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The anonymous crypto artist Pak is teaming up with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for a collaborative NFT project titled “Censored,” to be released on February 7.

The date has particular significance for Assange, as it is the deadline for his lawyers to ask the U.K. Supreme High Court to reconsider the extradition case that the U.S. government has filed again him.

The two-part sale at a yet-to-be-determined venue will include a single-edition NFT and a “dynamic” open-edition NFT, reports the Crypto Times.

More hints and details about Pak’s project with Assange are expected in the coming days. Reached by Artnet News, Pak declined to offer further comment.

Censored is a collaboration with Julian Assange.
It's about you.

It consists of two parts, a dynamic 1/1 and a dynamic open edition, for you all to participate.

It will be here on February 7th. https://t.co/QvKlk3oIs8

— Pak (@muratpak) January 30, 2022

When Wikileaks announced the team-up on Twitter, it shared the news with the hashtag #FreeAssangeNOW. The project’s title, “Censored,” also suggests the NFTs are being sold in support of Assange’s legal battles.

Pak, one of the first artists to achieve major success in the NFT arena, began minting NFTS way back in February 2020. They made big waves in March 2021 by selling two artworks at prices approaching the $1 million mark: Finite for $809,789.40 on Foundation, and Metarift for $904,413.47 on MarkersPlace.

Sotheby’s later tapped Pak as its answer to Christie’s blockbuster $69 millionBeeple sale, collaborating with the artist and Nifty Gateway on a $17 million sale that included The Pixel and The Switch, both of which sold for $1.4 million. (The former was a one-by-one gray pixel; the latter gave the buyer the option to “switch” the image to an unknown alternative artwork.)

Pak returned to the auction house in its “Natively Digital” sale in October, selling a work titled Fade for $528,000, and Rubik’s Lure, an animation meant to invoke a futuristic Rubik’s Cube, for $1.1 million.

The artist later sold 266,445 shares of his NFT Merge for $91.8 million on Nifty Gateway, suggesting that if one collector were to eventually own every share, they would own a work more valuable than the priciest Jeff Koons or David Hockney—the two most expensive living artists.

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