Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian,” a banana duct-taped to a wall, has been bought by Sun for $6.24 million. The piece of art has resonated with the ethos of crypto and non-fungible tokens.

Tron founder Justin Sun paid $6.2 million at a New York auction for an art piece consisting of a banana taped to a wall. Now, he plans to eat it. “I’ve bought the banana,” Sun wrote in a Nov ...