Beeple’s ‘The First 5000 Days’ Sold To Metakovan, Founder Of Metapurse, For $69,346,250

'The First 5000 Days' is the first purely digital NFT-based artwork sold at a major auction house, the most expensive NFT ever sold, and the third most valuable artwork sold by a living artist.

Mar 16

Metakovan is the founder and financier of Metapurse — Metakovan from Metapurse bought Beeple's 'First 5000 Days' NFT-backed artwork for nearly $70M METAPURSE

This story originally appeared on Forbes.

Yesterday at 10a.m. EST, the hammer came down on what would become a historic auction at Christie’s: the sale of Everydays – The First 5000 Days by Mike Winkelmann (better known as Beeple) for just shy of $70 mi…

Beeple’s ‘The First 5000 Days’ Sold To Metakovan, Founder Of Metapurse, For $69,346,250

'The First 5000 Days' is the first purely digital NFT-based artwork sold at a major auction house, the most expensive NFT ever sold, and the third most valuable artwork sold by a living artist.

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