Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun honored his pledge to eat a banana taped to a wall, a $6.2 million conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, at a Hong Kong hotel. He compared the art to cryptocurrency and announced a $30 million investment in World Liberty Financial.

CRYPTO entrepreneur Justin Sun on Friday fulfilled a promise he made after spending $6.2 million on an artwork featuring a banana duct-taped to a wall -- by eating the fruit.

Justin Sun, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur who paid $6.2 million for a duct-taped banana art piece, says he wants to buy 100,000 more from the original fruit vendor. The viral artwork, titled "Comedian,

A Chinese-born cryptocurrency entrepreneur has followed through on his promise to eat the banana from a $6.2m (£4.9m) artwork he bought last week. Justin Sun outbid six others to claim Maurizio Cattelan's infamous 2019 work Comedian - a banana duct-taped to a wall - at Sotheby's auction house in New York.

The Manhattan vendor who sold the banana only received 25 cents. Now, the buyer of the conceptual work has offered the fruit stand a bigger payday.

Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun on Friday fulfilled a promise he made after spending $6.2 million on an artwork featuring a banana duct-taped to a wall -- by eating the fruit.

Justin Sun, a Chinese cryptocurrency businessman, bought 'Comedian', a piece by Maurizio Cattelan, at auction last week.

Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun has fulfilled a promise he made after spending R112 million on an artwork featuring a banana taped to a wall.