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.

Adjusted price
(millions of US$)		Actual price
paid (millions of US$)		AssetYear of creationDate of saleSellerBuyerBlockchainNotes
$81.6$69.3 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$52.8Clock2022February 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$28.985HUMAN ONE2021November 9, 2021Beeple [6] Ryan ZurrerEthereumA kinetic video sculpture with a corresponding dynamic NFT. Sold at Christie's [10]
$26.6$23.7CryptoPunk #58222017February 12, 2022Unknown"deepak"EthereumReleased by Larva Labs. First bought for $1,641. [11]
$13.8$11.75CryptoPunk #75232017June 10, 2021"Sillytuna"UnknownEthereumReleased by Larva Labs. Sold by Sotheby's. [12]
$9$7.67CryptoPunk #31002017March 11, 2021UnknownUnknownEthereumReleased by Larva Labs. [8]
$8.9$7.6CryptoPunk #78042017March 10, 2021UnknownUnknownEthereumReleased by Larva Labs. [8]
$7.8$6.60Beeple's CROSSROAD 2021February 25, 2021Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile"Delphina Leucas" (pseudonym) [13] EthereumResold from the October 2020 price of $66,666.60. [13]
$7.1$6.0OCEAN FRONT2021March 22, 2021Beeple Justin Sun EthereumAuctioned on Niftygateway. [14]
$6.6$5.59CryptoPunk #52172017July 30, 2021"Snowfro"UnknownEthereumReleased by Larva Labs. [15]
$7$6.215Dmitri 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$5.40Stay Free2021April 16, 2021 Edward Snowden "PleasrDAO"EthereumFirst NFT by Snowden on behalf of the Freedom of Press Foundation. [17]
$6.2$5.23Save Thousands of Lives2021May 8, 2021Noora Health Paul Graham EthereumSold for 1,337 ETH in charity auction. [18]
$5.2$4.40 Doge (meme) 2021June 12, 2021Atsuko Sato"PleasrDAO"EthereumHighest selling meme NFT. [19] 1,696.69 ETH. [20]
$5.2$4.37CryptoPunk #23382017August 6, 2021UnknownUnknownEthereumReleased by Larva Labs. One of 88 Zombie Cryptopunks. [21]
$4.9$4.14REPLICATOR2021April 23, 2021Mad Dog JonesUnknownEthereumFirst NFT auction by Phillips. [22]
$4.5$3.765 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$3.3Fidenza #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$2.382Machine 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$2.043Dreaming at Dusk2021March 14, 2021Torproject"PleasrDAO"EthereumSold for 500 ETH on Foundation. [31]
$2.4$2.035MetaRift2021March 15, 2021PakDanny Maegaard, aka "seedphrase"EthereumSold for 489 ETH on MakersPlace. [32]
$2.4$2.0SMB #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.

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