Azuki NFT project sets record for eight most expensive skateboards ever sold
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www.theblock.co
23 October 2022 08:52, UTC
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NFT undertaking Azuki accomplished an public sale for eight Golden Skateboard nonfungible tokens — which will even be redeemable for bodily Golden Skateboards — with the bottom and highest successful bids coming in at a good 200 ETH ($261,682.00) and 309 ETH ($404,298.69), respectively, in accordance with its official Twitter account.
The skateboards, although presently solely in digital kind, are all among the many most costly skateboards ever bought — by a large margin. Among the costliest skateboards bought beforehand embrace Jamie Thomas’ and Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ within the Wind Skateboard,” which bought in a fundraiser for $38,425 in December 2012, and a Tony Hawk-owned “Beatles’ Blackbird Board,” which options handwritten lyrics to the tune and Paul McCartney’s signature and was auctioned for $27,116.
“The Golden Skateboard is a marvel of artwork & know-how showcasing our first implementation of PBT, which paves the way in which for a brand new period of storytelling,” Azuki’s official Twitter account informed its greater than 314,000 followers. “We broke the file for the costliest skateboard ever bought (in reality, the 8 most costly skateboards ever bought).”
The ground worth for an Azuki NFT has risen over current weeks. Supply: The Block
The declare window for the bodily Golden Skateboards will open in November, in accordance with the undertaking.
Azuki’s Golden Skateboard public sale comes virtually precisely one month after The Block reported that the undertaking’s creator, Chiru Labs, was searching for $30 million in a Collection A funding spherical — which might worth the corporate at between $300 million and $400 million.
Azuki is a set of 10,000 sideways-facing anime characters, displaying totally different moods and adorned with various equipment. The most costly Azuki NFT sale occurred in March, when one in a set bought for 420.7 ETH — roughly $1.4 million on the time.
The ground worth for an Azuki NFT, on the time of this writing, is 11.5 ETH ($15,056), in accordance with NFT market OpenSea.
