Dump 500 NFT Index Slides, Polygon blockchain NFT sales jump nearly 250%

The discard 500 NFT index fell in trading in Asia on Friday morning to a near two-month low, with sales on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains, the two largest for non-fungible tokens, falling back. Polygon, the third largest, saw a sales increase. The index fell 1.12% to 4,187.01 in the 24 hours to 09:00 in Hong Kong. The index of Forkast.news data partner CryptoSlam is a measure of the performance of the global NFT market based on 500 qualified smart contracts.

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Fast facts

• Global NFT sales fell 1.58% to $27.3 million, while the number of unique buyers rose 9.75% to 80,017, according to data from CryptoSlam.

• Sales on Ethereum, the leading blockchain network for NFTs, fell 46.71% to USD 21.1 million in the last 24 hours, but the total number of on-chain transactions increased by 5% to 104,849. Dump ETH The NFT Composite – which measures the performance of the Ethereum NFT market through 250 smart contracts – was down 1.36% at 1,395.69.

• Solana, the second largest NFT blockchain, experienced a 33.7% decrease in sales to $2.59 million. Discard SOL NFT Composite – which measures the performance of the Solana NFT market through 100 smart contracts – lost 2% to 1,160.70

• NFT sales on the third largest Polygon network increased by 246.45% to USD 2.56 million. .

• Sales by NFT type were led by Coinllectibles, the art and auction-focused NFT project at Polygon, with over USD 2 million from 25 transactions in the last 24 hours.

• Ethereum-based Otherdeed NFT sales surged 131% in the last 24 hours to $1.57 million, recording the second highest volume with 288 transactions and 451 unique buyers. Otherdeed NFTs represent virtual plots of land within the Otherside metaverse.

• The Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection placed third in sales, rising 104% to US$1.4 million in the 24 hours to Friday morning in Asia. It had 13 transactions and 35 unique buyers.

• Garden Point Issue 1, the Ethereum-based NFT collection from Web3 comics publishing platform Kometh, was the most traded collection on the last day with 19,912 transactions worth $338,781 and including 6,289 unique buyers. “Garden Point” is the latest webcomic published on Kometh, with NFT holders getting exclusive access to its content, according to the platform’s website.

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