'I am very sorry.' Takashi Murakami apologizes to his crypto investors on Twitter as his NFT prices nosedive:
. Rather than rely on OpenSea to list his work, he wanted to make his own smart contract to maintain the independence of the project in the future.
He also wanted to wrap his mind around Web 3.0. “It took a long time for me to get this part installed in my mind,” he told Artnet News last month. The delay cost him at a time when he couldn’t spare it: the NFT project presented a financial opportunity for Murakami, who wasCovid had stranded him in Japan through 2020. In July of that year, he declared his company, Kaikai Kiki, was on brink of bankruptcy. A long-planned gallery was postponed, along with museum shows. His film,with RTFKT, Murakami finally announced the release of Murakami.Flowers in May 2022.. Enter at your own risk.