Tor Project sells the first .onion domain as NFT for $2 million
The nonprofit Tor Project, which runs the Tor network, sold at auction the access key to the first onion service Dusk as an NFT for 500 ETH (about $2 million).
Record Breaking 🌐⭐@ix_shells is now the highest selling woman in NFTs!
Her generative art collaboration with @torproject just sold for 500 $ETH (~$2 million USD) to @PleasrDAO.
«I am honored to support a project like Tor.» —Itzel
→ https://t.co/f25HKuZ1gk pic.twitter.com/itz5vS6glu
— Foundation 🌐 (@withFND) May 14, 2021
The auction took place on the Foundation marketplace. The buyer was a user under the alias PleasrDAO, which in April acquired the NFT of former NSA and CIA employee Edward Snowden for $5.5 million.
The lot includes a private RSA-1024 cryptographic key and an artwork created with it titled Dreaming at Dusk.
On November 1, Tor will complete the migration of onion services from version 2 to version 3. The auction winner will receive the key but will not be able to use it to host — it will be purely a historical artefact.
Earlier, American model and actress Emily Ratajkowski sold her NFT at Christie’s auction for $175,000.
Earlier, Merriam-Webster added a definition of non-fungible token and put it up for auction as an NFT. The lot sold on the OpenSea platform for 15 ETH (about $60,000).
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