
Dorsey donated the proceeds to GiveDirectly. īored Ape Yacht Club collection launched in 2021 with 10,000 works. Rare Pepe sold by Sotheby's in first auction on its Metaverse platform for NFT collectors. įirst NFT by Snowden on behalf of the Freedom of Press Foundation. Highest sale on the crypto art platform SuperRare. Resold from the October 2020 price of $66,666.60. Ī kinetic video sculpture with a corresponding dynamic NFT. ĭepicts a counter of the number of days Julian Assange has spent in prison. To maintain a manageable size, only NFTs that were sold for an adjusted price of $2 million and above are listed.įirst purely NFT artwork to be offered by a major auction house, Christie's. A list in another currency may be in a slightly different order due to exchange-rate fluctuations. The inflation adjustment may change, as recent inflation rates are often revised. Where necessary, the price is first converted to dollars using the exchange rate at the time the NFT was sold. This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2021.



There were some NFT-like projects or "proto NFTs" that pre-date CryptoPunks Rare Pepes, for example, was released on Counterparty in 2014. One of the earliest NFT projects, CryptoPunks, has provided several of the most expensive NFTs. In the first three months of 2021, NFTs worth US$200 million were traded. From late 2017, the NFT market grew quickly. Monetization of digital assets as NFTs became possible with the release of Etheria, on the Ethereum blockchain, in 2015.
