NFT: the most incredible sales of 2021

The market for NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, had its best year ever in 2021, generating over $23 billion in trading volume. A look back at the biggest sales of the past year.

The NFT (or non-fungible token) phenomenon has boomed in 2021, driven by an exceptional sale in March. The latter marked the beginning of unbelievable amounts of money being spent to acquire an NFT, unthinkable until then.

Exceptional sales

The work is by the artist Beeple. Sold by Christie’s last March, “Everyday’s: The first 5000 days” sold for 42,329,453 ETH ($69.3 million). It is still the most expensive sale in NFT history. The artist Beeple, whose real name is Mike Beeple Winkelmann, pasted digital works that he made for 5,000 days in a row.

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Hélène Cougot

Passionnée depuis son plus jeune âge par l’art et la mode, Hélène s’oriente vers une école de stylisme, l’Atelier Chardon-Savard à Paris, avec une option Communication. Afin d’ajouter des cordes à son arc, elle décide de compléter sa formation par un MBA en Management du Luxe et Marketing Expérientiel à l’Institut Supérieur de Gestion à Paris dont elle sort diplômée en 2020. Elle a notamment écrit des articles lifestyle et beauté pour le magazine Do it in Paris et se spécialise en rédaction d’articles concernant le luxe, l’art et la mode au sein du magazine Luxus Plus.********** [EN] Passionate about art and fashion from a young age, Hélène went to a fashion design school, Atelier Chardon-Savard in Paris, with a Communication option. In order to add more strings to her bow, she decided to complete her education with an MBA in Luxury Management and Experiential Marketing at the Institut Supérieur de Gestion in Paris from which she graduated in 2020. She has written lifestyle and beauty articles for Do it in Paris magazine and specializes in writing articles about luxury, art and fashion for Luxus Plus magazine.