10/11/2021 NFT Artist Beeple Sells Latest Work for $29 Million at Auction

HUMAN ONE is a physical sculpture that comes with an NFT.

It's not quite $69 million. But, hey, $29 million isn't too shabby.

Beeple, the digital artist whose tokenized artwork "EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 500 DAYs" sold for a record $69.3 million at a Christie's auction this March, has followed it up with a $28.9 million sale today of a hybrid physical and digital work. It's the second-largest sum paid for an NFT—or, at least, a piece of art accompanied by a "dynamic" NFT.

HUMAN ONE is a 3D moving sculpture depicting a person in a spacesuit moving through a variety of climates. Christie's, which expected the piece to fetch about $15 million (or its equivalent inBitcoinorEthereum), brought the hammer down at $25 million. The auction house netted $3.9 million on top of that for the buyer's premium. Ryan Zurrer, former venture partner at Olaf Carlson-Wee's Polychain Capital, claimed thewinning bid.

HUMAN ONE is the first physical piece of art from Michael Winkelmann, otherwise known as Beeple. The accompanying digital piece is connected to a deed of ownership issued on the Ethereumblockchain.

Beeple's "EVERYDAYS" holds the record for the most-expensive NFT ever sold and helped propel non-fungible tokens out of the dusty corners of crypto and into mainstream conversation. Athletes and artists are keeping busy cashing in on the trend. For example,CryptoPunks, a collection of 10,000 pixelated characters, regularly sell for millions online, whileBored Ape Yacht ClubNFTs—which look just how they sound—have claimed large sums at Christie's competitor Sotheby's.

NFTs originated on the Ethereum blockchain and were first popularized byCryptoKitties, collectibles that allowed people to spend ETH on breeding unique animated cats. The tokens have since become a key component in rival blockchains' expansions strategies, showing up onSolana,Tezos, and the Flow Blockchain.

Trading volume for the digital tokens extended past $10 billion in the third quarter, a year-over-year increase of 38,000%.

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Interesting NFTs
The River Plate Machine
Digital illustration for the cover of These Football Times magazine in its issue dedicated to the Argentine football team "Club Atlético River Plate". Original from 2020. For this cover I have created a complex machine that links all the generations and legends of the club with its great shield and emblem crowning the center as the heart of the fantasy machinery. Full of details and ornaments this is a highly detailed work. An authentic trip to the history of River through the imagination and the colors of the club. The most significant titles of the club are also included, such as the Libertadores Cup, the famous Intercontinental and the new Super Liga and the Argentine Cup in its newest cup design. If you see a hen, don't be surprised, it is the nickname that its fans give themselves, and they like it. ----- https://javierarres.com/about.html
Magnetic Forces v3
"El imán humilla al hierro. Es una teoría sobre el amor. Magnets humiliate iron. It's a theory about love." --Marco Denevi
The Investor's Dream
The second "Visual Toy" about cryptocurrency and its universe that continues the exclusive collection on this theme. After the first Visual Toy, dedicated to the cryptocurrency itself, this visual toy is the other side of the coin. It represents, as its title tells us, the investor's dream, the current person and his financial hopes. A surreal fantasy of the dreams and longings of every investor, in this case the crypto investor. In this magical, happy and colorful dream, aspirations of all kinds intermingle, both the desire for great benefits, represented in a long animation that shows us a production cycle or series production that ranges from the gastronomic recipe of a two-ingredient cake. Bitcoin slice and Ethereum smoothie, passing through magic, represented in a fairy that transforms the cake into real money, which is sucked into a giant capsule to accumulate it and multiply it. The rest is full of investor aspirations, which appear in their dreams in the form of profits or screens that announce that values are rising steadily, as well as physical possessions, such as the sailboat, the helicopter, homes and other objects or possibilities. A dream full of happiness, fun and hope.
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