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According to decrypt.co<\/a><\/em>, the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection made a splash in the art world this month with its own Sotheby\u2019s auction for a lot of 101 of the Ethereum-based profile pictures. And the recent hype around the randomly-generated ape illustrations extended into the auction, with a winning bid that smashed expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The auction closed today with a winning bid of $24.39 million, well ahead of Sotheby\u2019s estimated range of $15 million to $18 million. That works out to about $241,500 per Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT. The average sale price for a Bored Ape on leading secondary marketplace OpenSea over the last seven days is just above 46 ETH, or nearly $164,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to decrypt.co, the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection made a splash in the art world this month with its own Sotheby\u2019s auction for a lot of 101 of the Ethereum-based profile pictures. And the recent hype around the randomly-generated ape illustrations extended into the auction, with a winning bid that smashed expectations. The auction closed today with a winning bid of $24.39 million, well ahead of Sotheby\u2019s estimated range of $15 million to $18 million. That works out to about $241,500 per Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT. 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