Mar 28, 2021
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Artist creates “Banana on wall” as NFT
Giving the collectors a chance to have a banana that doesn't get spoiled!
In 2019, a banana was duct-taped to the wall by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan at Miami’s Art Basel, and it was sold for $120,000.
Buyers at Art Basel certainly thought it was a-peel-ing.
Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are the latest cryptocurrency phenomenon to go mainstream. In the simplest terms, NFTs transform digital works of art and other collectibles into one-of-a-kind, verifiable assets that are stored on the blockchain.
The world of art can be crazy, incredibly beautiful and sometimes a bit absurd. “I decided to create this banana as a unique digital token so the collector wouldn’t have to replace it when it gets spoiled!” says Mehrdad Pourhassani Noenavaz, the creator of the Crypto Banana NFT.
