Crypto elite shun NFTs for 69-million-year-old dinosaur fossils
The triceratops skeleton now resides in an 82-square-metre, windowless room inside Le Freeport
[SINGAPORE] Deep inside a Singaporean vault that’s been dubbed “Asia’s Fort Knox”, nestled alongside fine wines and priceless paintings, is a fully-formed, 69-million-year-old triceratops skeleton – one of only 24 known specimens.
Its owners: a group of collectors, including Yoann Turpin, co-founder of crypto market maker Wintermute.
The trading executive and his co-investors paid about US$5 million for the more than five-metre-long fossil, which was shipped from Wyoming to Singapore’s Le Freeport earlier this year. All four owners invest in crypto, including Chaw Wei Yang, who runs a platform called Co-Museum focused on…
