Steve Aoki pauses gig to show off $859,000 NFT

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Steve Aoki inter­rupt­ed one of his own sets to show the crowd his lat­est NFT purchase.

The self-pro­claimed NFT fan stopped the music at a recent show to pull out a pic­ture of a pink alien on his phone, which he pur­chased from the illus­tra­tor doo­dles. Aoki report­ed­ly paid 269.69 ETH, the equiv­a­lent of $859,000 (£627,053) for the NFT.

In the video, which he post­ed on Twit­ter, he enthu­si­as­ti­cal­ly shows onlook­ers and says, “Check this lit­tle gor­geous alien out. I had to stop the music because I’m so fuck­ing excit­ed.” Along­side his Tweet he explained, “Nfts make me feel like a kid again.” 

Report­ing his pur­chase via Twit­ter on 7th Jan­u­ary he wrote, “Just pur­chased the 9th rarest @doodles in exis­tence! There are only 10 alien type doo­dles ever cre­at­ed and I own one of them now! Wel­come #2238 to the family!”

Since then, the floor price for doodle’s lucra­tive col­lec­tion has increased by more than 60%. His col­lec­tion includes over 10,000 “doo­dles”, one of which is alleged­ly owned by Snoop Dogg.

Aoki has been devot­ed to the dig­i­tal assets since their incep­tion. He recent­ly launched his own NFT mar­ket­place, Odd­Key, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with com­ic book author Todd McFar­lane. His pre­vi­ous col­lec­tion, Dream Catch­er, sold for $4.25m.

The Amer­i­can DJ is no stranger to quirky invest­ments. In 2018 he launched his own piz­za deliv­ery com­pa­ny, Piz­zao­ki which fol­lowed the release of his nov­el­ty cake themed gifts the year before, includ­ing a cake shaped phone charg­er and a sock range deliv­ered in a cake box.  

You can read DJ Mag’s fea­ture on NFTs and their rel­e­vance to elec­tron­ic music here

 



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