Crypto tycoon spends $5 million on dinosaur fossils: After the NFT craze subsided, they started hoarding "real antiques"

【Crypto News】Singapore, the top vault known as the “Fort Knox of Asia,” what’s hidden inside?

Premium wines and famous paintings are naturally not surprising. But you might not expect that in a corner of Le Freeport, there’s a quietly resting complete skeleton of a 69-million-year-old Triceratops. How many similar fossils are known worldwide? 24. That’s all.

This over five-meter-long ancient giant now belongs to four people — all crypto enthusiasts. The leader is Yoann Turpin, co-founder of Wintermute, who and a few partners earlier this year spent about $5 million to airlift this fossil from Wyoming to the Lion City. Another owner, Chaw Wei Yang, operates Co-Museum, a platform focused on collectibles.

Here’s the interesting part.

These people once wildly chased NFTs, practically trying to stuff all JPGs into their wallets back in 2022. Now? Their enthusiasm has cooled faster than a bear market. They’ve turned their attention to tangible items like antiques, precious metals, and sculptures. Digital art? Forget it, fossils are more solid.

From pixel apes to prehistoric dinosaurs, this shift is quite ironic — but maybe this is what real “diamond hands” look like? After all, the Triceratops has existed for millions of years, older than any blockchain.