Both retail and institutional investors are looking to these NFTs as scarce assets that will appreciate in value over time.
(Read part 1 HERE)
6. CryptoPunk #7804
Price: $7.57 million
Another nine alien punks, #7804 sold in March 2020 for $7.57 million and has remained the third most valuable punk since. Emphasizing the rarity of the hipster-looking punk is its forward-facing cap, small shades, and signature pipe. All of which are characteristics shared by less the 400 other punks.
The seller of the punk was Dylan Field, CEO of Figma, a design and prototyping platform, who claimed he was sitting on a “digital Mona Lisa.”
7. Right-click and Save As guy
Price: $7.09 million
Minted three years ago on Dec. 6, 2018, this conic piece helped signal a shift in public perception about NFTs when it was featured on BBC World News right after Beeple’s landmark Everydays auction.
As Right-click and Save As guy had only changed hands twice before this latest sale — first for $90 (1 ETH), then for $174,195 (99 ETH) to 2YeahYeah — Cozomo de’ Medici’s buy helped increase 3,500%+ in the value of the artwork.
8. Ringers 109
Price: $6.9 million
An unknown collector just bought Ringers #109 NFT for 2100 ETH which is equivalent to $7 million in current market.
The sale has made Ringers #109 NFT the most expensive NFT of the ART Blocks project, surpassing its forerunner, Ringer #879.
Ringes#109 is a normal-sized ringer NFT with 11 traits. It has a White body and additional red color which is a unique trait found only in 0.31% of NFTs. The NFT also has rare traits like balanced wrap orientation and the wrap style is Loop.
9. A Coin for the Ferryman
Price: $ 6.01 million
A Coin for the Ferryman, one of the earliest works by Xcopy, was sold on SuperRare for $6.01 million on 4 November 2021. This artwork is in GIF form which was minted on 20 April 2018, showing constantly changing expressions on a person’s face.
At the time, it was bought by a user named @0xclipse for only $139. Then in 2019, it was transferred to a user named @electricmeat who eventually sold it on SuperRare to the current owner @jpeggy.
10. Ocean Front
Price: $6 million
Beeple’s Ocean Front is much more than a costly NFT project. It is a warning to the world of how climate change could affect humankind if it is set to bring.
The artwork shows a series of trailers and containers stacked upon each other on a platform in the middle of an ocean. At the top of these objects is a tree, underneath which mushrooms can be seen growing.
Ocean Front was bought on 23 March 2021 by Justin Sun, the founder and CEO of the Tron Foundation, for USD 6 million.