NFT sales fall to $33.63M as Bitcoin volume rises - Crypto News
Weekly non-fungible token sales fell 2.56% to $33.63 million, while Bitcoin recorded higher sales and Ethereum remained the largest network for NFT trading.
Weekly NFT sales reached $33.63 million, with transactions falling 15.06% to 640,844.
Buyer addresses dropped 74.78% to 67,937, while seller addresses fell 79.33% to 51,093.
The average recorded sale stood at roughly $52.48 per transaction, compared with an estimated $45.74 in the preceding period.
CryptoSlam’s seven-day snapshot captured on Nov. 14 showed a smaller decline in sales value than in transactions and participating wallets.
Buyer and seller figures represent addresses, which do not necessarily correspond to separate individuals.
Ethereum leads NFT sales with $10.98 million
Ethereum recorded $10,983,125 in NFT sales, down 4.65%, accounting for approximately 32.7% of the weekly market total.
Buyer addresses fell 84.29% to 6,263, while separately tracked wash-trading volume dropped 58.20% to $76,067.
Polygon followed with $8,259,758, a 6.45% decline, while its buyer count fell 65.20% to 20,321.
Bitcoin placed third with $4,866,900, up 7.57%, despite a 79.32% decline in buyer addresses to 3,467.
Ethereum, Polygon and Bitcoin together accounted for around 71.7% of global NFT sales.
The fourth-placed BNB Chain posted $2,391,692, down 28.76%, with buyers falling 66.72% to 17,198.
Immutable followed at $2,298,908, a 16.67% decline, while Base sales climbed 31.11% to $1,929,455.
Solana ranked seventh with $1,322,477, up 25.92%, as buyers dropped 80.04% to 14,235.
Courtyard tops weekly NFT collection sales
Courtyard retained first place among collections with $7,075,354 in sales, down 11.69%.
The Polygon-based collection recorded 135,660 transactions, a 5.95% decline, with 18,273 buyers and 14,291 sellers.
Its sales represented approximately 21% of the global total and 85.7% of Polygon’s volume.
Courtyard’s digital collectibles are backed by physical cards, which the company says remain redeemable from its US vault.
Bitcoin’s $X@AI BRC-20 NFTs ranked second with $2,066,481, up 245.71%.
Just four transactions generated that total, involving four buyer and four seller addresses.
Bored Ape Yacht Club followed with $1,747,742, a 54.49% gain, across 132 transactions involving 79 buyers.
Guild of Guardians Heroes took fourth place with $1,218,407 on Immutable-zk, down 18.71%, across 914 transactions involving 546 buyers.
CryptoPunks ranked fifth at $841,533, down 17.63%, from 13 transactions.
Pudgy Penguins finished eighth with $588,280, a 71.07% gain, with transactions rising 93.15% to 141 and buyers climbing 40% to 70.
Bitcoin transactions lead high-value NFT sales
Two $X@AI BRC-20 sales occupied the top positions and together accounted for nearly all the collection’s weekly volume.
The largest, an inscription beginning #39ceeef1, fetched $1,581,109.67 in 23.0105 BTC approximately one day before capture.
That transaction alone represented roughly 76.5% of the collection’s sales.
A second inscription, beginning #8c2c2583, sold for $485,335.87 in 6.4753 BTC around five days before capture.
Ethereum’s Alchemix V3 Transmuter #233 ranked third at $133,459.73, settled in 133,459.7344 USDC roughly five days before capture.
Uniswap V3 Positions NFT-V1 #713 followed at $125,687.06, paid in 125,687.0625 USDC on Ethereum approximately four days before capture.
CryptoPunks #4314 completed the top five with a $112,699.13 sale, settled in 55 ETH on Ethereum roughly three days before capture.
