Everydays: The First 5000 Days: $69.3 Million
The record for the most expensive NFT ever sold is $69.3 million, set by the sale of EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS at Christie's. The artwork is a digital piece created by Mike "Beeple" Winkelmann, and is the first purely digital artwork to be sold by the auction house.
An Indian investor, Vignesh "Metakovan" Sundaresan bought this piece of digital art. Justin Sun, the CEO of Tron, was the second highest bidder on the piece of art who bid a whopping $60.2 million.
Clock: $52.7 Million
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Clock is an NFT created by artist Pak, who is known for using novel token models and gamification to fuel his popular NFT projects.
The NFT is a dynamic representation of how many days Julian Assange has been imprisoned. The AssangeDAO was created to raise money for his legal defense, and they ended up raising over $52 million. Pak then donated the money to the Wau Holland Stiftung Moral Courage Project to help with Assange's defense.
Pak also made a big splash with his second project, called Merge. The project was launched in December 2021 and generated $91.8 million during its sale period. Nearly 29,000 buyers each got a dynamic NFT based on the number of "mass units" they purchased, and those can be combined by acquiring other NFTs from the project.
HUMAN ONE: $28.9 Million
The top spot on this list is held by Beeple, but he is not a one-hit wonder in the NFT world. In late 2021, he unveiled his latest major creation, HUMAN ONE, a sculpture with digital screens on all sides that depicts a person in a spacesuit walking through an ever-changing environment.
The work is a physical/digital hybrid piece that includes an NFT deed of ownership. It was auctioned off at Christie's in November 2021 for $28.9 million. Ryan Zurrer, formerly venture partner at Polychain Capital, had the winning bid.
CryptoPunk #5822: $23.7 Million
This refers to the fact that many of the avatars on the list are CryptoPunks, which are 10,000 Ethereum-based avatars that were given away for free by Larva Labs in 2017.
The Bored Ape Yacht Club is an organization that was inspired by another organization that allows people to use NFTs (non-fungible tokens) as their profile pictures. This other organization has generated over $2 billion in trading volume and has had dozens of sales over the million-dollar mark.
CryptoPunk #5822, an alien avatar, sold for $23.7 million in ETH in February 2022. This is the rarest type of avatar, with only nine in existence, and Deepak Thapliyal, CEO of Chain.com, was the buyer.
Right-Click and Save As Guy: $7.09 Million
XCOPY is an artist who explores dark themes through animations that are often seen as distorted and looping. His work has resonated with many in the NFT scene, and some of his 1:1 animated pieces are highly coveted by collectors.
The NFT artwork known as "Right-Click and Save As Guy" references a common critique of NFTs - that anyone can easily save a copy of an image. The artwork sold for nearly $7.1 million in December 2021, up from the previous sale price of $174,000 in February of the same year.
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