Aphex Twin's surprise NFT artwork sells at auction for $128,000

15 March 2021, 14:26 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

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Aphex Twin surprised fans over the weekend by putting artwork in the form of an NFT (non-fungible token) up for auction, which ended up fetching around $128,000.

Aphex Twin has become the latest artist to sell digital artwork as an NFT. Over the weekend, Aphex Twin announced an auction for afx\/weirdcore\blockscanner, a piece created alongside anonymous artist Weirdcore.

According to Crack Magazine, the digital artwork also included music from Aphex Twin and "additional technical input" from Freeka Tet, and was sold via an auction on cryptocurrency marketplace Foundation.

The auction announcement was made by Aphex Twin on Twitter, who also noted that some of the money made from the artwork will go towards "planting trees and either donating to permaculture projects or setting them up ourselves, depending on how much we get."

We will spend a portion of the money on planting trees and either donating to permaculture projects or setting them up ourselves, depending on how much we get .
— Aphex Twin (@AphexTwin) March 14, 2021

The auction, which ended last night (14 March), resulted in the NFT artwork selling for 72 ETH, which was worth $136,349 at the time of purchase (as Crack Magazine notes), and is now worth around $128,000, which approximately equates to £92,300.

Aphex Twin has followed in the footsteps of MF DOOM, Grimes, Kings Of Leon, Pussy Riot and more with selling NFTs. Last week Pussy Riot announced they would be donating a portion of their "PANIC ATTACK" NFT sales to help victims of domestic abuse in Russia.