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, reprinted by Odaily with authorization.

Whale Shark, whale shark, is currently the largest fish in the world, with a mouth as wide as 1.5 meters, and it will not let go of prey that is 2 to 3 mm. The whale shark we are going to introduce to you today has a big appetite and has "swallowed" more than 3,000 NFT collections so far. He is a celebrity in the encryption art circle, and his online name is WhaleShark, but his real identity is unknown. With the release of the social currency "$WHALE" on May 2 this year, his ambition to subvert the traditional collection industry is ready to emerge.

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In the encrypted art circle, everyone knows the name of Mr. WhaleShark. Although it has been less than half a year since he stepped into the encryption art circle, Mr. still won the right to speak for himself by constantly "buying it, buying it, buying it". As a result, newcomers who have just entered the circle will inevitably have to pay homage to the pier with Mr. WhaleShark first, and present their works respectfully. Mr. WhaleShark's magnanimity is well known to everyone, but if the work falls into Mr.'s eyes, the bid is absolutely unambiguous. There are many newcomers in the industry whose crypto art debuts have been included by Mr. WhaleShark. It is worth mentioning that Mr. WhaleShark seems to be well versed in the principle that rare goods can be lived in, and he can only get in and out. If we want to build an encrypted art museum, Mr. WhaleShark’s collection must be the largest in number and richest in categories. The work sold for a good price, and the artists rushed to write thank-you letters to the husband on Twitter, feeling that it is hard to find a soulmate. And Mr. WhaleShark always replied politely, praised good works, and encouraged these "back wavers" to not forget their original intentions and create greater glories.

Over time, Mr. WhaleShark has more and more fans, and people began to wonder about his true face. Mr. WhaleShark is a low-key crypto art collector who rarely shows his face in public. In the field of public opinion, he only focuses on discussing crypto art and rarely talks about himself. However, with the birth of the $WHALE project, Mr. WhaleShark can't afford to be high-profile.

WhaleShark is a millennial, born in the UK and studied in the US, with three bachelor's degrees including econometrics and an MBA. After graduation, he has lived and worked in more than 10 countries and regions around the world. Today, Mr. WhaleShark lives in Asia. Over the past 17 years, he has helped found, lead, acquire and sell companies around the world. Today, he owns several successful companies in artificial intelligence, retail, traditional finance and brand management industries.

When Mr. WhaleShark first set foot in the NFT field, he mainly focused on projects such as Gods Unchained, Cryptovoxels and encrypted art platforms (Superrare, Knownorigin, Makersplace, Opensea). What makes people cry without tears is that NFT only accounts for a small part of Mr. WhaleShark's wealth portfolio.

Mr. WhaleShark started to pay attention to NFT in July 2019. After half a year of secret observation in the circle, he posted his first tweet on December 12, 2019, claiming that he was fascinated by the work of encrypted artist Yura Miron . Yura Miron is good at using VR, GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks), and audio and video synthesizers to create dreamlike works of art. The combination of these strange skills and art creates magnificent works and opens the door to a new world for Mr. WhaleShark. "His artwork captures the essence of our time: technology, cypherpunk and evolution, and I can't take my eyes off of them."

It was a crazy day for Yura Miron. His mobile phone kept popping up email reminders from 10 am until 1 pm. They were all emails from SuperRare, reminding him that a person named WhaleShark bought it at a price of 28ETH. Downloaded 14 of Ta's works. Yura Miron specially took a screenshot of his mailing list, named it "whalesharking", and hung it on SuperRare to express his gratitude to Mr. WhaleShark. In the end, this screenshot was also collected by Mr. WhaleShark, of course, it is free.