01/27/2022
The record price of the NFT work is currently $91.8 million, showing the attraction of blockchain technology.
The year 2021 will witness the strong development of blockchain. One of the factors that attracted users' attention to this technology was the emergence of NFTs - the only digital certificate registered in a blockchain to record ownership of a digital asset, like artwork or collectibles.
The Merge - $91.8 million
The Merge is a digital painting created by an anonymous artist named Pak. This NFT was sold on December 6, 2021 for $91.8 million on the Nifty Gateway marketplace.
The work was then split into 312,686 pieces and distributed among 28,983 buyers, since The Merge is essentially made up of a collection of "blocks" that users can purchase individually. These pieces can be hoarded in larger blocks and sold on the market.
At the close of trading, clients spent a total of $91.8 million, making it the most expensive NFT in history.