{"id":38932,"date":"2021-03-15T13:45:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T11:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=38932"},"modified":"2025-08-30T07:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:06:19","slug":"nfl-star-rob-gronkowski-sells-nft-collection-for-1-6-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/nfl-star-rob-gronkowski-sells-nft-collection-for-1-6-million\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL star Rob Gronkowski sells NFT collection for $1.6 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL star Rob Gronkowski <a href=\"https:\/\/opensea.io\/collection\/rob-gronkowski-championship-series-nfts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sold<\/a> his own collection of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for 830 ETH \u2014 about $1.5 million at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Black Madre Studio developed five digital trading cards commemorating four Super Bowls and key milestones in Gronkowski&#8217;s career. The auction took place on the OpenSea marketplace from March 11 to 13.<\/p>\n<p>The priciest NFT trading card was the &#8220;Career Highlight Refractor Card&#8221;. It sold at auction for 232 ETH (over $400,000 at the time of writing).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SOLD for $432,000, a new all-time record for NFT trading cards! \ud83c\udfc8 Congrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobGronkowski?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RobGronkowski<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YTZtzF7c8t\">https:\/\/t.co\/YTZtzF7c8t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OpenSea (@opensea) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/opensea\/status\/1371262031312130048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nEarlier, former DC Comics artist Jose Delbo <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/former-dc-comics-artist-sells-wonder-woman-nft-for-1-85-million\">earned $1.85 million<\/a> from selling a Wonder Woman NFT. In a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/dc-comics-tells-its-artists-to-refrain-from-selling-nfts\">called on<\/a> to abandon the sale of NFTs due to copyright infringement.<\/p>\n<p>In March, an NFT copy of Banksy&#8217;s burnt artwork titled <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nft-copy-of-burned-banksy-painting-sells-for-228-eth\">\u00abMorons\u00bb<\/a> sold for 228.69 ETH. Christie\u2019s sold Beeple&#8217;s painting titled &#8220;Everydays: The First 5000 Days&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/beeples-nft-sells-at-christies-for-69-3-million\">for a record $69.3 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"orE2sAfdVN\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nfts-as-a-new-class-of-virtual-assets-a-first-look-part-one\">NFT as a new class of virtual assets: first look (part one)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cNFT as a new class of virtual assets: first look (part one)\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/exclusive\/nft-kak-novyj-klass-virtualnyh-aktivov-pervyj-vzglyad-chast-pervaya\/embed#?secret=ixz3GbarJo#?secret=orE2sAfdVN\" data-secret=\"orE2sAfdVN\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, billionaire Mark Cuban <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/mark-cuban-lists-his-quote-as-an-nft\">put up for sale<\/a> one of his motivational quotes in NFT form. In February he <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/mark-cuban-defi-and-nfts-hold-huge-potential-for-the-next-decade\">predicted the growth<\/a> of the NFT market over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news stream, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL star Rob Gronkowski sold his NFT collection for 830 ETH \u2014 about $1.5 million at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1213,828],"class_list":["post-38932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft","tag-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38934,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38932\/revisions\/38934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}