- Wow, what a year 2021 has been for NFTs!
- Sarah Cascone of Artnet looks back at the Top 10 Most Expensive Artwork NFT sales of 2021.
- Beeple, Everydays—The First 5000 Days, $69 million, March 2021, Christie’s
- Beeple, HUMAN ONE, $29.8 million, November 2021, Christie’s
- Beeple, Crossroads, $6.6 million, February 2021, Nifty Gateway
- XCOPY, Right-click and Save As guy, $6.57 million, December 2021, SuperRare
- Beeple, Ocean Front, $6 million, Nifty Gateway, March 2021
- XCOPY, A Coin for the Ferryman, $6 million, SuperRare, November 2021
- freeross, Ross Ulbricht Genesis Collection, $5.93 million, SuperRare, December 2021
- Edward Snowden, Stay Free (Edward Snowden), $5.4 million, April 2021, Foundation
- Mad Dog Jones, Replicator, $4.1 million, April 2021, Phillips
- XCOPY, Some 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.
- Pak, The Merge, $91.8 million in 266,445 NFTs.
- Larva Labs, CryptoPunk #4156, $10.26M
- Larva Labs, CryptoPunk #3100, $7.58M (*highest Punk sale in ETH)
- Larva Labs, CryptoPunk #7804, $7.57M
- Larva Labs, CryptoPunk #8857, $6.63M
- Larva Labs, CryptoPunk, #5217, $5.45M
- Yuga Labs, Bored Ape #8817, $3.4M