{"id":41327,"date":"2021-04-23T20:01:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T17:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=41327"},"modified":"2025-08-30T18:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:18:20","slug":"phillips-sells-self-replicating-nft-replicator-for-4-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/phillips-sells-self-replicating-nft-replicator-for-4-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillips sells self-replicating NFT &#8216;REPLICATOR&#8217; for $4.1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major auction house Phillips sold a non-fungible token called \u201cREPLICATOR\u201d for $4.1 million. The NFT was created by digital artist Misha Dovbak, known by the pseudonym Mad Dog Jones.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mad_Dog_Jones?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Mad_Dog_Jones<\/a>&#8216;s REPLICATOR sold for $4,144,000 with the buyer&#8217;s premium, setting the record for a living Canadian artist. Thank you to all of our followers and bidders! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uxvloEyMi8\">pic.twitter.com\/uxvloEyMi8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PHILLIPS (@phillipsauction) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/phillipsauction\/status\/1385631938002788358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Phillips representatives noted that the final bid included the auction house&#8217;s commission.<\/p>\n<p>Visually, \u201cREPLICATOR\u201d is an image of a copier placed in an office space in downtown Los Angeles. The artist used the Ethereum blockchain to create a token that encompasses seven generations. The first generation will produce six unique NFTs \u2014 one per month.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cEach subsequent generation creates one fewer work of art until it reaches the seventh generation, which will not produce new NFTs,\u201d \u2014 according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillips.com\/mdj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u0432 \u043e\u043f\u0438\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0438<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In April 2021 the Waves.tech ecosystem sold the digital duck &#8216;Perfection&#8217; as an NFT <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/waves-sells-the-priciest-nft-minted-outside-the-ethereum-blockchain\">for the highest price<\/a> among such deals outside the Ethereum blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>The student association previously put up for sale <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/donald-trumps-tweets-go-on-sale-as-nfts\">46,694 tweets<\/a> by former U.S. President Donald Trump as NFTs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major auction house Phillips sold a non-fungible token named &#8216;REPLICATOR&#8217; for $4.1 million. The NFT was created by digital artist Misha Dovbak, known by the pseudonym Mad Dog Jones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41328,"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":[526,1213],"class_list":["post-41327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-auction","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41327","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=41327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41329,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41327\/revisions\/41329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}