Snoop Dogg NFTs were sold out in minutes for USD $ 12 million in Telegram

By Hannah Pérez

Snoop Dogg shook Telegram with its new NFT collection that were sold for a total of USD $ 12 million in a period of only half an hour. The rapper premiered a new single to celebrate the launch.

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• Snoop Dogg shook Telegram with its new NFT collection inspired by cars, dogs and marijuana.
• The NFT, coined in Ton, sold out in 30 minutes generating USD $ 12 million, said Pavel Durov.
• Together with the launch, the rapper also premiered a new single with music video.
• It is not the first incursion of Snoop Dogg in NFT, but it is an atypical case in the midst of the fall of the NFT.

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Calvin Cordazar Broadus Jr., American musician and artist better known as Snoop Dogg, caused a sensation in Telegram With its last digital asset initiative, generating millionaire profits in minutes.

The rapper and record producer launched a new collection of non -fungible tokens (NFT) on Wednesday through the messaging network Telegram That, according to the founder of the platform, he managed to raise USD $ 12 million in just 30 minutes.

“Almost one million NFTs, inspired by Snoop’s iconic style, sold out in record time“he wrote in his own channel of Telegram The founder and CEO of the messaging application, Pavel Durov.

The collectibles, whose themes included old cars, digital dogs and objects inspired by marijuana, coined in the TON block chain and sold directly through Telegram. Be coined in Ton blockchain It allows users to verify the exclusive property of the NFT and use them to customize their channels, biographies and messages in the messaging app.

The project marked the first launch of digital gifts of a celebrity in Telegramhow did the medium notice TMZ.

“Blockchain coinage and the secondary market will come into operation in 21 days. It will be madness”Hardov added.

Snoop Dogg Lanza NFT with the new music video

Together with the NFT launch, Snoop Dogg premiered a new music video entitled “Gifts” to celebrate the initiative.

The hip hop icon had also written shortly before the launch in its own channel of Telegramlabeling the founder of the platform. “@Durov is time to drop it as if it were hot cousin“, Snoop Dogg wrote before sale, in a phrase that reminds the lyrics of one of his most famous songs.

This is far from being the first raid of the star in the cryptocurrency space and NFT, since Snoop Dogg is widely known within the community of digital enthusiasts.

The acclaimed musician first revealed in 2021 that he was NFT’s amateur collector behind the account of the account of Twitter‘Cozomo Medici’, and since then has announced a handful of efforts in the Web3 area. Among them, he has released hundreds of NFT of himself, he has a music video in Luce to his avatar Dr. Bombay and has even cultivated marijuana in metovers.

His latest NFT sale is an atypical case, as noted The Blocksince it occurs at a time when the collectibles in Blockchain They lose their relevance in the market.

According to a report from DAPPRADARtrade volumes and NFT sales counts decreased throughout 2024 – a trend that has continued this 2025. In the second quarter of the year, negotiation volumes reached USD $ 823 million, a 45% drop compared to USD $ 1.5 billion of the previous quarter.

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Hannah Estefanía Pérez / Diariobitcoin

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