Top 5 Most Expensive NFTs

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are unique, digital items with blockchain-managed ownership. There are many kinds and applications of NFTs -but before we dive into the details, let's learn about a key term - fungibility. 

1 ) Everydays: the First 5000 Days – $69.3 million

Even before last year, the artist known as Beeple was not that much popular as you would seem. However, in 2021, he sold one of the most expensive NFT artwork on the market. The artwork is named “Everyday: the First 5000 Days.” The more interesting part is that this auction took place at an auction house called Christie’s.

The bidding actually started out at $100, but it soon started to go higher and higher, and ultimately it was sold at a price of $69.3 million! You just be thinking that’s a lot of money for some digital artwork. Well, with the technological revolution, isn’t it obvious that we will soon move on to digital paintings rather than physical paintings.

Anyhow, this artwork was a compilation of the first 5000 digital arts of Beeple. In reality, when Beeple started making digital arts, he did not miss even a single day starting from May 2007. Therefore, the compilation has a lot of varying styles, contents, and mediums. Some of the very first ones were definitely not up to the mark; still, the value increases immensely as a collective. And that is why this is one of the most expensive NFT ever sold so far. This is surely one of the valuable non-fungible tokens in 2021.

2) CryptoPunk 3100

alien punk and the most expensive one ever sold, CryptoPunk 3100 wears a headband and looks like he doesn’t know what he’s doing on this list. One month after it had been minted, #3100 was sold for $2,127, with the first bid being just $76. Quite a cool investment, isn’t it?

3) CryptoPunk 7804

The second most expensive of all ever sold, CryptoPunk 7804 is one of 9 Alien punks with a cap forward, sunglasses, and a pipe. We don’t know when aliens have this skin color, but that helped him get sold for over $7.5 million. The first time, this item was sold in January 2018 for $15K.

4) Crossroad

This 10-second video was issued by Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, soon after it became clear that Donald Trump ultimately lost the Presidential election in the USA. It depicts the defeated ex-president’s naked body lying on the ground with curse words written all over. The Twitter bird is sitting on top and delivers a clear message. The passers-by don’t care.

Interestingly, there was another version of this artwork prepared for the case if Trump won the election. If that happened, the token would change: Trump would be shown in a crown running through flames. This is now never to happen.

5) The first tweet ever

In 2006, the early digital startup era, Twitter CEO and founder Jack Dorsey (who also became a Bitcoin evangelist later) wrote his first tweet. After being sold at Valuables NFT marketplace, this tweet hasn’t become a cryptocurrency, nor its buyer got the author’s rights for it. Buying the first-ever tweet gives a unique feeling of involvement and helps raise money for charity — the $2.91M paid by Sina Estav, the CEO of a Tron-based Oracle System, were later donated to programs in Africa. Interestingly, a smaller bid of $2M was previously offered by the TRON founder Justin Sun.