Buddhist digital amulets join crypto art craze

For luck: Buddhist monks attending a blessing ceremony with replicas of the digital amulets on display at the Wat Pattana Thammaram temple in Surin. — AFP

Karmic fortune has arrived to the digital art market, with a kaleidoscopic splash of colours and the face of a revered Thai monk offering portable Buddhist good luck charms to tech-savvy buyers.

Sales of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) – virtual images of anything from popular Internet memes to original artwork – have swept the art world in recent months, with some fetching millions of dollars at major auction houses.