The most expensive sales of Azuki NFTs: An anime dream for investors

06.17.2023

Azuki NFT collection boasts not only a developed infrastructure, a high entry barrier and the title of the Asian market leader, but even the first minutes of its existence on the blockchain. The fact is that in January 2022, in the first 3 minutes of minting, the first 8,700 pieces out of a total issue of 10,000 NFTs were sold out at a high price of 1 ETH, can you imagine? The project has already earned $29 million from initial sales alone. And then sales only grew.

Today Azuki is:

Top project, which ranks 5th in the entire market in terms of sales of all time,
Strong team of Chiru Labs professionals,
The brightest representative of the anime style, which has millions of fans around the world, thanks to which the project has a very active, strong and large community,
Diverse ecosystem including Beanz NFTs, Garden community, Hilumia multiplayer metaverse,
Floor price is crazy 17 ETH ($28k),
The total volume of secondary sales has already exceeded 556k ETH ($925m at the current exchange rate).

There are many famous and respected names among the owners of these NFTs, but most of them prefer to remain anonymous. However, we can distinguish several holders known to everyone in space:

These tokens are indeed very valuable, and holding them provides the holder with investment prospects, status, membership entry into an elite community, and many utilities. All these privileges are expensive, sometimes even too expensive. Want to know the details of the most expensive Azuki sales of the moment? Then we present the Top most expensive sales of Azuki NFTs of all time as of 06/16/2023.

10. Azuki #4690

Azuki #4690 was sold on December 29, 2022 for 203.0612 ETH (about $244k at the time of the deal). This is a rare NFT in the collection (146/10000 in rarity), and here are its attributes:

Background: Dark blue (5%),
Clothing: Blue kimono (2%),
Eyes: Fire (0.57%),
Hair: Fire (0.22%),
Mouth: Tactical knife (1%),
Neck: Golden headphones (0.35%),
Offhand: Fireball (0.67%),
Type: Blue (4%).

The combination of blue type (floor price from 17 ETH) with fire hair (floor price from 190 ETH) and other fire elements makes this asset very valuable.

In this deal, the seller was connoisseur and fan of the Arthur0xVault collection @Arthur_0x, who currently owns 8 pieces of Azuki and Beanz. He is also the founder of DeFiance Capital @DeFianceCapital (Web 3 crypto investment firm) and a prominent member of the crypto community. At the same time, he previously participated in dubious transactions, due to which one of his affiliated wallets has a corresponding label on OpenSea.

And this token was purchased by an anonymous collector 1ED3B3, who has in his portfolio several NFTs from most of the top projects:

HV-MTL (9),
Otherdeed for Otherside (7),
10KTF (6),
Mutant Ape Yacht Club (4),
Bored Ape Kennel Club (4),
Bored Ape Yacht Club (3),
Otherside Koda (2),
BEANZ Official (2),
Otherdeed Expanded (2),
Otherside Vessels (2),
RTFKT – MNLTH (1),
CLONE X – X TAKASHI MURAKAMI (1),
Meebits (1),
KILLABEARS (1),
Azuki (1),
PhantaBear (1).

It is worth saying that his digital assets are of particular value – with constant regularity they are massively made offers for large amounts, but he sells only a few, but more often replenishes his rich portfolio.

9. Azuki #4666

Azuki #4666 was sold on February 13, 2022 for 204 ETH (about $586k at the time of the deal). This is a very rare NFT in the collection (6/10000 in rarity), and here are its attributes:

Background: Dark purple (5%),
Clothing: White qipao with fur (0.84%),
Eyes: Striking (4%),
Hair: Spirit ponytail (0.15%),
Mouth: Grin (4%),
Neck: Golden headphones (0.35%),
Offhand: Golden umbrella (0.13%),
Special: Fireflies (0.88%)
Type: Spirit (0.97%).

Spirit traits give this asset a high value: for example, for this Type floor price starts from 210 ETH, and for this type of hair floor price starts from 240 ETH.

And in this case, the current owner is the aforementioned Arthur0xVault.

8. Azuki #7994

Azuki #7994 was sold on January 5, 2023 for 205 ETH (about $256k at the time of the deal). This is a rare NFT in the collection (164/10000 in rarity), and here are its attributes:

Background: Dark blue (5%),
Clothing: Cloud poncho (0.42%),
Eyes: White (2%),
Hair: Spirit spikey (0.22%),
Headgear: Horns (1%),
Mouth: Pout (4%),
Offhand: Monk staff (1%),
Type: Spirit (0.97%).

In this case, Spirit traits also give high value to this asset.

The seller of the token was an anonymous large holder 96D3B7, who has more than 60 Azuki NFTs in his collection. And in addition to them, more than 800 assets, including:

Renga (106),
0N1 Force (51),
Otherdeed for Otherside (16),
PXN: Ghost Division (14),
Beanz (12),
77-Bit (8).

The buyer is also an anonymous user boredhefner @boredhefner who:

Has in its portfolio more than 150 digital assets of successful collections,
Supporter of the largest projects on the market,
Member of Spirit DAO, as well as BAYC and Valhalla.

7. Azuki #9759

Azuki #9759 was sold on April 12, 2022 for 210 ETH (about $626k at the time of the deal). This is a very rare NFT in the collection (19/10000 in rarity), and here are its attributes:

Background: Off white d (20%),
Clothing: Turquoise kimono with bow (2%),
Ear: Frog (25%),
Eyes: Striking (4%),
Hair: Spirit goddess (0.2%),
Mouth: Closed (8%),
Offhand: Shinai (2%),
Special: Water (49%),
Type: Spirit (0.97%).

In this case, in addition to the high value of the Spirit traits (there are only 97 of them in the collection), almost all other attributes are rare, and their combination makes the asset truly unique.

The new owner of the token is the anonymous wallet 7304E2, which has 11 more “neighbors” from this collection and 6 Beanz NFTs in its investment portfolio.

6. Azuki #3194

Azuki #3194 sold on April 5, 2023 for 218 ETH (about $416k at the time of the deal). This is a rare NFT in the collection (125/10000 in rarity), and here are its attributes:

Background: Dark blue (5%),
Clothing: Black yukata (2%),
Eyes: Lightning (46%),
Hair: Silver dreadlocks (0.49%),
Mouth: 420 (2%),
Offhand: Lightning orb (69%),
Special: Lightning (48%),
Type: Blue (4%).

This token was acquired by an anonymous user GodFather001, who is a “modest” owner of only 6 NFTs from the Azuki, Beanz and CLONE X collections. However, as his trading activity shows, he seeks to expand his investment portfolio with BAYC tokens. To this end, he makes very generous offers, but so far no acquisitions have followed.

5. Azuki #2904

Azuki #2904 was sold on February 26, 2023 for 220 ETH (about $361k at the time of the deal). This is a rare NFT in the collection (61/10000 in rarity), and here are its attributes:

Background: Dark blue (5%),
Clothing: Pink oversized kimono (71%),
Ear: Yin yang (7%),
Eyes: Joyful (4%),
Hair: Spirit goddess (0.2%),
Mouth: Lipstick (4%),
Offhand: Talisman (8%),
Special: Sakura (8%),
Type: Spirit (0.97%).

It was acquired by the user Shrimpwen, who, in addition to 18 “neighbors” from this collection, also has a rich collection of more than 500 tokens, including:

Friendship Bracelets by Alexis André (409),
Beanz (51),
HV-MTL (4),
oncyber labs (2).

4. Azuki #5172

Azuki #5172 sold on April 12, 2023 for 245 ETH (about $470k at the time of the deal). This is a rare NFT in the collection (227/10000 in rarity), and here are its attributes:

Background: Red (10%),
Clothing: Azuki track jacket (2%),
Eyes: White (2%),
Hair: Spirit spiky (0.22%),
Headgear: Ikz baseball cap (3%),
Mouth: Pout (4%),
Offhand: Hand wrap (1%),
Type: Spirit (0.97%).

This digital asset was acquired by jarindr, which has several more affiliated wallets (0xBce3cd2C0752FEeedE1E27debc361BECE42a037b, Icedcoffeevaulted.eth, icedvault.eth, etc.), where a fairly rich collection is also stored.

3. Azuki #3602

Azuki #3602 sold on April 7, 2022 for 275 ETH (about $871k at the time of the deal). This is a very rare NFT in the collection (15/10000 in rarity), and here are its attributes:

Background: Dark purple (5%),
Eyes: Striking (4%),
Hair: Spirit goddess (0.2%),
Mouth: Grin (4%),
Offhand: Hand seal (1%),
Special: Fireflies (88%),
Type: Spirit (0.97%).

In this transaction, the seller was an anonymous wallet 6E404D. And the buyer was the user dingaling @dingalingts, which is widely known in space as one of the largest whales. In his collection of more famous 2.8k tokens, including:

The Sandbox lands (364),
HV-MTL (216),
The Potatoz (108),
Gutter Cat Gang (33),
Cool Cats (30),
Bored Ape Yacht Club (24),
Chromie Squiggle by Snowfro (22),
Meebits (20),
0N1 Force (20),
CLONE X – X TAKASHI MURAKAMI (17),
Mutant Ape Yacht Club (13),
Milady Maker (15),
Fidenza by Tyler Hobbs (1),
Ringers by Dmitri Cherniak (1),
Nouns (1),
PROOF Collective (1).

Of course, we have listed only a part of the rich collection. According to the most conservative estimates, there are investments worth tens of millions of dollars.

2. Azuki #7257

Azuki #7257 sold on January 5, 2023 for 288.69 ETH (about $362k at the time of the deal). This is a rare NFT in the collection (71/10000 in rarity), and here are its attributes:

Background: Dark blue (5%),
Clothing: Black yukata (2%),
Eyes: White (2%),
Hair: Spirit long (0.12%),
Mouth: Meh (4%),
Offhand: Golden fishing rod (13%),
Type: Spirit (0.97%).

This asset was bought by a large anonymous collector under the pseudonym metadantes @metadantes. His collection consists of over 300 assets (in addition to 33 “neighbors” from this collection), including:

Otherdeed for Otherside (130),
Valhalla Reserve (128),
Valhalla (58),
BEANZ Official (28).

1. Azuki #9605

Azuki #9605 was sold on March 30, 2022 for 420.7 ETH (about $1.42 million at the time of the deal). This is a very rare NFT in the collection (2/10000 in rarity), and here are its attributes:

Background: Cool gray (5%),
Ear: Small hoop (0.81%),
Eyes: Chill (4%),
Hair: Spirit fluffy (0.15%),
Mouth: Pout (4%),
Neck: Golden headphones (0.35%),
Offhand: Golden shuriken (14%),
Special: Fireflies (88%),
Type: Spirit (0.97%).

This token was bought by garypaytonfans wallet, which is actually owned by Bitcoin4freedom @Bitcoin4Freedom. This is one of the largest whales on the market. Analyzing trading activity, we can confidently conclude that the whale creates artificial liquidity in all top projects (from CryptoPunks to Invisible Friends). And in his possessions, there are many affiliated wallets through which hundreds of digital expensive assets are driven, but at the same time they are almost all empty (you can often see such wallets in transactions as garypaytonfans, 0xtsider_vault, jennyrazor, 0x342981b3e9F7705b42302f1CBd66CfE7335cBCee, beijlica, kuminga00, etc. – they were all created at about the same time, in the spring of 2022).

Opinion of NFTmetria

The Azuki project has carved its own unique niche in the market, with an original style and an incomparable idea. Due to this, he initially attracted the public, and now owning at least one token from the collection is the dream of many NFT investors. And most expensive Azuki NFT sales only confirm this.