An immaculate 101.38-carat diamond was sold at auction for more than $12.2 million in cryptocurrency Friday, making it the most costly piece of gems at any point peddled through crypto, as per Sotheby’s.

The enormous diamond, called “The Key 10138,” was sold in Hong Kong to a unidentified private collector, said the 277-year-old auction house in a proclamation.

The gem is one of only 10 diamonds of in excess of 100 carats at any point to come to auction.

The auction house had said it would acknowledge payment for the diamond in either Bitcoin or Ether, yet it was hazy which digital coin was utilized to purchase the gem.

Notwithstanding the record deal, the diamond sold for not exactly the upper finish of its assessed worth of $15 million.

Auction Houses, for example, Sotheby’s and adversary Christie’s have increasingly taken to tolerating cryptocurrency as payment this year as the fame of digital coins flooded.

Sotheby’s in May sold a Banksy piece for $12.9 million in crypto — the first instance of a work of actual craftsmanship sold by a major auction house in exchange for cryptocurrency.

What’s more, back in March, Christie’s caused a ripple effect by selling a non-fungible token unexpectedly. The NFT, or exceptional, blockchain-based, digital artwork, sold for a faltering $69.3 million.

Indeed, even as cryptocurrency has been increasingly embraced by institutions like Sotheby’s, just as banks and major US corporations, the worth of the digital tokens remains incredibly unstable.

Bitcoin, the greatest cryptocurrency by market cap, contacted an unequaled high of more than $64,000 in mid-April prior to falling down and momentarily dipping under $30,000, eradicating its benefits for the year.

Bitcoin was most recently seen trading at about $33,500 per coin.