Grimes Just Sold Her Crypto Art NFT Collection for $6 Million

Musician and visual artist Grimes has sold a collection of NFTs for over $6 million.

NFTs are non-fungible tokens—cryptographically secured collectables that can be anything, but that have become a popular (and lucrative) medium for visual art. You buy them with Ethereum through Ebay-esque marketplaces like Zora, Foundation, and NiftyGateway. Musicians like Jacques Greene, Yaeji, Mura Masa, and Toro Y Moi have all gotten involved with NFTs in recent weeks.

Grimes’ collection is centered around “WarNymph”—the digital avatar the artist created for herself in the wake of her fifth album, Miss Anthropocene—which looks like a kind of demon baby.

Partnering with NiftyGateway, which is owned by the Winklevoss twins, Grimes sold nine pieces this weekend. Seven of these were limited editions, and two were “open editions”—during a set window on Sunday, anyone could purchase and “mint” an edition of those two works.

There’s also a 10th piece, called “Death of the Old,” which sold today; the high bid was $388,938.

While most of the pieces are still images, “Death of the Old,” as well as the two open editions, “Earth” and “Mars,” are animations set to unreleased music.