The Bitcoin (BTC) community registered essentially the most non-fungible token (NFT) gross sales prior to now week, as general transactions totaled a staggering $423,004,860.
The gross sales mark a rise of greater than 32% in comparison with the previous week and signifies the third consecutive week of sturdy progress within the NFT market.
In line with data compiled by Cryptoslam.io, Bitcoin emerged because the dominant power in NFT transactions, main the cost with $160.37 million in gross sales, representing a exceptional surge of 80.45%.
Ethereum (ETH) intently trailed behind, with $159.64 million in transactions, marking a good 14.41% uptick in ETH-based NFT gross sales.
Different notable blockchains, together with Solana (SOL), BNB Chain (BNB), and Mythos Chain (MYTH), additionally skilled substantial progress in NFT gross sales throughout this era.
Cryptoslam’s knowledge exhibits Solana raked in about $65.129 million in weekly gross sales, with BNB Chain and Mythos ending the seven days with $9.019 million and $7.7 million in gross sales, respectively.
Of the chains, Bitcoin additionally registered the very best uptick in wash buying and selling, with the $465k made by the apply representing a virtually 2600% improve from the earlier week.
The week’s top-grossing NFT collections had been led by Bitcoin’s Uncategorized Ordinals, raking in a formidable $41,210,717 in gross sales, marking a considerable 157.74% improve from the earlier week.
Following intently was the NodeMonkes assortment, which achieved $35,128,917 in transactions. These main collections had been trailed by Pandora, Creepz, and $NATCATS, rounding out the highest 5 NFT collections by gross sales quantity.
The surge in NFT gross sales additionally noticed some exceptional particular person transactions throughout numerous blockchains. On the Bitcoin blockchain, the NFT “Burgie” fetched an astonishing $1.44 million, whereas a Solana-based NFT titled “Composable Restaking Place” modified fingers for $1.1 million.
Ethereum’s “Lif3 v3 Place” NFT commanded $597,800, and a BNB Chain “Lockdeal” NFT was acquired for $416,504. Moreover, a Polygon “Dfyn” NFT was bought for $100,000, reflecting the range and worth of NFTs throughout completely different platforms.
During the last week, the variety of NFT patrons additionally elevated, with Cryptoslam’s knowledge exhibiting a 40.5% improve, juxtaposed with a 2.47% drop within the complete variety of NFT transactions within the interval.
Nevertheless, amidst this surge in NFT gross sales, widespread market Opensea confronted a big downturn in February.
Information from the analytics platform Dune present that gross sales on OpenSea decreased considerably, with solely 33% of the full NFT gross sales in February, the bottom determine since Might final 12 months. Energetic customers on the platform additionally declined, with solely 103,000 customers making at the very least one sale in February.