$2.5 Billion in NFT Sales This Week, Volume Climbs 161%, Meebits NFT Sales Surge – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News

During the last seven days, there’s been $2.53 billion non-fungible token (NFT) sales, up 161% over the past week. Ethereum’s blockchain recorded the most NFT sales with $2.45 billion of the aggregate while the Solana network saw around $31.9 million in NFT sales this week. This week’s NFT sale totals $1.23 billion across the 258,536 NFT buyers.

The Ethereum NFT sales dominate with more than 96%, with $2.5 billion in net new technology sales across 10 chains

There are still a lot of non-fungible tokens being sold. The total NFT sales for the 10 top blockchains was $2.53 billion.

$2.5 Billion in NFT Sales This Week, Volume Climbs 161%, Meebits NFT Sales Surge
Over the last seven days up until January 16, 2022, there’s been $2.53 billion non-fungible token (NFT) sales, up 161% over the past week.

The metric is up 161% during the course of the week, but Ethereum’s NFT sales represent the lion’s share. NFTs stemming from Ethereum captured $2.45 billion and sales on the Ethereum blockchain are up 184% according to cryptoslam.io’s data on Sunday.

$2.5 Billion in NFT Sales This Week, Volume Climbs 161%, Meebits NFT Sales Surge
The NFT sale of Ethereum rose 184% in the past week.

Out of this week’s top ten blockchain networks, Theta saw an increase in seven-day sales by 490.39%. Wax sales increased 17.10% while Wax’s sales went up by 1.04%.

$2.5 Billion in NFT Sales This Week, Volume Climbs 161%, Meebits NFT Sales Surge

Meebit #13824, which sold for 15,000ETH, or $50.61 millions, was the largest sale in this week’s NFT market. This happened four days ago. Meebit #9711 was sold at 14.730 Ethereum or $49.25 Million at settlement.

$2.5 Billion in NFT Sales This Week, Volume Climbs 161%, Meebits NFT Sales Surge
Top ten NFT collections in terms of this week’s sales.

Meebits has seen a 31,948.20% seven-day increase in sales and the collection is the top NFT compilation in terms of this week’s sales. Meebits saw 574 buyers in 2,199 transactions, and a total of $1.23 trillion in sales.

The week’s second most sold collection is the NFT project Loot as it has seen $281 million in weekly sales according to cryptoslam.io metrics. Cryptophunks V2 is next, with $142 million of sales for that NFT project.

Opensea is near $15 Billion; Axie Infinity Closes to $4 Billion All-Time in NFT Sales Volume

As Bitcoin.com News reported earlier this week, there’s been an influx of traders leveraging the new NFT marketplace Looksrare. The Looksrare NFT market has outpaced Opensea’s seven-day sales statistics with $444.55 million.

Opensea’s sales have dropped 32.58% to $120.55million this week. Solana’s Magic Eden was the third-largest marketplace this week with $7.68 million in sales, according to dappradar.com stats.

$2.5 Billion in NFT Sales This Week, Volume Climbs 161%, Meebits NFT Sales Surge
Opensea, Axie Infinity volume all-time.

In the meantime, NFT projects two are poised to surpass new sales milestones. Opensea is close to $15 billion with $14.68 Billion in sales.

Axie Infinity’s total sales are close to $4 billion. The NFT project has already earned $3.94 billion. Furthermore, Flow’s NBA Top Shot is getting close to $1 billion in volume with $776.49 million total and Solana’s Magic Eden is also nearing the $1 billion mark with $615.05 million in all-time sales.

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blockchains Cryptophunks v2, cryptoslam.io ETH, Flow sales LOOT, Meebit #13824 and Meebit#9711, Meebits collections, NBA Top Shot

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