Designer and illustrator Austin Whitt has seen his ‘Class of 2024‘ NFT hit 1,684 mints in just a 24-hour period, highlighting remarkable community adoration for the NFT artwork.
Class of 2024 is Whitt’s fourth annual ‘Class of’ NFT. This series serves as a time capsule that highlights his favourite artists, projects and moments that shaped Web3 culture, community and creativity over the past 12 months.
Minted on Base as a 24-hour time-limited open edition, priced at 0.003 ETH each, Class of 2024 saw 1,684 total mints – far surpassing the previous years’ Class of 2023 piece. As each NFT serves purely as art, with no utility, this serves as one of the most impressive NFT art mints of 2025 so far.
Who is Austin Whitt?
Austin Whitt – known as @Penguitt on X – is a designer and illustrator that’s based in NYC.
Whitt specialises in branding, illustration and visual design. He is perhaps best-known in Web3 circles as a former member of PROOF Collective, contributing to the look, feel and presentation of Oddities, PROOF live events, physical merchandise and more.
He has also worked on Reddit‘s Collectible Avatars as part of their Creator Program, contributing to one of the biggest cultural touchpoints between the NFT industry and the wider internet community.
Whitt has been active in the NFT space since 2021, with his ‘Class of’ NFTs – minted on Ethereum and Base – being his most widely-distributed NFTs. Each of these annual editions can be found on NFT marketplaces such as OpenSea.
What is Class of 2024 – We’re So Back?
Class of 2024 is an open edition NFT artwork created by Whitt in January 2025, minted on Base.
The NFT is Whitt’s latest edition to his annual ‘Class of’ series – NFT artworks that present a time capsule of his favourite artists, projects and moments that formed part of the fabric of Web3 culture and community over the past year.
Class of 2024 – the first NFT in the series to feature subtle animation – features over 150 illustrations that encapsulate the year gone by, pulling from all corners of the Web3 industry. Examples of notable projects include Pudgy Penguins, Doodles, Cool Cats and many, many more.
Whitt describes the piece as “a turning point”, reflective of a year that saw “a return to the energy and excitement that made so many of us fall in love with this space.”
The minting phase of Class of 2024 has concluded, with the NFTs now available on secondary marketplaces.
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