Dogecoin mania doesn’t stop with Elon Musk and Coinbase listings. No, now the world’s most popular meme cryptocurrency has its own line of NFTs—and 420 of them are up for grabs right now.
Billy Markus, engineer and co-founder of the cryptocurrency, made the announcement on Twitter yesterday, saying that he “Wanted to try something different and try out a new platform that lets you create multiple copies of the same NFT” by using Rarible, a popular NFT marketplace.
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The NFTs all appear to be a version of the same moving image of a rotating coin with the Dogecoin logo—a Japanese dog meme—imprinted on it. Markus is unloading them in a three-tiered sale, two of which have already sold out.
In the first tier, 181 of 420 DOGE NFTs have sold for 0.08 EthereumEthereum (roughly $205 each, at today's ETH prices) on Rarible. Three NFTs sold for 0.8 Ethereum ($2,051) in the second tier, and the third tier sale had just one NFT on Foundation that went for 1.5 ETH—or around $3,800 right now.
NFTs are unique digital tokens, mostly on the Ethereum network, that can represent just about anything online, such as artwork, audio, or video content.
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As of next week, CryptoPunks, one of the most popular (and expensive) NFTs, will be billboarded all over the Magic City in a month-long exhibition, Pixelated.
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They exploded in popularity this year—and sold for a lot of money. Art NFTs are particularly popular.
Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency that started as a joke but is now the sixth-most valuable coin, with a market cap of $47.3 billion (that’s a serious figure: it’s bigger than many companies on the S&P 500.)
The coin has become very popular in the past year as Twitter loudmouth (and the world’s third richest man) Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has pumped the coin online, calling it his favorite crypto.
And its value has skyrocketed. Today it was trading at $0.34—a 13,600% increase to its price over the past year.
Last week, the biggest crypto exchange in the U.S., Coinbase, listed the coin in a move to make the currency more readily available to users following a surge in popularity.
And though its value has been propelled by memes, Dogecoin ain’t no joke—at least not anymore, according to the team behind it. Dogecoin developer Ross Nicoll last month toldDecrypt that those working on the currency’s tech refused money from Musk, but are working with him to turn it into a serious rival to Bitcoin.
Markus famously didn’t see any of the money that was poured into the currency. Could his NFT sale be a cheeky fundraising method to create the world’s next big peer-to-peer cash system?
Sadly, for Markus, he would have been far better off holding on to that DOGE: he’s only made around $46k from the NFT sales so far.
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