In 1744, Samuel Baker the founder of Sotheby auction hundreds of books in exchange for $1000 only. The exact same thing is happening in the crypto market. Companies are selling their source code for web developers at $5 million.

Cassandra Hatton said that almost everyone has an interest in selling non-fungible-token. Hatton is the head of science in Sotheby’s global. He said “My inbox is just absolutely ”logged”.

The Sotheby company has managed to sell almost all NFT art worth $65 million. Their rivals Christie sold crypto sheets for almost $100 million. The company uses blockchain technology to find out who has digital items like video and images. They keep track to see if they are copyright-free.

The largest auction house is almost 5% of the art sales. The data were analyzed using Art Market Research Data. They also wrote about NFTs taking off in 2020. Many people who buy NFT art are wealthy clients. Most of them made it through cryptocurrency. According to a rumor released by an art specialist, 70% of the clients are new. They bought many NFTs which amounted to $17.1 million, a report by reuters.

Last month, Kosa Kantchev bought three NFTs that looked like crude cartoon apps. They weighed 9882,500 pounds and were sold for $1.3 million. Christie made their first NFT from the set of Bored Ape Yacht Club. They auctioned those products immediately after the pandemic started.

Art collectors were busy bidding for those products. The CEO of Nexo, Trenchev Antomi told NBC said: “On one hand, there were people in suits in the front. On the side, there were people on the phone getting semi-anonymous bids,”. Furthermore, entrepreneurs and crypto people were bidding directly. The funny thing is that they don’t wear suits while visiting the site. It’s difficult to differentiate them.

Antomi admitted that they bought the apes with the mind of selling them in the future. They were aware of the high demand in the future. Currently, the online market has made it easier to buy anything at any place.

$10 billion profit margin

During the third quarter this year, digital art has earned the companies almost $10 billion. Trenchev confirmed that they are working hard to look for more financial tools for NFTs. He wants to look for various opportunities to earn profit through the NFTs.

Facebook recently decided to rebrand itself to Meta. The company is one of the big tech giants that will invest more in NFT art in the coming years. Many large auction houses are taking off on social media.

The head of digital art at Christie, Noah Davis confirmed that buyers were jovial about the formalities. Noah said that most of the customers come from various unexpected sources like discord. He also registered some of them for an auction through Twitter. He continued in an interview with Reuters, “That’s where it happens, that’s where client services are done,”. The head praised the digital world for making things easier and faster.

The crypto artist is another big source of NFT art for auction houses. Pseudonyms are the main deals involved in such categories. Most artist sales are driven by galleries. In a traditional moment, sellers only focused on secondary sales.

A senior specialist at Rebekah Bowling admitted the surprise he has when artists work with auction houses directly. He chaired the global auction house in Philips during the 20th century. The experienced man said he uses social media platforms to find artists.

Is crypto safe

Many people have warned newcomers from indulging in the auction house business without much knowledge. Although many buyers will put NFTs as their first choice, they have to explore other ways. Know Your Customer(KYC) might become a legal risk for auction houses. A cryptocurrency lawyer, Max Dilendorn also confirmed that anti-money-laundering(AML) might land one into problems.

Large companies like Sotheby’s have not released a report on AML or KYC. However, Christie confirmed that the physical artwork rules could work the same with the NFT when it comes to regulations.

One of the biggest issues occurred in June when a client spent almost $1.5 million on the purchase of NFT art. It was a simple geometric animation developed by Kevin McCoy, Quantum. Another client came in to demand that he owned an original version of the structure. This led to delays in blockchain records and transactions, a report by yahoo.

After Sotheby had auctioned the first NFT for Worldwide web source code, some people noticed an error. There was a bug in the code which was displayed in the video. However, the company made a $5.4 million profit. The company did not give out any response.

A Miami collector, Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile jumped in to defend the company. He said, “I think they’re normalizing the ecosystem, and I think that very soon they’ll find the right path,”. Of course, there is no perfect technology in the world.

Christie has announced that in the coming stock market, they will sell NFT in physical form.