Digital art buyer shines light on NFT boom

THE blockchain entrepreneur who paid a record US$69.3mil (RM286mil) for a digital artwork looks, at first glance, nothing like a wealthy collector.

Vignesh Sundaresan (pic), 32, is casually dressed in a T-shirt and chinos, lives in a regular Singapore apartment, and does not own any property or a car – with most of his investments in the virtual world.