The New Year Brings Strong NFT Sales, Up 26% in the First Week of 2023 with Top 5 Blockchains Seeing Double-Digit Increases – Bitcoin Planet Markets & Price

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The first week of 2023 saw an increase in non-fungible token (NFT) sales, with seven-day volume increasing by 26.01% from the previous week, totaling approximately $208.99 million in NFT sales. Additionally, the top five NFT-issuing blockchains have seen increases over the past week.

Bored Ape NFT Collection leads the way with $19 million in sales, a 52.82% increase from the previous week

According to NFT sales stats, the first week of the new year saw a 26.01% increase from the last week of 2022. Cryptoslam.io metrics show there were 1.2 million of NFT transactions among 400,748 NFT buyers. There were $208.99 million in NFT sales across 19 different blockchain networks, with Ethereum capturing $164.35 million.

Sales of Ethereum-based NFTs rose 26.22% this week, followed by Solana (+28.8%), Immutable X (+20.83%), Cardano (+35.97%) and BNB (+ 71.35%) in NFT sales. BNB saw the biggest increase in the past seven days, rising 71%, followed by Theta, which rose 69.82% this week.

The top NFT collection in terms of sales over the past week was Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) with $19,052,102 in sales, an increase of 52.82% from the previous week. BAYC was followed by Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC), Azuki, Bored Ape Kennel Club (BAKC) and The Captainz. Cryptopunks and Mineablepunks took the sixth and seventh positions in terms of seven-day NFT sales per collection.

The five most expensive NFTs sold this week were all from the Mineablepunks NFT collection. The top five include Mineablepunks #11,467, #11,755, #11,467, #11,755, and #11,467. The Mineablepunks NFT Collection had sales of $5,498,938 in the past week, but sales were lower 49.50% off the previous week’s Mineablepunks sales.

According to measurements from nftpricefloor.com, BAYC NFTs still had the most expensive floor value on January 8, 2022, at 81.49 ether. Cryptopunks had a floor value of around 66.88 ether at 1:30 p.m. (ET) Sunday afternoon, which was below the BAYC floor value at that time.

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What’s your take on NFT sales this week? Do you think 2023 will be a better year for NFTs? Share your thoughts on this topic in the comments section below.

Jamie Redman

Jamie Redman is the news manager for Bitcoin.com News and a fintech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He is passionate about Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written over 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about disruptive protocols emerging today.

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