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Published June 27, 2021, 3:59 PM
CryptoPop! brand proponent and BloomX Co-founder Luis Buenaventura II is one of the first Filipino NFT (non-fungible token) artists to debut on the Binance NFT marketplace, making his work accessible to art patrons and investors from all over the world. Having just sold an NFT art piece worth $400,000 or a whopping PhP 19.5 million in just ten minutes through a collaborative project with Argentinian comic book artist Jose Delbo last March, Buenaventura demonstrates that he is the most profitable and highest-earning Filipino NFT artist to date.
According to Buenaventura, “My two great loves are cryptocurrency and art. Through NFT Art, I find them converging into one singular path. My advocacy now is to open doors and bring opportunities for fellow Filipino artists to succeed in this arena as well.”
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Everydays The First 5000 Days by Beeple (graphic designer Mike Winkelmann) was sold to Singapore-based technopreneur Vignesh Sundaresan at a Christie’s auction for $69.3 million worth of the crypto-currency Ether. The South Carolina graphic designer and motion artist creates a picture every single day for 5,000 days 13 years creating the first purely digital artwork to be auctioned by a major auction house. MAKERSPLACE.COM/BEEPLE
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Everydays The First 5000 Days by Beeple (graphic designer Mike Winkelmann) was sold to Singapore-based technopreneur Vignesh Sundaresan at a Christie’s auction for $69.3 million worth of the crypto-currency Ether. The sale positioned Beeple as among the top three most valuable living artists, after English painter David Hockney and American sculptor Jeff Koons.