Indian entrepreneur Vignesh Sundaresan (aka MetaKovan) who last month bought the world’s most expensive NFT “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days” by US artist Beeple, lives in Singapore, is 32 and appears to be living a modest life. He paid a record $ 69.3 million for a digital artwork, it seems, at first glance, there is no indication that he is a wealthy collector. He also made statements that hint at modesty:
“My treasure would be my computer. And maybe my watch,” he said during an interview with AFP. “I thought this piece was important.”
His unassuming behavior offers no clue that he is a multimillion-dollar investor, and that he funds a fund focused on NFTs, which use blockchain technology to turn everything from art to Internet memes into collectibles. virtual. Sundaresan defended the price paid for the collage of 5,000 works of art created on consecutive days, which transformed its creator into the third most valuable living artist:
“As a piece in itself it is fantastic. But there is this symbolic intention and to show the world that there is this whole thing going on underground.” he said.
Sundaresan’s Metapurse fund bought another set of 20 Beeple works in December and sold partial ownership of the collection as “tokens” – originally priced at $ 0.36 per token and now worth around $ 5. He plans to show his digital art in a virtual gallery and plans to hire an architect to design it.
