“Doge,” the image of an animated Shiba Inu that is one of the internet’s most famous memes, has sold for $4 million as a nonfungible token, making it the most expensive meme NFT of all time. On Friday afternoon, users @twodollahotdoge and @pleasrdao engaged in a bidding war over the meme on Zora.
According to the auction site Zora, on Friday, @pleasrdao submitted a winning offer of 1,696.9 Ethereum, worth nearly $4 million. Atsuko Sato, the owner of the “Doge,” sold the meme.
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Netizens use a picture of Kabosu with her paws crossed and a faint smirk on her face. And they add broken English phrases like “Wow. So scare” and “What r u doing?”

“We’re ecstatic to be a part of this milestone in the history of the internet. Doge deserves to be the new meme NFT record holder “Don Caldwell, editor-in-chief of the Know Your Meme meme database, agreed.
Caldwell went on to say that Doge, which he described as “one of the most iconic memes in internet history,” had previously earned the ‘Meme of the Decade‘ award from Know Your Meme in December 2019.
Atsuko Sato, the owner of Kabosu, the dog in the image, first put the meme up for sale on Tuesday. The bidding war lasted for almost three days before being sold to @pleasrdao. The Japanese Red Cross Society and the World Food Programme will both receive some donations from the sale of the NFT.
A recent inflow of memes being sold as NFTs has been dubbed a “meme gold rush” by experts. According to the auction site Foundation, other memes that match Doge include “Disaster Girl,” which sold for 180 Ethereum, worth around $430,000 at the time of sale, and “Overly Attached Girlfriend,” which sold for 200 Ethereum, valued at around $482,000 at the time. A “Pepe the Frog” NFT sold for around $1 million.