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NFT challenge Azuki accomplished an public sale for eight Golden Skateboard nonfungible tokens — which will even be redeemable for bodily Golden Skateboards — with the bottom and highest successful bids coming in at a good 200 ETH ($261,682.00) and 309 ETH ($404,298.69), respectively, in accordance with its official Twitter account.
The skateboards, although at present solely in digital kind, are all among the many most costly skateboards ever bought — by a large margin. A few of the costliest skateboards bought beforehand embrace Jamie Thomas’ and Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ within the Wind Skateboard,” which bought in a fundraiser for $38,425 in December 2012, and a Tony Hawk-owned “Beatles’ Blackbird Board,” which options handwritten lyrics to the music and Paul McCartney’s signature and was auctioned for $27,116.
“The Golden Skateboard is a marvel of artwork & know-how showcasing our first implementation of PBT, which paves the best way for a brand new period of storytelling,” Azuki’s official Twitter account advised its greater than 314,000 followers. “We broke the report for the most costly skateboard ever bought (the truth is, the 8 most costly skateboards ever bought).”

The ground value for an Azuki NFT has risen over current weeks. Supply: The Block
The declare window for the bodily Golden Skateboards will open in November, in accordance with the challenge.
Azuki’s Golden Skateboard public sale comes virtually precisely one month after The Block reported that the challenge’s creator, Chiru Labs, was looking for $30 million in a Collection A funding spherical — which might worth the corporate at between $300 million and $400 million.
Azuki is a set of 10,000 sideways-facing anime characters, displaying completely different moods and adorned with various equipment. The most costly Azuki NFT sale occurred in March, when one in a set bought for 420.7 ETH — roughly $1.4 million on the time.
The ground value for an Azuki NFT, on the time of this writing, is 11.5 ETH ($15,056), in accordance with NFT market OpenSea.