NFT-BYTES #01

Welcome to our Weekly NFT Bytes highlighting key happenings around NFT art, collectibles, games, and more.

Hot Sales from NFT World🎨🖼🤖:

CryptoPunk #2424 Sold for 325 ETH

Crypto collectibles are selling for thousands — and celebrities like Mark Cuban are cashing in. Yesterday Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee picked up this zombie CryptoPunk #2424 for 325 ETH ($781,491 USD)

Punk 2424 bought for 325 ETH ($781,491.78 USD) by 0xd6a984 from 0x1008b0. larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/de…#cryptopunks#ethereum
— CryptoPunks Bot (@cryptopunksbot)
2:05 PM • May 24, 2021

Charlie Bit My Finger….for $760K??

The memorable and meme-able YouTube video "Charlie bit my finger," one of the most viewed videos in the website's history, was sold off as a non-fungible token, or NFT, then deleted from YouTube, according to a website set up by the Davies-Carr family. This brother-on-brother "assault" has been sold as an NFT for the whopping figure of $760,000 — a nice sum that probably made that finger pain worth it!

Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after selling for $760,000 (£538,000)
The piece of internet history has more than 880 million views bbc.in/2T90kSd
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld)
10:25 AM • May 24, 2021

TIME First Physical Issue - March 3, 1923

"Once the term 'NFT' disappears...that's when you know it's been fully adopted,"

@TIME's @KeithGrossman says.

This NFT will be accompanied with the actual, physical first issue. This does not exist outside of museums, libraries, and a few private collections.

Time Magazine has put its First Physical Issue on auction @superrare and famous NFT collector Amir @mondoir won this auction with a bid of 120Ξ and able to collect both the First NFT and Physical Time Issue.

The first in both worlds of @TIME are now in my collection.
Can't be more proud.
Love this. Thanks @KeithGrossman again.
— Mondoir (@mondoir)
11:45 AM • May 22, 2021

TIME “The Future of Business” by Beeple

Digital artist Mike Winkelmann, better known as @beeple, has created a special cover for TIME Magazine’s @TIME May 10th issue that has just sold for 126.5Ξ ($290,000) at auction.

The "TIME EVOLUTION COLLECTION" highlights two important pieces from the @TIME archives: TIME's first issue from 1923 and a more recent cover by an artist who's been at the forefront of the digital art movement for more than a decade, @beeple💎
Auction Details Below👇
— SuperRare 💎 (@SuperRare)
1:44 PM • May 19, 2021

NFT Art Drops 🔥

The Underground Sistine Chapel is a modern version of Michelangelo's masterpiece, painted by Pascal Boyart during the 2020 lockdowns. The work was produced over a period of 5 months in a former gold foundry close to Paris. Each NFT represents one of the 400 characters in the Last Judgment fresco. All NFTs are 1/1 editions. He has able to sell his 140 NFTs, and 260 NFTs are left, it’s time to get yours.

To see all the #NFTs of the last drop with the # from 1 to 400, Titles & the individual links to each one of them, check out this link 👉🏼 en.pboy-art.com/the-undergroun…
— Pascal Boyart 🎨 (@pascalboyart)
2:23 PM • May 25, 2021

New NFT Projects 💎

Institut @weareinstitut is another platform launching this July! Founded by Joe Kennedy and Jonny Burt of Unit London gallery claims to be “the first art world-led platform for NFTs” and aims to form a “bridge between the traditional art world and emerging digital communities.” Curated by one and only @kennyschac

Our mission is to bridge the divide between the traditional and digital art communities. Our launch in July will celebrate this in the form of a physical exhibition, curated by @kennyschac
#weareinstitut
en.martincid.com/2021/05/22/ins…
— Unit London (@weareunitlondon)
2:46 PM • May 24, 2021