NFTs first emerged onto the market in 2015, sparking the early signs of Web 3 activity. Although NFTs have been around all this time, they have only risen to real prominence in 2021. NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token. They are essentially tokens – most commonly art – which are bought and sold on exchanges and stored on the Blockchain.
We will take a look at the top 10 most expensive tokens, and also cover a new high growth NFT that we believe may yield great returns for early investors in the future. Disruptive will also show you how to invest in NFT’s
Let’s take a quick look at the 10 most expensive NFTs sold:
1. ‘The Merge’ — $91.8m – 30,000 collectors pitched together to purchase parts of this NFT
2. The First 5000 Days — $69.3m – The most expensive NFT ever sold to a single owners.
3. Clock — $52.7m – A real-time counter of Julian Assange’s imprisonment designed by Pak.
4. HUMAN ONE — $28.985 – A 360 degrees hybrid artwork NFT designed by Beeple.
5. CryptoPunk #5822 — $23.7m – The most expensive CryptoPunk NFT even sold.
6. CryptoPunk #7523 — $11.75m – The third rarest CryptoPunk in the whole collection.
7. CryptoPunk #4156 — $10.26m – The third most expensive NFT in the whole CryptoPunk.
8. CryptoPunk #3100 — $7.67m – The seventh rarest CryptoPunk in the whole collection.
9. CryptoPunk #7804 — $7.6m – One of the rarest ‘Alien’ NFTs of the highly regarded CryptoPunk.
10. Crossroad — $6.6m – A abstract, animated NFT which depicts people walking past a body.
