An edition (9/10) of a digital artwork titled Last Selfie (2019) by the anonymous artist XCOPY was sold for a record-breaking $3.27 million (727 ETH). It’s the highest price paid for an editioned artwork in the tokenized art space.
XCOPY, whose work is highly sought after, is based in London. His style is often glitched, dystopian, and provocative, exploring themes like death, decay, and apathy through flashing imagery and distorted loops.
The previous sale for an edition of Last Selfie (7/10) was in May 2025 for $1.2 million.
Last Selfie was minted in 2019 as a limited edition of 10, and XCOPY released each for $20 when tokenized art was still nascent. An intermediary for the buyer who paid $3.27 million reportedly approached each collector who held an edition of the artwork. Nine out of 10 rejected their offer before one finally bowed. The identities of the seller and buyer are not yet known.
Among the collectors who own an edition of the work are Raoul Pal, CozomoMedici, and punk6529.
AI art collector Jediwolf is one collector who turned down the buyer’s offer. “I managed to collect my Last Selfie three years ago, and ever since, I’ve been reflecting on its meaning,” he told ARTnews. “It may appear as a grim yet humorous caricature, yet I think the message goes well beyond the surface. I perceive it more as a reminder at this point: time is the only wealth we actually have. Today, that reminder spoke to me again.”
Georg Bak, a digital art advisor and founder of the Digital Art Mile art fair, told ARTnews that Last Selfie is “one of the most recognizable icons of crypto art.”
“It’s a true masterpiece by XCOPY, alongside his Right Click Save Man (2018),” he said. “One of its editions now belongs to the prestigious Punk 6529 Museum, which underlines its cultural significance. It’s no surprise that it recently achieved a record price. I believe that in the coming years, we’ll see works like Alien Punks, Beeple pieces, and XCOPY 1/1s reach values of $50 million or more. I only regret not buying an XCOPY for under $100 when I first discovered his work back in 2018.”
The highest price paid for a series of editions in the tokenized art space is $91.8 million for digital artist Pak’s The Merge in 2021. It sold on NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway. “This is an incredible moment for NFTs,” Duncan Cock Foster, co-founder of Nifty Gateway, said at the time. “This is further validation for NFTs as a medium of art and innovation that could only be integrated through blockchain technology.”
