word. This is the case of Jack Dorsey, the creator of Twitter, who sold the token of his first tweet published on the social network back on 21 March 2006 for $2.9 million - approximately €2.47 million - or the source code of the World Wide Web, created by inventor Tim Berners-Lee and auctioned last June for approximately €4.6 million.
However, as of today, the world's most expensive NFT artwork is still Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5,000 Days: a collage consisting of 5,000 images measuring 21,069 x 21,069 pixels and bought at Christie's for over $69.3 million by a Singapore-based programmer.
On the other hand, there are artists such as John Watkinson and Matt Hall of the American studio Larva Labs, who thought of developing an algorithm that automatically generated 10,000 pixel-style portraits that were later made known and put up for sale under the name of CryptoPunks: in this case, VNM USA carried out an analysis of the "Top 100 NFT Sales" ranking by NFT QT, highlighting that almost half - 43% - of the non-fungible tokens present in the ranking - as well as the most expensive - are the result of their own creative minds. The highest-priced piece is CryptoPunk #7523, which depicts a face with a protective mask and cap, purchased for over $11.75 million.
Author: Beeple Purchase price: 69.346.250 dollars (ca. 39134 ETH, at the sale date) Sale date: 11/03/2021
Author: Larva Labs Purchase price: 11.754.000 dollars (ca. 4757 ETH at the sale date) Sale date: 10/06/21
Author: Beeple Purchase price: 6.600.000 dollars (ca. 4475 ETH at the sale date) Sale date: 24/02/2021
Author:Larva Labs Purchase price: 4200 ETH Sale date: 11/03/2021
Author: Larva Labs Purchase price: 4200 ETH Sale date: 11/03/2021
Author: Beeple Purchase price: 6.000.000 dollars (ca. 3766 ETH at the sale date) Sale date: 23/03/2021
Author: Tim Berners-Lee Purchase price: 5.434.500 dollars (ca. 2572 ETH at the sale date) Sale date: 30/06/2021
Author: Larva Labs Purchase price: 2250 ETH Sale date: 30/07/2021
Author: Edward Snowden Purchase price: 2224 ETH Sale date: 16/04/2021
Author: Larva Labs Purchase price: 2000 ETH Sale date: 11/09/2021
Author: Dmitri Cherniak & Art Blocks Purchase price: 1800 ETH Sale date: 27/08/2021
Author: Mad Dog Jones Purchase price: 4,1 million dollars (ca 1753 ETH at the sale date) Sale date: 23/04/2021
Author: Atsuko Sato Purchase price: 1696,9 ETH Sale date: 11/06/2021
Author: Jack Dorsey Purchase price: 1630,6 ETH Sale date: 23/03/2021
Author: Larva Labs Purchase price 1600 ETH Sale date: 30/07/2021
Author: Larva Labs Purchase price: 1600 ETH Sale date: 24/08/21
Author: Larva Labs Purchase price: 1500 ETH Sale date: 06/08/2021
Author: Noora Health
Purchase price: 1337 ETH
Sale date: 08/05/2021
Author: Larva Labs Purchase price: 1319 ETH Sale date: 04/09/2021
Author: nft_ART Purchase price: 3.020.000 DAI (ca 1315 ETH at the sale date) Sale date: 21/05/2021
Author: Kevin Abosch Purchase price: 1.000.000 dollars in GTO and IAMA token (ca 1083 ETH at the sale date) Sale date: 14/02/2018
Author: Larva Labs Purchase price: 1000 ETH Sale date: 09/07/2021
Author: XCOPY Purchase price: 1000 ETH Sale date: 24/03/2021
Author: Tyler Hobbs & Art Blocks Purchase price: 1000 ETH Sale date: 23/08/2021
Author: Snowfr0 & Art Blocks Purchase price: 922,5 ETH Sale date: 21/09/2021
Author: Larva Labs Purchase price: 888,8 ETH Sale date: 28/08/2021
Author: Axie Infinity Purchase price: 888,25 ETH Sale date: 08/02/2021
Author: Larva Labs Purchase price: 850 ETH Sale date: 30/07/2021
Author: Larva Labs Purchase price: 810 ETH Sale date: 01/08/2021
Author: Larva Labs Purchase price: 800 ETH Sale date: 19/02/2021