{"id":36820,"date":"2021-02-22T12:13:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T10:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36820"},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:16:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:16:54","slug":"nyan-cat-meme-animation-sells-for-300-eth-at-foundation-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/nyan-cat-meme-animation-sells-for-300-eth-at-foundation-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyan Cat meme animation sells for 300 ETH at Foundation auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The popular meme GIF Nyan Cat was sold at a Foundation auction for 300 ETH (~$568,000 at the exchange rate at the time of writing).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p dir=\\\"ltr\\\" lang=\\\"en\\\">\u00abThis has been a life-changing experience.\u00bb \u2014 <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PRguitarman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@PRguitarman<\/a>, creator of <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NyanCat?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@NyanCat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nyan Cat has found a new owner for 300 <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">$ETH<\/a> (~$590,000 USD). \ud83d\udc08\ud83c\udf08<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the new creative economy. \ud83c\udf10 <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/gf8JHi1OEW\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/gf8JHi1OEW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Foundation (@withFND) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/withFND\/status\/1362838473527291904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">February 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe creator of the rainbow cat flying through space in a cookie, Chris Torres, confirmed the sale of a non-fungible token (NFT). The auction lasted 24 hours, with bids starting at 3 ETH.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I basically opened the door to a completely new meme economy in the crypto world,&#8221; Torres said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In January 2021, the Topps Digital <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bernie-sanders-mitten-meme-immortalised-in-collectible-nft-cards\">unveiled 18 NFT cards<\/a> featuring Senator Bernie Sanders in mittens.<\/p>\n<p>In early February, actress Lindsay Lohan sold an NFT Lightning at a Rarible auction <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/lindsay-lohan-sells-bitcoin-nft-at-auction-price-tops-70000\">for $70,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On February 16, Litecoin creator Charlie Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/litecoin-creator-predicts-nft-crash\">predicted the collapse of NFTs<\/a> due to the \\&#8221;zero cost\\&#8221; of their creation.<\/p>\n<p>On February 17, Christie\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/christies-to-auction-beeple-nft\">first put up for auction<\/a> a non-fungible token. The work Everydays: The First 5000 Days was created by Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular meme GIF Nyan Cat was sold at Foundation auction for 300 ETH (~$568,000 at the time of writing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[526,46,1213],"class_list":["post-36820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-auction","tag-ethereum","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"64","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36822,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36820\/revisions\/36822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}