Crypto boss Justin Sun eats banana art he bought for US$6.2mil

Justin Sun, founder of Tron, eats a banana that forms part of the artwork "Comedian" by the artist Maurizio Cattelan, which Sun bought for $6.2 million at Sotheby’s in New York, during a news conference in Hong Kong, China, on Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. Controversial crypto mogul Sun beamed as he ate the $6.2 million banana, a spectacle that ratcheted up the spotlight on digital assets as the industry tries to keep an historic market rally on track. -- Photographer: Justin Chin/Bloomberg

CRYPTO entrepreneur Justin Sun on Friday fulfilled a promise he made after spending $6.2 million on an artwork featuring a banana duct-taped to a wall -- by eating the fruit.

At one of Hong Kong's priciest hotels, Sun chomped down on a banana in front of dozens of journalists and influencers after giving a speech hailing the work as "iconic" and drew parallels between conceptual art and cryptocurrency.