<br><div><p>Former Barclays Plc bond merchants Ovie Faruq and Mike Anderson have bought a set of iconic digital artwork that triggered their departure from banking and their pursuit of careers in nonfungible tokens.</p><p>Faruq and Anderson bought 72 Bored Ape Yacht Membership NFTs for between 78.08 and 78.18 Ether every this week, which interprets to roughly $9.25 million, in accordance with transactions <a target="_blank" href="https://opensea.io/0xC88fdE55Cc3465B176bFcdeA5e47e908708436e8/activity" title="NFT sales" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="StoryLink" rel="noopener"><meta itemprop="type" content="WebLink"/>recorded</a> on NFT market OpenSea. Faruq mentioned the preliminary funding was round $1.14 million, which might make for a minimum of 700% revenue.</p></div>