Claire Boucher, the musician known as Grimes and former partner of Elon Musk, has had more success selling digital assets than her tunes. In a recent interview with Wired, she said the $5.8 million obtained from the 2021 sale of an NFT collection on the platform Nifty Gateway was more than she's ever made from music.

"[The NFT collection] was on my brother. He had a real vision, and we wound up doing one of the first big ones," Grimes said. "It did actually change my life."

Despite the collection's success, Grimes lamented the state of crypto now. 

"I’m sad about what happened to NFTs and crypto, because it got polluted fast with people trying to make as much money as possible," she said. "But I do want to think about compensating artists, especially digital artists. And I hope …