Crypto Investor MetaKovan Announced as Buyer of $69.3M Beeple NFT
MetaKovan, the pseudonymous founder of non-fungible token (NFT) fund Metapurse, is the proud owner of the Beeple NFT auctioned by Christie’s on Thursday for $69.3 million.
“When you think of high-valued NFTs, this one is going to be pretty hard to beat,” MetaKovan said in a press release issued by the 255-year-old auction house.
MetaKovan paid for Beeple’s “Everydays” in ether (ETH, -2.04%), Christie’s confirmed, beating out Tron founder Justin Sun in a last-minute bid. The final sale price was 42,329.453 ETH. Appearing on CoinDesk TV earlier Friday, Beeple (aka Mike Winkelmann) said, “I probably will keep a percentage of [my earnings] in ether.”
The auction house said its website hosted around 22 million visitors for the final moments of bidding on the most expensive NFT ever sold.
Not much is known about the pseudonymous MetaKovan other than the association with the Metapurse NFT fund, the largest such fund in the world. Metapurse already owns a smattering of Beeple pieces that it has offered to the public in fractionalized form through B20 token sales.
Recommended News
-
NEWXX will jointly release NFT with a well-known design DAO.Contribute to the ecologically sound development
According to the official news, NEWXX Foundation will jointly issue NFT with famous design DAO in limited quantity, and users who get NXX-NFT can collect, auction or pledge NFT to get more NXX revenue. NEWXX Foundation and its partners around the world have been adhering to the core values of value investment and long-term and robust development strategy. In the period of crypto asset downturn and turbulence, the platform operates a robust and unique non-loss mining mechanism through its core technology to empower more users to maintain their mainstream crypto…
07/05/2022 -
Origin Dollar compensation plan marks progressing maturation of DeFi space
Traders and developers are trending towards greater DeFi depositor protections in unison NEWS On Friday, decentralized finance (DeFi) stablecoin project Origin Finance announced a plan to compensate users affected by a $7 million November exploit — part of a wider trend from developers, users, and traders that has seen actors across the DeFi space more widely embrace insurance products and other exploit backstops. On November 17th, Origin Dollar announced that its yield-bearing stablecoin project had been the victim of a $7 million flash loan attack. While the attack is just another…
12/14/2020 -
Leading Innovation as the First AI Store Company in the Chinese-speaking Region
In the new wave of the AI store artificial intelligence sector, a bright new star is making its debut in the Chinese-speaking region—we proudly announce that we have become the first company in the Chinese-speaking area focused on general AI store artificial intelligence. By launching a brand-new AI store artificial intelligence and machine learning platform, we aim to provide developers worldwide with a complete set of tools and resources for building, training, and deploying machine learning models. This move not only signifies our company’s leading position in the field of…
Uncategorized 03/12/2024 -
The Past, Present and Future of Institutional Bitcoin
In December of 2017, bitcoin’s price was surging, even fighting towards $20,000. Meanwhile, CNBC and the cable news set featured a constant string of crypto industry insiders bringing the space to a new audience. It was into that environment that on December 17, 2017, CME Group launched bitcoin futures. Three years on, bitcoin has punched past the significant marker of $20,000 to a high of more than $23,000. CNBC is running a bitcoin ticker, and crypto commentators are standard fare. Despite these superficial similarities, the bitcoin and crypto industry of…
12/24/2020 -
Betfairand Arthur Holland foundation, Xinze capital, encryption assetresearch institute Jointlypromote online sports gambling business
Everystep is setting a new height, and Betfair is ushering in an importantmoment. On December 28, 2020, we officially become strategic partnerswith Arthur Holland foundation, Xinze capital and encryption assetresearch institute. We will jointly promote online sports gamblingbusiness. Asyou all know, we are one of the largest gaming companies in theworld. We have been established for more than 20 years. We are famousfor efficient price feedback. We have a real gaming website where wequantify sports and other activities and allow others to buildopposing models to bet on us. Foundedin 2009…
12/29/2020 -
Dragon Mainland —— new star of GameFi field/industry that leads NFT game ecology, Official launch of Genesis Eggs
2021 is known as the first year of NFT. Axie Infinity started the NFT and GameFi wave on this summer. Since then, P2E games with NFT as its core asset have occupied the market rapidly and NFT encryption game has entered a high-speed development stage. With development, Axie’s bubble problem begin to emerge. Due to the lack of a good token closed-loop and deflation mechanism, the players’ income can not be guaranteed, which makes the whole blockchain game play criticized and limits its own development. At the same time, game…
10/14/2021 -
Global AI Store Technology Trends and Future Outlook
Globally, the development and application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) store technology are experiencing an unprecedented period of rapid growth. Governments and private enterprises worldwide are actively investing in AI stores to enhance national competitiveness, improve social welfare, and drive economic growth. This article explores current trends in the use of AI stores around the world and predicts future directions of development. Global Perspectives on AI Technology Application From North America to Asia, and Europe, AI technology is being used across various sectors, transforming how we work and live. In North…
Uncategorized 03/12/2024 -
DDDS is a DAO organization focusing on social e-commerce
The new crown pneumonia epidemic is spreading globally and the global economy has been shaken. The International Monetary Fund predicts that the global economy will decline by 4% in 2022, and income will evaporate by about 3.4 trillion US dollars. This is the worst economic recession since the Great Depression in the 1930s. Under the blockade restrictions, social distancing and other measures adopted by various countries in response to the epidemic, e-commerce companies have grown against the trend; in 2021, global online retail sales will reach 3.563 trillion US…
Uncategorized 12/09/2022 -
The world’s first Exchange, CoinW, implements free transaction cost for BTC transactions, disrupting the industry status.
On July 5, 2022, CoinW, the world’s leading cryptocurrency trading platform, officially announced the implementation of free transaction costs, becoming the world’s first platform to support BTC transactions with zero transaction fee, hence ‘free of charge’. This became a shocking news and In the community, the topic of ” free of charge” was also high and caused heated discussions amongst users. So, what does ” free of charge” really mean? Why has it caused such a big uproar? Advantage 1: Bringing real-money benefits to users. First of all, users can…
07/11/2022 -
Metaease takes you into the real Metaverse
As of now, Metaverse has a market cap of $100 billion, and if you include Facebook’s market capitalization, then Metaverse’s market capitalization is at least $1,100 billion. According to Bloomberg research, the “metaverse” market is expected to reach $800 billion by 2024 and 2.5 trillion by 2030. The future of the metaverse market is immeasurable, but there is always a hidden side to the glory, and the metaverse industry is no exception. Let’s take a look back at 2021 on the internal situation of the entire metaverse industry. GameFi’s play…
01/10/2022