NFT
A receipt for a JPEG, sold as ownership. Trading volume fell 97 per cent in eighteen months; the apes remain, unsold, in their wallets.
Born
Peak
Died
Cause of death
No business model
First sighting
Beeple auction, Christie's, March 2021
Life & death · 2020–2027
2020
2021
2022
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2024
2025
2026
2027
PEAK 2021
BORN · 2021
DIED · 2022
NOW · 2026
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