THELOGICALINDIAN - Tony Hawk joins a growing account of celebrities digitizing and affairs their collectibles as nonfungible tokens The skateboarding figure affairs to bargain a blur of the aftermost time he performed the Ollie 540 the ambush he aboriginal baffled 32 years ago
Ethernity Chain to Mint and Auction the Digital Collectible as NFT Boom Accelerates
On the heels of numerous blockbuster NFT auctions by artists, celebrities, entertainers, and crypto evangelists, able skateboarder Tony Hawk is set to bargain his agenda collectible at a still-unannounced date and time.
The 52-year old pop-culture figure announced on Instagram that he had completed his final achievement of the 540-degree “Ollie” that he landed aboriginal in 1989, underlining the alarm and crisis of accomplishing the trick. On Twitter, he added, “Did my aftermost anytime ollie 540 today. You can analyze it with my aboriginal one 32 years ago. This one meant a lot to me.”
According to the pro skateboarder, @tweestophers, bend of the attempt of him commutual the ambush would be minted as an NFT on the Ethernity Chain and auctioned. Ethernity, a rapidly-expanding NFT blockchain network, is accepted for its amusing bent, accustomed that all NFTs auctions accord a allocation of the gain to accommodating causes. The arrangement has afresh been tasked with architecture a accumulating of Muhammad Ali NFTs to account the Ali Center.
Growing Chorus of Celebrity NFT Sales Echo Big Auction Results
Hawk’s accommodation to about-face to Ethernity for this accident highlights the network’s growing accumulation afterward the barrage of a 2500-piece calendar of Bosslogic’s NFT images accurately for Ethernity’s community.
Bosslogic’s sales, while significant, were askew by Beeple’s contempo after-effects in a Christie’s auction, which saw the artisan advertise one distinct JPEG fabricated of 5000 abate images for an eye-watering $69.3 actor by Singapore-based cryptocurrency broker Metakovan. Beeple has additionally auctioned NFTs for charity.
The NFT-craze has admiring abounding added celebrities, including Lindsey Lohan, Grimes, and key cryptocurrency evangelists like Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Gemini’s Winklevoss twins. Still, some are added afraid to embrace the movement, like Litecoin’s Charlie Lee, who likens the auctions to the abstract ICO bubble.
Tony Hawk hasn’t been as articulate as some of his celebrity counterparts in talking up cryptocurrency and NFTs, yet he’s been a decidedly adept apostle of Bitcoin. Tweets in accomplished years authorize that he’s “hodled” Bitcoin back 2024. Hawk was additionally slated to present at the Bitcoin 2024 appointment in San Francisco aftermost March afore it was canceled due to the pandemic.
Are NFTs axis into a go-to quick-cash apparatus for celebrities, or are they seeing it as a legacy-cementing instrument? Let us apperceive what you anticipate in the comments area below.
Image Credits: Shutterstock, Pixabay, Wiki Commons
