{"id":42543,"date":"2021-05-15T17:25:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T14:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42543"},"modified":"2025-08-30T23:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:39:09","slug":"tor-project-sells-the-first-onion-domain-as-nft-for-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/tor-project-sells-the-first-onion-domain-as-nft-for-2-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Tor Project sells the first .onion domain as NFT for $2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nonprofit Tor Project, which runs the Tor network, sold at auction the access key to the first onion service Dusk as an NFT for 500 ETH (about $2 million).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Record Breaking \ud83c\udf10\u2b50<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ix_shells?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ix_shells<\/a> is now the highest selling woman in NFTs!<\/p>\n<p>Her generative art collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/torproject?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@torproject<\/a> just sold for 500 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$ETH<\/a> (~$2 million USD) to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PleasrDAO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PleasrDAO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abI am honored to support a project like Tor.\u00bb \u2014Itzel<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f25HKuZ1gk\">https:\/\/t.co\/f25HKuZ1gk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/itz5vS6glu\">pic.twitter.com\/itz5vS6glu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Foundation \ud83c\udf10 (@withFND) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/withFND\/status\/1393321260537372675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The auction took place on the Foundation marketplace. The buyer was a user under the alias PleasrDAO, which in April <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/edward-snowden-sells-his-own-nft-for-5-5-million\">acquired<\/a> the NFT of former NSA and CIA employee Edward Snowden for $5.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The lot includes a private RSA-1024 cryptographic key and an artwork created with it titled Dreaming at Dusk.<\/p>\n<p>On November 1, Tor will complete the migration of onion services from version 2 to version 3. The auction winner will receive the key but will not be able to use it to host \u2014 it will be purely a historical artefact.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"gIkZz1zjdw\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-darknet-what-is-tor\">What is the dark net? What is Tor?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cWhat is the dark net? What is Tor?\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/cryptorium\/chto-takoe-darknet-chto-takoe-tor\/embed#?secret=INQWUOWwNR#?secret=gIkZz1zjdw\" data-secret=\"gIkZz1zjdw\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, American model and actress Emily Ratajkowski <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/emily-ratajkowski-sells-nft-at-christies-auction-for-175000\">sold<\/a> her NFT at Christie\u2019s auction for $175,000.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Merriam-Webster added a definition of non-fungible token and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/merriam-webster-adds-nft-definition-and-auctions-it-as-an-nft\">put it up for auction as an NFT<\/a>. The lot sold on the OpenSea platform for 15 ETH (about $60,000).<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nonprofit Tor Project, which runs the Tor network, sold at auction the access key to the first onion service Dusk as an NFT for 500 ETH (about $2 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42544,"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":[1213,49],"class_list":["post-42543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft","tag-tor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42543","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=42543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42545,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42543\/revisions\/42545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}