List of most expensive non-fungible tokens

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This is a list of the highest known prices possibly paid for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) representing digital assets.

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Background

Monetization of digital assets as NFTs became possible with the release of Etheria, on the Ethereum blockchain, in 2015. [1] From late 2017, the NFT market grew quickly. [2] In the first three months of 2021, NFTs worth US$200 million were traded. [3]

One of the earliest NFT projects, CryptoPunks, [4] has provided several of the most expensive NFTs. [5] There were some NFT-like projects or "proto NFTs" that pre-date CryptoPunks; Rare Pepes, for example, was released on Counterparty in 2014.[ citation needed ]

List of highest prices paid

This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2023. [note 1] Where necessary, the price is first converted to dollars using the exchange rate at the time the NFT was sold. The inflation adjustment may change, as recent inflation rates are often revised. A list in another currency may be in a slightly different order due to exchange-rate fluctuations. NFTs are listed only once, i.e. for the highest price sold. To maintain a manageable size, only NFTs that were sold for an adjusted price of $2 million and above are listed.

Please note that these are the prices that were initially achieved; most of the listed NFTs are basically worthless as of 2024.

Adjusted price
(millions of US$)		Actual price
paid (millions of US$)		AssetYear of creationDate of saleSellerBuyerBlockchainNotes
$81.6 M$69.3 M Everydays: the First 5000 Days 2021March 11, 2021 Beeple [6] "Metakovan" (Vignesh Sundaresan) [7] EthereumFirst purely NFT artwork to be offered by a major auction house, Christie's. [8]
$59.3 M$52.8 MClock2022February 9, 2022 Pak "AssangeDAO"EthereumDepicts a counter of the number of days Julian Assange has spent in prison. The most expensive NFT sold on-chain. [9]
$34.1 M$28.985 MHUMAN ONE2021November 9, 2021Beeple [6] Ryan ZurrerEthereumA kinetic video sculpture with a corresponding dynamic NFT. Sold at Christie's [10]
$26.6 M$23.7 MCryptoPunk #58222017February 12, 2022Unknown"deepak"EthereumReleased by Larva Labs. First bought for $1,641. [11]
$13.8 M$11.75 MCryptoPunk #75232017June 10, 2021"Sillytuna"UnknownEthereumReleased by Larva Labs. Sold by Sotheby's. [12]
$9 M$7.67 MCryptoPunk #31002017March 11, 2021UnknownUnknownEthereumReleased by Larva Labs. [8]
$8.9 M$7.6 MCryptoPunk #78042017March 10, 2021UnknownUnknownEthereumReleased by Larva Labs. [8]
$7.8 M$6.60 MBeeple's CROSSROAD 2021February 25, 2021Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile"Delphina Leucas" (pseudonym) [13] EthereumResold from the October 2020 price of $66,666.60. [13]
$7.1 M$6.0 MOCEAN FRONT2021March 22, 2021Beeple Justin Sun EthereumAuctioned on Niftygateway. [14]
$6.6 M$5.59 MCryptoPunk #52172017July 30, 2021"Snowfro"UnknownEthereumReleased by Larva Labs. [15]
$7 M$6.215 MDmitri Cherniak's Ringers #8792021June 15, 2023Sotheby's"punk6529"Ethereum2nd highest sale of generative art at the time. Work is nicknamed "The Goose" due to its emergent design resembling the animal. [16]
$6.4 M$5.40 MStay Free2021April 16, 2021 Edward Snowden "PleasrDAO"EthereumFirst NFT by Snowden on behalf of the Freedom of Press Foundation. [17]
$6.2 M$5.23 MSave Thousands of Lives2021May 8, 2021Noora Health Paul Graham EthereumSold for 1,337 ETH in charity auction. [18]
$5.2 M$4.40 M Doge (meme) 2021June 12, 2021Atsuko Sato"PleasrDAO"EthereumHighest selling meme NFT. [19] 1,696.69 ETH. [20]
$5.2 M$4.37 MCryptoPunk #23382017August 6, 2021UnknownUnknownEthereumReleased by Larva Labs. One of 88 Zombie Cryptopunks. [21]
$4.9 M$4.14 MREPLICATOR2021April 23, 2021Mad Dog JonesUnknownEthereumFirst NFT auction by Phillips. [22]
$4.5 M$3.765 M EtherRock #552021October 25, 2021UnknownUnknownEthereumVia fractional.art. [23]
$3.6$3.6PEPENOPOULOS, 20162016October 26, 2021UnknownUnknownBitcoinRare Pepe sold by Sotheby's in first auction on its Metaverse platform for NFT collectors. [24]
$3.4$3.4BAYC #88172021October 26, 2021UnknownUnknownEthereum Bored Ape Yacht Club collection launched in 2021 with 10,000 works. [25]
$3.9 M$3.3 MFidenza #3132021August 23, 2021UnknownUnknownEthereumMinted on Art Blocks. A generative art NFT by Tyler Hobbs. [26]
$2.9$2.9First tweet by Twitter CEO2006March 22, 2021 Jack Dorsey Sina EstaviEthereumSold for 1,630.5 ETH. Dorsey donated the proceeds to GiveDirectly. [27]
$2.7$2.6BAYC #85852021October 19, 2021UnknownUnknownEthereumSold for 696.969. [28]
$2.7$2.7Dmitri Cherniak's Self Portrait #1, 20202020October 26, 2021UnknownUnknownEthereum"This generative self-portrait is the most important work in Cherniak's career." Sold on Sotheby's Metaverse platform. [29]
$2.8 M$2.382 MMachine Hallucinations– Space : Metaverse2021October 4, 2021 Refik Anadol UnknownEthereum8 works sold for a combined total of HK$39.39m (US$5.06m) at Sotheby's in Hong Kong. [30]
$2.4 M$2.043 MDreaming at Dusk2021March 14, 2021Torproject"PleasrDAO"EthereumSold for 500 ETH on Foundation. [31]
$2.4 M$2.035 MMetaRift2021March 15, 2021PakDanny Maegaard, aka "seedphrase"EthereumSold for 489 ETH on MakersPlace. [32]
$2.4 M$2.0 MSMB #13552021October 1, 2021UnknownUnknownSolanaHighest sale on Solana. 13,027 SOL. [33]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The Wikipedia template uses a yearly average inflation. Using monthly averages gives slightly different numbers, most significantly for paintings sold early or late in a year with significant inflation.

References

  1. ↑ Matney, Lucas (April 8, 2021). "The Cult of CryptoPunks". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  2. ↑ Duffy, Ryan (May 18, 2021). "The NFT Market Tripled Last Year, and It's Gaining Even More Momentum in 2021". NFTRadius. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  3. ↑ Howcroft, Elizabeth (2021-03-17). "Explainer: NFTs are hot. So what are they?". Reuters. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  4. ↑ Abbruzzese, Jason (June 16, 2017). "This ethereum-based project could change how we think about digital art". Mashable.
  5. ↑ "Pipe-Smoking Alien CryptoPunk NFT Sells For $7.5 Million". Forbes . Archived from the original on 2021-03-22. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  6. 1 2 "Crypto Art - Fame and Fortune, with Mike "Beeple" Winkelmann". School of Motion.
  7. ↑ Chandrashekhar, Anandi. "Metakovan, mystery buyer of Beeple's $69.3 million NFT art, reveals identity". The Economic Times.
  8. 1 2 3 "The most expensive NFT sales so far". one37pm.com. 22 March 2021. Archived from the original on 9 March 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  9. ↑ Mattei, Shanti Escalante-De (2022-02-09). "NFT auction raises $52m for WikiLeaks founder". theguardian.com.
  10. ↑ Porterfield, Carlie. "NFT Star Beeple's First Real-Life Piece Fetches $28.9 Million". Forbes.
  11. ↑ "CryptoPunks: Details for Punk #5822". cryptopunks.app.
  12. ↑ "CryptoPunk 7523". Sotheby's .
  13. 1 2 Howcroft, Elizabeth; Carvalho, Ritvik (1 March 2021). "How a 10-second video clip sold for $6.6 million". Reuters. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  14. ↑ Allison, Ian. "Tron's Justin Sun Wins $6M Beeple in 'Green' NFT Auction" – via Nasdaq.
  15. ↑ "CryptoPunks: Details for Punk #5217". www.larvalabs.com.
  16. ↑ "Sotheby's". June 2023.
  17. ↑ Lopatto, Elizabeth (Apr 16, 2021). "Edward Snowden NFT sells for more than $5.4 million". The Verge.
  18. ↑ "An NFT That Saves Lives". www.paulgraham.com.
  19. ↑ Moynihan, Lydia (Jun 11, 2021). "'Doge' NFT sells for $4 million".
  20. ↑ "Doge | ZORA". zora.co.
  21. ↑ CryptoPunks Bot [@cryptopunksbot] (2021-08-06). "Punk 2338 bought for 1,500 ETH ($4,379,924.93 USD) by 0x7cd3fc from 0xfab9b8. https://t.co/uWIpBAC8ew #cryptopunks #ethereum https://t.co/bpLcaYt2Av" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 2021-09-24. Retrieved 2021-09-28– via Twitter.
  22. ↑ "Phillips Hops on NFT Gravy Train with $4.1 Million 'Mad Dog Jones' Sale". Bloomberg.com. 23 April 2021.
  23. ↑ "Etherrock #55". Fractional.art.
  24. ↑ Dickens, Sean (October 27, 2021). "Debut Sotheby's 'Metaverse' auction sees record-breaking NFT sales". Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
  25. ↑ Dickens, Sean (October 27, 2021). "Debut Sotheby's 'Metaverse' auction sees record-breaking NFT sales". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  26. ↑ "Fidenza #313 - Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs". OpenSea.
  27. ↑ Lyons, Kim (2021-03-22). "Jack Dorsey's first tweet sold as an NFT for an oddly specific $2,915,835.47". The Verge. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
  28. ↑ Gill, Prabhjote (Oct 20, 2021). "Bored Ape NFT sells for $2.7 million, making it the most expensive in Yacht Club collection". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  29. ↑ "Sotheby's Metaverse". metaverse.sothebys.com. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  30. ↑ "Machine Hallucinations – Space : Metaverse — Machine Hallucinations — Space : Metaverse — 2021". Sotheby's. 25 October 2011. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
  31. ↑ "Dreaming at Dusk | Foundation". foundation.app.
  32. ↑ "MetaRift | Foundation". makersplace.com.
  33. ↑ "Explorer | Solana".
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