{"id":41043,"date":"2021-04-20T11:32:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T08:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=41043"},"modified":"2025-08-30T16:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:58:41","slug":"nft-painting-by-the-saint-petersburg-based-russian-duo-404-zero-sells-for-a-record-90000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/nft-painting-by-the-saint-petersburg-based-russian-duo-404-zero-sells-for-a-record-90000\/","title":{"rendered":"NFT painting by the Saint Petersburg-based Russian duo 404.zero sells for a record $90,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saint Petersburg-based art duo 404.zero sold the painting Mars Miners for 6.6 million rubles ($90,000 at the time of the sale) as an NFT at a charity auction. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sobaka.ru\/entertainment\/art\/127217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u0441\u043e\u043e\u0431\u0449\u0430\u0435\u0442<\/a> \u0421\u043e\u0431\u0430\u043a\u0430.ru.<\/p>\n<p>Mars Miners is a digital canvas that evolves indefinitely through the artists&#8217; algorithms. The painting was created live at the auction, with each new bid altering it in real time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ArmDoXIc4Vs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The algorithms used in the work were developed by artists Alexander Lezius and Christina Karpysheva over several years.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe video-generation algorithm uses the same process as cryptocurrency mining. As a result, a unique video is produced that even we cannot reproduce again,\u201d said 404.zero.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The painting became the most expensive NFT artwork in Russia. All proceeds were donated to the Center for Therapeutic Pedagogy &#8220;Special Childhood&#8221; and the charitable foundation &#8220;Lifestyle&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For context, the most expensive NFT in Ukraine at that time was the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/popular-meme-%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%bb%d0%b5%d0%b1%d0%b0%d1%87%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%bd%d1%8f-%d1%82%d0%be%d1%80%d0%be%d0%bd%d1%82%d0%be-sold-as-nft-for-2500\">meme \u201cEat Shit\u201d from the YouTube channel \u201c\u0422\u0435\u043b\u0435\u0431\u0430\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0422\u043e\u0440\u043e\u043d\u0442\u043e\u201d<\/a>. It sold for $2,500 on the day of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>In early March, Russian artist Arseniy Pyzhenkov, known by the pseudonym <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/artist-pokras-lampas-sells-nft-featuring-projection-of-his-drawing-for-16-eth\">Pokras Lampas<\/a>, sold a photograph of the Chirkei Hydroelectric Station as an NFT for 16 ETH (about $28,000 at the time).<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to 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, infographics, and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saint Petersburg-based art duo 404.zero sold the painting Mars Miners for 6.6 million rubles ($90,000 at the time of the sale) as an NFT at a charity auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41044,"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":[526,306,1331,1213],"class_list":["post-41043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-auction","tag-charity","tag-culture-and-art","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41043","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=41043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41045,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41043\/revisions\/41045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}