How 12-Year-Old Benyamin Ahmed Made 80 ETH In A Day With His NFT Collection

How 12-Year-Old Benyamin Ahmed Made 80 ETH In A Day With His NFT Collection

Feelgood story of the season. Weird Whales is Benyamin Ahmed’s second NFT collection. This 12-year-old sold 3,350 8-bit style whales at 0.025eth per unit in less than a day. At the time of writing, that’s approximately $248000. Considering the NFT collection ’s budget was $300 in Ethereum gas fees, we could say that Ahmed’s in […]


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