Edmund Chen sells NFT for $60k: Here's why he got into the blockchain world
Farah Daley
Posted on 14 March 2022 | 10,001 views | 8 comments
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has become the latest revolution in the blockchain world and local celebrity Edmund Chen is the latest to make headlines after selling his own NFT for 15 Ether.
This was valued at $60,000 at the time of transaction on Feb 22.
The painting, titled Spring — Cherish the Moment, is part of a series of blockchain paintings called Eternal Collections and was sold to entrepreneur Queenie Yang.
The 61-year-old told Stomp he took two months, with the help of his son Chen Xi, to create the digital painting on an iPad.
"Although it is a digital image, it is 100 per cent hand drawn on an iPad, including every water bubble and every vein you see on the lotus leaf."
He came up with the idea for the four blockchain paintings based on an artwork he did in 2013 called Cherish the Moment.
The original painting was 601.255m long and earned him several awards including a Guinness World Record for longest drawing by an individual.
The original Cherish The Moment painting that was 601.255m long.
The first NFT: Spring — Cherish the Moment.
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