January 21, 2022 at 7:05 PM by Nicolas Toison
While waiting for his return to the football fields, PSG star Neymar Jr., offered himself two NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens. They were purchased for an amount close to the 1,1 million de dollars, or almost 970,000 euros. The Brazilian shared his collection on his social networks, which earned him more than 1.6 million likes in total, on this Friday, January 21, at the time of this writing.
I am an ape! #community #art #BoredApeYC pic.twitter.com/iOe3E0H2t6
— Neymar Jr (@neymarjr) January 20, 2022
$ 1.1 million “blazed monkeys” for the PSG player
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens in French, are unique digital goods that can be purchased for cryptocurrency. It was on OpenSea, the most important NFT marketplace, that he was able to obtain BAYC #5269 and BAYC #6633. The latter are monkeys with jaded airs, one is red and the other pink. They come from the very popular collection, Bored Ape Yacht Club. It is a best seller in the field and allows commercial exploitation of the purchased character.
Neymar is not the only one to offer himself NFTs from BAYC
Bored Ape YC has 10,000 different monkeys. Created in April 2021, the collection is very popular with celebrities. Neymar’s teammates, Marco Verratti and Leandro Paredes, are followers. This is also the case for NBA player Stephen Curry, rapper Eminem, and host Jimmy Fallon. The community is very limited, since to date, it would take a minimum of 78 Ethers to buy one of BAYT’s 10,000 NFTs, or almost 240,000 dollars.
