NFT sales drop 6% to $84.6m, Solana retains ranking for second-straight week

Amidst the recent crypto market price drop, the non-fungible token (NFT) sales volume has dropped by 6% to $84.6 million.

Even though the crypto market showed mild signs of a positive trajectory recently, all the gains seem to have erased now.

According to CoinMarketCap data, the global crypto market cap has dropped by 1.39% at press time to $2.31 trillion.

The last week, the NFT sales volume stood at $89.1 million. However, according to recent data from CryptoSlam, the NFT sales volume has slumped by 6%.

• NFT sales volume descended to $84.6 million.
• Ethereum (ETH) blockchain still holds its first position with $28.3 million in sales.
• Solana (SOL) retains its second ranking for two weeks straight.
• The number of NFT buyers shot up by 21%.
• NFT sellers also went up by 30% from last week’s 385,184.

Ethereum NFT sales drop by over 6.6%

The Ethereum NFT blockchain NFT sales volume stood at $31.1 million last week. However, the latest data shows that the sales have gone below the $30 million level to hit $28.3 million.

Comparatively, this week has been on the lower side, with a 6.6% drop in the last seven days. Interestingly, the number of NFT buyers on the Ethereum blockchain increased by 17.4% to 56,021.

When it comes to the second-ranking, Solana has retained the position for two weeks straight, even though it was 11.3% down in the last seven days.

According to the data, Solana blockchain’s NFT volume stood at $16.1 million. The number of NFT buyers has also seen a decent 27.7% and rose to 385,272.

Bitcoin (BTC) has exhibited the smallest sales drop, with a 2.78% loss and standing at $14.12 million.

Mythos Chain (MYTH) stood in fourth place at $10.9 million, with a 6.65% drop during the last seven days.

The fifth place was earned by Immutable (IMX), which showed a modest 6.2% in NFT sales volume. Ethereum accounted for the majority of wash trading at $3.66 million.

DMarket stays unhinged at first-ranking

The sales volume of DMarket stood at $5.744 million, with a 11.62% drop during this timeframe.

Guild of Guardians Heroes 2 bagged the second place with $3.28 million in sales.

The latest data shows that the following NFT collections topped the sales in the last week:

• Wrapped Ether Rock #91 sold for 120,000 USDC.
• Wrapped Ether Rock #59 sold for 119,000 USDC.
• CryptoPunks #705 sold for 30.5 ETH.
• Sorare #23580937173…. sold for 21.888 ETH.
• ART BLOCK #9 sold for 0.7839 BTC.