Non-fungible token market Nifty Gateway hosted an public sale that noticed a single NFT art work promote for $777,777 after a last-second bid doubled the value.

On Dec. 14, Nifty tweeted that the “savage” bid of $777,777 had been entered with solely a single second left to go within the public sale. The art work was the final to be bought from “The Full MF Assortment” that was auctioned that day, with the token that includes every of the gathering’s 20 particular person digital artworks in a single NFT.

The artworks had been impressed by know-how, nature, and Star Wars, and created by pseudonymous artist “Beeple.”

NFT traders Tim Kang and “Metakovan” had entered right into a fierce bidding battle for the piece, steadily pushing the value up from $200,000 to $380,000 earlier than Kang entered the last-second blowout bid.

In complete, the 20 artworks had been auctioned for greater than $3.5 million, prompting the artist to tweet a video of his mates dousing him in champagne in celebration.

The profitable bidder praised Beeple for the gathering, emphasizing the artist’s “exact consideration to element throughout the bodily and digital spectrum”:

“His constant work ethic, inventive understanding & divine timing landmarked historical past for artwork & crypto and I’m simply blessed to take part. My profitable bid was not for him and myself solely [—] I hope we had been in a position to take [a] stand for the way forward for creativity, open collaboration, and self-sovereignty by digital signature.”

The public sale smashed the earlier document set for the most-valuable art work auctioned on Nifty Gateway by 1,300%, with Trevor Jones’ NFT “Picasso’s Bull” bought to Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile of the Museum of Crypto Artwork for $55,555.55 in August.

NFTs are additionally starting to creep out of the digital area and into the mainstream, with an interactive NFT created by former-pro baseball participant turned token artist, Micah Johnson, being exhibited on an digital billboard in Los Angeles this month.