Elon Musk's girlfriend and singer Grimes sells crypto-art for $5.8 million: Report

Singer Grimes has launched and sold her digital collection titled ‘WarNymph’ on February 28 for $5.8 million.

The 10 artworks on the block were auctioned off within 20 minutes, Yahoo News reported.

Grimes took to Twitter to announce the sale of her crypto art via non-fungible tokens or NFTs on the Nifty Gateway platform. NFTs have gathered increasing popularity as a digital asset and contributed to the crypto-art market which is valued at over $100 million, the report noted. Among the pieces, was an image of a baby guarding Mars which traded at $300,000 in under 10 minutes and has been relisted as ‘Newborn 2’ for $2.5 million, the report said.

Other artwork included images of a baby in space, and a few were themed to new music from Grimes – e.g. ‘Earth’ features her yet unreleased song ‘Ærythe’, while ‘Mars’ and ‘Death of the Old’ were themed after songs ‘Mars Theme’ and demo ‘Anhedonia’, respectively.

Death of Old was the last piece to sell on March 1 and went for nearly $400,000.