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Quite simply, Clone X, with its pairing of RTFKT and Murakami, is bound to send the profile and value of NFT avatars skywards. They’ve also fetched tidy sums: in June, a single CryptoPunk sold for $11.75 million at Sotheby’s Natively Digital sale, before 107 Bored Apes raked in $24.4 million at the auction house’s Ape In! online sale.Ĭlone X’s first 10,000 avatars will be made available in an exclusive 48-hour pre-sale for existing RTFKT collectors, before the rest are released to the public. The spark for NFT avatars arrived with Larva Labs’ CryptoPunks in 2017, a project that included 10,000 singular pixelated characters, and has been fueled by recent releases including Hashmasks, Meebits (also by Larva Labs), and Bored Ape Yacht Club.īecause they’ve been widely deployed as, well, profile pictures, NFT avatars have spread widely (and wildly) across social media platforms from Twitter to Discord, growing in popularity as a marker of digital identity across virtual environments. Think of them as digital profile pictures - images containing a character with traits or attributes that have been randomly generated via algorithm, making each unique. All avatars will also have a special Murakami Drip property defined on the blockchain. They will be full-3D models, which means buyers will receive 3D files that they can use in NFT-based games, Zoom meetings, or any other activity in the metaverse. Images: RTFKT StudiosĬlone X’s 20,000 avatars will carry special traits and designs, including eyes, mouths, helmets, and clothes, generated through a randomization process.
The project’s 20,000 avatars will feature a random yet unique combination of traits and designs created by Takashi Murakami.
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