just been diving into the craziest nft sales history and honestly some of these numbers are wild. so pak's merge is apparently the most expensive nft ever sold at like $91.8m back in december 2021, but here's the thing - it wasn't owned by one person. 28k+ collectors each bought pieces of it at $575 each. kind of genius actually, very different from how most expensive nft projects usually work.

beeple's everydays started at just $100 starting bid then went to $69m at christie's in march 2021. the guy literally made one digital art every single day for 5000 days and compiled them all together. that's actually insane dedication. then there's the clock he made with julian assange - $52.7m in february 2022 and it literally counts the days assange was in prison. updates daily. that's not just art, that's activism.

what's interesting is cryptopunks absolutely dominate the most expensive nft rankings too. like #5822 went for $23m, #7523 for $11.75m, #4156 for $10.26m. these were literally free to mint back in 2017 when ethereum wallets were less common. now they're worth millions each. the rarest ones are the alien punks - only 9 of them exist in the whole series.

then you got beeple's human one which is basically a 24/7 digital sculpture that changes based on time of day. sold for $29m and beeple can literally update it remotely whenever he wants. so it's technically a living artwork that evolves over time.

the most expensive nft space is basically dominated by a few names - pak, beeple, cryptopunks creators. everything else is just fighting for scraps below them. kind of wild how concentrated it is. you thinking any of these will ever sell for more? 💭