The NFT world, in which so many people are now building such groundbreaking projects, is no exception. It was built by a small group of NFT pioneers who broke that ground first.
The NFT world, in which so many people are now building such groundbreaking projects, is no exception. It was built by a small group of NFT pioneers who broke
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Last month, hours before news of Beeple’s $69 million NFT sale grabbed the front pages of newspapers across the country, a pair of 24 x 24 pixel portraits of aliens wearing little hats sold separately for around $7.5 million each.
The sales, which occurred within 20 hours of each other, didn’t garner the same headlines that the Beeple auction received, but there was a bit of coverage in the tech press, mostly because one of the aliens was sold by Dylan Field, the CEO of design software startup Figma. In a Clubhouse conversation following the sale, Field said he hoped that a century from now the blocky image he had sold would be seen as the “Mona Lisa of digital art.”