Former MLB star sells $1M worth of NFTs in one minute
Former baseball player Micah Johnson sold $2 million worth of NFTs depicting his sculpture. Micah Johnson, a former MLB player-turned artist, sold a whopping $1 million worth of tokenized art in just one minute on the Winklevoss-owned NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway.The auction, which launched on Feb. 21 and lasted for 28 hours, generated $2 million worth of sales in total. The auction sold NFTs representing a painted sculpture made from hand-casted resin dubbed AKU: The Moon God.The physical AKU sculpture was also sold during the auction, fetching $305,000. The sculpture will be deposited....
Related News
Non-fungible tokens, or more generally referred to as NFTs, continue to be a hot topic of discussion within the crypto market. Some argue that they have virtually run out of energy, yet a few recent events appear to indicate the contrary. XCOPY, a pseudonymous cryptocurrency artist, has sold almost $24 million worth of NFTs in […]
The Ethereum upgrade introduced a mechanism that burns ETH every minute from transactions. Moreover, the recent frenzy and interest in NFTs have also taken the issue to another level. On 15th August 2021, the network recorded the highest burn rate of about 27.9 ETH/per minute. This amount came up as Ethereum users competed desperately for […]
Winklevoss Twins, Swish DJ Alesso, and 76ers owner Michael Rubin debut digital artworks alongside an all-star celebrity line-up. The non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are a collection of NFTs distributed by the art collective Ethernity. Ethernity Provides a Way for Stars to Support Philanthropic Causes A star-studded line-up of celebrities and influential figures has launched its first collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as part of the celebrity art collective Ethernity, a new NFT project that sells digital artwork endorsed by well-known public figures in the areas of film, TV, music,....
NBA star Stephen Curry snapped up a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT worth $206,000, while Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann unintentionally created an NFT craze. Three time NBA champion Stephen Curry has snapped up a Bored Ape Yacht Club nonfungible token (NFT) for 55 Ether worth around $206,000 at the time of publication. The Golden State Warriors star purchased an NFT depicting an ape with blue fur wearing a plaid suit on Aug. 28. Curry’s wallet on OpenSea shows a collection of 20 NFTs, including a 5.69 ETH ($21,000) purchase of Bored Ape Kennel Club NFT on Aug. 28. To the surprise of other....
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have been extremely popular in recent times as a great number of collections have been dropped and billions of dollars worth of NFTs have been exchanged. Just recently, a collection of NFTs stemming from the Smartbch protocol called “Poolside Puffers” was introduced to the Bitcoin Cash community. The entire collection of 2,100 Puffers sold out in less than three days and all proceeds are being donated to an orphanage in Vietnam. Meet Poolside Puffers — 2,100 Unique Generative Art Collectibles Built With Smartbch The Smartbch protocol has been....