Quick take:
The Bitcoin Ordinals project had offered 1,750 Taproot Wizard NFTs for the whitelist phase.
The public auction for the remaining 90 Taproot Wizards is scheduled for Thursday, March 27, at 11:00 AM ET.
Buyers will be able to BID with SOL with their Phantom wallets, with the distribution for the entire collection of 1,750 Wizards scheduled for Friday.
Taproot Wizard has revealed it sold 95% of the whitelisted NFTs on Tuesday, leaving just 90 for the public auction. The Wizards reportedly sold for prices ranging from 0.1 BTC to 0.2 BTC, implying that the Bitcoin Ordinals project raised between 166 and 332 bitcoins (approximately $14 million – $28 million) from the sale.
The project offered 1,750 Taproot Wizard NFTs for the whitelist, selling 1,660, according to an announcement on Tuesday.
The public auction of the remaining 90 Wizards is scheduled for Thursday, March 27, at 11:00 AM ET. According to the project’s X post, buyers will be able to BID with SOL with their Phantom wallets, with the distribution for the entire collection of 1,750 Wizards scheduled for Friday.
This sale follows the project’s sale of 3,000 “Quantum Cats” NFTs last year, which raised $13 million, used to support the Bitcoin improvement proposal OP_CAT.
Last month, the project also announced the successful completion of $30 million in ecosystem funding to support projects building OP_CAT. Standard Crypto led the round, with participation from Cyber Fund, Collider Ventures, Geometry, Masterkey VC, and Newman Capital.
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