Artnet’s Sarah Cascone identifies the Top 10 Most Expensive Artwork NFTs of 2021

  1. Beeple, Everydays—The First 5000 Days, $69 million, March 2021, Christie’s
  2. Beeple, HUMAN ONE, $29.8 million, November 2021, Christie’s
  3. Beeple, Crossroads, $6.6 million, February 2021, Nifty Gateway
  4. XCOPYRight-click and Save As guy, $6.57 million, December 2021, SuperRare
  5. Beeple, Ocean Front, $6 million, Nifty Gateway, March 2021
  6. XCOPY, A Coin for the Ferryman, $6 million, SuperRare, November 2021
  7. freeross, Ross Ulbricht Genesis Collection, $5.93 million, SuperRare, December 2021
  8. Edward Snowden, Stay Free (Edward Snowden), $5.4 million, April 2021, Foundation
  9. Mad Dog JonesReplicator, $4.1 million, April 2021, Phillips
  10. XCOPYSome Asshole, $3.8 million, SuperRare
  • Beeple crushed it!
  • Cascone acknowledges that excluded from the list are other NFT sales that some people include artwork NFTs. But apparently Artnet distinguished them as not “single” or 1 of 1 artworks.
  1. Pak, The Merge, $91.8 million in 266,445 NFTs.
  2. Larva Labs, CryptoPunk #4156, $10.26M
  3. Larva Labs, CryptoPunk #3100, $7.58M (*highest Punk sale in ETH)
  4. Larva Labs, CryptoPunk #7804, $7.57M
  5. Larva Labs, CryptoPunk #8857, $6.63M
  6. Larva Labs, CryptoPunk, #5217, $5.45M
  7. Yuga Labs, Bored Ape #8817, $3.4M