Christie auctioned Gary Vaynerchuk’s NFT art for $ 1.2 million

Christie auctioned Gary Vaynerchuk’s NFT art for $ 1.2 million

Gary Vaynerchuk holds the “Vee Friends” token, which is part of his first NFT collection.

Christie’s auctioned five artworks created by entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk for the VeeFriends NFT collection on Friday.

price tag? Over $ 1.2 million.

“It feels like an out-of-body experience,” Vaynarchuk told CNBC. “I consider myself a very creative and artistic person, but this is much bigger than me … it represents a paradigm shift and consumers are intrigued. increase.”

Most NFTs auctioned by Christie’s are either NFT-created or blockchain-validated, but these particular pieces are original characters hand-painted by Vaynerchuk himself.

The VeeFriends collection consists of 10,255 character non-fungible tokens that can be purchased through the cryptocurrency Ethereum. Each token contains a “smart contract” that contains the metadata that Vainerchuk can use to interact with the buyer. Token holders will also be given exclusive access to an annual business event called VeeCon for three years after purchasing the NFT. The first VeeCon will be held in May in Minneapolis.

Since launching the series earlier this year, the lowest price for such tokens remains at $ 50,000.

Vainerchuk’s NFT graffiti, called “Emphatic Elephant,” won the highest price at the Friday auction and sold for $ 412,500. The cheapest was called “Diamond Hands” and cost $ 162,500.

US house that inspired The Conjuring sells for USD 1.2 million

Realtor Mott & Chace Sotheby’s International Realty in its listing called the 14-room home in Burrillville “one of the most well-known haunted houses in the United States.”

Not afraid of ghosts and things that go bump in the night?

The purportedly haunted Rhode Island farmhouse where the spooky happenings that inspired the 2013 horror movie “The Conjuring” occurred hit the market Thursday for the scary price of USD1.2 million.

Realtor Mott & Chace Sotheby’s International Realty in its listing called the 14-room, 3,100-square-foot (about 290 square meters) home on 8.5 acres (3.5 hectares) in Burrillville “one of the most well-known haunted houses in the United States.”

“Legend has it, the home is haunted by the presence of Bathsheba Sherman, who lived in the house in the 1800s,” the agency said. “To this day, countless happenings have been reported.”

The movie wasn’t filmed at the home, but was based on the experiences of the Perron family that lived there in the 1970s.

The home last sold in 2019 for USD 439,000 to a family who described themselves as paranormal investigators and hosted events at the site and rented rooms overnight for people eager for a scare.

Before that, the previous owners didn’t complain about ghosts, but about fans of the movie who showed up at all hours and trespassed on the property.

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U of S sets up new 1.2 million dollar crop insect research facility

The University of Saskatchewan is establishing a crop insect research facility to study both pests and beneficial insects.

Entomologist Dr. Sean Prager will be in charge of the centre which will be established in the College of Agriculture and Bioresources building.

Funding will come from several sources, including 500-thousand dollars from the Western Grains Research Foundation—as part of its 32 million dollar Capacity Initiative.

Garth Patterson is the Foundation’s executive director.

He says the researchers will work with the crop development centre with new crop varieties.

Patterson says producers are helping to fund the research facility, with funding of 700 thousand dollars for the 1.2 million dollar facility.

He says support is coming from Western Grains Research Foundation, SaskCanola, SaskPulse and SaskWheat.

The group is helping to fund the first crop insect research facility at a the University of Saskatchewan, the first of its kind for a Western Canadian University.

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(with files from cjww)