{"id":53098,"date":"2021-11-18T12:30:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T10:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=53098"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:19:57","slug":"14-year-old-american-artist-earns-over-1-million-from-nft-collection-in-under-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/14-year-old-american-artist-earns-over-1-million-from-nft-collection-in-under-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"14-year-old American artist earns over $1 million from NFT collection in under 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

The young American artist created a collection of 8,000 beluga NFT images<\/a> and earned more than $1 million in under 24 hours.<\/p>\n

Fourteen-year-old Abigail has loved drawing since childhood, and her 25-year-old brother Adam is a trader. It was he who explained to the teenager how NFT technology works and suggested launching a joint project.<\/p>\n

Abigail decided to draw a beluga after seeing one at a city aquarium. Separately, she devised 167 adornments: sunglasses, caps, fur coats and more. She created most of the drawings on an iPhone 8.<\/p>\n

They then turned to a developer who built a script to assemble belugas with the adornments. In the end, they produced almost 8,000 unique images.<\/p>\n

Initially the works were uploaded to the decentralised storage Arweave. It cost about $5,300.<\/p>\n

On October 16, the Belugies collection was launched on the NFT marketplace Alpha Art. The initial price of one beluga was 0.8 SOL (about $160 at the start of trading). All tokens sold out within 10 hours, and Adam and Abigail earned more than $1 million.<\/p>\n

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WE DID IT!!!! pic.twitter.com\/QWEcRJnzaw<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Belugies (@belugiesNFT) October 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n