Boy, 12, makes £290,000 in non-fungible tokens with digital whale art

Benyamin Ahmed's Weird Whales sell in cryptocurrency and ownership is stored on blockchain

A 12-year-old boy had made about 290,000 after creating digital pictures of whales and selling tokens of their ownership which are stored on blockchain.

Benyamin Ahmed's collection of pixelated artworks called Weird Whales went viral during the school holidays. His success may be a harbinger of the digital business models that could disrupt the banking sector.