NFT sales continue to slow, with ETH-based NFTs seeing a 20% decline in the past week
Sales of non-fungible tokens (NFT) in the last seven days end the year 13.97% lower than the previous week. Over the past week, statistics show that $147,054,554 in NFT sales were recorded across 334,668 NFT buyers.
NFT sales continue to fall: 13.97% decline in the last seven days
NFT sales are down this week, 13.97% lower than last week according to cryptoslam.io metrics. 2022 has not been a good year for NFTs as sales and NFT values have dropped dramatically over the past 12 months. Of the $147.05 million in NFT sales this past week, NFTs originating from Ethereum (ETH) represented $113.86 million of the total sold in seven days. However, ETH-based NFT sales fell by 20.4% over the past week.
Seven-day sales according to cryptoslam.io statistics as of December 31, 2022.
Solana NFT sales surged 91.36% this week as the chain saw $23.64 million in seven-day sales. While Solana’s increase was large, Waves-based NFT sales increased by 302.59%, but only sold $7,609 worth of NFTs. Theta’s NFT sales increased by 132.29% in the last week, but only sold digital $358 worth of collectibles.
Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) was this week’s top grosser in terms of seven-day sales as it collected $12.59 million. However, $12.59 million over 144 sales is 47.05% lower than BAYC’s sales last week. BAYC is followed by Otherdeeds, Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC), Azuki and Cryptopunks respectively. Cryptopunks managed to jump 94.71% higher in terms of sales this week compared to last week’s sales.
Solana NFT project Degods, which plans to transfer the NFTs to the Ethereum chain, saw sales climb 253.80% higher than Degods’ sales last week. Data shows that the most expensive digital collectible sold in the past seven days was Azuki #4690, which sold three days ago for $216K. Azuki #4,690 was followed by Azuki #2,311, Azuki #9,446 and Bored Ape Yacht Club #193.
The three most expensive floor value prices for NFTs today include BAYC, Cryptopunks, and Mutant Ape Yacht Club. BAYC has a floor value of 69.49 ETH according to nftpricefloor.com, while Cryptopunk’s floor value is currently 65.47 ETH.
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