Mar 18, 2021, By Instead of playing out on MakersPlace, where all activity would be verified and archived on the blockchain to satisfy even the most discriminating crypto advocates, Christies announced that the bidding for Everydays would instead take place via the same online interface the house uses for its auctions of all other artworks and collectibles. "Everydays: The First 5000 Days," the first purely digital Non-Fungible Token (NFT) artwork to be sold at a major auction, has blown past all expectations in a record-breaking sale. / Sign up for Verge Deals to get deals on products we've tested sent to your inbox daily. if (!$modal.length) { The work is a collage of 5000 digital images created by Winkelmann for his Everydays series. found = true; The digital collage by the American artist Beeple, also known as Mike Winkelmann, a pioneer of the exploding virtual art market, sold for a record $69.3 million, (AFP) The sale of the work for. If you own a rare one of these, its meaningful, he said. Another image incorporated into Everydays The First 5000 Days.. The NFT associated with Everydays: the First 5000 Days, a collage of images from the "Everydays" series, was put up for auction at Christie'son February 25 and sold for $69,400,000 on March 11, 2021. Had the sale taken place on-chain, the smart contract would have automatically conveyed ownership of the token to Metakovan moments after the full amount had been sent to Beeple. Composition No. + '<\/style>' To many buyers with excess crypto wealth, that will be the only criterion that matters in judging Christies claims of making history. Top Shot, a marketplace for digital highlight clips that are the tech equivalent of baseball cards. Everydays: the First 5000 Days is a digital work of art created by Mike Winkelmann, known professionally as Beeple. You are currently logged into this Artnet News Pro account on another device. An oil painting by Frida Kahlo sold for $34.9 million at Sothebys in November 2021, setting an auction benchmark for the most expensive artwork by a Latin American artist. The evolution didn't stop here. // ------------------------------------------------------------------- Since there is no dispute that Beeple minted a MakersPlace MKT2 token for. News . 70 Total shares . '