Neymar Has NFT Bored Ape Yacht Club, Instantly Becomes His Twitter Account Profile Photo!

Neymar claims to have NFT Bored Ape (Screenshot of Twitter, Neymar Jr)

JAKARTA – Recently, Paris Saint Germain (PSG) football club star Neymar Jr uploaded ownership of the NFT Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) via his Twitter account. Neymar spent more than 1 million US dollars on NFT and ENS addresses.

Reporting from Cryptoptato, with this upload Neymar has become the latest member to join the elite Bored Ape Yacht Club. The Brazilian soccer player shared a BAYC photo of a pink ape outfitted with futuristic glasses. The post was tagged with the hashtag #BoredApeYC.

The joining of Neymar to BAYC adds to the list of famous figures who have NFTs depicting the ape. Previously, Eminem also changed his profile photo to BAYC. Most recently, Serena Williams also uploaded a photo of NFT BAYC on her social media.

It was recorded that on January 20 yesterday, Neymar changed his profile picture using Bored Ape 6633. The soccer player partnered with Lionel Messi reportedly bought the NFT Bored Ape for 159.99 Ethereum which if converted to rupiah is equivalent to Rp. 6.6 billion based on the current price of ETH .

I am an what! #community #art #BoredApeYC pic.twitter.com/iOe3E0H2t6

— Neymar Jr (@neymarjr) January 20, 2022

But Ape 6633 is not the only NFT that Neymar has. The soccer player owns another, more expensive monkey, the Ape 5269 which he bought for 189.69 ETH or around IDR 7.8 billion. The Ape 5269 has a laser eye, this is a popular trend among Bitcoin maximists who often think that the price of BTC will reach 100,000 US dollars per coin.

In addition, Neymar reportedly owns other NFTs including a collection of ACESnikers, CryptoPunks, and Doodles. It seems that Neymar also does not want to be left behind with the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) project. His name is neymar-loves-rarepepes.eth.

For your information, Ethereum Name Service is a naming service for wallet addresses, hashes, and other machine-readable identifiers. The service converts hard-to-read strings of data into easy-to-read addresses. For example, a wallet address consisting of a combination of numbers and long letters, with ENS can be replaced with writing that is easy to read by humans and machines at the same time.

The way ENS works is actually not much different from the Domain Name System (DNS) which is often used for website addresses. Every name that uses ENS ends in .eth for example: Ghozali.eth.

Even so, the popularity of NFT has skyrocketed in recent months. This was driven by the entry of a number of big names from the entertainment and sports industry such as Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Neymar, Serena Williams, and others.