In brief

• Weird Whales, a collection of 3350 whale-themed NFTs, sold out in about 9 hours earlier this week.
• It’s part of a project by Benyamin Ahmed, a 12-year-old from England.

The NFT collection is Weird Whales —a set of pixelated whale icons inspired by a stock image —and the kid is Benyamin Ahmed. He’s based out of a London suburb that one of Decrypt ’s English staffers described as “small, quaint, and dull.”