Controversial YouTube glory Logan Paul has jumped on the nonfungible token, or NFT, bandwagon as part of his latest self-promotion.

Decentralized due east-commerce platform Bondly appear Feb. 4 that it will create a limited edition of 44 NFTs featuring a "holographic" image of Paul in his boxing gear mocked up as a Pokemon carte du jour.

The NFTs will be distributed to sale winners in Paul'due south upcoming Pokemon Box Pause.

The YouTuber recently acquired six unopened boxes of first edition Pokemon cards from over twenty years agone, dropping a cool $two million on the cards in the process.

Each box contains 36 packs of cards, and Paul is auctioning the packs from one of the boxes between February. 4 and February. xi through the Goldin Auctions sports collectibles platform.

Paul will unbox and open the packs on behalf of the sale winners in a alive stream on Pokemon Day, Feb. 27, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the game's launch.

As a special bonus, each pack winner will also receive one of the limited edition NFTs featuring Paul equally a Pokemon. The card describes Poke-Paul every bit a "legendary man", who is "alpine and thick," and one of the cards special attacks is a dynamic punch leaving opponents "confused."

The minimum bid price on each pack of cards is $ten,000, and of the 24 packs of cards remaining on the auction site, just seven accept been bid upon to this amount at the time of writing.

Perhaps affectionate that $ten,000 represents a somewhat high level of entry, Bondly volition also be issuing a whole line of Logan Paul NFTs "for those who are unable to make a bid in the auction."

These volition be sold individually through a custom Logan Paul store on the platform.

Although initially gaining recognition through his video content, Paul has besides successfully transitioned into the boxing world. He was scheduled to fight Floyd Mayweather in an exhibition lucifer on Feb. xx, although the match was indefinitely postponed earlier this week.

Mayweather was famously paid to promote an initial coin offering in 2017, which later turned out to be a scam.